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And while a European convention, it is also aimed at Japan, the UK and the USA, with English spoken through the show. Bleeding Cool has been given an exclusive first look at the full creator list for the Lake Como show. Joining previously announced creators at Lake Como will be a host of new and returning guests,[...]

My abiding memory of Joe Benitez was at Phoenix Comic Con during the Bleeding Cool Awards, when he presented a number of awards, more than anyone thought he might, in a state which Private Eye Magazine likes to describe as "tired and emotional" A decade later, he has brought his longstanding self-published comic Lady Mechanika[...]

Including the new series of Joe Benitez' Lady Mechanika, now being published by Image Comics. FCBD Preview: Joe Benitez's Lady Mechanika Comes To Image Comics FCBD 2021 LADY MECHANIKA IMAGE COMICS APR210007 (W) Joe Benitez (A/CA) Joe Benitez A young woman in the Victorian Era searches desperately for the secrets to her past, which resulted in her extraordinary but unnatural mechanical[...]

Thank goodness this was before people recorded things on their phones and uploaded them. Because it also included a rather tired and emotional Joe Benitez who presented far more awards than we thought he would and threatened to turn the whole affair into even more of a farrago of nonsense than it was intended to be[...]

I know a few folks that wouldn't be able to come at all, so what are we to do? Did we miss out on all the goodies? //Credit: Benitez Productions Where I can, I'll fill you in on where you can find some, if not all, of the comics that came out for Free Comic Book Day[...]

She must go it alone. Lady Mechanika: La Belle Dame Sans Merci #1 cover by Joe Benitez and Beth Sotelo This is my first experience with the Lady Mechanika line of comic books I'm not much into steampunk in general, but this book did win me over with its charms and clever dialogue. This first issue is a[...]

Read previous issues of the Dieselfunk Dispatch here. Tim Fielder writes for Bleeding Cool from Wondercon: Greetings Dieselfunkateers! Dropping Science at Wondercon 2018 with MARCIA CHEN of JOE BENITEZ PRODUCTIONS Okay so I've covered creators who one might call OBSCURE Hey, that's part of the Dispatch's mandate But what about the folks who fall in-between? This brought[...]

Dynamite has sent us a new writer's commentary by Marc Andreyko for Legenderry Red Sonja #2 with a cover by Joe Benitez and interiors by Igor Lima. Red's return to the life of a pirate-for-hire puts her square in the middle of a High Seas gang war, which spells trouble for someone, but maybe not who you would[...]

The cause of death is said to have been medical complications after a lengthy hospital stay. Llamas got his break with Top Cow, honing his craft on the pencils of artists such as Marc Silvestri, David Finch, Billy Tan, Brandon Peterson and Joe Benitez He worked on some of the company's top characters like The Darkness,[...]

It will have a cover by Joe Benitez. Writer Marc Andreyko (Love is Love, Manhunter) has been tapped by Dynamite Entertainment to script a new series Legenderry: Red Sonja The series spins out of the 2013 Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure where Bill Willingham (Fables) re-imagined the publisher characters into a Steampunk world[...]

The commentary is for the first issue which came out today and features art by Crizam Zamora and a cover by Joe Benitez. Frank J Barbiere here, and I'm going to take you through the inaugural issue in a Writer's Commentary that will shed a little light into the creative process and the mysteries at hand in The[...]

Barbiere talks about working with Dynamite again and artist Crizam. Covers by Joe Benitez and Darick Robertson. BYRON BREWER: So, Frank, how does it feel to be in the world of "steampunk"? FRANK BARBIERE: I've always found the world of steampunk interesting, and it's been very fun to use it in The Precinct  I think it inspires a[...]

Starting at 7 PM, artist/writer Felipe Smith will be on hand to chat and ink your comics for you! February 13th Lady Mechanika's Joe Benitez (artist/creator) will appear at Collector's Paradise in Pasadena from 6 to 8 PM RSVP on Facebook for this free event. February 20th Local indie publisher Fanboy Comics will present the launch of Fearworms: Selected[...]

But for now, here's the top-selling 25 titles for 2014… with Gail Simone, Jim Califiore, Gary Erskine, Joe Benitez, Karl Bollers, Larry Stroman, Rick Leonardi, Kate Leth, Erica Henderson and more leading the field… You know, people want to know where all the women and POC comic creators are? Right here it seems. And in Douglas Rushkoff's[...]

Lady Mechanika returns this February with a brand new issue 4, the fourth chapter of "The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse" from Joe Benitez and Peter Steigerwald. After leaving Aspen Press for pastures new, there hasn't been much seen of the steampunk corseted gal. Well, in February from Benitez Productions expect to see a collection of #0 and[...]

One of the important things in doing steampunk art is the detail work and I think Davila's is excellent and showing his original pencils is the best way to demonstrate that. To learn more about Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure #7 by Bill Willingham, Sergio Fernandez Davila and Joe Benitez, click here. The[...]

They turn a one-day-a-year thing into a month long event. With stores in Winnetka and Pasadena (Home of the Tournament of Roses Parade), they have tapped creators like Joe Benitez, Chris Moreno, Mike Kunkel, Scott Koblish, Chris Burnham and Ray Frisen to do signings on the different weekends this month. For more information about the events scheduled,[...]

Joe Benitez, creator of the Lady Mechanica series, was the artist on Detective Comics #823  back in 2006 and posted these images last night on his facebook page. This is Page 13 and as you can see the process from pencils, to inks and finally to colors Inker on the issue was Victor Llamas and colors[...]

The series has art by Sergio Fernandez Davila and covers by Joe Benitez. [youtube]http://youtu.be/bJna8jMDWqE[/youtube] Late last week we let you know that this series along with the other debute of the week Twilight Zone had their orders shorted by Diamond Comic Distributors So get to your shops early if you want to make sure you get a copy. More[...]

The seven issues series for Dynamite Entertainment launches in January and will feature art by Sergio Fernandez Davila and covers by Joe Benitez (Lady Mechanika). "This is a story where I get to have my cake and eat it too," says Bill Willingham.  "I get to work with some of my favorite characters from comic books, prose,[...]

So let's all gather up some motivation and help Grump get out of bed. The Kickstarter campaign features prints by Joe Benitez, Keu Cha, Kizer Stone, Beth Sotelo, and Peter Steigerwald Depending on how much you donate you can receive digital downloads, prints, trading cards, yourself in Sotelo's unique Grump style, or everything. The characters are interesting[...]

Aspen has issued the following press release that they and Lady Mechanika creator Joe Benitez have parted company. And it reads like the press release from a Hollywood couple who have just realised that only one of them is actually a Scientologist. ASPEN COMICS AND JOE BENITEZ SEPARATE Press Release 01-01-13 Aspen and Joe Benitez announce they have amicably separated[...]

Many of you read about the antics of one Joe Benitez at the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards a week ago The day after, he was rather sheepish and on Sunday, he met the young girl who was in front of him at the show, apologised, and drew her a Snow White picture She seemed very[...]