Cover Art: Howard Chaykin Blood and Judgement Almost thirty years after his critically acclaimed Blood & Judgment series, fan-Favorite writer/artist Howard Chaykin returns to The Shadow for a new Dynamite Entertainment mini series, The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow. Official Press Release: Dynamite is proud to announce that legendary writer/artist Howard Chaykin will write his first…
Cover Art: Howard Chaykin Art: Howard Chaykin Hermes Press has released the first cover for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, a four-issue mini-series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin premiering August 2013. Here’s how Hermes Press describes the book: “Before Star Trek and Star Wars, Buck Rogers captivated audiences around the world and made…
Cover Art: Howard Chaykin New Pulp Author Barry Reese takes an in-depth, spoiler-filled look at Howard Chaykin’s 4-issue limited series from 1986! The Shadow Fan goes through the entire story, with summaries of the action, commentary on the creative decisions taken and discussion about the differences between Chaykin’s take and Walter Gibson’s traditional version. Listen…
You’d think with the Olympics going on and all that sloppy security Mitt Romney told us about, the authorities would have more important work to do than to count the number of penises (peni?) Howard Chaykin can squeeze into a single comic book. But – obviously, since I’m writing this – you’d be wrong. I…
Howard Chaykin will revive Buck Rogers. The veteran cartoonist has been announced as writer and artist on a new Hermes Press comic book series. Best known for its reprints – including some of the legendary pulp hero – the publisher has promised an “all new take” on the character by the American Flagg! creator. “When…
Somewhere between the proofreading stage and the going to press stage, the folks over at Dynamite Entertainment changed the cover to my The Art of Howard Chaykin book. While browsing at Amazon the other day, I was surprised to see this new image, but think it looks pretty cool. The book itself remains on track…
A long time ago… 35 years, to be precise… what were you doing? On May 25th, 1977, theaters across the country premiered a little film that you might have heard of… and thereby saved the comic book industry. After the Star Wars comic came out, Marvel sold millions of copies, going back to press for…
The Shadow: Blood And Judgement by Howard Chaykin was originally published by DC Comics in the eighties around the same time as other gritty takes on characters in comics such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight. This story was last collected in 1991. Now, twenty-one years later, Dynamite – the current license holders of The…
Avengers 1959 Cover Art: Howard Chaykin Marvel Comics has released a synopsis and sneak peek at the second issue of their pulpy Avengers 1959 mini series from Howard Chaykin. AVENGERS 1959 #2 (Of 5) Written and Penciled by HOWARD CHAYKIN Cover by HOWARD CHAYKIN EXPLODING FROM THE PAGES OF NEW AVENGERS… It’s the tail end…
Legendary for what he has done on the page and infamous for what he has said off it, Howard Chaykin ranks among the superstars of modern comics. In [[[The Art of Howard Chaykin]]], written by Robert Greenberger, go behind the scenes with the creator whose pioneering works include American Flagg!, The Shadow, Batman, New Avengers,…
THE SHADOW: BLOOD & JUDGMENTHoward ChaykinPublished by DC Comics This was the era of Watchmen. Of The Dark Knight Returns. It was the boom of grim and gritty. Howard Chaykin, whose brilliant American Flagg! was already a modern masterpiece, was chosen to bring The Shadow back to life for DC Comics. He elected to bring…
From the pages of American Flagg! #3, published in December 1983 by First Comics, written and drawn by Howard Chaykin and edited by ComicMix‘s own Mike Gold, and set in the year 2031. When the comic was written, Prince William wasn’t even two years old. American Flagg! © 1983 Howard Chaykin Inc. and First Comics…
