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BEAU SMITH JOINS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN COMICS
Beau Smith, marketing advisor and writer, has joined IDW Publishingâs Library of American Comics imprint (which includes some pulp like comics within its vast amount of material)Â as its new Director of Marketing.
“We’re thrilled to have Beau onboard,” says LOAC Creative Director Dean Mullaney. “He and I go way back to the 1980s and Eclipse Comics, where I was the publisher and Beau the Marketing Director.”
A graduate of Marshall University in his native West Virginia, Beau has worked in all realms of publishing and marketing in comics. In addition to Eclipse, where he got his start, Beau was the VP of Marketing and Publishing for Image Comics, Todd McFarlane Productions and McFarlane Toys. Beau was with IDW Publishing for many years as their first Vice President of Marketing, and is the former Director of Product Information for toy maker JUN Planning USA.
As a writer, Beau has written Batman/Wildcat, Star Wars, and Wolverine, and his stories have appeared at DC, Image, IDW, Eclipse, Dreamwave, Moonstone, Dark Horse, and many other publishers. He created several well-received series, including Wynonna Earp, Parts Unknown, Maximum Jack, Courting Fate, and Cobb. If that wasn’t enough, he offers his opinion on pop culture in regular columns: “Busted Knuckles” at Comics Bulletin, and “From the Ranch” for Sketch Magazine, and Far From Fragile for Impact Magazine. Beau is also the author of the most common sense business book on the comic book industry- No Guts, No Glory: How To Market Yourself In Comics published by Blue Line Pro.
Beau will be focusing on retailers, and expanding the LOAC’s presence in libraries and universities, so all retailers, librarians, professors, and teachers are encouraged to contact Beau at: beau@loacomics.com 304-453-6565
PULP 2.0 PRESS RELEASES UPDATED RWA COVER AND DISCUSSES UPCOMING RELEASES!
PULP 2.0 PRESS RELEASES UPDATED RWA COVER AND DISCUSSES UPCOMING RELEASES!!
Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 Press provided ALL PULP with a 3-D image of the upcoming Radio Western Adventures, now complete with the announcement of the unpublished Lester Dent western it contains (see previous ALL PULP news for more information).
RWA will be on sale in the Kindle store mid-late October. Cunningham reports, “Then we are proceeding onto finishing the Kindle version of The New Adv. of Frankenstein Vol. 1.” He states further, “This will be a tremendous opportunity for us as Kindle hardware prices have dropped considerably, and we are packaged and priced in that “digital pulp” slot. People will want to give these books a try at the low, low digital price of only $2.99 each.”
Collector’s print editions of these two titles featuring rare bonus extras will be available soon after their digital release
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Roy Thomas returns to Conan!
CONAN: ROAD OF KINGS #1 (of 6) Roy Thomas (W), Mike Hawthorne (P), John Lucas (I), Dave Stewart (C), Doug Wheatley (Cover), and Dale Keown (Cover)
On sale Dec 15
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
The pirate world is about to get 100 percent more savage as Conan and his crew of brigands ravage the seas in search of treasure and glory. But when the beautiful Olivia appears aboard one of the captured ships and starts speaking of prophetic dreams and king’s fortunes, Conan and his crew head in another direction—one that leads straight to the ROAD OF KINGS!
• Joined by artists Mike Hawthorne and John Lucas, and master scribe Roy Thomas returns to the pages of Conan in this first issue of a new era in the adventures of Conan!
• 100% Adventure from Dark Horse Comics!
Obama and Palin Meet… Archie Andrews?
The fine folks in sunny Riverdale have a pair of powerful visitors, sweeping into town later this year. Scratch that. The fine folks in Riverdale have one powerful visitor and one ex-governor / tea-party activist sweeping into town later this year. Why? Because student politics is a national level issue when it’s Archie Andrews vs. Reggie Mantle! The fate of Riverdale High, and by proxy, all of our nation comes down to who will take over the student body. Think about it. Unemployment is still rampant throughout the states. The war in Iraq is over, but we’re swimming in debt over it. The mighty dollar isn’t what it used to be. But it all will come down to who will represent the student body… everyone’s favorite every-kid, Archie, or that rule-breaker, Mantle “The Magnificent”. While we’re not even sure how the President and Mrs. Palin will find Riverdale, given that it, like Springfield of The Simpsons fame, exists devoid of a literal state address… we can be positive though, that the visit will make history.
Hitting comic book shelves in late December, and then January, the Obama / Palin two-part storyline should draw politically minded fans to the rack quicker than Jughead dashes to Pop Tate’s on new flavor day. We here at ComicMix wanted to share the pair or covers for the December/January solicits. Give a gander at our sitting President and the media’s favorite Hockey Mom as they shed their animosity for one another, all over a chocolate malt.
ARCHIE #616
“Campaign Pain” Part 1.President Barack Obama and famed politician Sarah Palin get involved as Student Government campaigns spiral out of control at Riverdale High! The race between Archie and Reggie gets hot as campaign chaos reaches to the top, forcing an impromptu visit from these big-name politicos, who get pulled into the fray!
Script by Alex Simmons, art by Dan Parent, Jack Morelli, and Digikore Studios. Cover art by Dan Parent and Tito Pena. On Sale at Comic Shops: DEC 22, 2010, Newsstands: Week of JAN 4, 2011
ARCHIE # 617
“Campaign Pains,” Part 2When President Obama and famed politician Sarah Palin arrive, Riverdale becomes the center of a national crisis! Archie and Reggie have each claimed support from one of these political powerhouses, but they don’t! Now Riverdale is in chaos and when the Secret Service gets involved it only gets worse!
Script by Alex Simmons, art by Dan Parent, Jack Morelli and Digikore Studios. Cover art by Dan Parent
On Sale at Comic Shops: 1/26/11, Newstands: Week of FEB 8, 2011
AIRSHIP 27 PULP ON SALE! LIMITED TIME ONLY!
AIRSHIP 27 BUY ONE GET ONE FREE SALE ONE DAY ONLY!!!
LIMITED TIME ONLY!! Michael Poll, Cornerstone Publishers is offering any two Airship 27 Productions titles for the price of one. All folks have to do is go to his site (http://www.cornerstonepublishers.com/) choose one book, add it to the sale
cart – then in the comments section add a second title of equal or lesser value than the first. They will be billed for only one book. This is a ONE DAY SALE only. Ends at midnight tonight.
INTERVIEW-MIKE McGEE
MIKE McGee, Co-Creator and Writer of EL GORGO!,
AP: Who is Mike McGee?
MM: Well, for the purposes of this interview, I’m one of the founders of the late, lamented Frontier Publishing, which ran serialized fiction by such luminaries as, uh, Derrick Ferguson; and more recently, I’m the writer and co-creator of EL GORGO!, a comic book about a gorilla luchador who punches sea monsters.
AP: Give us the background stuff. You know the drill: where do you live, where do you work, etc.
MM: I’m from Cleveland, but I’ve lived in the Metro DC area the last few years.
AP: How long have you been writing?
MM: Forever, basically. When I was a little kid, I had pretensions toward writing and drawing my own comics, but I soon discovered that literally every other kid I knew was a better artist than I was. So that was a blow. Anyhow, I could write okay, so my course was set, pretty much.
AP: Who is EL GORGO! ?
MM: El Gorgo is a genius talking gorilla luchador who’s also a superhero, a rock star and a historical novelist. He doesn’t sleep a whole lot.
AP: Why is EL GORGO! “The World’s Most Awesome Comics Magazine”?
MM: We-ellll…you know, we call it that in the spirit of fun, which is what the book’s all about, but honestly? Slapping that on the cover really does keep us on the beam, I think. It’s a challenge Tom and I have laid down for ourselves – can we make the book live up to that? We definitely try every time to make it the most awesome comic that we can do. EL GORGO! is a comedy, and in the sense that the tagline is kinda over-the-top it’s a joke, but it’s not really a joke. It’s more like a distant Shangri-La just off the horizon that we’re always striving toward – never mind that it could be and it probably is just a mirage and we should really think about drinking some water and maybe comb a few of these scorpions out of our hair – and we’re getting there one panel of a monkey punching a dinosaur at a time.
AP: Is it safe to say that EL GORGO! is inspired as much by the pulps as by comic books?
MM: Uh, in the sense that superhero comics took their inspiration from the ‘30s-era pulps, sure. There’s probably a little bit of Doc Savage in El Gorgo…really, a little bit of all those characters who were super-capable autodidacts with limitless resources and boundless idealism to go along with their teeth-gritting and ass-kicking. Our main inspiration is (as I think is obvious to most people who read EL GORGO!) the work of Jack Kirby, and because Kirby drew every single kind of comic book there ever was to draw, he did at least one pulp adaptation back in the ‘70s: JUSTICE, INC., which was actually a comic about The Avenger, only I guess DC couldn’t call it that, for obvious reasons. I have pretty fond memories of reading a random issue when I was a kid, and it’s possible some of that’s crept into EL GORGO! somehow or another.
AP: What do and your co-creator/artist Tamas Jakab have planned for future issues of EL GORGO! ?
MM: Oh, man, so much! Probably much more than we’ll ever live long enough to get down on paper, or pixels, or however people choose to read it. When we started the book, it was intended as a one-shot, and then it became a miniseries, and before long it turned into this whole epic we may never have time to finish. In the next few issues, we’re going to learn a lot of El Gorgo’s backstory, encounter his arch-nemesis, and venture off to the Himalayas – it’s gonna be a good time.
AP: You wrote a story for the Pulpwork Press anthology HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD. How did that come about?
MM: Well, I was invited aboard, and I nearly didn’t do it because I really couldn’t get a handle on the genre at first at all, but then I saw the cover by Jim Rugg (he of the comics Street Angel and Afrodisiac), and that was that. If I could have a story underneath that artwork, I knew I had to do it.
AP: Tell us about your co-writer on that story: Chris Munn.
MM: Chris kinda saved my ass on that story, because I didn’t have the first clue what to write about, and Chris had a killer idea and no time to write it himself – this thing that was kind of a cross between High Plains Drifter and The Wicker Man (the one without Nicolas Cage as Woman-Hating Bear-Man), which right away I knew I could do a lot with. I’ve known Chris for a really long time; he’s a really good guy, and a great writer. Unfortunately, we didn’t collaborate as directly as we’d both hoped would be possible on “The Town with No Name” – I wound up writing the whole story myself, but it is Chris’s story, too, which I know has been overlooked in a few places. His name is on it as well, as well it should be.
AP: Are you a western fan at all? Weird or otherwise?
MM: I’m a huge fan of Joe Lansdale, who’s written in and who halfway invented the horror western genre, at least as most people know it today. The influence may be indirect, but I don’t think HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD would exist without books like The Magic Wagon and Dead in the West, to say nothing of his collaborations with Tim Truman and Sam Glanzman on their Jonah Hex comics of the ‘90s. As far as just western-westerns go, I’m also a fan of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and think “Deadwood” may be the best drama ever to run on television (though, I dunno…”Breaking Bad”…), but I have to admit, I’m not terribly well-versed in the classics of the genre. Westerns on film just moved too slow for me when I was a kid – I’d always switch them off if one of the other UHF stations had Godzilla or a horror movie or something. I probably turned off half the movies John Ford ever made (though as an adult I’ve fallen in love with The Searchers). Like, John Wayne just bored the hell out of me when I was a kid, though I get the appeal now. But I always did dig Clint Eastwood. So…I guess I’m more of a western fan than I thought I was when I started to answer your question, but I wouldn’t say I’m like a western aficionado.
AP: There’s a HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD 2 in the planning/development stage. You planning on contributing to that?
MM: I’m thinking about it!
AP: What other writing projects are you working on now?
MM: Oh, I think it’s bad luck to get too much into stuff like that. I’m working on a few things, though.
AP: Here’s your chance for a shoutout or to pimp something. Go.
MM: Okay! As far as shoutouts go, naturally I’ll mention there’s some great stuff at Pulpwork Press (http://www.freewebs.com/pulpworkpress/) people should be checking out, if they haven’t done so. And of course everyone should read EL GORGO! (http://elgorgo.com/) and if they like that, there’s some really terrific stuff coming out of Action Age Comics (www.actionagecomics.com) that’ll be very much up your proverbial alley.
AP: Any final words of wisdom from Mike McGee?
MM: For the love of God – turn off your computer and go outside! It’ll all still be here when you get back.
Win a Digital Download for ‘300’
“We are Spartans!”
Join your voice once more as Zack Snyder’s wonderful 300 invades iTunes with as a digital download with Extras starting today! Relive the action on your iPad, iPhone, etc…plus see behind the scenes footage and interviews with lead actor Gerard Butler and Snyder.
The Warner Bros. movie is now available for purchase at iTunes.
ComicMix readers, though, can win a a free digital download from our friends at Warner Digital. All you need to do is tell us before Thursday at 11:59 p.m. what you would have done in a similar situation. We’ll judge the answers and select one lucky winner.
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ALL PULP BREAKS 10,000 VIEWS!!!
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