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From Black Mask Studios comes cult favorite sci-fi book, Ballistic Written by upcoming filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer (In Time: The Minutes, Some Kind Of Hate), with art by Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, The Boys, Happy!), and colors by Diego Rodriguez, Ballistic has something to say With a combination of smart, funny, original, and disturbing writing, the[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, I'm back with a stack of New Comics Now for April Fool's Day! First up is

Space Riders arrives this week from Black Mask Studios and since the original release art for the book, it's been clear that we have plenty of love for wild underground and 70's comics being expressed on the new series Written by Doc Unknown's Fabian Rangel Jr., with artwork by Alexis Ziritt, and lettered by Ryan[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! I'm back with A Comic Show's New Comics Now and another fat stack of awesome! Even

Black Mask Studios' June Solicits have landed, and with them the new "sci-action thriller" Transference arrives, written by Michael Moreci, with art by Ron Salas We Can Never Go Home returns with its tales of strangely powered teens on the run, joined by Space Riders, Young Terrorists, The Disciples, Mayday, and Godkiller It's shaping up[...]

Black Mask Studios' upcoming new title, We Can Never Go Home, by Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon (writers), Joshua Hood (art), and Amanda Scurti (colors) has been previewed here on Bleeding Cool, but now we have a trailer to tide us over until it hits shops next Wednesday. The series, which features some stellar artwork and pretty[...]

Publishing and production company, Black Mask Studios will now have a YouTube channel for a new format called, 'tubecomics.' The channel will enable ad-supported binge viewing of comics across devices Developed by Black Mask co-founder Matt Pizzolo, tubecomics will have five initial series: Ballistic, 12 Reasons To Die, Five Ghosts, Hack/Slash, and Liberator The network[...]

Indie publisher Black Mask Studios are back this May with their 2.0 lineup, including The Disciples #1, Young Terrorists #1, Critical Hit Vol 1, Space Riders #3, We Can Never Go Home #3, Space Riders #3, Mayday #3, and Godkiller #6 Ever a publisher to keep your eye on, their Spring and Summer books are[...]

This April, Black Mask Studios continue with their 2.0 range in development of new books as well as collecting trades of some of their initial raft of releases that turned heads and made a name for the new indie publisher. Black Mask Studios' complete April solicits are: 12 REASONS TO DIE, Volume 1 Diamond code: FEB151089 Writer: Ghostface[...]

March is a big month for Black Mask Studios releases, with We Can Never Go Home, Space Riders, and Mayday, all arriving for their first issues We've previewed We Can Never Go Home for you here on Bleeding Cool, but today we bring you Mayday, written by Curt Pires of Dark Horse's wave-making series POP,[...]

I had heard about the upcoming Black Mask Studios book, We Can Never Go Home, possibly further back than most people when it was still pre-pitch, I believe, talking with writer Matthew Rosenberg at a convention I knew it was going to be an emotionally engaging book about young people, and an interesting book about[...]

Black Mask Studios are hitting the Spring of 2015 head on with a slate of new releases building on their often envelope-pushing series and subject matter ranging from the wacky to just plain challenging, with plenty of attitude thrown into the mix. Here are their recently released complete March 2015 solicitations: Mayday #1 Diamond code: JAN151091 Writer: Curt Pires Artist:[...]

By Julz Hendricks A punk rock zombie story focusing on human rights, Toe Tag Riot has rocked it's way into my life. Starting off as a Kickstarter, Toe Tag

Toe Tag Riot is finally arriving from Black Mask Studios this Wednesday, and you may have been following some of their Westboro Baptist-taunting content here on Bleeding Cool Written by Liberator's Matt Miner and drawn by Sean Von Gorman, the book also features a large slate of variant covers by some very talented folks And[...]

Black Mask Studios comic series Godkiller will get a trilogy of animated feature films according to Deadline This will be self-financed and produced by the publisher. Godkiller was created by Matt Pizzolo, Anna Muckracker Wieszczyk and Ben Templesmith and first appeared in 2008 It's the story of an escape teenaged slave who survives in a post-apocalyptic[...]

Godkiller #1 arrives this week on Wednesday October 29th from Black Mask Studios, who are gaining a rather pedal to the metal momentum in their books at the moment, created by Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk and Matt Pizzolo. This book has all the trademark strange and envelope-pushing qualities we've come to associate with Black Mask, with more[...]

Lastly, but not leastly, I found the brand-spanking-new series from Black Mask Studios in the form of Pirouette, written by Mark L Miller, with art by Carlos Granda This freaky circus comic has got some very bold appeal and the colors are rather magnificent, too Granda's an artist to keep an eye on, clearly, and[...]

Room 1A05 From the instant-classic Occupy Comics to Ghostface Killah's gangster odyssey 12 Reasons To Die to Darick Robertson's madcap sci-fi Ballistic and the animal-avenging Liberator, Black Mask Studios spent its first year pushing comics' boundaries Now, Black Mask Co-Founder Matt Pizzolo will host the publisher's next round of Creators for a spirited discussion of how[...]

Black Mask Studios, the folks who brought you Occupy Comics, 12 Reasons to Die and Liberator, are presenting us with a fresh from the press science fiction series called Last Born by Patrick Meaney and Eric Zawadzki And actually one of our contributors interviewed both Meaney and Zawadzki, right here on Bleeding Cool recently. But today[...]

Meaney makes his debut as a series writer with Last Born, drawn by Eric Zawadzki, a miniseries from Black Mask Studios that may defy simple description We spoke to the writer and artist about their upcoming comic. Tony Wolf: In your new 4-issue miniseries Last Born, we have time travel, character drama, trippy psychedelic sci-fi, and[...]

How easy it to navigate the space between those two extremes? MM: Being an old punk, I sort of feel like I was born in a circle pit.  I really don't know how to answer your question, because I'm just writing a book about the kinds of people I've known in my life doing the kinds[...]

Since the Black Mask Studios comic Liberator, created by Matt Miner, launched in single issues in 2013, it has certainly generated attention and plenty of critical acclaim for its concepts, artwork, and resistance to talking about the frustrations of social change in simplistic terms. This week the first collected edition, Liberator: Rage Ignition reaches shops, and[...]

Occupy Comics, from Black Mask Studios, with its host of contributing artists and writers capturing some of the ways in which comics can protest inequalities in society, finally arrived in trade collection this week, complete with Alan Moore's long essay "Buster Brown at the Barricades", edited, in fact, by me: Hannah Means-Shannon. But even I was[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Black Mask didn’t turn out a bad, or a safe, book last year. One of the jewels in the crown of their opening line up was Liberator, the

The Society of Illustrators is located at 28 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues) in New York. Saturday, March 8th  At "An Afternoon With Hardcore Legends" see the band Earth Crisis and comic creator Matt Miner (of Black Mask Studios) in store at Fourth World Comics at 33 Route 111, Smithtown, Long Island, New York,[...]

Even if you're not yet reading Valiant titles, this actually makes for an interesting jumping on point given how much it resembles an "origin story" while plugging into wider plotlines. Black Mask Studios releases two titles this week, Ballistic #2 and Liberator #3 and I know some of the great work Black Mask are doing through[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon I've gradually become acquainted with the guys behind Black Mask Studios (co-founders include Matt Pizzolo, Steve Niles, and Brett Gurewitz) through helping edit the Alan Moore essay currently running in Occupy Comics #1-3, though with a growing team of comics creators working on their line-up, it's a big enough group that I haven't[...]

Ben Templesmith's cover to Liberator #3 from Black Mask, everyone.

First up, we keep ourselves occupied with Occupy Comics #1 from fledgling publisher Black Mask Studios Then we take a look Mike Garley & Martin Simmonds' Eponymous #1, which debuted as part of the recent VS Comics Anthology. From there we turn our attention to the first issue of Gabriel Hardman's solo effort Kinski from Monkeybrain[...]