by Roger Ash
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed anything here, so let’s take a look at a graphic novel I read recently; Underground by Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber. This book collects the 5-issue Image miniseries plus the original short story starring Underground‘s protagonist, Wesley Fischer, by Lieber from the Four Letter Worlds anthology, and a look at how the art was produced for the series.
by Miles “okpank” Perzewski
Rex the little fox is taken from his original home by a UFO. Many interesting and venturesome happenings occur on Rex’s adventure. Just seeing that adorable little fox drawn so well makes me want to read this book. Hop on and make this a good read!
by Beau Smith
Love/hate relationships are strange. For many years I had one with working conventions for the various publishers and companies that I worked for: Eclipse Comics, Image Comics, McFarlane Toys, Todd McFarlane Productions, and IDW Publishing. The Love/Hate part was working the booth.
Working the booth started with making sure everything got to the convention site, dealing with what didn’t, setting up the booth and displays, greetings and meetings through the convention, selling merchandise, doing panels, and tearing down the booth when the show was done.
In his career in comics, Ron Marz has written such books as Marvel’s Silver Surfer, DC’s Green Lantern and Ion, Dark Horse’s Star Wars: Darth Maul, and CrossGen’s Mystic and Scion. Recently, he has written a number of Top Cow titles, which are published by Image, including Witchblade, First Born, Angelus, and Magdalena. This month he begins Artifacts, a series that will change the Top Cow Universe. Westfield’s Roger Ash recently spoke with Ron about this series.
by Beau Smith
As a part of my career continuation, in this installment of Beauology 101, I’m going to take you behind the curtain of my time working for Todd McFarlane. Eclipse Comics went bankrupt in 1994 and via an auction, it was soon bought by Todd McFarlane. (Let’s face it, the boy loves to buy things at auction.) By then I was already working for Todd. I began working part time for Todd during the last year of Eclipse Comics. You may or may not remember that at Eclipse we did the official licensed Pog set of “Spogz” for Todd. At the time, pogs were a hot collectible and there were many overseas fly-by-night companies making bootleg Spawn Pogs, so Eclipse owner, Dean Mullaney, asked me to approach Todd with the plan that we at Eclipse could make real pogs for him and knock off the knock offs. He agreed and the plan worked even though the pog craze soon wore off.
Writer Robert Kirkman has brought Marvel Zombies to life and created such books as Invincible and Walking Dead. This month, he’s writing the epic Image crossover event, Image United. Westfield’s Roger Ash recently contacted Kirkman to learn more about this book.
Are ya ready for new comics? Well, zip on over to the Westfield Comics site as we’ve just updated it with 1,000s of new pre-order items!
We’ve got another cool Image Comics preview! This time it’s for Beast, an original graphic novel by Marian Churchland.
We have a new Image Comics preview for you today, this time featuring Fall Out Toy Works, a comic inspired by the band Fall Out Boy.
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