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// July 10th, 2011 // // Misc, The Power Within
Check out this 10-page preview of Charles “Zan” Christensen and Mark Brill’s The Power Within right here on Northwestpress.com, thanks to an embedded Google Docs viewer. The book is available to order through Diamond Comic Distributors using item #JUL111189. Ask for it at your local comics shop!
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// January 22nd, 2011 // // Rainy Day Recess
Northwest Press is proud to be publishing a collection of David Kelly’s Xeric-Award-winning series “Steven’s Comics”, with a foreword by It Gets Better Project founder Dan Savage. Continue reading to take a look at the preview, and after you’ve fallen in love with this beautiful, bittersweet series, ask your local bookstore or comics shop to pre-order it! (Or order it directly from us in March!)
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// December 17th, 2010 // // Glamazonia
Check out this 30-page preview of Justin Hall’s Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny right here on Northwestpress.com, thanks to an embedded Google Docs viewer.
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// October 27th, 2010 // // Glamazonia
The wait is over! You can now download a 30-page preview of Justin Hall’s forthcoming Northwest Press book, Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny!
The preview includes a look at the secret origin of Glamazonia; her romances with J.F.K., Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; Glamazonia Public Service Announcements with special guests Robert Kirby, Dave Davenport, MariNaomi, Paige Braddock and Steve MacIsaac; and a peek at the epic Glamazonia/Rent Boy adventure drawn by Diego Gómez!
(And this is just a taste of what you get in the full, 120+ page book!)
Download the preview today! Tweet the heck out of it, make it your Facebook status, tattoo it onto your forehead! And most importantly, ask your local comics shop to reserve you a copy! If you want to find a shop near you, try the excellent Comic Shop Locator.
// June 17th, 2010 // // Teleny and Camille
I’ve been maintaining this site for quite a while as a place to post all my comics stuff and to talk about The Mark of Aeacus, that I write for Class Comics, but the idea that Northwest Comics was a real publisher was kind of a fantasy.
But “Northwest Press” will be publishing its first official project next month: the graphic novel masterpiece Teleny and Camille by Jon Macy. This is an adaptation of the anonymous gay erotic novel Teleny, which is attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle of writers and poets. Jon shared it with me over a year ago, when it was nearly finished, and he produced a small print-on-demand run for WonderCon earlier this year. It’s a gorgeous book, and it really deserves a deluxe presentation and a wide audience.
I’m sure I’ll be talking more about it in the coming weeks and sharing previews and such—especially since both Jon and I will be at Comic-Con next month!—but I’m nearly ready to send the cover off to the printer’s and I wanted to share it with the world.
Enjoy!
// March 28th, 2010 // // The Mark of Aeacus
Just finished inking page 20 of 24 (the finish line is in sight!) and wanted to post a little note to talk about how great Mark’s pencil work is. Regardless of my fluency in Photoshop, the fact that the writer of the book with no comic book art credits is able to take his pencils and clean them up to look like inkwork is pretty astounding.
Yes, I am a tracer. A good tracer, but still.
And just when I start to get cocky and think I’m some inking wunderkind, I come across a background that he didn’t flesh out completely and realize that it’s not me that can draw, it’s him.
// March 21st, 2009 // // The Mark of Aeacus
Pencils from Mark of Aeacus #2!
Mark has set a deadline of early April to finish all the pencil work, which will be inked by Max Banks, who’s previously inked The Tick. We settled on this panel to share as a special preview.
If you want to see more of Mark of Aeacus #2, you can stop by and visit us at the Emerald City ComiCon on April 4th and 5th, where I’ll not only be promoting Mark of Aeacus, but also helping out LGBT comics organization Prism Comics!
// February 24th, 2009 // // The Mark of Aeacus
A while back, I had chatted with Eric Shanower, illustrator of The Age of Bronze, friend, and all-around-groovy-guy about collaborating on a mythology storybook. It would take these ancient tales and retell them in a modern voice, recounting all the fucking and betrayal and bad behavior just like you might do in a Facebook blog post.
The idea was to do a 16-page storybook—with an art panel for each—that followed the life (and death) of judger-of-the-dead King Aeacus, who got the ball rolling long ago when he crafted The Mark of Aeacus and sent it up from Hades.
Of course, I knew Eric—being as busy as he is with being an actual comics artist with real paying work—would have to fit this project in around the edges, as it were. It’s been gestating.
But I was happily surprised to get some pencil artwork in my email box yesterday morning! I’ll share some of the work as soon as it’s clean and approved for preview; it’s comic, lively, and brings this dusty tale to life with the fun and bite I was hoping for.
// December 6th, 2006 // // The Mark of Aeacus
Mark wrote me an email with the subject: “The good, the bad and the ugly…”
Fortunately, the good news was great news, the bad news wasn’t that big a deal and, as for the ugly…? Read on…
“The good news is—the comic is done!! (Except for the cover which I am going to paint some time this month—I don’t care if we ARE having guests for two weeks!)”
“The bad news is, it’s a bit late tonight for me to scan everything, so it’ll be tomorrow night before I get the new pages sent.”
“The ugly news…well, there isn’t really any ugly news—I just wanted to use that in the subject line.”
Huzzah!
// September 3rd, 2006 // // The Mark of Aeacus
Mark sent me some scans of the rest of the pages for The Mark of Aeacus #1 and they look pretty awesome. I’ve gotten the lettering going so we’ll hit the ground running when the pages are finished.
I’ve gotten the lettering going so we’ll hit the ground running when the pages are finished.
Check out this page of our hero (?) smacking down some baddies. He’s vicious. Scary.
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