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Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander are bringing Concrete Park back to Dark Horse Presents, and this time, their award-winning graphic novel series features an immortal hero with a very familiar-sounding name. To be called "The Legend of Kurtzberg", the story will feature an immortal Jewish hero named after Jack Kurtzburg, or Jack Kirby, and serialized in[...]

Joining Easton was Tony Puryear (Concrete Park, the film Eraser), Erika Alexander (Concrete Park, Living Single), Marc Zicree (science-fiction author, Space Command), and Hannibal Tabu (Soulfire, Watson & Holmes). Easton started the hour appropriately enough with comparing breaking into the industry to be like a war zone and that having reliable intel was the key to[...]

Concrete Park is a sci-fi comic book series by Tony Puryear and Erica Alexander and published by Dark Horse, first in the Dark Horse Presents anthology, then as its own series-of-series The first collection is on the shelves now and issue 3 of the second series just came out. Earth's outcasts, exiled to a distant desert planet and forgotten,[...]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-164.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 164 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we batter up with Southern Bastards #4, offer atonement with Original Sin #8, turn up the bass with Moon Knight #5, lay the groundwork with Concrete Park #1, get filled with venomous[...]

Concrete Park returns next month from Dark Horse and we've got a preview of the series here Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander kick off the second volume on September 3rd. A troubled young outcast from Earth awakens on a distant desert planet that's gripped by gang war Will the exiles of Scare City destroy each other[...]

Two years ago at the Dark Horse panel in San Diego, Erika Alexander, co-creator of Concrete Park, told the audience what she had been told by a major Hollywood producer That science fiction wasn't popular with black audiences because they didn't see themselves in the future. We ran the story, it went a little on the[...]

The actress, most famous for playing eccentric, strong-willed attorney Maxine Shaw on the 90s sitcom Living Single, is also co-creator of Concrete Park, a gritty science fiction series that was serialized in multiple Dark Horse Presents issues beginning with #7 in December 2011 Thanks to strong critical buzz, Dark Horse has greenlit a Concrete Park[...]

Because, as Tony quoted him, "black people don't like science fiction – they don't see themselves in the future." Tony pointed out the irony, after both of them working on Will Smith and Denzel Washington sci-fi projects, but that the Dark Horse Comics series Concrete Park was a direct result of that conversation… The Dark Horse[...]