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----------------------------------------------------------------- COMICS OBSCURA Mike Curtis shandafa@cyberback.com [COMICS OBSCURA are facts Mike Curtis has dug out during his 30 years of collecting Superman and writing about comics. His website for his comic imprint is www.shandafantasyarts.net ] HE'S NOT LOST, HE'S SOMEWHERE IN THE TABLE OF ELEMENTS Lost animated superhero or comic adaptations are very rare, due to the work that goes into such a project. Yet one 1960's DC adaptation has never turned up, despite persistent stories that it was completed. FILMATION had the rights to many DC characters, and did cartoons of SUPERMAN, BATMAN, TEEN TITANS, JUSTICE LEAGUE and others. But their pilot of METAMORPHO has never turned up on the open market. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [12] HYPE! & LINKS Section Various THIS WEEK'S LINKS These are the website URLS to the regular items that are usually here every week or two: World Wide Web Home Page http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet Yahoo Group CBEM http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComicBookNetworkEmag Trivia sponsors: Discount Comic Book Service http://www.dcbservice.com That's Entertainment http://www.thatse.com News: Diamond Comics http://www.diamondcomics.com Marvel http://www.Marvel.com DC Comics http://www.dccomics.com The PULSE http://www.comicon.com/pulse/ Comics Continuum http://www.comicscontinuum.com/ Newsarama http://www.Newsarama.com/ X-Fan http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/ The Comic Wire http://www.comicbookresources.com/ ICV2 http://www.ICV2.com The SCOOP! http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/ Alternative Comics http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics All The Rage http://www.SilverBulletComicBooks.com Lying in the Gutters http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/ Columns: New Comics Releases http://www.comiclist.com X-Fan Reviews http://www.comixfan.com/xfan Paul Dale Roberts http://www.jazmaonline.com/ Richard Vasseur http://www.jazmaonline.com/ Michael Vance http://www.starland.com/sus Mark Allen Jonathan A. Gilbert http://www.twmgrafix.com Mike Curtis http://www.shandafantasyarts.net Martin Perez (MaGnUs) http://perdidoseneleter.tripod.com +++++ Guardian Heroes Watching Over Alias Comics Astounding Studios ushers Guardian Heroes to Alias Comics in May! April 19, 2006 (San Diego, CA) - Comic book creator/screenwriter Kevin Grevioux - through his latest comic book studio imprint, Astounding Studios - takes readers on a journey to bear witness to the greatest battle ever fought, in GUARDIAN HEROES #0, coming to Alias Comics in May 2006! GUARDIAN HEROES reveals to readers that there have always been heroes, even super-human ones, throughout the history of our world. Those brave individuals who stand in the gap and fight for the weak and the oppressed. In this one-shot story, this proud tradition of heroes continues into our modern era with superheroes that use their great powers and abilities to help mankind - just like their biblical predecessors such as Samson, David, and Moses. We delve deeper into the mythos when angels, lead by an angelic being named Uriel, asks a group of superheroes for help in the fight against evil to protect a group of very special children who are destined to become the world's next generation of superheroes. "This is an all-ages book that anyone can enjoy, regardless of what your faith is," said Grevioux. "It's ultimate good vs. evil here, that's being played out in a superhero-type universe, and there's going to be massive amounts of good, solid rock'em- sock'em superhero action! It's going to be a lot of fun!" Here's how Alias Comics describes the issue to readers: GUARDIAN HEROES #0 Written by Kevin Grevioux, with artwork by Leonel Castellani, and colors by Javier Tartaglia. Throughout history there have always been heroes. Those exceptional men and women blessed with phenomenal strength, power and fortitude to resist evil wherever it's found. Men and women who have the courage to fight for truth and justice when the need arises no matter what the personal cost to their own lives. But, where do these heroes come from? Is it blind luck that creates them, or is there some kind of divine plan? Those questions are answered as one such group of younglings is destined to become the next generation heroes. That is, if they can escape the forces of darkness marshalling against them. Those demonic "denizens of the dark" who will stop at nothing to ensure that these children never fulfill their heroic destiny. It is ultimate good versus ultimate evil for the greatest prize of all: THE CHILDREN OF TOMORROW! This is the world of GUARDIAN HEROES! -- 24-pages, full-color, one-shot -- $3.50 (order code: MAR062894) "Alias is really a fun place to work, and the people there are top notch professionals," adds Grevioux of the publisher, Alias Comics. "They allow me a healthy amount of creative freedom and have some interesting marketing ideas that hopefully the industry will take advantage of one day. I have no doubt that Alias will be around for a very long time, and I hope to be publishing with them for as long as they will allow me." For more information on GUARDIAN HEROES and other great Alias Comics titles, be sure you visit your local comic shop, and visit Alias Comics online at http://www.aliasc omics.net! +++++ We have an HTML version of this newsletter available here: http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/88 Welcome to the Dark Horse Newsletter! ====From the Publisher==== Welcome to an idea that's twenty years old here at Dark Horse... a newsletter! Yep, it's true. We've been talking about doing this for years. At last, our fearless Marketing and Internet teams have taken the reigns and made the dream come true, and just in time for our 20th Anniversary. From here on out, The Pony Express will make its way to you with all sorts of news, interviews, and fabulous features. Be the first to find out about Dark Horse's new comics projects, exciting toys and products from Dark Horse Deluxe, and even the scoop on the latest films being produced by Dark Horse Entertainment. In other words, it will be all things Dark Horse (that's why you're here, isn't it?) I hope you you'll join us each and every month. I know I'll be here. Yeah, I know, I have to, but trust me, we'll have some fun. Mike Richardson, Publisher ====Comic Feedbag==== This month, Dark Horse releases Star Wars: Rebellion - My Brother, My Enemy #1 - the newest installation in the Star Wars collection. Written by Rob Williams (Cla$$war, SW Tales) and illustrated by Brandon Badeaux (Superman: Man of Steel, SW Empire), Rebellion takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars: Rebellion - My Brother, My Enemy #1 http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/89 BPRD: The Universal Machine #1 http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/90 ArchEnemies #1 http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/91 Star Wars: The Return of Tag & Bink - Special Edition http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/92 ====And if you thought it couldn't be cooler...==== DarkHorse.com is hooking you up with some of the coolest comics exclusives around! Flip the pages of the Art of Usagi Yojimbo in this exclusive comics view! http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/93 Get the word straight from the horse's mouth: an exclusive interview with Kazuo Koike, co-creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Executioner, Lady Snowblood, Path of the Assassin and Crying Freeman. http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/94 Enter your name to win a trip to the 2006 Comic-Con International-- whoa! http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/95 Watch a comic book grow from start to finish with the Making of a Comic--ArchEnemies. http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/96 ====FREEBIE==== Yep. You got it. We're giving away free stuff! Why? It's 'cause we like you! The first one hundred fans to click on the link below will receive a package of fourteen magnetic bookmarks featuring Hipira, Emily the Strange, Vampire Hunter D, Hellboy, Harlequin, and many more. So click now! Do it! HURRY! LIMITED QUANTITIES! http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/97 ====Book Barn==== It's been more than three years since Mike Mignola has released a Hellboy collection--but the wait is over! Hellboy: Strange Places follows the red guy around the world--even as far as the ocean floor. Scarface Vol. 1: The Beginning http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/98 Concrete: The Human Dilemma http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/99 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Vol. 1 http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/100 ====Product Parade==== Recognize these cute little guys? The cuddly characters of "Mutts," the popular comic strip by Patrick McDonnell, come to life in 3-D for the first time ever! Get a 360 view of Earl, Mooch, Shtinky, and Guard Dog here: http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/101 Emily the Strange Heat Sensitive Mug http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/102 Guy Davis' Thugshots http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/103 ====Buy Dark Horse Products==== You'll find the largest selection of Dark Horse Merchandise at TFAW.com! http://www.darkhorse.com/nl_cltrack/r.php/dhnl100t/104 +++++ Fantagraphics news and releases for April 2006 Dear Friends, Holy moses, we publish a lot of books. Good ones, even. Don't believe me? Check out the 17 (seventeen!) new releases (listed below) that we've published since the last time I sent you an update. This includes books by some up-and-comers named Clowes, Hernandez, Ketcham, Moscoso, Millionaire, Panter, Elder, Hernandez, and more. Before I dive into them, though: Have you heard the most exciting news of the day? LOVE & ROCKETS co-creator JAIME HERNANDEZ makes his debut in the next edition (April 23) of THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE's "Funny Pages." Hernandez will take over "The Strip," one of the main features of "The Funny Pages," which launched in September 2005 with CHRIS WARE's "Building Stories." Hernandez will debut a new "Maggie" serial featuring his most popular character, Maggie Chascarillo (see GHOST OF HOPPERS below for a brilliant Maggie graphic novel). Needless to say, this is a Great Thing. Find out more on our blog: http://www.fantagraphics.com/blog/ Meanwhile, on with the show: ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 3, 2006 By Daniel Clowes $14.95 paperback 204 pages (with16 pp. color) ISBN 1-56097- 678-0 Art School Confidential is DANIEL CLOWES and TERRY ZWIGOFF's major motion picture follow-up to their Academy Award-nominated 2001 debut feature, Ghost World. Directed by Zwigoff from a script by Clowes (his first since his Oscar-nominated Ghost World screenplay), the film stars John Malkovich, Max Minghella, Jim Broadbent, Steve Buscemi, Anjelica Huston and Sophia Myles. The film premieres nationally on April 28th from Sony Pictures Classics. Art School Confidential follows Jerome (Minghella), an art student who dreams of becoming the greatest artist in the world. The film expands on a short comic story by Dan Clowes that was originally published, in black-and-white, in his hit comic book series Eightball; for this new book, the strip will be published in full-color for the first time. This scrapbook/screenplay also features the original shooting script for the film, including scenes edited out from the final cut. It also boasts two full-color sections jammed with stills from the film, character designs from Clowes' sketchbook, artwork created as set dressing by Clowes and his friends, and many other surprises. THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1959-1960 PUB. DATE: MAY 24, 2006 By Charles M. Schulz; Introduction by Whoopi Goldberg $28.95 Hardcover 344 pages ISBN 1-56097-671-3 As the first decade of Peanuts closes, it seems only fitting to bid farewell to that halcyon decade with a cover starring Patty, one of the original three Peanuts. Major new additions to classic Peanuts lore come fast and furious here. Snoopy begins to take up residence atop his doghouse, and his repertoire of impressions increases exponentially. Lucy sets up her booth and offers her first five-cent psychiatric counsel. (Her advice to a forlorn Charlie Brown: "Get over it.") For the very first time, Linus spends all night in the pumpkin patch on his lonely vigil for the Great Pumpkin (although he later laments that he was a victim of "false doctrine," he's back twelve months later). Linus also gets into repeated, and visually explosive, scuffles with a blanket- stealing Snoopy, suffers the first depredations of his blanket- hating grandmother, and falls in love with his new teacher Miss Othmar. Even more importantly, several years after the last addition to the cast ("Pig-Pen"), Charlie Brown's sister Sally makes her appearance - first as an (off-panel) brand-new baby for Charlie to gush over, then as a toddler and eventually a real, talking, thinking cast member. (By the end of this volume, she'll already start developing her crush on Linus.) All this, and one of the most famous Peanuts strips ever: "Happiness is a warm puppy." Almost one hundred of the 731 strips collected in this volume (including many Sundays) have never been collected in any book since their original release, with one hundred more having been collected only once in relatively obscure and now impossible-to-find books; in other words, close to one quarter of the strips have never been seen by anyone but the most avid Peanuts completists. SEX, ROCK & OPTICAL ILLUSIONS PUB. DATE: MAY 24, 2006 By Victor Moscoso; Introductions by Milton Glaser and Steven Heller $34.95 Hardcover 146 pages ISBN 1-56097-657-8 The 1960s are known as a decade of social and political unrest: The Cuban Missile Crisis, the struggle for civil rights, the escalating protests against the Vietnam war, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, the formation of radical home-grown organizations such as the Weather Underground. It was also a time of cultural revolution, in music, literature, journalism, films, and the heady conflation of Fine Art with the Pop Art movement. Comics were undergoing their own revolution and no one epitomized underground comix and psychedelia more than Victor Moscoso, whose posters for such bands as The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & The Holding Company, stand as enduring works of art and instantly recognizable icons of their time. Moscoso revolutionized the poster aesthetic and defined the visual culture of a generation. R. Crumb invited Moscoso to join the Zap Comix collective in 1968, and Moscoso's work has appeared in every issue since. His comix work contrasted with his fellow artists by his unique stylization, less confrontational point of view, hallucinatory visual rhythms, and wordless, dreamlike stories. Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions is Moscoso's first career- spanning retrospective, from his earliest poster work in 1966 to his most recent graphic experimentation. Optical Illusions contains his best posters that advertised bands playing in San Francisco's famous dance ballrooms of the time - the Avalon, the Matrix, and the Fillmore - as well as many of his Zap Comix contributions, and his solo comix work, many in Moscoso's signature color. This wide-ranging career retrospective - Moscoso's famous technique employing "vibrating colors" that he pioneered in his posters is impeccably reproduced with as much fidelity to the original as modern printing can achieve, his black-and-white and full color comix work is collected here for the first time- is an intense, vibrant, and revelatory experience. BILLY HAZELNUTS PUB. DATE: APRIL 29, 2006 By Tony Millionaire $19.95 Hardcover 100 pages ISBN 1-56097-701-9 Tony Millionaire, creator of Sock Monkey and one of America's most popular weekly comic strips, Maakies, delivers his first original graphic novel for Fantagraphics. Billy Hazelnuts transmutes nursery rhymes and the golem myth into a storybook about Becky, girl scientist, her friend Billy Hazelnuts (who was created from cooking ingredients by tailless mice), and their journey to find the missing moon while battling an evil steam- driven alligator with a seeing-eye skunk. Millionaire fuses the darker spirit of older fairy tales with an absurdist adventure story, throws gender politics into the mix, and brings it to life with his dementedly charming and meticulous drawing style that is utterly transporting. Billy Hazelnuts features all-new characters, a first for Millionaire after building a tremendous following for his Sock Monkey and Maakies characters, which is sure to delight existing fans as well as introduce an entirely new audience to his breathtaking line and imagination. HANK KETCHAM'S COMPLETE DENNIS THE MENACE 1953-1954 PUB. DATE: MAY 17, 2006 By Hank Ketcham $24.95 Hardcover 680 pages ISBN 1-56097-725-6 Dennis the Menace has, for over 50 years, captured the mischievous, rambunctious, anarchic worldview of a kid better than any other cartoon strip. It is the most hilariously observed and empathetic strip cartoon about childhood ever drawn - with a sly humor that kids identify with and parents nod knowingly and ruefully at. Now, courtesy the same publisher that publishes the award-winning Complete Peanuts series (the series that sparked a comic strip renaissance), Hank Ketcham's beloved cartoon can be enjoyed by new generations, in a series collecting for the very first time every Dennis cartoon panel over the half-century life of the strip. Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1953-1954 is the second volume in the series, which debuted in the fall of 2005 to cheers from comic strip fans worldwide. BEASTS AND PRIESTS PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 17, 2006 By Jim Blanchard; Introduction by Art Chantry $9.95 Softcover 64 pages ISBN 1-56097-703-5 Beasts and Priests collects for the first time more than ten years' worth of portraiture of the world's most legendary scene- makers as rendered by the infamous Seattle artist Jim Blanchard. Blanchard's work is often twisted, mutated and ultimately sickly gorgeous, with a pervasive psychedelic tone. Heavily influenced by such underground greats as Robert Williams and Victor Moscoso, Blanchard fuses meticulous craftsmanship with a pop underground sensibility to produce some of the most vivid and striking portraiture in the world. Born in Houston, Texas in 1965, Blanchard earned his bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma in 1987. He has done a wide range of work in illustration, comics and graphic design, including many iconic rock posters for bands such as Nirvana and the Melvins. He was an art director for Fantagraphics through much of the 1990s, and inked Peter Bagge's comic Hate. Fantagraphics has also published his art collection Glam Warp and his comic Trucker Fags in Denial (written by Jim Goad). Portrait subjects include: Duke Ellington, Redd Foxx, Frances Farmer, Patti Page, Shane MacGowan, Lemmy Kilmister, Ron Jeremy, Marcel Proust, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tom Jones, Curtis Mayfield, Terry Southern, Jackie Gleason, Amos Milburn, Willie Nelson, Henry Kissinger, Courtney Love, Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot, Andy Warhol, Lee Marvin, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Cash, Bon Scott, Lee Hazlewood, Raymond Chandler, Ennio Morricone, Bill Hicks, and Lenny Bruce. CHICKEN FAT PUB. DATE: APRIL 29, 2006 By Will Elder $14.95 Softcover 96 pages ISBN 1-56097-704-3 This companion volume to Will Elder: The Mad Playboy of Art peeks into the gray matter of one of comics' most fertile and wide-ranging imaginations. Elder coined the term "chicken fat" to describe the myriad background gags crammed into his stories for MAD, Panic, Humbug, Goodman Beaver and Little Annie Fanny: "It's the part of the chicken soup that is bad for you, yet gives the soup its delicious flavor," he once explained. This is a collection of sketches, drawings and a variety of obscure commercial illustration over the course of Elder's long career. Elder's stable of characters is duly represented, with Goodman Beaver, Little Annie Fanny, the Mole and the more obscure Anthony Adverse, together with caricatures of celebrities and politicians, studies of classic comics characters, movie posters, assorted gag panels, anatomical and fine art studies, and pages upon pages of ingeniously realized doodles. LUBA: THE BOOK OF OFELIA PUB. DATE: APRIL 18, 2006 By Gilbert Hernandez $22.95 Softcover 260 pages ISBN 1-56097-699-3 Gilbert Hernandez last wowed critics in 2003 with his epic life's-work Palomar, collecting more than 20 years of groundbreaking comics that Booklist called "the most substantive single work that the comics medium has yet produced." In his first graphic novel in two years, Hernandez's Luba: The Book of Ofelia features the latest travails of Palomar matriarch Luba and her cousin Ofelia, along with their close circle of family, friends, enemies, and lovers. Luba: The Book of Ofelia begins with Luba, Ofelia and company trying to acclimate to life in America, where Luba still has yet to learn English. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her life with Luba in a tell-all book, she discovers inspiration in Luba's young children - the one-armed Casimira, Socorro with the photographic memory, the loner Joselito and the silent Conchita. Luba: The Book of Ofelia uses elements of Latino soap opera and soft-core porn, with touches of magic-realism, to tell the story of the changes that come with age and the unchanging need for sex and love, with the most vivid, memorable, and honestly depicted characters in comics. JIMBO'S INFERNO PUB. DATE: APRIL 27, 2006 By Gary Panter $29.95 Hardcover 40 pages ISBN 1-56097-691-8 Jimbo's Inferno is the hugely anticipated sequel (or prequel, as it was actually completed first) to 2004's acclaimed Jimbo In Purgatory. In this hardcover, produced to the same exacting standards as Purgatory, Jimbo, accompanied by his trusty guide and ride Valise, visits Hell (here envisioned as a gigantic subterranean shopping mall called Focky Bocky), and in so doing runs across minotaurs, drug-addled punkettes, UFOs, giant robots, and more, leading him to such profound questions as, "Why do so many recreational activities involve smoke and heat?" Panter's wild Albrecht-D?rer-meets-Jack-Kirby graphics are more hallucinatory and visionary than ever, and given the full, expansive treatment they so richly deserve. MOME WINTER 2006 (Vol. 3) PUB. DATE: APRIL. 26, 2006 By Various; Edited by Eric Reynoldds & Gary Groth $14.95 Softcover 112 pages ISBN 1-56097-697-7 Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce two new additions to the ranks of its flagship anthology Mome with this third volume: French cartoonist David B., author of the landmark graphic novel Epileptic, contributes a 36-page complete story, "The Armed Garden," which appears in English for the first time; also, R. Kikuo Johnson, whose Night Fisher was the most acclaimed graphic novel debut of 2005, debuts his first post-Night Fisher work, a series of comic strips titled "Cher Shimura." MOME Winter 2006 also features new contributions from Martin Cendreda, Anders Nilsen, Jonathan Bennett, David Heatley, Kurt Wolfgang, Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, and Jeffrey Brown, as well as an interview with Wolfgang conducted by MOME co-editor Gary Groth. MOME is edited by Groth and Eric Reynolds, with design by Jordan Crane and Adam Grano. MOME is an accessible, reasonably priced, quarterly anthology that runs approximately 120 pages per volume and spotlights a regular cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. MOME is quickly earning a reputation as the premiere literary anthology in comics. Think of something like The Believer or Granta - especially in regard to iconic design, format, and content - but with comics. GHOST OF HOPPERS PUB. DATE: APRIL 18, 2006 By Jaime Hernandez $18.95 Hardcover 120 pages ISBN 1-56097-700-0 Ghost of Hoppers collects for the first time the new adventures of Maggie Chascarrillo, as serialized in the Love & Rockets comic book, and represents Jaime Hernandez's much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2004 magnum opus Locas, which Entertainment Weekly gave an 'A' for its "innovative technique and complex, character-driven stories about Mexican-American life." Ghost of Hoppers begins with the newly divorced Maggie now working as the resident building-manager of the notorious Capri Apartments deep in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, where imaginary dogs roam its walkways at night, all the air conditioners are broken, and the empty swimming pool is covered with flies. As if the eccentric, oddball tenants weren't weird enough, Maggie's houseguest and old friend Izzy Ortiz shakes things up with her usual nervous breakdowns, nocturnal screaming, and obsessive fly-swatting (sometimes with a knife!). When Izzy makes a guest appearance on a local cable access talk show to promote her book, Maggie meets the voluptuous Vivian the "Frogmouth," a curvaceous, hapless bombshell with a foghorn voice who is despised by Hopey (Maggie's long time on-again-off-again girlfriend, now a bartender sporting an eye patch after one of Vivian's previous bottle-breaking altercations). Maggie finds herself swept up in Vivian's life of random catfights, her mob- connected, knife-wielding stalker ex-boyfriend, and his violently jealous fianc‚e. Maggie and Vivian eventually strike up a reluctant and awkward romance, and when they set out for Hoppers to retrieve a stolen art object from Izzy, they get a lot more than they bargained for! ALEX PUB. DATE: APRIL 18, 2006 By Mark Kalesniko $19.95 Softcover 250 pages ISBN 1-56097-745-0 Alex is the story of failed dreams and the consequences faced by a man who discovers that accomplishing his career goals are no route to inner peace. It is a story about the redemptive power of art, and about how fleeting those chances for redemption can be in a society that emphasizes different values. This existential, 250-page exploration of depression and the healing power of art was originally published over ten years ago as a six-issue comic book series and is collected here as one book for the first time. Kalesniko is a former Disney animator with credits including Mulan, The Lion King and The Little Mermaid. He has also created the graphic novels Why Did Pete Duel Kill Himself? and Mail Order Bride. RUNAWAY COMIC #1 By Mark Martin $3.50 24 page comic book After a hiatus from a regularly serialized comic -but not from comics- Mark Martin debuts his new, semi-annual title Runaway this month. Mark Martin is probably best known for his hilarious Nude Dancer single-pagers (collected by Tundra) and his anthology comic that he shared with Jim Woodring, Tantalizing Stories. Since then, he's contributed comics to anthologies from Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, Disney Adventures, Nickelodeon, and other venues. Martin is now back with a vengeance with his own solo, semi-annual Runaway Comics. The first issue begins the longest story starring his popular character Montgomery Wart (from Tantalizing Stories) - plus several shorter stories to round out the first issue. The book is full of Martin's patented visuals, at once dazzling and animated, slapstick humor, perfect timing, distinctive character designs, and rambunctious storytelling. Find out why so many cartoonists, from Scott McCloud to Jim Woodring, love Martin's comics. GRENUORD #2 By Francesca Ghermandi $4.95 32 page comic book In the second chapter of Francesca (Pastil, The Wipeout) Ghermandi's wild, surrealistic six-issue series, fate continues to heap abuse upon poor hapless uprooted George, as he crosses paths with the mysterious home invader from #1, loses his new job, and gets his car stolen. To make matters worse, the two oddball protagonists of Grenuord's back-up strip invade his story and irritate him, and his snoopy, somewhat batty neighbor makes her presence known, despite her daughter and son-in-law's best attempts to constrain her... Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. 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