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Everyone knows the pictures are the best part.  EG: You work in a lot of different genres and formats: the Napoleonic fantasy Valentine you're serializing on Thrillbent.com, the dystopian political espionage thriller Smoke and the follow up Ashes, books for kids and teens, and now the very adult Z-movie celebration Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight. You write in English and French, make films, and[...]

After a tumultuous Kickstarter campaign, her continuation of Smoke has been published by Dark Horse, bundled with Smoke in a single graphic novel Smoke/Ashes to present the complete story, and her new series Grindhouse, which offers a cheeky take on B exploitation movie genres is now out as well. All this gave me an excuse to[...]

Alex De Campi has just posted for people who backed the Ashes comic on Kickstarter It exists In very very physical form Honest. As a project that has had its fair share of ups and downs, she writes; The books are set to arrive via boat at Dark Horse in Oregon on or around Sept 13, then[...]

Issue 4 is 36 pages. Those now used to a 22 page or indeed 20 page standard comic chapter will get a real reading rush from Ashes by Alex De Campi and a whole bunch of artists, including Dan McDaid, Mack Chater, Milton & Felipe Sobreiro, Carla Speed McNeil, Colleen Doran, Richard Pace, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alice[...]

Alex De Campi reports in the latest update to her Kickstarter-sourced graphic novel Ashes that caused considerable fuss earlier this year when De Campi fired the comic's co-creator James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton off the book. He was replaced by a series of name artists, including Igor Kordey who had drawn the original Smoke book, to which Ashes[...]

Legendary comics creator on New Mutants, Elektra Assassin, Big Numbers and more, Bill Sienkiewicz has signed up to provide a painted section for Alex De Campi's Ashes graphic novel, the subject of recent Kickstarter kerfuffle. He will be joined by Dan McDaid of Jersey Gods, as well as the previously announced Colleen Doran, Igor Kordey, Milton[...]

  Jimmy Broxton/James Hodgkins has written to Bleeding Cool, regarding Alex De Campi's statement on Kickstarter on the situation with the graphic novel Ashes. I have made my position clear and outlined the facts of this unfortunate situation Alex has a wildly different interpretation of events, and says some very harsh things about me, things I naturally[...]

  Bleeding Cool first told you about the irrevocable differences that emerged between Alex De Campi and Jimmy Broxton/James Hodgkins over the successfuly funded Kickstarter comic, Ashes, a sequel to Alex De Campi and Igor Kordey's comic Smoke. It appears that it was, indeed, artistic differences that drove the two apart, but exactly what and why seem[...]

The Kickstarter funding for Alex De Campi and Jimmy/James Broxton/Hodgkins' sequel to Smoke – Ashes – is $7000 shy of its targeted figure So the pair are giving it a final push with a Bleeding Cool competition. If you pledge at least $30, getting a copy of the graphic novel, and then post a comment below[...]

A sequel series called Ashes, written by De Campi, drawn by James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton And here is your first look at pages The book is currently with a number of publishers for consideration… UPDATE: Images now removed by request. Smoke was a comic series by Alex De Campi and Igor Kordey that came out from IDW[...]

And his wish that his cremated ashes to be added to the print run of his Squadron Supreme book after his death. Well, the internet seemed to notice The first print of the Squadron Supreme TPB has just sold on eBay for $628. Another copy has a buy it now price of $500 While another, with 3[...]

His will asked that his ashes be mixed in with the print run of a Squadron Supreme trade paperback Which, a few years later, saw print I have a copy of that print run on my bookshelf. You can see a deep-throated trailer here; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kISOW9uhXc0[/youtube] On Wednesday at 9pm on Investigation Discovery, The Will: Outrageous Final Wishes[...]