Oberon Peter Snejbjerg September 1, 1996	Golden Age Sandman Teddy Kristiansen September 1, 1996

Peter Franken

Here's a small excerpt of the interview:

Alan Donald: Peter Parker?

Mark Buckingham: Oh, yes. Long story short, house move fell thorough, broke my arm, Humberto [Ramos] helped out, Marvel loved Humberto, asked him to stay with the company; Humberto loved Spider-Man, big relaunches coming and basically it was my turn [to get the boot].

For the complete interview, click here

Source: Silver Bullet Comics

Source: Newsarama

SOLO
(W/A) various (E) Mark Chiarello
3Q 03
Top artists take on comics' top heroes - and much more - in this new, ongoing series! Every issue gives a single artist room to create original stories in a variety of styles. Among the talent already slated to for SOLO are Mike Allred, Brian Bolland, John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, Richard Corben, Dave Gibbons, Scott Hampton, Adam Hughes, J.G. Jones, Kevin Nowlan, Paul Pope, Tim Sale, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walter Simonson, Brian Stelfreeze, Bruce Timm, John Van Fleet, and Matt Wagner.

JSA: ALL-STARS
(W) David S. Goyer, Geoff Johns and various (A) various (E) Peter Tomasi
8 issues, 2Q 03
Find out what makes Earth's first super-team tick in this miniseries featuring numerous adventures that lead up to all-out battle! This miniseries features lead stories written by Goyer and Johns, with art by Sal Velluto, Dave Ross, Barry Kitson, Mike McKone, Phil Winslade, Stephen Sadowski, and others. Plus back-up stories written by Michael Chabon, Jeph Loeb, James Robinson, Brian Azzarello, and others, illustrated by Michael Lark, Darwyn Cooke, Howard Chaykin, Tony Harris, Tim Sale, and Eduardo Risso.

PLANETARY
(W) Warren Ellis (A) John Cassaday (E) Scott Dunbier
Ongoing series, 2Q 03
Jakita Wagner, Elijah Snow and the Drummer return! The story picks up with a tale of Anna Hark, who's determined to carry out her father's dream of enhancing humanity's existence through technology - no matter who stands in her way!

ASTRO CITY: LOCAL HEROES
(W) Kurt Busiek (A) Brent Anderson (C) Alex Ross (E) Ben Abernathy
5 issues, 1Q 03
The acclaimed title returns in February as a series of miniseries. The first, ASTRO CITY: LOCAL HEROES, runs five bimonthly issues, kicking off with three stand-alone stories that reintroduce the heroes and villains of Astro City, followed by the tale "Dark Ages." All with covers by Alex Ross

Source: Newsarama

Covers for the series will be provided by Cassaday, Pearson, Maleev, Leinil Yu, JH Williams and others, while Hellboy movie designer TyRuben Ellingson, William Stout, and Dave Stevens are slated to provide pinups.

Source: Newsarama

Source: Dynamic Forces

Man-Thing Liam McCormack-Sharp June 2, 2002	Sky Between Branches Joshua Middleton June 2, 2002

Peter Franken

"I hear that Alex Ross will not be contributing covers or designs to "Astro City" when it kicks off again in the near future. Despite the medical reasons given by Kurt Busiek, Ross is annoyed that Busiek found the ability to write "Power Company," "Thunderbolts" and "Avengers," but not "Astro City" over the past year. And now Ross is a little miffed with Busiek."

Source: Comic Book Resources

Source: Comics Continuum

For the whole interview, click here

Source: Newsarama

"When I first came up with the concept it sounded like 'Josey Wales in Limbo" but that's an old reference the concept has been massaged," said Romita. "Basically, it's about my struggles … me. Personally going through life taking care of my family and myself and sometimes thinking its not enough, I'm not doing enough."

For the complete interview, click here

Source: Newsarama

• Stan Lee and John Romita Jr. will collaborte on a Fantastic Four one-shot intended to be a future What-If story.

  It tells the last Fantastic Four story, sorta like what Alan Moore and Curt Swan did with "Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?"

• Vertigo are currently looking for a project for Eduardo Risso to work on while he waits for "100 Bullets" scripts.

• There's a vague rumour that Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's next Marvel colour book will be "Captain America:" White.

Source: All the Rage & Lying in the Gutters

For the complete article, click here.

Source: Newsarama

Source: www.hipflask.com

"Tim did a drawing last year for a fan*. honestly, when you look at it, you say, OK, I want to see that. It's the biggest, baddest, meanest Hulk you've ever seen," Jeph Loeb said.

"It will take place essentially between issue one and issue two where, for reasons only understood to Stan [Lee], they turned Hulk from gray to green. ... What's interesting to Tim and I is this monster, and how this monster released his inhibitions and destroyed his life."

Look for Betty Ross, Thunderbolt Ross and Glenn Talbot to all play a role, as does Rick Jones, as "the gigantic pain in the ass that he was back then," Loeb said.

*) It looks like I'm the fan Jeph Loeb was talking about. Someone at Marvel found my sketch of the Hulk by Sale on my site and sent it out with a press release, announcing the project. If you like to use the image in question on your site, please be kind enough to give me a nice "courtesy of..." mention

Peter Franken

• Comicraft released a Hip Flask promotional poster with art by Jose Ladronn and the Unnatural Selection one-shot with two alternate covers by Ladronn and Nathalie Gavet. They also released all of Ladronn’s art for the comic - plus more - on a limited edition CD-ROM.

• It was revealed that Alex Ross and Paul Dini will once again team for their annual, tabloid-sized book. The one difference - this time around, DC announced two Ross/Dini projects, both featuring the JLA - Secret Origins and Truth & Justice.

  For the complete article, click here.

• The 2002 Eisner Awards, were given out at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Winners of interest were:

  Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team - Eduardo Risso, 100 Bullets

  Best Graphic Album-Reprint - Batman: Dark Victory, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale

  Best Continuing Series - 100 Bullets, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

  Best Serialized Story - Amazing Spider-Man #30-35: "Coming Home," by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita Jr., and Scott Hanna

• Comprised of 20 short stories and one main story, "It’s a Bird" is Steve Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen’s look at Superman, as told form the viewpoint of a scriptwriter assigned to work on a Superman movie script.

  "It's an 124-page hardback from Vertigo, edited by Karen Berger, painted by Teddy Kristiansen and he's done with about 90-95 pages of it, so it might come out sometime soon," says Seagle.

• Ed Brubaker, new writer of Detective Comics, said that his first story arc will last six issues. Tim Sale will provide covers for the series.

• Cameron Stewart is the new artist of Catwoman, taking over with #12. J.G. Jones will provide covers for the series.

• At a panel, J. Michael Straczynski said that he "may" have had a conversation with Joe Quesada about an artist who "may" have been Tim Sale about a miniseries that "may" involve Dr. Strange.

Source: Newsarama & Comics Continuum

Michael Wm. Kaluta:
The art of Michael Kaluta is heavely influenced by the art of Roy Krenkel, Aubrey Beardsley and Czech art nouveau master, Alphonse Mucha. Great examples of his work can be found in Starstruck, The Shadow and his numerous covers for Books of Magic.

Frank Quitely:
Scottish artist Frank Quitely, is best known for his work on The Authority with writer Mark Millar and New X-Men with writer Grant Morrison.

Eduardo Risso:
Argentinian artist Eduardo Risso, is probably best known for his collaborations with writer Brian Azzarello on 100 Bullets and Jonny Double, both for DC/Vertigo.

For now I'll leave you yet again with 2 sketches I obtained in Bristol. This time they are both by Mark Buckingham.

Death by Mark Buckingham June 1, 2002	Death by Mark Buckingham June 1, 2002

Peter Franken

• Joe Quesada announced that artist Jae Lee will follow Trevor Hairsine and pencil four issues of the ongoing Captain America series (issues #12-15), and he added "if the god’s smile upon us", John Cassaday will return to the series at that point, ideally with issue #16.

• Mark Buckingham's story arc on Fables, starting with #6, is called "Animal Farm" and deals with the characters who can't pass as humans.

• J.G. Jones is doing eight covers for Y - The Last Man series.

• Though not officially announced at the DC panel, reps at Alex Ross’ booth are confirming that the artist has another tabloid-sized special in the works for release in November 2003, starring the JLA. This project will be even larger in scope however, as Ross’ reps say it’s currently planned to be 96-pages.

  Ross reportedly also wants to do a regular comic book size prelude to that project for release this fall, though DC did not comment on either of these plans.

  Ross’ people also say there is talk of a future slipcase (a very large slipcase) edition collecting all the tabloid-sized specials (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, JLA and the prelude).

• Wildstorm's editor-in-chief Scott Dunbier said he hopes to get Planetary and Kurt Busiek’s Astro City on a bi-monthly shipping schedules soon.

• The New X-Men art lineup includes John Paul Leon on #130, Phil Jimenez on #131-132, Ethan Van Sciver on #133-134 and Frank Quitely on #135-138 or -139.

  Marvel also said that it hopes to have Quitely draw all of the series' covers.

• An Incredible Hulk hardcover is scheduled for November, collecting the first two arcs written by Bruce Jones (with art by John Romita Jr. and Lee Weeks), as well as the Startling Stories: Banner mini-series by Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben.

Source: Newsarama & Comics Continuum

Each will supposedly get six-issues to prove themselves, and the series with the highest sales would continue on as ongoing series, with the "losers" ending after the 6th issue.

The series edited by Joe Quesada is called Ultimate Adventures. It's written by Ron Zimmerman and drawn by Duncan Fegredo. The series introduces Hawk-Owl and Zippy -- and presents a touching look at the world of the super hero side-kick.

Source: Newsarama

• Alex Ross will be providing an alternate cover to the Captain Marvel series when it is relaunched this September as part of Marvel's U-Decide event.
• Catwoman #11 will have a cover by J.G. Jones.

Source: Newsarama

• Peter Snejbjerg will be working on a 96-page Batman story. He's hoping it will be a HC.
• The Peter Parker: Spider-Man series will be cancelled with #50. Mark Buckingham says he will be doing more Spider-Man in the future.
• The announced Zatanna series is not happening with Duncan Fegredo doing the art. Instead he will be doing a Marvel Knights project.

Enigma by Duncan Fegredo June 1, 2002	Daredevil by Mike Collins June 1, 2002

Peter Franken

Daredevil by Phil Winslade June 1, 2002	John Constantine by Sean Philips June 1, 2002

Peter Franken

For the whole interview, click here.

Source: Newsarama

Here's a small excerpt of the interview:

SBC: What are your future plans for Hip?

RS: I'm happy to say that Ladronn is extraordinarily committed to HIP. He has been working on designs and paintings since finishing work on issue #3 of The Inhumans in the summer of 2000. Fans have at least five more issues of his work on Hip to look forward to and Ladronn has asked me if he can continue to contribute covers to any Hip Flask projects that follow in the future. We have become fast friends in the past couple of years and Ladronn has become almost as attached to Hip as I am. All being well, I think our creative relationship will continue for a long time.

For the complete interview with tons of preview artwork, click here.

Source: Silver Bullet Comics

"John plans to return to Captain America eventually, but he’s not really a monthly artist, and he’s got some other commitments he has to take care of," Marvel Knights editor Stuart Moore said in an article which was published on the Newsarama site.

The new artist on Captain America after Cassaday leaves, will be Trevor Hairsine (Cla$$war).

For the complete article, click here.

Source: Newsarama

As a taste of what's waiting for you when Captain America: Red, White & Blue goes on sale September 11th, a sensational spread painted by Alex Ross was released by Marvel.

For the complete press release plus the Alex Ross spread, click here.

Source: Newsarama

Here's a small excerpt of the interview:

Russell Lissau: Love triangles pop up in your stories from time to time. "Daredevil: Yellow" certainly had a biggie; "Spider-Man: Blue" will as well. Are you a romantic at heart? Why turn superhero stories into romance comics?

Tim Sale: I am indeed a romantic at heart, as is Jeph, and sentiment is the yang to our melodrama's yin of violence. No one does a more sentimental Batman than Loeb and Sale, thank you very much. I think when you deal in melodrama, you need to have that.

To read the whole interview, click here.

Source: Comic Book Resources

Peter Franken

Source: Newsarama

Source: Hip Flask

Bachalo will also be providing his artistical talents to the covers of Dark Horse's upcoming Star Wars: Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back (4-part) mini-series.

Source: Newsarama

To read the whole article, click here.

Source: Newsarama

Newsarama has also posted an interview with Romita jr. on their website. In the interview he talks about his career at Marvel and his future work.

Here's an excerpt:

Newsarama: But now you’re down to one title - albeit one titles with an increased production schedule…

John Romita jr.: "Right. I’m off of the Hulk now, because they want to be putting out more Amazing Spider-Man issues than one a month, so I’m moving to Spider-Man full time, but I’ve got plenty of other things to keep me busy. I’ve got a few creator-owned projects I’m looking to squeeze in as well, because if they go well, I’ll have an avenue other than comics to consider in my future, which is to me a good idea."

To read the whole interview, click here.

To read the whole article, click here.

Source: Newsarama

"The big question -- is the Daredevil: Yellow hardcover worth it? The big answer, for as objective as I can be about it -- yes," Loeb remarks.

To read the interview, plus some preview images, click here.

Source: Newsarama

To read the interview, plus some very cool preview images, click here.

Source: Comics Continuum

Asylum Press will publish a never-before-seen 10-page black & white story Cassaday drew (and inked by Asylum’s Frank Forte) in 1995. A comic adaptation of horror author Robert S. Rhine's short story "Spare Parts", the story was originally suppose to see print in CFD Productions horror anthology Insidious Tales #3, but that series was cancelled before the story ever saw print and has sat in the Asylum Press vaults since. They’ll dust it off for publication in June’s Selected Readings From Satan's Powder Room #1.

To read the whole article, click here.

Source: Newsarama

What:	Marvel Enterprise’s artist, John Romita Jr., will be sketching Spider-Man and himself into the Guinness Book of World Records. He will also have many local and national celebrities joining him in support.
When:	May 10th Planet Hollywood 11am-7pm Bar/Code Galactic Circus 7:15pm-11am May 11th Planet Hollywoord 11:15am-7pm Bar/Code Galactic Circus 7:15pm until he drops.
Where:	Planet Hollywood - 1540 Broadway, Corner of 45th Street, Times Square Bar Code/Galactic Circus - 1540 Broadway, Corner of 46th Street, Times Square.
Why:	To set a new world record and more importantly to raise funds for the treatment of his 2 year old niece, who has brain cancer.

Go to www.jrjr.net for more information.

The artist line-up includes:
Alex Ross (including the first interior Marvel work since Marvels), Paul Dini, David Lloyd, Frank Quitely, Darko Macan, Bruce Timm, Paul Storrie, Bruce Jones, Richard Piers-Rayner, Dean Haspiel, Karl Bollers, Jeff Jensen, Max Allan Collins, ChrisCross, Paul Pope, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Tony Salmons, Peter Kuper, Mark Waid, Mike Deodato, Paul Rivoche, Philippe Berthet, Yann Lepennetier, Kenichi Sonoda, Matt Madden and many more.

The covers are by Brian Stelfreeze, Peter Ferguson, Alex Nino and Mirko Ilic.

Source: Newsarama

...

"I can tell you that there will be between 10-16 pages of artwork and material that hasn't been seen (at least in this form). We've planned to show a sequence of pages that will start with script, then show Tim's layouts, his rough pencils, pencils, then inks and then his ink wash so the readers can see the entire process.

In addition there will be artwork that Tim chose to "go another way" -- some covers we didn't use -- all gorgeous stuff (Tim is such a perfectionist) with hopefully color commentary from me.

The book's designs are being handled by Richard Starkings and John Roshell at Comicraft who have done brilliant and stunning work on such things as the Astro City hardbacks and the Danger Girl collection. They are, quite simply, the best collected edition designers out there (and pals to boot!).

In addition, the book WILL be oversized -- bigger than a Masterworks, but not quite the size of an "Album" as you would find in France (or so is my understanding). It will not be a treasury sized edition as reported elsewhere, but should make a great looking coffee table book.

We're very pleased with the production values that The Marvel Knights provided us with (and many of you were kind enough to notice), so we have no doubt that the hardback will be a handsome edition and addition to the growing Loeb/Sale library."

...

Source: DC Comics Message Boards

The first Zatanna one-shot, written by Paul Dini and with art by Duncan Fegredo, is scheduled at the end of 2002.

Click here for the complete article.

Source: WizardWorld.com

HIP FLASK: UNNATURAL SELECTION is a $2.99, 32 page, full color comic book with no ads. It goes on sale July 17th, 2002 and will be available with four different covers, shipped in equal quantities, by Joe BATTLE CHASERS Madureira, J. Scott DANGER GIRL Campbell, Ian UNCANNY X-MEN Churchill and, of course, Ladronn.

Check out the links below for more information and some preview images.

Source: Silver Bullet Comics & Hip Flask

The cover image will be one complete cover chopped into four pieces with a continuous background. Romita Jr. will pencil the entire cover, which he describes as four stop action shots of Spider-Man swinging from his web. The first of the four covers will also be inked by Romita Jr. and features Spider-Man letting go at the apex of his swing and shooting another web to continue. Covers two and three, to be inked by Romita Sr. and Bagley respectively in their own style, will find Spider-Man in full swing. The fourth cover, to be finished by Alex Ross in his style, shows Spider-Man hitting the apex of his swing once again and shooting another web.

To read the whole article, click here.

To view three of the cover images (virgin), click here.

To view all of the cover images (including logo's), click here.

Source: Comic Book Resources & Comics Continuum

In the interview he talks about several upcoming projects he will be working on after Steampunk is gone "on hiatus" with issue #12.

To read the interview, click here.

Source: Newsarama

The short-lived horror anthology series featured an all star cast of comics creators including stories written by Barker, Neil Gaiman, Dwayne McDuffie and others. Illustrators on the book included talent like Alex Ross, Colleen Doran and Mike Mignola, Scott Hampton and Dave McKean and others.

The book collects 11 stories in total, is 232 pages and contains a cover by artist Dan Brereton.

Source: Comic Book Resources

To read the interview, click here.

Source: Comic Book Resources

Source: Newsarama

Check out the links below for more info and some preview images.

Source: Newsarama & Hip Flask

The first, Pulp Science Fiction #1: Unnatural Selection is a 32-page one-shot that brings readers the long-awaited ‘Origin of Hip Flask’ by Richard Starkings, Joe Casey and Jose Ladronn. Unnatural Selection is expected to go on sale this summer and will be followed by another 32-page one-shot Hip Flask #0, which will serve as a prologue to the six-part ‘Pulp Science Fiction Thriller’ Hip Flask: The Big Here & The Long Now.

All of these projects are written by Starkings and Casey and illustrated by Ladronn.

Check out the links below for more information and some preview images.

Source: Newsarama & Hip Flask

For your viewing pleasure:

Hör Mal	Das Dritte Auge

Peter Franken

I've also updated my linkpage (including the much delayed fan-site links).

Stay tuned for the third part of the update!

Peter Franken

"I've always wanted to make these heroic figures look real," Ross explained. "I think if people can believe such heroes are possible, they might think that the good qualities they stand for are also possible.

"Throughout my career, I've gotten to paint some larger-than-life iconic figures - and you can't do much better than the Oscar statuette as far as icons are concerned. Oscar is a hero to a lot of people in Hollywood and I'm looking forward to bringing out that heroic quality in this poster."

Ross will be present when the 74th Awards poster is unveiled at a special event which will take place in early January at Hollywood & Highland®. Some 50,000 copies of the poster will be distributed to movie theaters, video retailers and sponsors of the Academy Awards telecast. For the third year, the commemorative poster also will be available for purchase through the Academy's website at www.oscars.org.

For the press release click here.

Source: oscars.org

For the complete article click here.

Source: Newsarama

For the complete article click here.

Source: Comic Book Resources