I’m happy to announce that my first full book, Metro Med, is finally reaching the end of the pipeline and is about to burst forth in a month. Shooting Star Comics made the announcement today. METRO MED #0 Preview Special Available at Chicago Wizard World Shooting Star Comics will debut a new title this summer…

Kickstart Newsletter, the regular publication of Dimestore Productions, now has an online subscription page. Dimestore is the company that ran “Small Press Idol” this summer (which, ahem, was one by Phil Meadows and yours truly) and they’ll be publishing Mysterious Visions Anthology this winter. To keep tabs on when their new books are coming out,…

Crossgen Entertainment: Following a post about the sale of CrossGen on the Dixonverse Message Board, Chuck Dixon had this enigmatic reply: Posted on October 6/2004 at 08:39:13 PM by Chuck I know SO much I can’t tell right now. This leads me to believe that the purchase will lead to some kind of revival for…

FilmForce’s 10 Questions for Mike Grell includes this: 9. What is your next project? I have a project that’s scheduled to be announced next week at the Baltimore show, so, if you can wait that long, you can get all the details. At this moment, I can’t reveal anything until the publisher makes their press…

Wyatt Earp: Dodge City has been announced for January, which means I need to get it on my pull list. Shooting Star Comics Anthology #1 featured an 8-page western from the same team of writer Chuck Dixon and artist Enrique Villagran, and if anyone wants to see what these guys can do together they should…

It’s been ages since I checked in on Argon Zark!, a web comic I had linked to years ago on my own personal links page. Of course, back in 1998 it was even more impressive, given that there was little on the web like it. This was before high-speed connections were prevalent, before the tons…

The Pulse’s Jennifer M. Contino recaps the history of CrossGen’s financial troubles up to and including the recent filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. All of the staff have been laid off. As Bruce detailed, the company owes $3 million in debts. Mark Alessi is trying to get new investors and relaunch the company. You might…

Beau Smith is giving his online column’s regular readers a glimpse of his superstrong agent character, Pretty Tough. (Gotta admit, that’s one of the best adverb supercharacter names I’ve heard, right up there with Major Disaster…and so obvious it’s surprising it hasn’t been taken!) Joe Bob says check it out.

Inkplosion is now highlighting the latest work of Philipp S. Neundorf, called “DCLXVI.” It’s very Vertigo-ish, full of mature content, so be warned. Phil’s European, so the women are almost always naked…and you get to see a couple having sex to a George Bush speech. (Well, if you hadn’t clicked the link already, I bet…

Grimjack’s legal mess has been de-messed and now the John Ostrander/Tim Truman character may return. A new publication deal should be announced soon.