Ben Templesmith
Straight for the art | Ben Templesmith’s photos from Barrow, Alaska
Barrow, Alaska (photo by Ben Templesmith)
Ben Templesmith has begun to post photos from his recent visit to Barrow, Alaska, northernmost city in the United States and the Arctic setting of his 2002 miniseries (with Steve Niles) 30 Days of Night.
“It was a homecoming of sorts,” Templesmith writes on his blog. “To the place that changed my life in many ways because of a book that became a movie. Time now, to put all that well in the past and move on. This was a symbolic ‘goodbye’ to all that, on the day of my birthday. No phone, no net. Just me and my thoughts on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.”
- March 12, 2010 @ 11:30 AM by Kevin Melrose
Choker #1 released again this week due to printing error
Choker tour
If you picked up a copy of Choker #1 by Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith a couple of weeks ago, you may have noticed they appeared to be a bit wrinkled, like maybe they were water damaged or something. Templesmith explains that no, they weren’t left sitting in a puddle somewhere; it was actually a printing error. Image Comics planned to pulp them all and re-release the book this week, but some of them managed to sneak through.
“The book,at first coming out on the 10th, then being pushed back to the 24th, then ended up looking like it was actually going to happen on the 10th ( the book was done plenty in advance! ) but as luck would have it, a problem at the printer meant a bad water/ink mix, thus the copies looked a bit crappy and Image wisely decided to have them pulped and a reprint was in order,” Templesmith wrote on his blog. “That was going to push it back a further week…but since the 24th ( 2 weeks ) was already on the cards, it’s simply gone back to that date! Thing is, some copies already made it out there, though all parties have been advised to ditch the dud copies and wait for replacements, as I understand it. The *REAL* copies have been pushed back to the 24th, it’s official release date. With a little luck and a few offerings to The Great Space Squid, shiny nice new proper copies will be on the shelf and in hot little hands by then.”
If you bought a “bad” copy, it’s probably a good idea to check with your retailer about getting it replaced with a good one this week. Also, as you’ll see from the accompanying artwork, Templesmith and McCool are hitting the road to promote the book, promising “at least one Ben at every store.”
- February 23, 2010 @ 08:30 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Templesmith’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Art by Ben Templesmith
Ben Templesmith unveils some pages he created for an unsuccessful bid to adapt Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (BOOM! Studios’ approach — a 24-issue series using the original text of the science-fiction classic — apparently was preferred by Dick’s heirs.)
“My take was always going to be a little different,” Templesmith writes, “definitely not wanting to use every single word of prose but getting all the dialogue and descriptions as right as I could. Translations between mediums, I’m sure you’d all agree, should be about playing to the strengths of the new one, not just trying to force a square peg in a round hole, etc.”
- February 4, 2010 @ 11:30 AM by Kevin Melrose
Straight for the art | Three from Ben Templesmith
Batman by Ben Templesmith
Fell and Dead Space artist Ben Templesmith recently shared three “in process” sketch posts on his blog, featuring the Batman sketch shown above, Wolverine (which includes commentary along the way) and the 1940s Black Orchid, for a “Remake/Remodel” challenge on the Whitechapel forum. Go check’em out; that Whitechapel thread also includes remakes by Pia Guerra and Ryan Kelly.
- September 22, 2009 @ 11:40 AM by JK Parkin
SDCC ’09 | Exclusive comic stuff to buy, plus some creator schedules
The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off with Preview Night a week from this Wednesday. If you are a publisher, creator, retailer or any other kind of exhibitor who would like to let folks know about any special plans you have for the show (panels, signing schedules, exclusives, debuts, etc.) drop me an email and I’ll run it here.
Also, a reminder: the programming schedule is out, so you can start putting together your to do list. This post at the Daily Cross Hatch, which includes a rundown of what various indie comic creators will be doing at the show, might also be helpful.
Creators | Remember those Colleen Coover Clue drawings Kevin linked to in May? Turns out she’s turned them into blank cards and will have them at the show. She’ll also have some new buttons.
Creators | Joëlle Jones will have a new sketchbook featuring the seven deadly sins at the show.
Comics | Wildstorm will distribute a free primer on their universe of characters — Authority, Gen13, etc. — at the con. Titled This Is WildStorm Universe #0, the book will lay out “where each WildStorm Universe team began, where they are now… and offering a few hints about their future.”
- July 13, 2009 @ 01:29 PM by JK Parkin
Templesmith previews Groom Lake
Groom Lake
Artist Ben Templesmith provides a look at his upcoming IDW book Groom Lake, a four-issue mini-series written by Chris Ryall. “If you like aliens, mutating crotches & giant robots, this book is for YOU. Ahem,” Templesmith writes. The book is due in March.
For some bonus Templesmith art, Dwight MacPherson shares the variant cover Templesmith did for another IDW book, American McGee’s Grimm.
- January 28, 2009 @ 08:44 AM by JK Parkin