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Megaton Man creator Don Simpson has been posting most entertainingly on Facebook about that project that never happened, the 1963 Annual, that would have topped off the Image Comics series by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch and more. To heck with the 1963 Annual — I'm just going to draw the "In Pictopia" Annual —[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Bruce Timm and Erik Larsen's edited anthology Giant-Sized Kung Fu Bible Stories may be the surprise entry, but it was a smash hit at San[...]

And the Melon of Doom. But we don't talk about the Melon of Doom. Meet The Guests Among the foreign visitors fooled into thinking Scotland's a place of glorious sunshine and warmth were the Con's four biggest guests making their GCC debut: Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon), Gail Simone (Batgirl, Red Sonja), Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Men) and Howard Chaykin[...]

Here are fourteen of the upcoming Batman 75th Anniversary Variant Covers shipping from DC Comics in June… and starting with one, in mid production, that you might not have seen anywhere else yet. Green Lantern #33 by Ethan Van Sciver Justice League #33 by Darwyn Cooke Justice League Dark #33 by Kelley Jones Action Comics #33 by Kevin Nowlan Detective[...]

Focusing only on the comics and pop-cultural touchstones he experienced at the time, he reconsiders their (at times unlikely) influence and impact from a modern-day context, and his own journey through the four-color and geek culture worlds that's apropos of so many comics fans and pros of the same generation. Last time, he launched into fandom[...]

Written by Robert Kirkman, it featured the Image founder's characters in one comic, and was drawn by them all, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen and Todd McFarlane, with each artist drawing their characters and Jim Lee drawing covers. Issue 1 came out in 2009 Issue 2 shortly after, then a[...]

As part of the upcoming Image Revolution documentary from Sequart, a clip of the Image founders on leaving Marvel Comics for their new upstart Image

Image co-founder and Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen spent some time sharing his views on cursing in comics on his twitter feed Larsen is known for his strong opinions and speaking his mind Here he brings up the issue that writers have to address a lot… do you use cursing, how much do you use[...]

Thanks to Adam Messinger and Brian Bautista for this look of Image Expo 2013… including the after party! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The Image Expo makes its announcements A couple of Southern Bastards take the stage Mark Millar phones it in Everything[...]

Last year, after a series of increasingly unbelievable personal setbacks, Mario Gully sold the rights to his sexploitation comic Ant to Erik Larsen Larsen is now planning to publish a new version… and hired Gully to draw it So Gully posted his first page on Facebook. ANT..the return! Hey here is a page From the new ANT[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston People understand Hollywood feuds exist, but find it strange similar behaviour might be exhibited in a

Erik Larsen tweeted; After much thought I've decided to end my run on Supreme with issue 68 and make it an 80-page giant I can do more cool shit that way. Supreme 68 won't be all one big story there'll be solo stories for Squeak, Sister Supreme, Lion-Headed Supreme and Original Supreme as well The idea is to[...]

Freakshow are to release a series of comic book-based skateboard decks, starting with Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, under the name Longbox Edition. Freakshow's Jim Sprandel, behind the line,  was the only intern at Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti's Event Comics back in the day. They will be made available signed and unsigned. Freakshow are to release a[...]

It was all rather civil. But then Erik Larsen joined in And it all got a little… rambunctious. Jimmy Palmiotti: point was that if we create something new for a big company, they should share with us a small % of the creation. Erik Larsen: If you create something you should own it If anything the big company[...]

Gavin Lees writes for Bleeding Cool from the floor of ECCC; Despite his abrasive reputation, I've always found Erik Larsen to be a very personable and entertaining creator to speak to.  I try to make it a point of order to chat to him each year and have him hold forth on some aspect of the[...]

You can see the thinking, sat at the Image Comics booth at a variety of comic conventions across North America… all that travelling, all that fuss, all that money – and then you have to share attention with Marvel, DC, Twilight, Robert Downey Jr… what would it be like to have all that attention for[...]

Why the excitement over that particular copy? Because it's the one owned by Dragon creator Erik Larsen, clearly annoyed at the silly prices the comic is currently getting. He writes (and watch out for the captal letters and exclamation marks); PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE BIDDING!! YOU ARE BIDDING on Savage Dragon #145!! Hey, why be ripped off[...]

From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic. From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic. From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I[...]

In this fourth and last part, we enter his comic vault where he keeps his comic collection. YouTube – Iron Man Mark V Transforming Briefcase Suit From May 2010 to March 2011, I spent virtually every spare moment designing and building the worlds first Iron Man Mark V Briefcase suit of armour. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qvBVodU8QU[/youtube] Big Shiny Robot – Pentax Offers[...]

And Image founder and Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen will be a partner in the new store The Berkleyside quotes Larsen as saying "Comic Relief was a destination in Berkeley and that's what we hope for Fantastic Comics — for it to be more than simply a comic book store — but a[...]

Which was and is his prerogative as EIC, but man, there's little more demoralizing than taking the ball down to the one-yard line and then being benched by the guy who kept referring to 'Countdown' as '52 done right.' There was Erik Larsen's decision to wade in over the Marvelman debate – which as an officer[...]

Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen has been visiting the John Byrne Board Just that very piece of news had me itching to start CTRL-C-CTRL-V-ing. I love both guys work Angel and Savage Dragon are on the top of my pull list And each has been known for making outrageous and outrageously entertaining statements throughout their career,[...]