American Flagg Archives

EuropaCorp has picked up the rights to American Flagg, the satirical comic book by Howard Chaykin. Luc Besson's production company will develop the property for a TV show, according to Deadline Chaykin will executive produce the project. Originally published by First Comics in 1983, other creators to work on the series include Lynn Varney, Steven Grant, J.M[...]

There have been numerous examples throughout his work over the decades. As far back as 1983, in Chaykin's American Flagg! series, we have this little scene in the sixth issue: Art by Howard Chaykin Art by Howard Chaykin A first instance of the appearance of transgender characters, in particular pre-op trans characters, and violence upon them[...]

Creator of comics like American Flagg and Satellite Sam, he spoke about everything from just how few comic readers there are, to how even less of those comic readers know who he is Describing himself as the Randy Newman of comics, Mr Chaykin believes people know him for his unfortunate run on Star Wars several[...]

To go with Free Comic Book Day, we have a bunch of free comics for our readers this weekend from Dynamite, all of which tie into the new Groupees Independent bundle being offered up right now from Dynamite, IDW, Image and Oni. The American Flagg series from Howard Chaykin was groundbreaking when it was published by[...]

You'll probably be surprised by what each role actually does." One attendee asked Chaykin about his best-known work, American Flagg, but made the critical mistake of admitting that he'd never actually read any American Flagg comics Needless to say, the questioner received a customized Chaykin berating for that comment but was also rewarded with a thorough[...]

So while giving a small amount of money to charity you can introduce someone to over $500 worth of new digital comics like American Flagg, Bob's Burgers, Dean R Koontz's Frankenstein and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. This morning I went on to the Humble Bundle site and bought the books myself I had the option of[...]

Dynamite collected Howard Chaykin's classic comic book series American Flagg! not too long ago Now they are making it available as part of their new DRM-Free digital comics The 50 issue series was originally published by First Comics from 1983 to 1989 and told a science fiction / political satire story set in 2030 Chicago. The[...]

I realized that I had most of them and decided upon a $1.99 book instead… American Flagg #1. The first thing I had to do is register as a member When you go to register they ask you for your name, email address, age, gender and a password Age and gender are optional fields There is[...]

Now, it wasn't too many years after that you were doing AMERICAN FLAGG! — maybe five or six years at the most — but your art took a giant leap, in terms of style and approach It was almost like you became a new artist in the 80's Was that conscious on your part, that[...]