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250 page on and  kickstartered and teaming US veterans to tell their stories, with comic book creators to capture and publish them, co-edited by Iraq War veteran Khai Krumbhaar. Artists include Peter Krause, Ryan Howe, Skylar Patridge (drawing her own father's Vietnam story), Eoin Marron, Tish Doolin (a former Army medic), Dave Acosta, A[...]

Until recently, an established comics creator like Saladin Ahmed, taking a project to a crowdfunding platform, would have a lot of folks asking, "Why?" The answer is, of course, because Why not? Ahmed's campaign to fund Dragon, his hardcover graphic novel with Dave Acosta, has already raised almost $100,000, a number that any indie publisher would sacrifice[...]

The new tales will be tackled by writer David Avallone (Bettie Page, Twilight Zone) and artist Dave Acosta (Doc Savage) will be making their way to comic shops this July. The basis for the story is that the Mistress of the Dark has become unstuck in time and crashes Mary Shelley's monster weekend, beginning an epic[...]

That means The Shadow vs Batman, Bettie Page, Dresden Files, James Bond, Agent 47 — and Doc Savage: Ring of Fire #1 by David Avallone and Dave Acosta. This is the first issue of the miniseries has the the classic pulp hero meeting up with one of the most mysterious people in history, Amelia Earhart[...]

Legacy, schmegacy! One of the best new comics in the Marvel Universe isn't even published by Marvel. Alex de Campi and Dave Acosta have launched a new webcomic, Hell's Kitchen Movie Club, with a brilliantly simple concept: "Frank Castle and Bucky sit around cleaning weapons & watching/critiquing action films." The context: pic.twitter.com/Jhb857RaOE — Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) September[...]

The interior comic art is by Dave Acosta and the comic cover by Brent Schoonover. We dive into issue #2 as our heroes and villains converge in the South Pacific… spoilers follow Go read the book and come back and enjoy the footnotes! The covers: Anthony Marques' cover, like all his covers for this series, bursts with[...]

It comes from writer David Avallone and artist Dave Acosta with covers by Brent Schoonover and Anthony Marques The series brings together Doc, Pat, The Five and the mystery of Amelia Earhart I chatted with Avallone about the new series and mixing classic pulp heroes with historical figures. DAN WICKLINE: I know that you've been writing[...]

A Writer's Commentary: David Avallone talks Twilight Zone: The Shadow #3, on sale now from Dynamite. Cover by Francesco Francavilla, interiors by Dave Acosta. I knew this would be the hard one: nothing is less visual than watching a guy write a novel… but I wanted to see if I could meet that challenge. The cover. I'm relatively new[...]

Interiors are by Dave Acosta. Dynamite's Executive Editor Joseph Rybandt dropped me an email and asked if I could come up with a four-issue series combining The Shadow and The Twilight Zone He always likes to give me the easy ones After a little back-and-forth I came up with something that was able to satisfy the[...]

Here we see the art by Dave Acosta with colors by Valentina Pinto The series is being written by the regular Vampirella writer Nancy A Collins. For more on Swords of Sorrow: Vampirella / Jennifer Blood #3, click here. As Dynamite's big summer event, Swords of Sorrow continues, we have a look[...]

Here we have some of the process art from the second issue by artist Dave Acosta and colorist Valentina Pinto. A team-up set up by SWORDS OF SORROW's Gail Simone, featuring the writer that she hand-picked: Nancy A Collins! Now that the threat of the Pacifica Slasher/Anaheim Ripper has been handled, Vampirella must figure out how to[...]

The Snare is by Eric Trautmann and Dave Acosta and published by Dynamite Entertainment. For more Red Sonja comics, check out the digital sale going on this weekend at Comixology. We have something a little different here Instead of a full free comic, we have a short story from the upcoming Red Sonja #100 The Snare[...]

The first ever all-female written and female lead event kicks off this may with Swords of Sorrow #1 by Gail Simone and Sergio Davila and you can get this retailer exclusive cover by Dave Acosta at the Green Brain Comics website. Here we get to see Acosta's process from pencils to inks to colors by Dijjo[...]

This one shot is written by David Avallone, drawn by Dave Acosta and features a cover by Billy Tan This is the third Altered States book from the publisher with new takes on Vampirella and Red Sonja preceding it. For more on Altered States: Doc Savage, click here. Dynamite's new line of Altered States[...]

Dynamite has sent us some exclusive first look pages for their upcoming Altered States: Doc Savage comic written by David Avallone and drawn by Dave Acosta.Altered States is Dynamite's Elesworlds or What If? comics and takes familiar characters and puts them in very different worlds. Doc's research into the criminal inside all men backfires… and his own experiment[...]

Today we have, free for you to read, Chastity #4 by Marc Andreyko and Dave Acosta from Dynamite Entertainment. What could be worse than being half-vampire and half-human? How about… high school? And while Chas tries to reacclimate herself to a normal life, Alyce continues her flagrant attacks on humans! But this has caught the attention[...]

In their continuing effort to promote their DRM-Free Digital comics, Dynamite has sent over the first issue of the new Chastity series by Marc Andreyko and Dave Acosta The new series is part of Dynamite's relaunch of the Chaos Comics characters that includes Evil Ernie, Purgatory and Bad Kitty The initial relaunch of the characters[...]

The first time I saw Dave Acosta's work was on Zenescope's Tales From Oz #3 as he was drawing the origin story for the Scarecrow Now he's over at Dynamite as part of the Chaos! Comics relaunch and doing the art duties on Chastity We turn the spotlight on this up-and-coming artist to see how[...]

And he was inspired by those creepy, floating vampire kids from the "'Salem's Lot" TV movie that scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. BB: When will we learn more about the Council? MA: Eventually…. BB: Have you been happy with the book under the artistic touch of Dave Acosta? MA: Oh, yeah[...]

Kinda. They have launched an Artist Submissions page on Facebook for pencillers, inkers, colourists, letterers… but not writers! It's just for art samples, not for messages, and Boom will reoply to people's contact information if they wish to. However, by doing it so openly, it could also be a resource for other, smaller, less high profile publishers at[...]