Next summer, fans can enjoy one of the most poignant Spidey stories ever told in the Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Spider-Man Gallery Edition Hardcover. The iconic Spider-Man: Blue limited series by Eisner Award-winning team Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale will receive Marvel Comics’ oversized gallery treatment, honoring Sale’s lush artwork in all its glory!
One of the installments in Loeb and Sale’s acclaimed “Color Series,” Spider-Man: Blue told a touching and insightful saga about Spidey’s formative years as a super hero. The modern Marvel masterpiece that’s perfect for new comic readers and a must-have for longtime Spider-Man fans is back and looking better than ever before!
Check out the cover below and be on the lookout for the reveal of a special Direct Market-exclusive variant cover. Experience this beloved Spider-Man saga in a brand-new way when it arrives summer 2023.
The weekend is almost here! What are you all doing? Any conventions or geeky things? Sound off in the comments below! While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.
Tim Sale at the 2018 Phoenix Comic Fest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo attributed to: Gage Skidmore
Friends and colleagues have announced that Tim Sale has passed away. He died peacefully today, June 16th.
Sale was an award-winning comic artist who began his career in 1983 on MythAdventures. Sale is mostly known for his collaborations with Jeph Loeb on the modern classics Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials, Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory, as well as Superman for All Seasons, and Catwoman: When in Rome.
He also worked at Marvel on the “color” books such as Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, Hulk: Gray, and Captain America: White.
Sale won an Eisner Award in 1999.
It was announced a few days ago that he was admitted to a hospital with “severe health issues”. He was 66 years old.
Darwyn Cooke was an amazing writer and artist and Batman: Ego and Other Tales collects some of his best work. It’s also one of the inspirations for The Batman!
Batman: Ego and Other Tales collects:
Batman: Ego
Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score
stories from Batman: Black and White and Solo
Story: Darwyn Cooke, Paul Grist Art: Darwyn Cooke, Bill Wray, Tim Sale Color: Matt Hollingsworth, Dave Stewart Letterer: Jonathan Babcock, Rick Parker, Richard Starkings
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In celebration of the 40th anniversary for Matt Wagner’s expansive, genre defying saga Grendel, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing a second edition of the complete Grendel Omnibus line. Starting with the first man to wear the Grendel moniker, Hunter Rose (the character and story behind the upcoming Netflix show!) and traveling into the far-flung future with Grendel Prime, the Grendel Omnibuses are a must have for long time fans and new readers alike!
Grendel Omnibus Volume 1 begins the entire epic series and chronicles the complete Hunter Rose storyline. This collection features millionaire Hunter Rose and his alter ego, the criminal mastermind Grendel! This collection features the very first Hunter Rose story, a complete Hunter Rose adventure by Matt Wagner, and vignettes and short stories from that key Grendel era by contributing storytellers Tim Sale, Guy Davis, Stan Sakai, Mike Allred, Darrick Robertson, Michael Avon Oeming, Jill Thompson, the Pander Brothers, Duncan Fegredo, Troy Nixey, and many more!
This first omnibus reprints Grendel: Devil by the Deed; the short story collections Grendel: Black, White, & Red and Grendel: Red, White, & Black, and Grendel: Behold the Devil. It also features a brand-new cover illustrated by Matt Wagner and colored Brennan Wagner.
Grendel Omnibus Volume 1: Hunter Rose TPB will be in comic shops June 8, 2022 and bookstores June 21, 2022. It is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop and bookstore. Grendel Omnibus Volume 1: Hunter Rose will retail for $29.99.
Legendary Comics, in cooperation with Herbert Properties, LLC, has announced the official movie graphic novel based on Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Dune, the critically acclaimed film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestselling book from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. Both the graphic novel and the film tell the epic hero’s journey of Paul Atreides. Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, adapted by writer Lilah Sturges with art by Drew Johnson and colors by digital painter Zid and colorist Niezam, features beautiful artwork that brings the cinematic vision of Dune to the world of sequential art. Limited editions of the graphic novel are now available for pre-order today exclusively on Kickstarter, with the book trade edition to follow. Both editions are set to be released in February of 2022, and fans can now pre-order all editions through Kickstarter.
Partnering with Rocketship Entertainment, the limited-edition Kickstarter releases of Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel feature four distinct covers. Comic legend Bill Sienkiewicz, who created the original Dune comic for Marvel in 1984, returns to the Dune universe to contribute the cover for the graphic novel. Three additional variant covers from Drew Johnson and Zid, U.K. illustrator and comic artist John Ridgway, and comic legend Tim Sale will also be available. Exclusive merchandise and collectibles will also be offered through Kickstarter.
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, Dune, based on Frank Herbert’s seminal novel, tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive. The film stars Oscar® nominee Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Oscar® nominee Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, David Dastmalchian, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, with Oscar® nominee Charlotte Rampling, with Jason Momoa, and Oscar® winner Javier Bardem.
A quarter-century has passed since the release of the Eisner Award-winning Batman: The Long Halloween from the creative team of writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale. On October 12, 2021, Loeb and Sale return to continue their story and show that some secrets never stay buried in Batman: The Long Halloween Special.
Join the team for the return of the Batman Halloween specials and a mystery that could destroy Batman, Commissioner Gordon, Two-Face, and…well, that would be telling, wouldn’t it?
The prestige format comic is 48 pages and retails for $7.99 with multiple covers by Sale.
Hellboy has appeared in countless graphic novels and comic books, prose novels and short story collections, acclaimed role-playing games and videogames, three live-action films and two animated features, and has inspired countless toys and collectibles. Now, award-winning Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is getting his turn in the spotlight in the all-new documentary Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, which tells the definitive story of one of the most influential and important comic book creators of all time. This feature-length film includes never-before-seen interviews conducted with the legendary creator at his studio, drawing demonstrations, behind-the-scenes footage from comic book conventions, and interviews with some of the most influential people in entertainment, including Neil Gaiman (American Gods), Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, Victor LaValle (The Ballad Of Black Tom), artist Tara McPherson, and comic book superstars like Vita Ayala, Duncan Fegredo, Fábio Moon, and Joe Quesada. Mike Mignola: Drawing Monstersis now on Kickstarter for a month-long campaign that runs throughout March.
As one of the most successful independent comic book creators, Mignola has inspired generations of writers and artists. Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters provides an in-depth look at his legacy, from the beginning of his career working as an inker for Marvel Comics to his success with Hellboy. The film features never-before-told revelations from Neil Gaiman about the Mignolaverse and the production of Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy II, and an interview with Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar discussing Mignola’s influence on her creation.
The documentary features Mythbusters host Adam Savage, Hellboy film actor Doug Jones and actress Vanessa Eichhotlz, novelists Christopher Golden (of the bestselling Ben Walker novels) and Victor LaValle (The Ballad Of Black Tom), Dark Horse Publisher and founder Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Editor Katii O’Brien, Marvel EVP of Creative Development Joe Quesada, comic book writers Vita Ayala (The Wilds), Chris Roberson (Hellboy & The B.P.R.D.) and Thomas Sniegoski (Young Hellboy), and award-winning cartoonist Fábio Moon (Daytripper), as well as interviews and art demonstrations with painter Jason Shawn Alexander, Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy: The Wild Hunt), Michael Avon Oeming (B.P.R.D.: The Soul Of Venice), award-winning colorist Dave Stewart and, of course, Mignola himself.
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters is being co-directed and produced by Jim Demonakos (founder, LightBox Expo and ECCC) and Kevin Hanna (Clockwork Girl), an American director noted for his work in feature film, animation, comic books, and television.
The Kickstartercampaign features tiers with the Mike Mignola: Drawing Monstersfilm digitally or on Blu-Ray, as well as a Kickstarter exclusive t-shirt, original art, a commission from Mignola himself, the opportunity to receive an executive producer credit on the film, and an incredible Hellboy Portfolio Print Set that is exclusive to the Kickstarter campaign, featuring new 9″x12″ Hellboy prints by Mignola and Dave Stewart, Laurence Campbell, Duncan Fegredo, Alex Maleev, Fábio Moon, Mike Norton, Paolo Rivera, Craig Rousseau, Tim Sale, and Ben Stenbeck. All the artists involved have previously drawn interiors for various Mignolaverse books.
Filming will continue and is scheduled to be completed in the fall/winter of 2021, with the finished film debuting by spring of 2022.
Written by TIM SEELEY Art by BRETT BOOTH Inks by ADELSO CORONA Colors by ANDREW DALHOUSE Letters by DAVE SHARPE Cover Aby DECLAN SHALVEY Cover B by DAVE JOHNSON Cover C by HANNAH TEMPLER Cover D B/W/R Variant by JONBOY MEYERS Pre-Order Edition by TIM SALE Carbon Fiber Finish Variant Editionby JONBOY MEYERS FOC on SEPTEMBER 2nd (reviews by then are greatly appreciated) $3.99 | 32 pgs. | T+ | On sale SEPTEMBER 25th
An all-new ongoing series starts here!
Bloodshot is a nanite-fueled supersoldier forever at war. What happens to the world when he starts picking his own battles?
Will this one-man army be able to end the fighting—or just leave more destruction in his wake?
Written by TIM SEELEY Art by BRETT BOOTH Inks by ADELSO CORONA Colors by ANDREW DALHOUSE Letters by DAVE SHARPE Cover Aby DECLAN SHALVEY Cover B by DAVE JOHNSON Cover C by HANNAH TEMPLER Cover D B/W/R Variant by JONBOY MEYERS Pre-Order Edition by TIM SALE Carbon Fiber Finish Variant Editionby JONBOY MEYERS FOC on SEPTEMBER 2nd (reviews by then are greatly appreciated) $3.99 | 32 pgs. | T+ | On sale SEPTEMBER 25th
An all-new ongoing series starts here!
Bloodshot is a nanite-fueled supersoldier forever at war. What happens to the world when he starts picking his own battles?
Will this one-man army be able to end the fighting—or just leave more destruction in his wake?
