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Off-topic: The trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
I’m not generally a fan of promotional trailers for comics and books — most rely on dull montages and even worse music — but this new spot for Seth Grahame-Smith’s upcoming novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is incredibly well done. Well, if you can ignore the really obvious wig and fake mustache on whom I presume is vampire-John Wilkes-Booth.
The novel, Grahame-Smith’s follow-up to the bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, depicts Lincoln as the savior of the Union and lifelong enemy of the undead. The author has a couple of comic-book connections: He was among the genre novelists who contributed to the latest Marvel Zombies miniseries. In May, Del Rey/Villard will release a graphic-novel adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is due March 2 from Grand Central Publishing.
- February 26, 2010 @ 01:30 PM by Kevin Melrose
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 118
Back on track. Kinda.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
Looks like someone wants to make a couple of real good friends. This oughta end well.
Back next week.
- February 24, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 117
If I say nothing, then people won’t notice. So I’m saying nothing.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Back next week!
- February 17, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 115
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
No comments, no bon mots. Just me frantically trying to keep up. See you on Wednesday.
- February 8, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 114
Kids before cowboys and vampires…or something like that. Apologies for the delay.
Art by Gervasio and Jok, who are on time more than I am.
Back on Monday. If I make it that long.
- February 3, 2010 @ 02:34 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 113
Looks like 113 was pretty unlucky for the Engineer.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
And might not be so healthy for Joachim, either.
Big things afoot at Strangeways central, some of them even involving cowboys and vampires. Some involving a bunch of stuff that’ll get me shot if I talk about, so there’s just stuff and we’ll leave it at that.
See you back here Wednesday for more cryptic proclamations. And vampires.
- February 1, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 112
And for those of you who are concerned about the ethical treatment of comic book creators, please note that the artists are the first people to get paid on any of my projects. The writer and letterer? Well…eventually.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written (and lettered) by Matt Maxwell
Wish I could afford a real letterer…
Back next week with what’s likely to be a big KABOOM.
Update to add: My interview at CBR went live as of an hour ago. Check it out.
- January 27, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 111
Week three of rain here at Strangeways Central. I’m beginning to tire of it. I know, folks from Portland and Seattle are mocking my weakness right now.
Anyways, here’s today’s page.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Another page going up Wednesday, assuming my house hasn’t floated away by then. Living at the bottom of a big hill in rainy season ain’t no fun.
- January 25, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Vampire Knight, Vol. 8
Publishing | Gonzalo Ferreyra, Viz Media’s vice president of sales and marketing, discusses the state of the manga market in North America, the performance of top titles like Vampire Knight and Naruto, digital comics and, yes, the impact of Twilight: “[Fans] can only read Twilight so many times. That’s when they come over and they start poking around and they find the Vampire Knights and Rosario & Vampires and other titles. … Let’s not kid ourselves, the Twilight fans number in the many, many millions — they’re manga-like numbers in Japan, here. If we can get a fraction more of those readers actively reading manga, if Yen can do that and bring those kids over to read the Twilight manga, and then move on and become manga fans it’s very encouraging.” [ICv2.com]
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1
Publishing | Speaking of Twilight, Simon Jones points out that, with a 350,000-copy first printing, Yen Press’ $19.99 hardcover Twilight: The Graphic Novel has a retail value nearly $7 million, “which immediately vaults it into contention for one of the best-selling comics in the U.S. for 2010, by both volume and dollar sales”: “Whether you like the source material or not, or welcome the books’ legion of female fans young and old (it’s shocking how elitist fandumbs can be), there is absolutely no questioning the significance of this title. If it does as well as Yen clearly hopes it would, it will expose more fresh eyeballs to comics than any other single release, even series, in 2010.” More at the link. [Icarus Publishing]
- January 21, 2010 @ 08:05 AM by Kevin Melrose
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 110
Stay tuned for information about an upcoming STRANGEWAYS-related appearance. Or just read the page. Up to you.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
Looks like someone went and rung the dinner bell, it does.
Okay, this Saturday, the 23rd, I’ll be appearing at the Grand Re-Opening of Bizarro World comics in Davis, CA. I’ll be signing books, and will have preview books for THE THIRSTY (which contain all of Chapter 1, some art pages from the upcoming “Red Hands” and MURDER MOON art as well) and trying to bedazzle anyone who’ll give me ten seconds to do so. Oh, and world famous Five Minute Stories, too. Here’s the info:
Bizarro World
223 E St.
Davis CA 95616
530-759-9490
Looks like things kick off at about 6:30. Plenty of time to drive in from out of town and enjoy the lovely weather we have in the Sacramento/Davis area this time of year.
That’s a joke, kids. It’s been 40 degrees and raining since Saturday, with no sign of abating. Hopefully it’ll cheer up by then.
See y’all next week.
- January 20, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 109
Feels kinda out of place to be running such frivolity on MLK Day, but there you have it.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell.
So, I guess they better get to that shed, huh? Wonder what’s in there. Maybe we get to find out on Wednesday.
- January 18, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 108
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
Today’s post will be pithy observation-free. Seek your pith elsewhere.
- January 13, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 107
If’n you forgot where we left off before the holidays, here’s the last page. Collins and company are trapped under a water tower in Drytown, sunlight fading to storm clouds and vampires up and looking for a taste.
And here’s today’s page.
Art by Gervasio and Jok. Written by Matt Maxwell
A new page is up Wednesday.
Trying to figure out when my one-year anniversary over here at Robot 6 is. Bet it’s coming up pretty soon. Can ya believe it?
- January 11, 2010 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways – Winter Solstice (4)
Last time I try to write a serial story as its being published, I swear.
Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, part 3 is here.
Happy New Year everyone! Gosh, new years. Why does this stick in my mind? It’s on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t name it…
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Screaming not in pain or agony or fear, but in something like release, the Stag dropped to his knees from a dead run. It fell like an avalanche, a torrent in midsummer. The ground itself shook as the stag’s chest heaved and rattled. Collins blade was dug deep into the beast’s neck, but the thought of releasing it was anathema. Better that he fall with the Stag and make sure that the deed was done than to miss even an instant of it, or worse, to think that the Stag could somehow escape.
Collins fell atop it, radiant and golden for an instant before he slid to the ground and rolled. Grass rock and earth crushed him, burying and leaden.
But he would not yield the blade.
- December 30, 2009 @ 01:39 PM by Matt Maxwell
Strangeways – Winter Solstice (3)
Merry post-Christmas, everybody! Busy weeks here at the Maxwell ranch. Trying to write while the kids pound on their new discombobulators and aim their transmogrifiers at the family dog in an effort to make him “even cooler”. It’s kinda distracting.
Here’s part 3 of the STRANGEWAYS Christmas special. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is right here. Looks like Part 4 will drop this Wednesday, no matter how hard I try to wrap it up today.
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The stag was no longer merely glowing, but blazing now. Golden light poured from its hide, not reflected from the dying sun but a sun in and of itself. Collins might have marveled at the sight of it, but there was no room for marvel in his heart now. It was something that hovered between love and lust and survival, a need without a name. And all of that was focused on the stag now, keeping only two steps ahead of the ravening hounds at his heels.
Though now they were less hounds than they were swarming clouds, the stormfront whipped by winds and chill with licks of greenish lightning raking and twisting, illuminating teeth and jaws in their afterlight. Their howls were now the howls of the gale through the trees, their snapping teeth was the seething rain and driving snow, their coats sooty black as the depth of the darkest and longest night of the year.
- December 28, 2009 @ 01:00 PM by Matt Maxwell