The unique tome that is Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett’s Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention has been getting glowing reviews from the mainstream media to the blogosphere. Here are some highlights:
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – “A rollicking… retrofuturist visual feast” WIRED – “So gritty and varied in its narrative that it made me wish this really was the historical record.” TOR.com – “Not just re-mixing fact and fiction, but writing it in a way that reveals the double-edged sword of glory during the Age of Empire” iO9 – “Their best work yet” COMICS BULLETIN – “A rollicking steampunk adventure”
Wednesday, September 28, join Jeremy Barlow, Paul Tobin, Joshua Williamson, and Patric Reynolds for an excellent Savage Sword Release Party! Come to Things From Another World, a fine local retailer of comic books, at 4133 NE Sandy Blvd. in Portland from 7-10 pm to meet the creators behind Savage Sword #3 and enjoy free beer (with ID) and food. Win Robert E. Howard-themed prizes from Dark Horse Comics and pose for “Conan” photos in front of the green screen! RSVP on Facebook
By Steve Lieber, on October 23, 2008, 9:38 am in: Aaron McConnell, press /
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Plenty of awesome Aaron McConnell art in there. And the book’s writer, Jonathan Hennessey, was on the Rachel Maddow show on Tuesday. You can listen to it here. Jonathan’s segment starts at 18:35.
“Colleen and her sister, Janine, grew up reading coverless comics that her grandmother salvaged from her job at the neighborhood Five & Dime. Archie Andrews and Richie Rich taught her to read, and Dan DeCarlo and Harvey Comics’ artists like Warren Kremer, Ernie Colon and Sid Couchey introduced her to the wondrous effect of sharp, clean lines on the comic page.”
By Periscope Studio, on September 17, 2007, 11:49 pm in: press /
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“In the morning people come in and the insults start to fly, you can’t bring your C material. But it calms down after lunch and the headphones go on and people get to work,”
“On any given day, you will find a majority of the 11 artist members bent over their drawing boards, conjuring the worlds of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Catwoman and the Fantastic Four, among others.
It’s a colorful, riotous place that seems a bit like a comic book universe itself, where shelves groan beneath art reference books and model cars and stuffed piranhas, the stereo blares “Eaten by the Monster of Love,” and on a recent afternoon, one member was scanning photographs of his own face being ground into a carpet, so that he would have a photo reference for the latest fight scene he needed to draw.”
Inara Verzemnieks, writing about us in a big article this week that appeared in The Seattle Times and The Oregonian.
There were a bunch of great photos too, which aren’t on line. I’ll get them scanned in a bit.
The unique tome that is Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett’s Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention has been getting glowing reviews from the mainstream media to the blogosphere. Here are some highlights:
