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A Very Periscope Halloween

This Halloween boasts a frightful amount of comics debuting from our studio members! Read on for links and preview images of our latest projects:

City of the Dead – Ron Randall, Karl Kesel, and Grace Allison

Husbands #2 – Natalie Nourigat

Wander #2 – Grace Allison

The Stars Below – Rich Ellis

Memorial: Imaginary Fiends #3 - Rich Ellis and Grace Allison

Preview: Colder #1 – Paul Tobin

Interview: City of the Damned - Jeremy Barlow

 

Karl Kesel’s collaborator.

Karl Kesel says:

Just got the first 2 pages of art for the upcoming CAPTAIN AMERICA: PATRIOT mini-series that I wrote and the mad-talented Mitch Breitweiser drew. Have to say, I was pretty proud of the script, but how Mitch took it to the next level– Hell, he took it up three or four levels!– just blew me away. The first issue’s not out until January 2010, and already I can’t wait for it!

Captain America art by Mitch BreitweiserCaptain America art by Mitch Breitweiser

“The thing I’ve always loved about the Gibbon is that he’s just such a loser”

Karl Kesel talks about The Gibbon and Marvel Apes with Dave Richards at Comic Book Resources.
And here’s a scan of Karl’s own Marvel Apes art in progress, from a backup story written by Tom Peyer:


Karl Kesel\'s ape Asgard

CHALLENGERS

Colleen Coover’s art now adorns the storefront of CHALLENGERS Comics + Conversation, in Chicago, IL!

“The fate of the universe is on the Gibbon’s shoulders. God help us.”

Marvel Apes cover, inked by Karl Kesel


“There are a lot of great jokes you can make, and you don’t want to miss those. At the same time, if all it is is a cocktail party joke, there’s not really a lot of reason to keep reading it. You’re going to get the joke in the first issue and, if there’s not a real story there, there’s no reason to come back. So we do both- serious and silly- and I like to think we do both pretty well. There’s something at stake in the story- a real life-and-death situation- and there are some characters you’ll really care about. Me, I really like the Gibbon. He narrates the story and always, always hopes things will go his way, but fully expects that they won’t- face it, that’s how his life’s always been.”
Karl Kesel interviewed about Marvel Apes at Westfield Comics.

Wednesday linkblogging.

Karl Kesel’s upcoming miniseries MARVEL APES is a top story at Entertainment Weekly!

Steve Duin covers Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s seminar at PNCA

Jim Valentino has a show opens on Thursday, July (with a special pre-opening viewing on Wednesday July 2,) at the Sequential Art Gallery.

Did you know that Tove Janson illustrated The Hobbit?

Jeff Parker’s Heroes Con report.

X-men First Kesel.

Karl Kesel, widely regarded as one of the best inkers in comics, has been doing complete pencil and ink work more and more often lately- something we couldn’t be happier to see. He’s illustrating an upcoming issue of X-Men First Class, (written by Jeff Parker, of course.) Here are a couple of preview pages.xmen_first_class_kk05.jpgxmen_first_class_kk15.jpg

Monkeys!

Karl is interviewed at Newsarama about his upcoming mini-series: Marvel Apes!

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“an ingenious, evil plan on my part to get a chance to stretch my penciling legs”

Karl Kesel, Mark Waid, and Todd Dezago talk with Augie De Bliek at CBR about the Mike Wieringo tribute issue of Spider-man Family.

Brand New Karl!


Karl Kesel has discovered the internet! He popped up online the other night, posting a response to a vlog at Shotgunreviews.com

Stumbled across your vlog– I’m not the most internet-savvy guy in town– and wanted to respond to your comment that everyone who’s written Spider-Man would rather have him single, but no one you’d talked to could tell you why single was better.I might be able to help here.