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comicsalliance: Dark Horse Presents New Fraction, Vacchs And ‘Buffy’ In Milestone 25th Issue [Extended Preview] By Andy Khouri A nominee for this year’s Eisner Award for Best Anthology (and last year’s winner), Dark Horse Presents has been one of ComicsAlliance’s favorite titles since it was relaunched in 2011 to continue the classic and influential series’ tradition of showcasing emerging talent alongside some of the best established writers, artists and cartoonists mainstream and underground comics has to offer. Each issue comes with quirky, undiluted excursions into the minds of uniquely talented creators, usually with immersive new serials or idiosyncratic short stories but also in the form of recurring, cult favorite characters and properties for which Dark Horse has served as caretaker for many years.On sale this week is the 25th issue of DHP, which the publisher has stuffed with 80 pages of new material including the first Dark Horse work by Matt Fraction, who offers a trippy time-travel story with mind-bending artwork by Christian Ward. DHP #25 also features the start of a new Buffy The Vampire Slayer serial by longtime Buffy writer Jane Espenson and artists Karl Moline & Andy Owens; and “Underground,” a violent new serial conceived by authorAndrew Vachss. And of course new episodes of Fred Van Lente and Freddie Williams II’s sixties superhero revival“Brain Boy”; Ron Randall’s cyberpunk “Trekker,” Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s political space opera “Nexus”; Dan Jolley and Leonard Kirk’s resurrected DC project “Bloodhound”; and more.Dark Horse Presents #25 goes on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, June 19), but below you’ll get an extended preview of the auspicious issue that includes never-before-seen pages. Check out the preview on ComicsAlliance! Hey, uh, no joke, but that my name is on a book alongside Jane Espenson’s and Andrew Vachss and Baron and Rude and and and and, and that little Horsey head, is kind of a big deal for me. Anyway I hope you dig the story. Christian Ward is a mad genius and I look forward to working with him to add permanent creases in the spacetime continuum in what you humans call “the foochur”

comicsalliance:

Dark Horse Presents New Fraction, Vacchs And ‘Buffy’ In Milestone 25th Issue [Extended Preview]

By Andy Khouri

A nominee for this year’s Eisner Award for Best Anthology (and last year’s winner), Dark Horse Presents has been one of ComicsAlliance’s favorite titles since it was relaunched in 2011 to continue the classic and influential series’ tradition of showcasing emerging talent alongside some of the best established writers, artists and cartoonists mainstream and underground comics has to offer. Each issue comes with quirky, undiluted excursions into the minds of uniquely talented creators, usually with immersive new serials or idiosyncratic short stories but also in the form of recurring, cult favorite characters and properties for which Dark Horse has served as caretaker for many years.

On sale this week is the 25th issue of DHP, which the publisher has stuffed with 80 pages of new material including the first Dark Horse work by Matt Fraction, who offers a trippy time-travel story with mind-bending artwork by Christian Ward. DHP #25 also features the start of a new Buffy The Vampire Slayer serial by longtime Buffy writer Jane Espenson and artists Karl Moline & Andy Owens; and “Underground,” a violent new serial conceived by authorAndrew Vachss. And of course new episodes of Fred Van Lente and Freddie Williams II’s sixties superhero revival“Brain Boy”; Ron Randall’s cyberpunk “Trekker,” Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s political space opera “Nexus”; Dan Jolley and Leonard Kirk’s resurrected DC project “Bloodhound”; and more.

Dark Horse Presents #25 goes on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, June 19), but below you’ll get an extended preview of the auspicious issue that includes never-before-seen pages.

Check out the preview on ComicsAlliance!

Hey, uh, no joke, but that my name is on a book alongside Jane Espenson’s and Andrew Vachss and Baron and Rude and and and and, and that little Horsey head, is kind of a big deal for me.

Anyway I hope you dig the story. Christian Ward is a mad genius and I look forward to working with him to add permanent creases in the spacetime continuum in what you humans call “the foochur”

Reblogged from ComicsAlliance

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Registration closing for Graphic Novel Intensive

Every professional cartoonist’s career path is a little bit different, but all would agree that there is a distinct set of skills and disciplines necessary in order to make their aspirations a reality. Join Brett Warnock (Publisher, Top Shelf Comics) and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (artist/writer of To Teach, in-house illustrator for Dave’s Killer Bread) for a 3-day intensive that examines what it takes to make it in the world of comics. Whether you’re interested in self-publishing original narratives or doing collaborative work-for-hire, this intensive will help you build a reliable blueprint for moving forward in your career. Topics include professional networking and representation, digital file preparation for print and the web, dealing with contracts and developing practical applications for your skills as a cartoonist.

Registration closes June 20.

Prerequisite: none.

Ryan Alexander-Tanner is a Xeric Award winning cartoonist and illustrator. He was the co-author and illustrator of To Teach: the Journey, in Comics for Columbia University’s Teacher’s College Press. Ryan holds a BFA in Intermedia Arts fromPNCA.

Brett Warnock is a native of Portland, Oregon, and has a profound appreciation of storytelling in any medium, particularly comics and film. He received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Oregon. Brett has been publisher and art director of Top Shelf Productions since 1997.

Guest presenters include Matt Bors (Pulitzer-Prize nominated Political Cartoonist), Kelly Sue Deconnick (Captain Marvel, Avengers), Matt Fraction (Iron Man, Casanova), Jöelle Jones (Helheim, Spell Checkers) and Katie Lane (Copyright Lawyer).

FEES

Tuition: $250.00 + Dept/Lab Fee: $95.00 
Add CE Certificate: + $60.00

INSTRUCTOR

Ryan Alexander-Tanner

SCHEDULE

Jun 21, 2013 - Jun 23, 2013
10:00 am - 4:30 pm

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