THE OVERSTREET GUIDE TO COLLECTING COMIC & ANIMATION ART

Our current project at Gemstone Publishing is The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comic & Animation Art. It's the second book in our "How To" series, and so far it's very interesting! It features a great cover by Joe Jusko (recreating John Buscema's Silver Surfer #1 cover), and it's due out in October 2013.

My Comic-Con Interview with GRANT GEISSMAN

FUN on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

Vincent Spencer, with whom I created Zombie-Proof, and I had a blast on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Best Comics and The Comic Book Depot, two great comic shops, both on Long Island. There were great crowds at both stores and we were able to give out copies of the special FCBD 2013 issue of Comic Book Marketplace, talk about The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics and the upcoming July release of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #43, and more.

We also talked about and sold copies of Zombie-Proof, Vampire, PA, the Mighty Samson trade paperback, and other creative projects, too... And many fans received sketches of themselves "zombie-fied" courtesy of Vince on our blank sketch cover variant of Comic Book Marketplace. They were awesome and very well received.

MIKE DEODATO on OVERSTREET #43

When we started trying to work out the covers on The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #43, I had a very firm plan in my head for the covers. As you might have experienced in your own life, though, life is what happens while your busy making other plans. I was fortunate enough have help from a friend at Marvel in landing Mike Deodato, Jr. as one of our cover artists. What an awesome experience working with him turned out to be. I gave him almost no time to get it done and he delivered it brilliantly and sooner than I had asked. And his recommendation for coloring it, Leonardo Ito, also performed admirably in equally expedient fashion! What a great experience and what a superb cover! Their take on the X-Men was exactly what I asked for in our of the Marvel mutants' 50th anniversary!

ALMOST GONE! The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics Selling Quickly

The Joe Jusko Spider-Man cover edition of The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics #1 is almost sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors and we have about a case left at the Gemstone offices. We expect to go back to press on this in the fall. In the meantime, if you haven't discovered this perennial and you know someone new to comics, I urge you to check it out soon! The Don Newton cover edition sold out a few weeks back. The reactions to it have been superb, making it a very gratifying experience Bob Overstreet, Mark Huesman and me. Thanks!

RETURN OF THE HUMAN - BOOK 2 CONCLUDES

The concluding chapter of RETURN OF THE HUMAN - Book 2 is now available in David Lloyd's ACES WEEKLY - Volume 3. In addition to my friend and collaborator Mark Wheatley, who delivered some truly brilliant stuff under adverse (to say the least) conditions, I'd like to thank David and Bam for a wonderful experience thus far, my first in the world of digital comics! Can't wait to get back to it for Book 3!

ANDY KUBERT, SUPERMAN on OVERSTREET #43

As a huge fan of Joe Kubert's Tarzan cover on THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE #5, I am really excited to have a piece celebrating Superman's 75th anniversary by ANDY KUBERT, one of Joe's sons, as the the cover for THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE #43.

Incidentally, that Tarzan cover was just voted BEST OVERSTREET COVER OF THE 1970s!

ZOMBIE GRAS 3 at GEPPI'S ENTERTAINMENT MUSEUM

On March 30, 2013, while supplies last, a free ZG3 (that's Zombie Gras 3 for you newcomers) edition of COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE will be given away to attendees at Geppi's Entertainment Museum (GEM). As many already know, Zombie Gras has turned into a huge event for GEM. And just to avoid any confusion, it's a variant cover of last year's all-horror issue of CBM, which sort of seemed perfect for the occasion.

ANOTHER SELL-OUT!

 

I am happy to report that the Don Newton cover edition of THE OVERSTREET GUIDE TO COLLECTING COMICS #1 has sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors. We have a few single copies left at Gemstone Publishing and a few retailers will have copies, too. This edition won't be reprinted, but the Spider-Man cover by Joe Jusko is still available.

FLASH OF INSPIRATION

My friend James Nelms is working on a new story for the way-too-slowly-gestating BEDTIME STORIES FOR IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN. It's very stylish and nicely done!

RETURN OF THE HUMAN

A Few of My Credits

ZOMBIE-PROOF

Billy Bob Driwahl from ZOMBIE-PROOF as illustrated by SHI creator and A CHILD IS BORN writer-artist Billy Tucci. I've always loved this piece.

A few new bits of ZOMBIE-PROOF news are on the way... soon.

RETURN OF THE HUMAN

A sneak peek at RETURN OF THE HUMAN by Mark Wheatley and me. Chapter One will run in seven parts in the first volume of ACES WEEKLY. Details to follow soon!

ACES WEEKLY!

 

“Creators contributing are David Lloyd, Kyle Baker, Mark Wheatley, JC Vaughn, John McCrea, Phil Hester, David Hitchcock, Steve Bissette, Dan Christensen, Yishan Li, Algesiras, Alain Mauricet, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Billy Tucci, Mindy McPeak, Kathryn Layno, Kev Hopgood, Ferg Handley, Lew Stringer, David Leach, Carl Critchlow, Colleen Doran, Shaky Kane, Dave Hine, Hunt Emerson, Dylan Teague, Marc Hempel, Paul Maybury, Phil Elliott, Esteban Hernandez, Mychailo Kazybrid, Ben Dickson, Gavin Mitchell, Henry Flint and (believe it or not) many more…”

Aces Weekly will be released as seven weekly issues which form a volume. Each issue will have at least three landscape pages from six contributors (18 pages per issue), plus extras such as artists sketches etc.

Then there’ll be a break in publication before the next seven issue volume begins.

Readers subscribe to volumes which cost £6.99/$10 per seven issue volume. Aces Weekly will be available exclusively on-line and feature all new material and can be viewed on home computers, laptops and tablets.

Creators come from the UK, US and European comic industries and have been gathered together by David Lloyd who is the publisher. Bambos Georgiou is the managing editor. All strips are creator owned.

To be updated readers should send their e-mails to info@acesweekly.co.uk.

The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics #1

The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics #1

 - Spider-Man cover by Joe Jusko.

The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics #1

 - DC Cover by Don Newton

At Comic-Con 2012 . . .

With V for Vendetta co-creator and Kickback writer-artist David Lloyd (center) and Breathtaker, Mars and Frankenstein Mobster creator Mark Wheatley at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2012. David is heading up Aces Weekly, a new online anthology that will feature Mark's and my Return of the Human. More soon.

The Big, Big Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #42

The Big, Big Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #42 is an oversized, spiral-bound version of the Guide. It contains the same pricing data, but none of the articles or other features in the Guide. It also doesn't have the ads. Limited to 1,500 copies. This is the first time in four years we've offered it, and we're very glad to have it make a comeback. And keeping with the comeback theme, the cover features Valiant's X-O Manowar.,

Overstreet #42 Now On Sale

 As always happens, when I get deep into The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide before it goes to press, I stop posting. It's that kind of project, which it's supposed to be, right? The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #42 went on sale on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. I'm happy to say it's the third straight year we had one of the hardcovers sell out on opening day (Adam Hughes' Catwoman HC) and it's also the third straight year we were able to do an exclusive edition as a fundraiser for The Hero Initiative (Matt Wagner's great Batman - Grendel piece). Joe Jusko's Avengers is selling well, too, and it's the one you'll be able to find in traditional bookstores as well as comic shops.

FABLES FOR JAPAN

FABLES FOR JAPAN is a three-book series containing prose, sequential comic art, poetry and more created to raise money for the victim's of Japan's earthquake and tsunami one year ago.

I'm very proud to have contributed a story with the super-talented MARK WHEATLEY to the second volume of the series, which features a cover by another super-talented friend of mine, V For Vendetta artist DAVID LLOYD.

Books I and II are already available as PDF downloads. All the money goes to charity as there is no print cost and all the creators have donated their efforts.