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When we mention Sam Kieth's The Maxx to folks, two things come to mind First and foremost, it's the comic book character that Kieth created – first appearing in Image Comics' Darker Image #1 (March 1993) before spinning off into his own title The series would go on to run for 35 issues, ending its[...]

The main comic book credit is "Based on DC Comic The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg" with the final credits by Sandman cover artist Dave McKean This included the majority of the initial characters in Sandma .But how about the individual episodes? And for what are they credited? Neil Gaiman just tweeted[...]

As part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage Auctions, taking place today, there is a page of original artwork from the very first issue of Sandman, featuring Dream while captured by his assailants for decades, written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg With[...]

The Hollows was a comic book series published in 2012 and 2013 from IDW Publishing, by Sam Kieth and Chris Ryall about a "near-future Japan, where burned-out husks-the Hollows-wantonly devour souls throughout the city Far above, a segment of society lives safely in giant tree-cities, but the problems below have a way of growing out[...]

By the time that I Before E #1 was released in 1991, Sam Kieth had only had one Marvel gig involving the Hulk — Incredible Hulk #368.  And while that issue captured the imagination of the mainstream comics audience and quickly led to more Marvel work (including a Hulk cover for Wizard shortly after this),[...]

This is the original artwork for The Maxx #1/2 by Sam Kieth from 1993 The Maxx was a comic book series he launched from Image Comics Kieth also created a 1/2 issue that was available as a promotional comic from Wizard Magazine And the cover artwork from that issue is up for auction from Heritage[...]

Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London, 11.30am-3.30pm Long Beach Comic Expo,  Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, Long Beach, CA until tomorrow. Viet Thanh Nguyen & Ellison Nguyen signing at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington 2-4pm. Image Founders Signing – Image Comics President Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Vice President Jim Valentino (ShadowHawk), Chief Operating Officer Robert Kirkman (Oblivion[...]

Maxx creator Sam Kieth will also be a producer on whatever this will become This is of course not the first time The Maxx has come alive off the comic page, it was also an animated series on MTV, which garnered it an Annie Award for best animated series Those 13 episodes have been fan[...]

We know what some of these people are working on at Aftershock Comics. Or, at least, that they are working on something for Aftershock. But Sam Keith?

Reminiscent of the baroque, dream-like quality of the likes of Sam Kieth, Sharp makes for dynamic images under different circumstances that just aren't appropriate for this grounded, grim tale. The story itself suffers from a weightless take on heavy matters Hulk and Betty stumble into meeting Kate, with the latter taking it upon herself to look[...]

Jones, Paul Pope, Mike Allred, Neal Adams, John Cassaday, David Mack, Paolo Rivera, JH Williams III, and now Sam Kieth, among many other extraordinary talents That's no hyperbole: see the list for yourself here. Each artist will create a new strip featuring Little Nemo for the anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, which will be published[...]

By Eric Rezsnyak The Sandman 25th Anniversary Panel had a really interesting moment at the end. Neil Gaiman turned to Sam Kieth, who was the original artist on the series, and asked him how he feels about the property What does he think about this thing that they started 25 years ago that still hasn't gone away? The[...]

Sam Kieth drawing Jim Lee's Deathblow and Rob Liefeld's Bloodwulf as well has his own Maxx in a series that predated The Maxx Sam Kieth rarely sells his own art, so this is quite the rarity, and basically the first appearance of all these characters… And it's on eBay for $10,000 Anyone fancy it? Is it worth[...]

Title: Hero Comics 2011 Creators: Richard Starkings, Dougie Braithwaite, John Layman and Rob Guillory and Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Kieth Covers by J Scott Campbell or Adam Hughes. Publisher: IDW/Hero initiative Available: Booth #5003 High concept: The new fundraising book features 32 pages of all-new material, including an exclusive "Elephantmen" story by Richard Starkings and Dougie Braithwaite, and[...]