Frank Barbiere Archives

Frank Barbiere writes this visceral noir-driven espionage tale and stands back as artist Toby Cypress crafts a furious and stylish fever-dream of a graphic experience. The tail end of the Cold War sees the Russian underground scourged by the presence of a finely attired gang of ruthless criminals Their actions are felt directly on the cold[...]

Peter Milligan, writer of Terminal Hero #4, had a couple quick questions for Frank Barbiere about Solar: Man of the Atom #7, both on sale November 19th PETER MILLIGAN: In its own jokey way, there seems to be a lot of parent/child, father/daughter transaction going on Would you say this is at the core of what the[...]

Black Mask Studios, the publishing/production company founded by Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion), Matt Pizzolo (Occupy Comics) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) is unveiling its second wave of new releases. Black Mask is coming off of the recent announcement that the series Five Ghosts, by Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham had been picked up as a TV series[...]

Frank Barbiere has been at the helm of the series since day one and he sat down to talk with Byron Brewer about where Solar has been and where she is going. BYRON BREWER: It must be difficult to be Erica How does she return to "normal life" after experiencing the universe? FRANK BARBIERE: This is exactly[...]

Also, nerds". Friday, August 8th Barnes and Noble Tribeca at 97 Warren Street in New York will host an Image Comics signing at 6PM featuring Steve Orlando, Frank Barbiere, and Abhishek Singh They say: "Stop in and visit Steve Orlando, Frank Barbiere and Abhishek Singh, creators of Undertow, Five Ghosts- The Haunting of Fabian Gray, and Krishna-[...]

Solar: Man Of The Atom #6 is coming up and Byron Brewer sat down with series writer Frank Barbiere to talk about the series and what the writer has in mind for the future. BYRON BREWER: Frank, how has it felt to be a part of returning an old, favored comic book universe to the pages[...]

Black Market #1 By Bart Bishop Writer Frank Barbiere has most recently written The White Suits for Dark Horse and a New Avengers Annual for Marvel, but this is my first experience with him Artist Victor Santos, meanwhile, best known for his Filthy Rich with Brian Azzarello, is also new to me Needless to say going in[...]

Wednesday, July 16th Forbidden Planet at 832 Broadway in New York will host writer Frank Barbiere (Five Ghosts, Solar, Blackout, New Avengers Annual) at a signing for the launch of his new comic with Victor Santos from Boom!, Black Market  from 6:30 to 8:30PM. Thursday, July 17th Midtown Comics Downtown will host John Romita, Jr in a signing[...]

Joe Rauch hosted Wilfredo Torres (The Shadow, Lobster Johnson), Tim Truman (Conan), and Frank Barbiere (Five Ghosts, Solar) in discussion. Frank Barbiere said that pulp tradition is largely the "aesthetic" of Five Ghosts and said, "It's amazing what aesthetics can do in terms of reception" It also helps to bring a "unifying theme" of pulp under[...]

Out in shops today we have Magnus Robot Fighter #3 by Fred Van Lente and Solar: Man Of The Atom #2 by Frank Barbiere Here we get to see them interview each other You can see previews of both books here. Fred Van Lente: Frank, it seems like we live in a much more gendered[...]

She talks to Mark Waid, Greg Pak, Frank Barbiere and Fred Van Lente about their Gold Key comics for Dynamite The whos, the whys, the wherefores… though she refrains from asking the how muches. Nancy Collins: How did you end up tapped to write Magnus Robot Fighter? Fred Van Lente: I was contacted by human freedom fighters[...]

Solar: Man of the Atom debuted this week from Dynamite Entertainment, written by the stellar Frank Barbiere with art by Joe Bennett With it, Barbiere updates a Gold Key character and navigates bringing a classic hero into the modern era, with some big twists in exactly who the hero is going to be early on in[...]

But it's also a book that's going to surprise you, and a healthy dose of that surprise stems from the fact that Frank Barbiere was handed writing duties on the book. He's the genre-story obsessive behind Image's Five Ghosts series with Chris Mooneyham and the current Dark Horse series The White Suits with Toby Cypress[...]

The event is free and open to the public. The Presentation will be by Jeffrey Greene on The Artist in Prison.  The presentation will feature hundreds of images of narrative artworks produced in prison, bodies of work by individual artists assembled over years of incarceration, special projects, publications and exhibition installations illustrating over two decades of[...]

Bleeding Cool have just been informed by Frank Barbiere, writer on Dynamite's Solar: Man of the Atom that their "new Solar" has been revealed to be a woman, in fact And along with that, the rather clarifying covers to issue #3 on the series by Juan Doe, Ema Lupacchino, and Jonathan Case respectively That's all[...]

Frank Barbiere (Five Ghosts) and Toby Cypress (The Tourist) will be on hand to sign the 1st issue of their brand new Dark Horse series and Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) will also be here to sign the first volume of his hit Image Comics series The event will run from 7 to 9PM.  Thursday, February 20th Dare2Draw[...]

Part of that is certainly Chris Mooneyham's evolving artwork, which is particularly strong this arc, and the committed writing of Frank Barbiere (of which other publishers like Dark Horse and Valiant have now taken note) Add Lauren Affe's great instinct for colors and skill in execution on the book and that's the combination that's made[...]

New Dark Horse series The White Suits is arriving February 19th, and Bleeding Cool not only interviewed creators Frank Barbiere and Toby Cypress on their "ganster-noir" comic, but got a glimpse of some process art recently However, that's all prelude to actually getting to read the comic, so dig in and dive for cover! Here's a[...]

The new Dynamite Entertainment series is written by Frank Barbiere (Five Ghosts) and illustrated by Joe Bennett (Iron Man) This is the third Gold Key title being relaunched by Dynamite with Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Magnus: Robot Fighter set for earlier releases The subtitless Doctor Spektor is yet to be scheduled. In Solar: Man of the[...]

The new Dark Horse gangster-noir series The White Suits is coming to publication on February 19th, and it's a property with a fairly long history as one of Five Ghosts writer Frank Barbiere's personal dreams come true It was a concept long before it was a reality, and its first incarnation appeared in the pages of[...]

One final teaser for you that recommends the book: blue Triceratops ghosts make for great comics. Five Ghosts #8 arrives with its oceanic adventures, piratical in nature and ahoy! We have Cap'n Cates (based on comic creator Donny Cates of Buzzkill and IRL friend of Five Ghosts writer Frank Barbiere) It does look a bit like[...]

Five Ghosts Volume 1: The Haunting of Fabian Gray, from Image Comics, written by Frank Barbiere, with art by Christopher Mooneyham, colors by Lauren Affe, and S.M Vidaurri, logos and design by Dylan Todd Five Ghosts was an outsider's chance book, not because of its content or art, but simply because of the degree of[...]

Today, Frank Barbiere, writer on Image's Five Ghosts and IRL friend Donny Cates, co-writer on Dark Horse's Buzzkill were taunting each other about the pirate plots of the new Five Ghosts storyline "Lost Coastlines" Barbiere asserted that Cates is this salty-language prone pirate (drawn by Five Ghosts series artist Chris Mooneyham). But wait, just kidding, or[...]

Right away, there's a stellar full page spread that really captures Mooneyham's pulp homage strengths in a muscle-rippling shark fight and shipwrecked Gray. But this is also literary homage—Frank Barbiere is delivering on the adventure stories of so much great 19th and 20th century literature about marooned and shipwrecked heroes High fives to Barbiere—he's aware of[...]

Ordinarily written by Frank Barbiere (whose career is exploding right now), and drawn by Christopher Mooneyham, this issue is a special one-shot in many ways, and drawn by the great Garry Brown The increasingly iconic Lauren Affe is still on colors (check out her work on Buzzkill, too) and here we have a formative experience[...]

The breakaway success here is clearly the newcomer Five Ghosts from Image by Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham for mini series of the year But let's just say again, as we did at the Harvey Awards, how good it is to see Fiona Staples getting some attention at last. Here's the complete list of winners: Editor of[...]

But the first time it was called "Blackout" and when we pitched it, we found that Mike [Richardson], the president of the company, and Frank Barbiere, who does Five Ghosts, were actually doing a book called Blackout That's what got Mike's attention He was like "What the fuck? You guys are working on this? We[...]

Dynamite turns 10 in 2014,  and Andy Diggle, Matt Wagner, Dennis Calero, Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, Victor Gischler, Frank Barbiere, and Cory Smith turned out as part of a pretty impressive line up at the end of Dynamite's first decade. Andy Diggle spoke about his "supernatural crime thriller" Uncanny, drawn by Aaron Campbell, where central[...]

Dynamite Entertainment ushers in the return of four classic comic series — Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Solar: Man of the Atom, Magnus: Robot Fighter, and Doctor Spektor — through a new licensing agreement with DreamWorks Classics.  The publishing company has signed four of today's most sought-after writers: Greg Pak on Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Frank Barbiere on Solar: Man of[...]

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