Ben Blacker Archives

Vertigo's Goddess Mode, Hex Wives, Lucifer, High Level and Safe Sex Previewed at NYCC Panel
NYCC welcomed Ben Blacker (Hex Wives), Zoe Quinn (Goddess Mode), Dan Watters (Lucifer), Tina Horn (Safe Sex), Kat Howard (Books of Magic), Rob Sheridan (High Level) and Executive Editor of the Vertigo imprint Mark Doyle.  #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php[...]
Thrilling Adventure Hour boom
From creators Ben Acker and Ben Blacker and artist M.J Erickson, the new series launches in July From the press release, a synopsis: Frank and Sadie Doyle are the toast of the upper crust – headliners on the society pages…and they see ghosts When one night of having a drink (or ten) with friends goes horribly, and[...]
Del Rey Asks More Than 40 Authors To Look At A New Hope From A Certain Point Of View
Here to tell us these stories is a fantastic list of authors, with more to be announced at a later date.   Ben Acker & Ben Blacker Renee Ahdieh Tom Angleberger Meg Cabot Rae Carson Adam Christopher Zoraida Cordova Delilah S Dawson Paul Dini Alexander Freed Jason Fry Christie Golden EK Johnston & Ashley Eckstein Paul Kemp Mur Lafferty Ken Liu Griffin McElroy John Jackson Miller Nnedi Okorafor Daniel José Older Mallory Ortberg Madeleine Roux Gary D[...]
Too Many Writers? Del Col And McCreery Interview Acker And Blacker
Harry Houdini #5, talk with writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker about KING: Flash Gordon #3, both on sale now Art by Lee Ferguson. ANTHONY DEL COL & CONOR McCREERY: You guys love your pulp classics (Yay, Thrilling Adventure Hour) What is it about this meta-genre that gets you all frisky and ready to write? And[...]
The Process Art Of Lee Ferguson For King: Flash Gordon #3
The series is written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker and connects to the other King Features characters like The Phantom, Prince Valiant, Mandrake the Magician and Jungle Jim The cover art here is by Declan Shalvey. For more information on King: Flash Gordon #3, click here. We have a look inside at[...]
'Be A Fearless Writer' –  Spotlight On Ed Brubaker At WonderCon '15
Since then, I have been hoping to catch Brubaker at a speaking engagement and/or a book signing, so I was thrilled that there was a WonderCon panel this past weekend that spotlighted this amazingly talented and very busy comic book writer. Hosted by Ben Blacker, co-creator of Thrilling Adventure Hour, Blacker asked Brubaker about his writing[...]
Acker And Blacker Talking King: Flash Gordon #2
Here we have the other half of the writer-to-writer interview with Fred Van Lente, writer of Magnus: Robot Fighter #12, talking with Ben Acker and Ben Blacker about KING: Flash Gordon #2, both on sale March 11th Interior art by Lee Ferguson. FRED VAN LENTE: Wow I mean Lee Ferguson, right Right? I know that's not[...]
First Look Inside King: Flash Gordon #1
This series is being written by Ben Acker & Ben Blacker with art by Lee Ferguson and a first issue covers by Darwyn Cooke and Rob Liefeld. For more on King: Flash Gordon #1, click here. We have another first look, this time inside the new King Features crossover from Dynamite, King: Flash Gordon #1[...]
Acker And Blacker Take On Flash Gordon
Byron Brewer chatted with the writers of the upcoming Flash Gordon series Ben Acker and Ben Blacker about taking on a character that inspired so much of the science fiction that followed. BYRON BREWER: Halfway through a miniseries celebrating the 100th anniversary of King Feature Syndicate Could you see the story you are telling now as[...]
Thrilling Adventure Hour Is On The Move
Daniel Löf writes for Bleeding Cool: Listen up Thrilling adventure fans! There is a lot going with the nations favorite new podcast in the style of old time radio! Ben Acker & Ben Blacker had a lot of interesting things announce Thrilling adventure has been going on for 10  years back 2005, starting at the M-Bar,[...]
NYCC: I Is For Immersion: Building Immersive Worlds With Image Comics
Jake Barlow writes for Bleeding Cool: The first of four Image panels at NYCC included a plethora of talent, namely Kelly Sue Deconnick, Jamie McKelvie, Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Kyle Higgins, Jason Latour, Brandon Montclaire and Tim Seeley The theme was world building and how to get readers lost in stories, where the only thing that[...]