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Savage Tales
And the bonus Seeing Red story starring Red Sonja by Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey, originally seen in the pages of fellow anthology Red Sonja: Black, White, Red. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ "This was a great opportunity for me[...]
Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza & Stephen Mooney's Free Agents For Image
As just seen in the Image Comics July 2024 solicits and solicitations just released on Bleeding Cool, but Marvel stalwarts Fabian Nicieza and Kurt Busiek have reunited alongside  Half Past Danger's Stephen Mooney for a new creator-owned comic from Image Comics in July 2024, Free Agents, about intergalactic warriors freed from their responsibilities and left on[...]
Rocketeer
Joining Tucci on The Rocketeer: Pavlichenko is colourist Brian Miller and designer/letterer Mindy Lopkin. Other contributors include Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson doing a new Astro City story, John Layman and Rob Guillory doing a new Chew story, Walter Simonson doing a new Star Slammers story, Howard Chaykin doing a new American Flagg story, Stan Sakai doing a new Usagi Yojimbo story, Matt Wagner doing a new Grendel story, Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier doing[...]
Thank FOC It's The 16th of July, 2022
Her bloody journey to freedom starts in this breathtaking, groundbreaking FIRST ISSUE." Amazing Fantasy #1000 hits FOC from Marvel Comics by Armando Iannucci, Anthony Falcone, Dan Slott, Ho Che Anderson, Jonathan Hickman, Kurt Busiek, Michael Cho, Neil Gaiman, Rainbow Rowell, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jim Cheung, Marco Checchetto, Olivier Coipel, Ryan Stegman, Steve McNiven, Terry Dodson, Todd Nauck,[...]
Amazing Fantasy #1000 Adds Steve McNiven, Removes Armando Iannucci?
The originally solicited list of creators for the Spider-Man 60th-anniversary title Amazing Fantasy #1000 being published at the end of August, was as follows: AMAZING FANTASY #1000 NEIL GAIMAN, ARMANDO IANNUCCI, JONATHAN HICKMAN, DAN SLOTT, HO CHE ANDERSON, KURT BUSIEK, ANTHONY FALCONE, RAINBOW ROWELL AND MORE! (W) JIM CHEUNG, OLIVIER COIPEL, MICHAEL CHO, GORAN PARLOV AND MORE! (A) However, the[...]
Marvel Comics Says Goodbye To Conan Today (Mostly)
DeKnight, Kurt Busiek, Dan Slott, Ron Garney, Richard Isanove, Andrea Di Vito, Scott Hanna, Roberto de La Torre, Gerardo Zatfino, Steve McNiven, Pete Woods,Alan Davis, Cam Smith, Aneke, Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard, Andy Troy, Kate Niemczyk, Jesus Saiz, Patch Zircher, Java Tartaglia, Marco Checchetto, David Finch, Paul Davidson, Cory Smith, Roberto Poggi, Roge Antonio, Israel[...]
Neil Gaiman & Armando Ianucci
Neil Gaiman, co-creator of Sandman, Neverwhere, Mirror Mask, Stardust and Good Omens, author of American Gods, Coraline and Norse Mythology, writer on Babylon 5, Doctor Who, and so, so so much more, is joining Armando Iannucci, co-creator of On The Hour, The Day Today, Alan Partridge, Friday Night Armistice, Gash, Time Trumpet, The Thick Of[...]
Ukraine Refugee Comic With Groo, Chew, Grendel, Astro City & More
At press time, stories will be created by a virtual who's who of writers and artists, including Brent Anderson, Sergio Aragones, June Brigman, Kurt Busiek, Howard Chaykin, Joshua Dysart, Mark Evanier, Emil Ferris, Dave Gibbons, Rob Guillory, John Layman, Gabriel Rodriguez, Stan Sakai, Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson, Chris Sprouse, Jill Thompson, Matt Wagner, Mark Waid,[...]
George Perez' JLA/Avengers In Stores For Sale Next Week, Already $200
Last year, after the news about George Pérez's cancer and his decision not to undergo treatment, there were calls from across the industry for DC Comics and Marvel Comics to put differences aside and republish the classic JLA/Avengers crossover by George Pérez and Kurt Busiek[...]
Auto Draft
Last year, after the news about George Pérez's cancer and his decision not to undergo treatment, there were calls from across the industry for DC Comics and Marvel Comics to put differences aside and republish the classic JLA/Avengers crossover by George Pérez and Kurt Busiek There was also a widely shared Bleeding Cool petition from[...]
Marvel, DC & The Hero Initiative To Republish George Perez' JLA/Avengers
Last year, after the news about George Pérez' cancer and his decision not to undergo treatment, there were calls from across the industry for DC Comics and Marvel Comics to put differences aside and republish the classic JLA/Avengers crossover by George Pérez and Kurt Busiek There was also a widely shared Bleeding Cool petition from[...]
Michael Davis Writes Essay For John Paul Leon Batman/Catwoman Special
The book will also have essays, by Batman: Creature Of The Night collaborator Kurt Busiek, and his former mentor, and the man who hired him for the first issue of Static, Bleeding Cool contributor Michael Davis This also marks Michael's first published work from DC Comics in decades. John Paul Leon Batman Catwoman Special The BATMAN/CATWOMAN series[...]
Kurt Busiek, Carlos Pacheco Discuss the Return of Arrowsmith at Image
Back in July, Image Comics announced that Kurt Busiek's creator-owned properties, referred to in a new press release at The Kurt Busiek Universe, would move from DC Comics to Image Those properties include Astro City, Arrowsmith, Autumnlands, and more new projects This week, Image unveiled the plans for new work in the Kurt Busiek Universe,[...]
Image Unveils for the Kurt Busiek Universe in 2022
Back in July, Image Comics announced that Kurt Busiek's creator-owned properties, referred to in a new press release at The Kurt Busiek Universe, would move from DC Comics to Image Those properties include Astro City, Arrowsmith, Autumnlands, and more new projects This week, Image unveiled the plans for new work in the Kurt Busiek Universe[...]
Kurt Busiek's Astro City, And Others, Return To Image Comics
Back in September last year, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics had pulled Kurt Busiek's Astro City from ComiXology digital comic publisher This was one of a number of similar moves, including DC pulling Brian Bendis' creator-owned books off ComiXology as well, as part of internal machinations at the publisher that filled headlines[...]
Alex Ross' Astro City Poster Pencils Up For Auction, Only $360 So Far
It has to go higher than that, doesn't it? Alex Ross' Astro City Poster Pencils Up For Auction, Only $360 So Far Here's a scan of the original poster for comparison. Wizard poster of Astro City Alex Ross Wizard the Comic-Magazine #83 "Astro City" Pull-Out Poster Preliminary Artwork Original Art (Wizard, 1999). Alex Ross' original pencil design for the poster that would[...]
The Marvels, Off The Marvel Missing-In-Action List
The Marvels was another of the Kurt Busiek-led anniversary series that was to have run last year until the coronavirus kicked in It was added to the Missing In Action list but was neither rescheduled nor cancelled when the industry began to ramp up again Earlier this week, that changed and the series was re-announced[...]
Is Astro City Leaving DC Comics Too, For New Graphic Novels?
Recently, Kurt Busiek gave a number of PR-friendly interviews regarding the return of his superhero worldbuilding series with Brent Anderson, Astro City, as an original graphic novel Of late, Astro City has been published by DC Comics after they bought its former publisher, WildStorm But it has been through a few imprints and publishers –[...]
From Podcasting About X-Men to Writing Them: Jay Edidin Tales Cyclops
Credit: Marvel Marvels Snapshot is curated by Kurt Busiek, who has worked with Jay Edidin on and off for over a decade, as the writer revealed in a conversation spotlighted at Marvel.com The writer, who will tackle an early Cyclops tale, also spoke about the pressure of writing X-Men now that he is known as an[...]
Graphic+Novel+Masterpieces
Other confirmed creators for the first year of the club include Kurt Busiek for Marvels, Mark Waid for Kingdom Come, Scott McCloud for Understanding Comics, Klaus Janson for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and Neil Gaiman for Sandman, with many more being added weekly. Monthly club selections from all three clubs are freely exchangeable from an[...]
Alan Brennert and Jerry Ordway Launch Marvel Snapshots, Curated by Kurt Busiek
That Ross would draw the first episode and would write subsequent issues for others to draw or paint. Then last month while Kurt Busiek was guesting on the Marvel podcast he talked about the Marvels dramatic podcast series being created for Stitcher, on which he is consulting And he also talked about his own involvement in the[...]
LATE: Batman: Creature Of The Night #4 Must Be Out This Year
Batman Creature Of The Night is a prestige mini-series that has been a long time coming from Kurt Busiek and John Paul Leon. The first issue came out in late November 2017, intended to be a companion piece to Batman: Secret Identity. Young Bruce Wainwright lost his parents in a violent crime…and in the real world, no superheroes exist to save the[...]
Marvel Drops "Stan Lee's" Venus, More on Marvel Unlimited for Valentines Day
Definitely worth a look if you're a Marvel Unlimited subscriber. Also added is the entire 6-issue run of The Order by Kurt Busiek and Matt Haley from 2002, a follow-up to Busiek and Erik Larsen's Defenders series, and a three-issue Man-Thing series written by Hans Rodionoff, who wrote the script for the 2005 Man-Thing movie, with art[...]
Marvel Celebrates 25 Years of Marvels with Veritable Variant Cover Bonanza
Face front, true believers! Marvel Comics is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross's Marvels in the only way they know how: with a @#$%load of variant covers, baby! We already knew about Alex Ross's Marvels 25th Anniversary variants launching in January, as well as the February release of Marvels Annotated, which will[...]
Now Marvel to Publish Dark Horse's Conan Comics in New Epic Collections
A new press release from the House of Ideas highlights a new idea: collecting the Conan comics Dark Horse published while they held the license, beginning with Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord's 2004 work. Continuing its celebration of the return of CONAN this January, Marvel is excited to announce the release of two volumes of CONAN[...]
Kurt Busiek avengers
But what was great was they let me do whatever I wanted because they expected nothing from it. Well, Kurt Busiek, who was writing the Avengers comic at the time and who left the series as a result of the Ultimates existence, wanted to set the record straight. Lovely to see my AVENGERS run still getting crapped[...]
Astro City: FremantleMedia Secures TV Series Rights, Co-Creator Kurt Busiek to Pen Pilot
Credit: Vertigo FremantleMedia North America is going from flawed gods to all-too-human heroes, with the American Gods producer having acquired the rights to develop writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross's superhero comic book series Astro City as a live-action television series Busiek and Rick Alexander will pen the pilot; and executive produce[...]