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The new series starring the legendary barbarian will debut in January.
After reclaiming the Conan license earlier this year, Marvel has announced the creative team for their new Conan the Barbarian series — writer Jason Aaron, interior artist Mahmud Asrar, cover artist Esad Ribic and colorist Matt Wilson.
Aaron shared his excitement about his new gig on Twitter:
Continue reading “What is best in life: Aaron, Asrar, Ribic, Wilson are Marvel’s ‘Conan’ team”
The risograph-printed series follows an Alberta man dealing with dementia and revisiting his past life with a glam rock band
Although there are only two days left to this Kickstarter project, this gorgeous new comic series is one worth checking out! Newcomer Kyle Simmers dove head first into comic self-publishing. The writer and illustrator, known for their larger than life murals across the city of Calgary, is teaming up with visual artist Ryan Danny Owen, to put out this little gem in Kickstarter called Pass Me By. The series is an inverted coming of age story about understanding queer identity and what happens to the stories you never tell.
The first book, Pass Me By: Gone Fishin’ is currently available for pledges by backers. The video to promote the Kickstarter is incredibly well constructed. In this eye-catching campaign video, Simmers selectively animated certain panels to bring the story alive.
Continue reading “‘Pass Me By’ is a beautifully illustrated queer Canadian tragedy on Kickstarter”
The creator of ‘Shaolin Cowboy’ talks about how he works, Moebius, Keanu Reeves and more.
Geof Darrow is one of those creators who straddles the worlds of Hollywood and comics. He’s a well known storyboard artist and designer, who remains perhaps best known for his work on The Matrix films. In comics he’s collaborated with Moebius and Frank Miller and for years now has been writing and drawing his own series, Shaolin Cowboy.
Last year Dark Horse collected the miniseries, Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign and the company just published Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek, which collects the first seven issues of the series in one collection, which has been out of print for many years. I had the chance to speak with Darrow late last year and we spoke about how he works, Kung Fu, vegetarianism, Keanu Reeves, and Darrow’s mentor and collaborator, the late great Jean Girard.
