Saturday May 12 is the 3rd Annual Bronx Hero Con

I've been attending the Bronx Hero Con since it’s inception in 2010. I’ll be attending again this year. Here are a couple of video clips from past years. The first clip is from the ’10 show I show up at around the 2:40 mark with Mark Mazz of Atlas Unleashed comics.



This second clip is from the 2011 show where I was interview once again with my good pal, Ed Traquino:



The Bronx Hero Con is the brainchild of Ray Felix who is truly one heck of a guy.

Another Month for Belkis

Yep, it is now September, and that means yet another page on my NovaStar Studios, Fantasy Art Calendar (featuring Belkis), you can contact James Rodriguez (who put the whole thing together) over at his site, and while you are there, ask him about his up-coming sci-fi comicbook. You can even stop by and see him at the upcoming Wizard World/Big Apple con this October.

Any way, this month’s featured artist is my good pal, Ed Traquino. In spite of his British upbringing, Ed is actually a very talented guy. He is a muchly-published graphic artist who has been allowed to remain in “The Colonies” while he toils away in near obscurity in the Bronx, hoping against hope that the INS doesn’t locate him. A superb draftsman he has the passion and enthusiasm for visual narrative, especially comics. Currently he has brought his immensely diverse background in the London comic art scene (where he contributed to several publishers) to his new position as the Production Manager for Guild Works Productions. Here in the States Ed has not only self-published, but has contributed extensively to GWP’s flagship title Psychosis! as both an artist and a letterer. For his film work he is represented by Famous Frames. You can find out more by visiting his (recently updated) website.

Indie comics everywhere you look!

A while back I brought your collective attentions to the most-excellent work of my good buddy Carl Herring, Jr. and his very enjoyable comic The Enforcers. Well, Wouldn’t you know it but Carl has brought out a sequel in the form of Crime Wave. A shoot-em-up cop story. I have to tell you that I am totally jealous of Carl, as not only has he produced a very readable crime comic, but he has managed to attract some extremely talented people to illustrate it for him. (including a Norm Breyfogle cover, Scott Ambruson, Chris Torres, and Ed Traquino on the interior art).

I’m telling you that this stuff is fun as it tells us the stories of a group of cops as they do the job for which they are paid. This issue contains three stories, giving us a fairly decent range of stories and characterization. I especially love, Safe House, but I’ll admit that I’m biased towards the fabulous painted work of my pal Chris Torres (who wonderfully rendered my own Agent Unknown story about Springload & Renegade in CAG #7, and is — as I understand it — currently working on the follow-up S&L story which is slated to appear under the newly-formed Atlas Unleashed logo).

But this review is about Carl’s comic, not mine, and from the look of things, Carl is going to have some more very interesting product coming out in the coming months. Personally, I can hardly wait.

As long as I’m talking about friends of mine, and promorting their comics, I figure I’ll give mention to The other Son by Trevor Saxon and my pal Paul London. Paul passed this over to me at the NYC Comic Con and the full-sized promo comic delivers some very detailed pencils of the upcoming comic. Delivering on some religious themes this story relates the tale of angels and demons as they struggle with their other-worldly heritage. The comic offers us a brief glimpse of the story itself along with several pages of character illustrations and bios.

From what I saw in this comic it looks very interesting, and leaves me wanting more. So Paul, when do we get to see the rest?

Dilbert Rules

As a certifiable geek-ball and funnybook fan I obviously love the comic strip Dilbert. I think that this is one of the funniest strips out there. In fact, I enjoy this strip so much, every year, for Christmas, my wife purchases me a gag-a-day, Dilbert desk calendar. Well, I recently came across these two strips which totally cracked me up, because a good friend of mine (Ed Traquino by name) is, well a Limy and I thought of him when I read this (Oh yea, Ed, like me is a member of CAG).





These are for you Ol’ Son! Enjoy!

Wülves are at our Doors!

That’s right buoys and gulls, it is getting a tad bit dangerous out there again. Just in time for ComicCon NY, my publisher of choice, Guild Works Production, is getting set to release Psychosis! #3. This cover is painted by my good buddy Ed Traquino (who will probably be packed up and shipped back to Britain when the INS learns that he is still in the country).

Personally, I think that this is some of Ed’s best work.

Oh yeah, I also have a short story in this issue. A little thriller I’m calling, Into the Wood, which is the follow-up to my Wülf Girlz story from issue #1.

As stated, the comic will be on sale at the NY ComicCon, and thereafter from places like MidTown Comics in NYC. You could also probably contact me directly here and I could arrange for you to receive a copy (for a small renumeration and a hefty postage and handling fee, of course). I understand that there will be a second (flip) cover to Psychosis! #3. I haven’t seen that cover yet, but when I do, you can be assured that I’ll post it here in this space. So keep watching.

Oh yeah, before I forget, on a related matter, there is a war brewing in the indie comics, well, no, not a real war, but a war among the various characters in the marketplace. That’s right from the twisted mind mind of artist and scripter Dave Ryan, along with inker Peter Palmiotti, and a helping hand from Richard Kane Ferguson on layouts and plotting, comes the War of the Independents. I mention this because the Wülf Grilz are playing a small role in this six-part series from Red Anvil. A new-found friend of mine, Joe Martino, also has a hand in this, and is producing a tie-in comic co-staring his character, Shadowflame.

More news as it develops.