04/24/05 - Quesada, Cassaday and Bachalo to provide variant covers for House of M

Marvel has announced that the cover artist of the upcoming eight-issue House of M mini-series will be Essad Ribic, with variant covers by: House of M #1 Joe Quesada House of M #2 Terry Dodson House of M #3 John Cassaday House of M #4 Brandon Peterson House of M #5 Alex Maleev House of M #6 Greg Land House of M #7 TBA House of M #8 Chris Bachalo Retailers will receive the variant cover in a 21 to 1 ratio. Source: Newsarama

04/24/05 - Eisner Award Nominations Announced

The industry's most prestigious award, the Eisner Awards, have announced their nominations for 2005. Check out some of the nominees below: BEST SERIALIZED STORY Astonishing X-Men #1-6: "Gifted," by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday (Marvel) Fables #19-27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers," by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and Steve Leialoha (Vertigo/DC) Planetary #19-20: "Mystery in Space/Rendezvous," by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday (WildStorm/DC) BEST CONTINUING SERIES Astonishing X-Men, by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday (Marvel) BEST LIMITED SERIES WE3, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (Vertigo/DC) Wanted, by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones (Top Cow/Image) BEST NEW SERIES Astonishing X-Men, by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday (Marvel) BEST PENCILLER/INKER OF PENCILLER/INKER TEAM John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel); Planetary (WildStorm/DC); I Am Legion: The Dancing Faun (Humanoids/DC) Frank Quitely, WE3 (Vertigo/DC) BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART) Teddy Kristiansen, It's a Bird . . . (Vertigo/DC) BEST COVER ARTIST Frank Quitely, Bite Club; WE3 (Vertigo/DC) For the complete list, click here. Source: Comic-Con International

04/24/05 - Ross, Cassaday, Jones and Kaluta to provide covers for new Red Sonja series

Dynamite Entertainment, through their own imprint, will bring Red Sonja back in to print with a new series co-written by Michael Avon Oeming and Mike Carey and illustrated by Mel Rubi. Currently, Dynamite is set to release a $.25 cent #0 issue in April. The creative team of Oeming, Carey and Rubi are joined by Richard Isanove and Ceasar Rodriguez on colors featuring a Greg Land cover. The #0 issue will include a retailer incentive sneak peak at the Alex Ross cover set for the first issue. Issue #1 of Red Sonja will see its release likely in June with covers by Alex Ross, J.G. Jones, Michael Turner, Michael Kaluta, Art Adams, Joseph Michael Linsnser, John Cassaday, Adam Hughes and more planned for the first several issues. Red Sonja will be an ongoing series with the first story lasting five issues. Source: Comic Book Resources

03/20/05 - Marvel News from Wizard World: Los Angeles

Here's a quick rundown of Marvel related news tidbits from this weekend's Wizard World: Lost Angeles: Paul Jenkins will team with artist John Romita Jr. on a Sentry series that is targeted for eight issues. Jenkins also reteams with Mark Buckingham on Spectacular Spider-Man #27, the final issue. "Astonishing X-Men" will take a break (about four months or so) after issue #12 ships, allowing both Joss Whedon and John Cassaday to catch up on other commitments, then they will return with #13 to finish up their story. Joe Quesada said Daredevil: Father will be out this year. Source: Newsarama & Comics Continuum

03/01/05 - News from WonderCon

The recent WonderCon convention yielded some interesting news tidbits: After a delay from its original December 2004 start, Kurt Busiek’s Astro City: The Dark Age begins in June. The story, of the ‘70s in Astro City, has its roots in what Busiek originally envisioned as Marvels II. Brent Anderson pencils, with covers by Alex Ross. The Dark Age will run for 12 issues, and will tell of the Silver Agent’s final fate. Planetary is scheduled to run through to issue #26 The next Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror comic will reunite Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson to do a Swamp Thing story, which is known as 'Squish Thing,' where Homer gets engulfed in a squishy accident and becomes a Squish Thing." The OMAC Project, a six-issue mini-series from DC Comics by Rucka and Saiz, will have covers by Jose Ladronn. Each issue of Justice, the bi-monthly series (DC Comics) by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Doug Braithwaite, will be 40 pages. Alex Ross is also now the regular cover artist for JSA. Dan DiDio said All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely and All Star Batman and Robin by Frank Miller and Jim Lee are the only All Star titles currently planned. Source: Newsarama & Comics Continuum

03/01/05 - Cassaday extends run on Astonishing X-Men

During WonderCon last month, Joss Whedon announced that he and artist John Cassaday would be continuing their run on Marvel's premiere mutant title for an additional 12 issues, making it 24 issues total for the duo. The duo will finish up their current run on the title, followed by a short break, and then get back to the title with an additional twelve issues. No word on whether the title would simply take a break or if fill-in creative teams would participate. Once they've finished that, the duo will embark on a "Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men" one-shot. Source: Comic Book Resources

10/12/04 - John Cassaday Interview

Silver Bullet Comics recently posted an interview with John Cassaday in which he talks about his work on Astonishing X-Men with Josh Whedon and other projects like Planetary, Captain America and I am Legion. Here's a small excerpt of the interview: MIKE JOZIC: From an art standpoint, are you approaching the book any differently than you would any of your other projects? JOHN CASSADAY: I try to approach every project a little differently. Some allow more of a chance to experiment than others. This is the first time I've really done a big team book, so I'm looking at it in a more epic sense of scale. For the complete interview, click here Source: Silver Bullet Comics

05/09/04 - News Tidbits

Last weeks Wonder Con in San Francisco yielded some interesting news tidbits: An Astro City special by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson and cover artist Alex Ross is scheduled for August. After that will be Astro City: The Dark Age a series of mini-series set in the 1970s that tells the tragic tale of the Silver Agent. Absolute Planetary is scheduled for October. The oversized hardcover collects the first 12 issues of the series by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday, as well as the complete script to Planetary #1 and the original preview story. Dunbier said he hopes to have Planetary on a quarterly schedule, with Cassaday's commitments now to Astonishing X-Men. Source: Newsarama & Comics Continuum

05/09/04 - Je suis Legion

John Cassaday is done with the art on I Am Legion, the graphic novel which was announced last year, to be published by Humanoids. It comes out in French in May and it won’t be out in English until later this year. For the complete article, click here Source: Newsarama

05/09/04 - Astonishing X-Men Previews

John Cassaday's new series Astonishing X-Men will debute in May. Both Comic Book Resources and Newsarama have posted previews on their websites. Check out the links below!: For the preview, click here. For the other preview, click here. Source: Comic Book Resources & Newsarama

05/09/04 - Cassaday Interview

Richard Johnston recently interviewed John Cassaday for his "Waiting for Tommy" column on the Dynamic Forces website. In the interview he talks about Astonishing X-Men, I am Legion and Planetary. Here's a small excerpt of the interview: Richard Johnston: Talking of which, do you see the end of Planetary in sight? John Cassaday: I've got two scripts in front of me and Warren is in the middle of the next, which is #22. I plan to plug away at them as they come during my X-Men stint. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. Warren has made noise about extending the series past the original 25 issues in order to take his time ending it. If it needs more pages and we stretch it to maybe 27 or 28, why not? It has taken forever and at times has definitely been a monkey on my back, but I absolutely love Planetary. I know I'll miss it when it ends. However, it will be nice to close the back cover of that last one and move on... For the complete interview, click here. Source: Dynamic Forces

05/09/04 - Cassaday Talks Astonishing X-Men

The biggest news to come out of Marvel Comics' "ReLoad"-event of the X-Men franchise is the new series entitled Astonishing X-Men - written by Joss Whedon and art by John Cassaday. Comic Book Resources posted an interview with the artist on their website. Here's a small excerpt of the interview: "If you've never read an X-Men comic, you can pick this up and enjoy it," says Cassaday. "We're paying attention to continuity, but we're not letting it clog up the works. We're using it to our advantage. To me, it's the essence of what everyone loves so much about these characters." For the complete interview, click here. Source: Comic Book Resources

11/02/03 - Cassaday and Quitely join Mark Millar

As of December you can expect four new titles from writer Mark Millar, published through four different companies, but linked together by a Millar World logo in the corner of each issue. As a part of this, Image will be publishing four self-contained one-shots coming out through 2003/2004. The first one-shot Run!, which is scheduled to ship in December, will be drawn by Ashley Wood. Pow!, focusing on a superhero's sidekick will be drawn by John Cassaday, Frank Quitely will draw the third (about a hero with a secret identity), and the fourth's artist is TBA. For the complete article, click here. Source: Newsarama

06/15/03 - Cassaday Covers Ultimate Six

Marvel Comics will release Ultimate Six in September. The six-issue mini-series is written by Brian Michael Bendis, with art by Trevor Hairsine and Danny Miki, and covers by John Cassaday. Source: Comics Continuum

04/06/03 - Small Cassaday Interview

I've discovered a short John Cassaday interview on the 'net. The interview is posted on the Collector Times website. In the interview Cassaday talks about how he got started in comics. His past and future work on Planetary and Captain America. Here's a short excerpt of the interview: Sidra Roberts: How did you break into comicbooks? John Cassaday: I went to the San Diego Comic Convention in 1996 and took a portfolio. It was the first time I’d been to it. I’d been to a lot of smaller conventions in Texas and other places, but there were never any editors to talk to. There would just be some local artists. So finally I got to go to this big convention, and I met with actual editors. That’s how it worked. A month later I started getting phone calls. For the complete interview, click here Source: Collector Times

03/02/03 - Cassaday, Sale & Risso contribute to JSA project

DC Comics has announced its lineup of writers and artists for JSA: All-Stars, an eight-issue mini-series that starts in May. JSA: All-Stars #1 features a full-length, 22-page story starring the entire JSA, written by David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns with art by Sal Velluto and Bob Almond and a cover by John Cassaday. JSA: All-Stars #2 spotlights Hawkgirl in a 16-page lead story written by Goyer and Johns with art by Phil Winslade. The 6-page backup story stars the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl and is written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale. JSA: All-Stars #6 spotlights Doctor Mid-Nite in a 16-page lead story written by Goyer and Johns with art by Stephen Sadowski. The 6-page backup story stars the Golden Age Dr. Mid-Nite and is written by Brian Azzarello with art by Eduardo Risso. Source: Comics Continuum

02/15/03 - Batman/Planetary to ship in June

Press Release This June, the acclaimed writer/artist team of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday takes the archaeologists of the unknown to Batman's home turf in Batman/Planetary: Night on Earth. This 48-page, Prestige format one-shot serves as the reintroduction of Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner and the Drummer, and leads into Planetary #16, which has been rescheduled to arrive in comic book stores in August. "When we saw John Cassaday's amazing rendition of the Dark Knight, we knew the best way to reintroduce Planetary to the world was to tie it to DC's best-selling hero, Batman," says Bob Wayne, DC's VP - Sales & Marketing. "By moving the Batman/Planetary one-shot up in the schedule, we're giving Planetary more exposure before its return, as well as publishing a comic that no fan of Warren Ellis, John Cassaday, Batman or Planetary will want to miss." Batman/Planetary: Night on Earth is a 48-page Prestige format one-shot to be solicited in the April issue of Previews and scheduled to be in stores on June 25. Two months later, Planetary #16 will be resolicited in the June issue of Previews with an in-store date of August 27. The solicitation for Planetary #16 in the February issue of Previews is cancelled. Source: DC Comics

01/14/03 - John Cassaday's I am Legion

John Cassaday has signed with European publisher Humanoids for a large project. The project that Cassaday is illustrating is entitled I Am Legion, and is written by Fabien Nury. Nury’s pitch reads: December, 1942. The global conflict has reached a fever pitch. The Nazis are at the height of their power, but the Allies have had their first victories in Stalingrad and in the Pacific. Never has the war’s outcome been so much in doubt. Unknown to the Allies, the Nazi’s have a secret weapon, a 10 year-old girl whose gifts could force them to their knees. "I couldn’t be more excited to have John Cassaday join us with I Am Legion," Humanoids editor Paul Benjamin said. "This project came about because John is an avid World War II history buff. Legion is the perfect project for him to show fans all over the world his passion for this Earth shaking period of world history." For more information about the project and a piece of preview art by Cassaday, click here Source: Newsarama

01/14/03 - John Cassaday's Hellboy?! [UPDATE]

As reported earlier, John Cassaday will be contributing a story to the upcoming eight-issue Hellboy: Weird Tales mini-series. Recently, Dark Horse provided Newsarama with a preview of John Cassaday's story from issue #1. For more information about the series and preview art, click here Source: Newsarama

12/09/02 - DC's 2003 Preview

DC Comics recently released some details about their projects for 2003. I've selected a few which should be of interest to you: 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

12/09/02 - John Cassaday's Hellboy?!

John Cassaday will contribute a story to the upcoming eight-issue Hellboy: Weird Tales mini-series. 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

12/09/02 - Moo Cassaday

Dynamic Forces is teaming up with Top Cow productions to bring you stories by Mark Millar, Bill Sienkiewicz, John Cassaday, Peter Milligan, Geoff Johns and Mark Texeira. Source: Dynamic Forces

06/11/02 - Cassaday leaving Captain America

Marvel has announced that John Cassaday will be leaving the Captain America series with #6, but he will be returning. "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

05/19/02 - Planetary Update

During the Wizard World East Convention in Philadelphia Wildstorm announced during a discussion panel that they currently have three Planetary scripts from Ellis in house, and is waiting for artist John Cassaday to find time in his schedule to illustrate them. Source: Newsarama

05/19/02 - Old Cassaday work to be published

Fans old and new will get a first chance to see John Cassaday’s work at an early stage in his career. 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

01/12/02 - Cassaday into German hip-hop? [UPDATE]

Last year, I reported that John Cassaday did an album cover and two CD single covers for a German hip-hop group. I did some web-surfing and found out how the band is called (Die Firma) and some scans of the art. For your viewing pleasure: Hör Mal Das Dritte Auge Peter Franken

12/20/01 - Captain America's Marvel Knight's debut to address 9-11

When Captain America relaunches this spring as a Marvel Knights title with writer John Ney Rieber and artist John Cassaday, the Captain will be dealing with the events of the September 11th tragedy. For the complete article plus comments by John Cassaday click here. Source: Newsarama

12/20/01 - Cassaday into German hip-hop?

Planetary and upcoming Captain America artist John Cassaday did an album cover and two CD single covers for a German hip-hop group distributed by V2 Records. Source: Wizardworld

12/20/01 - Cassaday and Rieber on Captain America

After the exciting news (during the WizardWorld Convention in Chicago) that the new creative team for the Marvel Knight's relaunch of Captain America would be writer John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday, a lot of interviews with artist John Cassaday started showing up on the internet. Here are a few links: Newsarama Article Comic Book Resources Article Another Comic Book Resources Article An interview with John Cassaday posted on Comic Book Resources site The series will launch in March of 2002 with a new #1, and will also continue it's original numbering as well. Source: Newsarama & Comic Book Resources

12/20/01 - Bachalo and Cassaday to re-create the DC Universe with Stan Lee

Mike Carlin, who is editing the Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating series for DC Comics, gave a nearly complete rundown of artists for the second set of books: Robin, with art by John Byrne and Terry Austin; Shazam!, with art by Gary Frank; Catwoman, with art by Chris Bachalo; Aquaman, with an artist to be named; Sandman, with art by Walter Simonson; Crisis, with art by John Cassaday. Source: Comics Continuum

04/08/01 - DC previews their 2001-'02 offerings

Recently, Newsarama posted a list of DC Comics 2001-'02 offerings, which were announced during a retailer conference slide show/presentation. Here's some of the information: Wonder Woman: Truth Fourth Quarter 2001 The fourth tabloid-sized book by the team of writer Paul Dini and painter Alex Ross is a tribute to the amazing Amazon Princess. Wonder Woman: The Hikketeia HC First Quarter 2002 Wonder Woman is caught among three perilous options when a young woman takes an Amazon precept to a dangerous extreme. Wonder Woman: The Hikketeia is a hardcover graphic novel written by Greg Rucka. Guest-starring Batman, The Hikketeia is illustrated by J.G. Jones and inker Wade Von Grawbadger. Planetary Action Figures Fourth Quarter 2001 Now the characters from Warren Ellis and John Cassaday`s Wildstorm series form an exciting new trio of action figures from DC Direct. All three Planetary Action Figures come with pegged stands emblazoned with the Planetary logo upon which the figures may be posed, and are individually packaged in four-color blister packs. For the whole list - with preview images - click here Source: Fandom's Comics Newsarama

04/08/01 - John Cassaday interview

The people at Fandom's Comics Newsarama posted an extensive interview with artist John Cassaday. In the interview he talks about how he got started in comics, his artistical influences and about his past and upcoming work. The interview was conducted and written by Matt Brady. Here's an short excerpt of the interview: "Every issue of Planetary is a dream, really," Cassaday said. "In this one series, I get to cover more varieties of subject matter than many artists do their entire career. It certainly doesn’t get boring. The ghost cop in #3 and the cathedral/shiftship in #4 were both fun, but I don’t know that I’ve ever had more fun than doing the pulp spot illustrations for issue #5. The photo-cover to #7 was a good exercise too. To read the whole interview, click here Source: Fandom's Comics Newsarama

04/08/01 - Cassaday contributes to JSA Secret Files #2

Planetary artist John Cassaday will be contributing to July's JSA Secret Files #2. The book will include profiling pages spotlighting Solomon Grundy [John Cassaday], Black Adam [Tim Bradstreet], Roulette, a new villain, by Matt Haley, Director Bones [Williams and Gray] and Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Source: Fandom's Comics Newsarama

04/08/01 - Cassaday re-creates the DC Universe with Stan Lee

With George Perez` exclusive contract with CrossGen not allowing him to illustrate the final issue of Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating…, which was to be the Stan Lee version of DC`s classic "Crisis" stories, Planetary artist John Cassaday has confirmed that he will be handling the art chores on the issue. "I’ve signed on to illustrate one of the Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating… books for DC," Cassaday said. "I’m doing the final installment, Crisis. I can’t give any specific details because it’s just now coming together. Needless to say, I’m very excited to be part of it and honored to work with Stan." Source: Fandom's Comics Newsarama

02/11/01 - Squiddy Awards 2000

The Squiddy Awards for 2000 have been announced. Here are some of the winners: Best Painter Alex Ross Best Creative Team Ellis/Cassaday/DePuy (Planetary) and Moore/Williams III/Gray (Promethea) Best Cover Artist John Cassaday Best Comics Novella Superman & Batman: World's Funnest Comics Best Ongoing Series Planetary and Black Panther The Squiddies are the annual awards given by the participants in rec.arts.comics. For the complete list of winners and more information about the Squiddy Awards check out the website, by clicking the link below. Source: The Squiddy Awards

02/11/01 - 2001: A John Cassaday overview

The Comic Wire's Beau Yarbrough at the Comic Book Resources website posted an overview of John Cassaday's projects in 2001. Here it is: Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth (art) Wildcats/Spartan one-shot (inks) Transmetropolitan #43-45 (covers) Legion Worlds (six-issue mini-series / covers) Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (six-issue story-arc / ?) Planetary (duh!) Also, three Planetary action figures - Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner and the Drummer, each with Planetary logo stands - are scheduled for a May 2001 release. Source: Comic Book Resources

01/14/01 - John Cassaday Covers Legion Worlds

Starting this April, DC will be publishing the six-issue mini-series Legion Worlds. All issues will be written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, each issue will be illustrated by a different art team, each with diverse styles to reflect the different looks and personalities of each world. The covers however, will have a more uniform look. Those will be illustrated by Planetary's John Cassaday. Source: Fandom's Comics Newsarama

12/05/00 - Short John Cassaday Interview II

Wizardworld.com posted another short interview with artist John Cassaday. In the interview he talks about his work on Planetary, how a typical issue of Planetary is created, what he sees as the forces driving the book, and even gives a big hint about what we can look forward to seeing in the second, and final, year of this extraordinary series. For the whole interview click here Source: WizardWorld.com

11/19/00 - John Cassaday Signs up for another Year

Artist John Cassaday has extended his exclusive contract with DC Comics for another year. Next to doing Planetary with writer Warren Ellis, he will also be doing various other projects for DC. Next year, he will do some covers for Warren Ellis' series Transmetropolitan. Cassaday is also working on a Spartan one-shot with artist John Lucas for Wildstorm.

10/03/00 - Short John Cassaday Interview

Wizardworld.com posted a short interview with artist John Cassaday. In the interview he talks about Planetary, the upcoming Planetary/Batman one shot, comics, movies and more. For the whole interview click here Source: WizardWorld.com

08/08/00 - Cassaday Comments on Planetary

John Cassaday explained in a interview with Comics Continuum the reason why Planetary at the moment is bi-monthly is because he's also working on the Planetary/Batman crossover. "Warren has a story idea on how to do the crossover," Cassaday said. "It's not just them bumping into Batman. It will have a real plot to it." Cassaday also said that plans are for the series to end around #24. Source: Comics Continuum

07/24/00 - Cassaday Goes Wild [UPDATE]

"Wildcats" writer Joe Casey announced sunday at the Comic-Con International in San Diego International, that he's writing a new 48 page "Spartan" special with art by John Lucas and John Cassaday. It will be coming out in 2001. Source: Comic Book Resources

07/22/00 - Alex Ross Wins

Yesterday the 1999 Eisner Award winners were announced in San Diego at the Comic-Con International. This year Alex Ross walked away with two awards: Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art): Kyle Baker, I Die at Midnight (Vertigo/DC); "Letitia Lerner, Superbaby's Babysitter" in Elseworlds 80-Page Giant (DC) John Bolton, Gifts of the Night (Vertigo/DC) Alex Ross, Batman: War on Crime (DC) Jill Thompson, Scary Godmother: The Mystery Date (Sirius) Best Cover Artist: John Cassaday, Planetary (Wildstorm/DC) Frank Cho, Liberty Meadows (Insight Studios) Glenn Fabry, Preacher (Vertigo/DC) Dave McKean, The Dreaming (Vertigo/DC) Alex Ross, Batman: No Man's Land, Batman: Harley Quinn, Batman: War on Crime; Kurt Busiek's Astro City(Homage/Wildstorm/DC); ABC alternate #1 covers Click here for the complete list of winners/nominees. Source: Comic Book Resources

06/01/00 - Cassaday Goes Wild

Rich Johnston of Rich's Ramblings 2000 posted an interesting rumour on his site. Despite statements in earlier Ramblings by Warren Ellis, Ramblings heard that John Cassaday is doing other projects at Wildstorm aside from his work on Planetary... A WildCATS one-shot!!! Source: Rich's Ramblings 2000

04/17/00 - John Cassaday News Tidbit

Fans of Warren Ellis & John Cassaday's Planetary will see there (semi-)monthly series turn into a bi-monthly series, with #12 due in August. Source: Comics Continuum

03/14/00 - John Cassaday Doing the Planetary with Batman

Warren Ellis filled his readers of his Delphi message board forum (www.delphi.com/ellis/messages) in on early details of his upcoming Planetary/Batman project, in response to DC's announcing the project at yesterday's Diamond Spring Fling retailer program. "One day I was working on the plotting of PLANETARY #12. I was going to end the year with a dissection of The Batman, as well as an investigation by Planetary into other survivors of City Zero, setting things up for the blistering Year Two. Obviously I wasn't going to use The Batman himself, I was going to have to come up woith an analogue. Annoying. And then I got a phone call from Scott Dunbier. He said that DC had been asking for me to write some kind of DC/Wildstorm crossover book. Evidently, they asked for JLA/AUTHORITY again, but Scott knew to let them know that Warren wouldn't do that since DC f***ed him on it last time around. So Scott came up with the counter-suggestion of a 48pp Prestige book called... PLANETARY/BATMAN. I sort of made a little coughing sound, self-consciously moved my fairly complete notes away from the phone, and said: "Sure. I think I can come up with something for you there." PLANETARY/BATMAN: NIGHT ON EARTH -- an extra issue of PLANETARY, by myself and John Cassaday, and probably either Laura or Dave Baron, I don't think a hard decision's been made there yet. Now, of course, I have to come up with something new for #12." Source: The Warren Ellis Forum

03/13/00 - And the Nominees are...

The nominations for the Harvey Awards 1999 are: BEST WRITER Kurt Busiek for Kurt Busiek's Astro City Dan Clowes for Eightball Warren Ellis for Planetary Alan Moore for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Alan Moore for Tom Strong Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library BEST ARTIST Dan Clowes for Eightball Jaime Hernandez for Penny Century Mike Mignola for Hellboy: Box Full of Evil Chris Sprouse for Tom Strong Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library BEST CARTOONIST Dan Clowes for Eightball Jaime Hernandez for Penny Century Stan Sakai for Usagi Yojimbo Jeff Smith for Bone Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library SPECIAL AWARD FOR HUMOR IN COMICS Sergio Aragones Groo, etc. Evan Dorkin Dork, etc. Sam Henderson Magic Whistle, etc. Tony Millionaire Sock Monkey, etc. Steven Weissman Champs, etc. SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRESENTATION Acme Novelty Library #13 by Chris Ware Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini and Alex Ross, design by Georg Brewer Blab! # 10 by various artists, edited and designed by Monte Beauchamp Cave-In by Brian Ralph, design by Jordan Crane, Tom Devlin, and Brian Ralph 300 (hardcover edition) by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, design by Mark Cox BEST NEW SERIES Louis Riel by Chester Brown Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday, edited by John Layman Promethea by Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, and Mike Gray, edited by Scott Dunbier Tom Strong by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse, edited by Scott Dunbier Top Ten by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, and Zander Cannon, edited by Scott Dunbier Weasel by Dave Cooper, edited by Gary Groth BEST CONTINUING OR LIMITED SERIES Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware, edited by Kim Thompson Kurt Busiek's Astro City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson, edited by John Layman Eightball by Dan Clowes, edited by Gary Groth Penny Century by Jaime Hernandez, edited by Gary Groth Tom Strong by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse, edited by Scott Dunbier BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY Acme Novelty Library #13 by Chris Ware Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini and Alex Ross Blab #10 by various artists, edited by Monte Beauchamp Eightball #20 by Dan Clowes Tomorrow Stories #2 by Alan Moore, Jim Baikie, Melinda Gebbie, Kevin Nowlan, and Rick Veitch BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM OF ORIGINAL WORK Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini and Alex Ross, edited by Charles Kochman and Joey Cavalieri Cave-In by Brian Ralph, edited by Tom Devlin Champs by Steven Weissman, edited by Gary Groth Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson, edited by Chris Staros The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK El Borbah by Charles Burns, edited by Kim Thompson From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell Manhunter: The Special Edition by Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson,edited by Dennis O'Neil and Jim Spivey Monkey Food: The Complete "I Was Seven in '75" Collection by Ellen Forney, edited by Gary Groth My New York Diary by Julie Doucet BEST ANTHOLOGY Blab! edited by Monte Beauchamp Nickelodeon Magazine Comic Book edited by Chris Duffy Non edited by Jordan Crane Tomorrow Stories edited by Scott Dunbier Zero Zero edited by Kim Thompson BEST INKER Dan Clowes for Eightball Jaime Hernandez for Penny Century Gerhard for Cerebus Al Gordon for Tom Strong Paul Neary for The Authority BEST LETTERER Dan Clowes for Eightball Chris Eliopoulos for Savage Dragon Dave Sim for Cerebus Richard Sala for Evil Eye Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library BEST COLORIST Laura Allred for Madman Laura Depuy for The Authority Tad Elrich for Tom Strong Lynn Varley for 300 Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library BEST SYNDICATED STRIP OR PANEL For Better or Worse by Lynn Johnston Maakies by Tony Millionaire Mutts by Patrick McDonnell Peanuts by Charles Schulz Underworld by Kaz BEST BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL OR JOURNALISTIC PRESENTATION Comic Base 4.0 (Database CD-ROM) Comic Book Artist The Comics Journal The Enigma of Al Capp by Alexander Theroux Jack Kirby Collector BEST AMERICAN EDITION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL After the Rain by Andre Juillard, edited by Terry Nantier Black and White by Taiyo Matsumoto, edited by Annette Roman Death and Candy by Max Andersson, edited by Kim Thompson The Nimrod by Lewis Trondheim, edited by Kim Thompson Star Wars: The Manga by Toshiki Kudo and Shin-Ichi Hiromoto based on stories by George Lucas, edited by David Land BEST DOMESTIC REPRINT PROJECT DC Archive Series, edited by Dale Crain Marvel Essential Series, edited by Polly Watson Manhunter: The Special Edition by Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson, edited by Dennis O'Neil and Jim Spivey Pogo by Walt Kelly, edited by Tom Spurgeon Prince Valiant by Hal Foster, edited by Pia Christensen, Henning Kure, and Jens Trasborg BEST NEW TALENT Brian Ralph, Cave-In, etc. David Choe, Slow Jams, etc. Leland Myrick, Sweet, etc. Douglas Paskiewicz, Arsenic Lullaby, etc. Craig Thompson, Good-bye, Chunky Rice, etc. BEST COVER ARTIST Travis Charest for Wildcats Glenn Fabry for Preacher Adam Hughes for Wonder Woman Alex Ross for Kurt Busiek's Astro City Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library The awards will be presented at the Pittsburgh Comicon on April 28 (Friday). Source: Harvey Awards

01/01/00 - The Incomplete Comicbook Artist Checklist Relaunch !

After a year of very few updates, 1 January 2000 marks the beginning of change. I've redesigned the whole site and added 3 new checklists: John Cassaday: American artist John Cassaday (1971) is best known for his work on the highly acclaimed Desperadoes mini-series and Planetary both for DC's Wildstorm imprint. Works of interest include the Union Jack mini-series and the X-Men/Alpha Flight mini-series. Alex Ross: Fully-painted comics are nothing new, but few painters can match the excellence of Alex Ross. His photo-realistic paintings are a real treat for the eyes. Work highlights include: Marvels, Kingdom Come, Uncle Sam and his exquisite covers for Kurt Busiek's: Astro City. Tim Sale: American artist Tim Sale (1956) is probably best known for his work on Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman: For all Seasons and his current work on the new Batman: Dark Victory maxi-series. In the coming months I plan to add some new features and upload a Travis Charest and a Michael Kaluta checklist (and others). I also plan on updating my site at least once a month, with new additions to the various lists and whenever I have news concerning the artists I have a checklist of.

10/01/99 - John Cassaday Signs Exclusive Contract with DC

DC Comics and WildStorm Productions are pleased to announce that PLANETARY artist John Cassaday has signed an exclusive contract. Known for his distinctive and stylish portrayals of Warren Ellis' metahuman investigators, his art adds as much to the character of the title as the writing. Cassaday first came to WildStorm's DESPERADOES: A MOMENT'S SUNLIGHT before making waves on Union Jack for Marvel. His take on the Western landscapes and desire to challenge himself with something different led a union between him and writer Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, THE AUTHORITY, PLANETARY), a visual and conceptual feast within the WildStorm Universe. "Whenever Warren [Ellis] sends me a script, it's like Christmas," says Cassaday. Signing an exclusive contract with DC was easy for Cassaday because "PLANETARY is exactly what I want to be doing right now. Working so much this last year with Scott Dunbier, John Layman and the rest of the Wildstorm and DC crew has been the most fulfilling experience of my career thus far. DC and Wildstorm offer me the greatest degree of artistic freedom and professionalism. They run a good strong ship and I intend to stay the course." In addition to the WildStorm monthly title, he plans to do several upcoming Batman and Superman covers. WildStorm Group Editor Scott Dunbier is not amazed that "John in a very short time has become one of WildStorm's premier artists, going from DESPERADOES to a very successful high-profile book. It's a rare combo to get someone so talented and with such a great work ethic be such a great guy too." Source: DC Comics Online Newsletter