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Yesterday – before he won the Eisner Award for Best Anthology – Scott Dunbier announced that his new publisher, Act 4 Publishing, would be publishing Artists Editions – a format that Dunbier pioneered at IDW – as well as other publishing and archival work that otherwise would have been published by IDW, with a DC[...]

And that "Key man" is Scott Dunbier, Special Projects Editor. Walter Simonson © Luigi Novi/Wikimedia Commons I spoke to Walter Simonson yesterday who confirmed he had such a contract with IDW regarding Dunbier He told me, "I've been doing a lot of work – variant covers and such – for other companies for a while, and we're[...]

Co-creator of Kang. Doug Braithwaite drew the revived Journey Into Mystery series that established the young Loki. Loki's Journey  from Marvel Comics #1000 Mark Brooks, co-creator of Sylvie, in whom Enchantress hid in Dark ReignL Young Avengers John Buscema, co-creator of The Time Keepers in Thor #243. Sal Buscema, co-creator of the Time Variance Authority for Thor #372, drew early[...]

Here are a few thoughts expressed by those who knew Dan, worked with him and found inspiration in his lines. Walter Simonson: Dan Green has caught the last train out This happened a few days ago apparently, and I wanted to wait till I was sure Now, I'm sure Dan was one of the first guys[...]

Walter Simonson had a tale to tell on Facebook Heading back from TerrifiCon, he wrote "Back in the day, three handmade comics showed up at Marvel They were written and drawn by an enthusiastic 14-year-old and mailed to the office Two of them were stories with Marvel characters, or maybe his own characters I don't[...]

The comic has covers by Walter Simonson and Mark Chiarello as well as pin-ups from Barry Kitson, Liam Sharp, Bill Sienkiewicz and Shawn Martinbrough, also available as prints as add-ons as part of the Zoop campaign which concludes today, So you'll have to hurry up. The crowdfunding has currently raised $10,279 against a goal of $5,000[...]

A new What If season may be coming to Disney+… and could it be a little darker? A little more grim'n'gritty? Because Marvel is launching What If…? Dark one-shots for Spider-Gwen and Loki in July, and Venom in August. First revisiting the death of Gwen Stacy with the original Death of Gwen Stacy writer Gerry Conway[...]

Walter Simonson has seen a number of his projects gain the Artist's Edition treatment, such as The Mighty Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Battlestar Galactica, Manhunter and Star Wars, but this is the first time his Fantastic Four run has been collected in this way- the issues he drew, that is, as the Walter Simonson's Fantastic[...]

An X-Men Virtual Event will feature Chris Claremont, Walter & Louise Simonson, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri, Gerry Duggan, Jonathan Hickman and more.

Jack Kirby, Siya Oum, Bryan K Vaughan, Klaus Janson, Chip Zdarsky, Will Eisner, Phil Jimenezm Mike Deodato, Matt Fraction, Bart Sears, Mike Mayhew, Tony Moore,  Aaron McGruder, Al Williamson, Albert Uderzio, Mobius, Alex Raymonf, Alex Rodd, Alex Toth, Angus McKie, Brian Bolland, Brian Stelfreeze, Bruce Timm, Charls Burns, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Dave Gibbons, Dave[...]

Return to the hulking barbarian and the diminutive rogue as they battle swordsmen, necromancers, and flagons of strong drink! The comics adaptation of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser returns to print in an omnibus format from Dark Horse Books, containing the series Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser:[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

Fantastic Four #347 by Walter Simonson, Arthur Adams, Art Thibert, Bill Oakley and Steve Buccellato, which saw the Fantastic Four indisposed and replaced for three issues by Wolverine, Hulk, Spider-Man, and Ghost Rider, doing the bidding of Skrulls who had replaced the real Fantastic Four, who the new team thought had been killed, as they[...]

Now his friends and colleagues have completed the comic book in tribute and in memory of their friend, with Bernard Chang, Shawn Crystal, Mitch Gerads, and Dave Stewart completing the story, including tributes by Lee Bermejo, Denys Cowan, Dave Gibbons, Becky Cloonan, Klaus Janson, Dave Stewart, Rick Leonardi, Chris Batista, Dani, Tamra Bonvillain, Ibrahim Moustafa,[...]

So who got thanked in Loki Episode 1 on Disney+ today? Here's the screencap of the thanks. Loki TV screencap Loki was created for the Marvel Universe by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, and Jack Kirby for the Thor comic book  Journey into Mystery #85 in 1962 – though Stan Lee had written a very similar version of[...]

JP's first published work however debuted in the pages of TSR DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS when he was a high school student at the New World School of the Arts, in Miami. John Paul Leon, courtesy of his family. While at SVA, John Paul studied under one of his childhood idols, Walter Simonson "I am honored to have[...]

A Bruce Wayne who died of cancer, something even he couldn't beat. Lee Weeks art from Batman Annual #2. In today's Detective Comics #1027 dubbed the 1,000th issue of Detective Comics with Batman in it (even though it's the 1001st issue), we get another point in this timeline (if timelines are still allowed) courtesy of Tom King[...]

Each title will be released on www.neotextcorp.com and will be available via Amazon. Exclusive features on art and pop culture, will include essays by Paco Taylor, on Basquiat and Count Dante, and interviews conducted by Howard Chaykin with Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Neal Adams, Joe Jusko, Ann Nocenti, John Romita Jr, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walter Simonson, Louise[...]

And as part of the promotional aspects, they each created artwork to run in Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons' Martha Washington series, with Walter Simonson, Paul Chadwick, Arthur Adams and Mike Mignola, each producing a single pin-up image. The original art has recently been unearthed and, inspired by the recent #ComicWritersChallenge, will now be auctioned individually[...]

Drawn by Guy Dorian Sr  – whose first professional comic was also a bunch of Marvel kids, The New Warriors, and coloured by Janice Chiang, it will also have a cover from her husband Walter Simonson. Time to meet human-animal 'splices', Byrr, Fext and Cammo in space… STORM KIDS HYPERBREED #1 (W) Louise Simonson (A) Guy Dorian (CA)[...]

Also interviewed for the book are Walter Simonson, the Hernandez Brothers, and more. As someone who has participated in both Kickstarters and has loved volume one of Full Bleed, I cannot recommend it enough for fans of comics, music, and art. For further musings from Joshua Stone you can follow him on the Twitter@1NerdyOne [...]

Action Comics #1000 finally kicks off with a cavalcade of creators and stories to celebrate 1,000 issues and 80 years of Superman. Is it a good read?

Russel Dauterman, Olivier Coipel, and Daniel Acuna particularly bring their A-game, and it's quite cool seeing Walter Simonson brought in, even for a single page. Jason Aaron puts on quite the show for this celebration of Mighty Thor, and it has me interested in the future exploits of Thor, whosever it may be The promised returns[...]

Much like the Norns, Aaron takes every single thread and weaves them together into an epic, large story that captures ever aspect of his incredible run on Thor. This is helped by a frankly incredible selection of artists on the issue, from Russell Dauterman, Olivier Coipel, Chris Burnham, James Harren, and Walter Simonson, among many, many[...]

The Spotlight on Walt Simonson panel at SDCC 2017 was moderated by his wife, Louise Simonson, a renowned comic book writer and editor herself.

Walter Simonson fans, pay attention IDW Publishing is offering up a dinner with the legendary artist at this years San Diego Comic Con at a restaurant in the Gas Lamp district Not only is he an incredible comic writer / artist, but he's eaten with the Asgardians in the Thor movie… which puts you one[...]

This book includes 24 stories of heroic antics from creative geniuses like Kurt Busiek, Darwyn Cooke, Dave Gibbons, Marc Guggenheim, Walter Simonson, and more. It's hard for me to pick a favorite story from this one "Dear Betty" is a wonderful story by Busiek and Michael Wm Kaluta Betty — in her nurse costume —[...]

The New Jersey Comic Expo already has Garth Ennis and Jim Lee coming along with publishers Valiant, Dynamite and Action Lab... that's a very good start

In June next year, Dark Horse is reprinting the old DC Comics swords and sorcery series Fafhrd And The Gray Mauser by Dennis O'Neill, Howard Chaykin and Walter Simonson as Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser: Cloud Of Hate And Other Stories Dark Horse had previously reprinted the Mike Mignola issues, but now appear to be publishing[...]