The horse is out of the bag! Fred Van Lente and I are writing a new GASTON comic book series, drawn by the brilliant Milena Ciccarello! It’s gonna be GREAT, almost certainly the GREATEST COMIC BOOK EVER CREATED!
If you liked what Fred and I did with INCREDIBLE HERCULES back in the day, you’re gonna love GASTON. If you dug what we did with Sabretooth in WEAPON X, you’re gonna love GASTON.
Gotta love the big, burly buffoons!
Read more here! And check out the cover below by Will Robson!
I’m thrilled to share that I’m a member of Comix Action, a new group of NYC comics creatives coming together against authoritarianism and for community action! We organized a great Hands Off NYC zine folding event at Anyone Comics last week, and this week we’ve got an incredible event at Chinatown Soup!
Come meet comics artist Wendy Xu and friends as they decorate bags that Heart of Dinner will fill with groceries for seniors in Chinatown! Maybe even decorate a bag and write a note yourself!
Greg Pak (hey, that’s me!) and other Comix Action members will also be handing out whistles and zines to protect your neighbors from ICE as part of Hands Off NYC’s Community Weekend!
And you can partake of the soup of the day and hang out! It’ll be awesome!
Comix Action at Chinatown Soup 4-7 pm, Friday, December 12 Chinatown Soup 16B Orchard Street New York City
Hey, NYC! Come hang out with me and a bunch of cool comics creators at this awesome zine/poster event with Brooklyn Indivisible on 11/15 for Hands Off NYC‘s Day of Community Action!
We’re gonna fold zines, make posters, and SAY NO TO ICE IN OUR CITY!
Tora Nogami Alexander and David Lutken in The Porch on Windy Hill. Photo by Greg Pak.
My old friend David Lutken has co-written and is acting in a lovely play called The Porch on Windy Hill that’s now showing at Urban Stages in New York City – and I’ll be moderating a conversation after the performance this Wednesday!
More on the play:
The Porch on Windy Hill blends Appalachian, Old Time and Bluegrass songs with a deeply personal, contemporary story of discovery and reconciliation. The show follows Mira, a biracial Korean American classical violinist, and her folk-song-collector boyfriend Beckett as they escape pandemic isolation in Brooklyn and journey to the mountains of western North Carolina. When they unexpectedly reconnect with Mira’s estranged grandfather, Edgar, they uncover a tangled legacy of love, loss, and music—and discover the unforeseen harmony that can arise when generations and genres collide.
More on the talkback session:
A Conversation about Biracial Identity in America With Tora Nogami Alexander, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Greg Pak and Rebecca White of the Halfie Project (thehalfieproject.com)
Hey, friends! Big news – today’s the last day for comic book shops to pre-order RETURN TO PLANET HULK #1 and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE FALLBACKS #1, two big books I’ve written that are coming out in October. So if you’re interested, please do contact your local comics shop and ask them to pre-order these books for you! They’re both AWESOME!
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE FALLBACKS #1 is the first issue of a brand new Dark Horse Comics series written by yours truly with art by Wilton Santos, Edvan Alvens, and Raul Angulo and letters by Nate Piekos. And just check out this glorious cover by Marguerite Sauvage!
Here’s the official solicit:
In a time of fickle gods and feckless governors, the world yearns for heroes! What it gets are the Fallbacks—a party of daring, dubious, and dysfunctional adventurers who arrive in the city of Loudwater in search of gold and glory. But an encounter with kobold thieves puts the Fallbacks in the crosshairs of a rival team of deeply annoying local heroes. Will the Fallbacks pull off a heist for the ages? Or will they sacrifice it all to put these “heroes” in their place?
Comics writer and Eisner nominee Joey Esposito got a sneak peak and just posted, “it made me desperate to get back into our D&D campaign. Not just fun for D&D fans, fun for fans of good adventure stories period. Tell your retailers!!!”
Dontcha dare miss it!
RETURN TO PLANET HULK #1 is a one-shot that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original PLANET HULK storyline. (And no, I can’t believe it’s been that long, either!)
Thrillingly, we got original PLANET HULK artist Carlo Pagulayan and colorist Chris Sotomayor back on board for this story, and we tell an untold, evocative tale that slots in right after issue #95, the fourth chapter in the original saga.
And here’s a sneak preview of a little introductory text from within the book, never before seen!
The “heroes” of Earth thought the Hulk was a monster. So they sent him to Planet Sakaar, where he was enslaved, forced to fight as a gladiator, and then smashed his way to freedom.
But now the people of Sakaar may think he’s something even worse than a monster:
A hero.
Again, please do feel free to contact your local comic shop and ask them to pre-order these books! Thanks so much for your support, as always!
Hey, friends! Some friends are organizing a September 7 craft fair in Brooklyn to benefit mutual aid orgs operating in Gaza. I’ll be there with photo prints and comics. Please do feel free to swing by!
Sunday, September 7, 12-6 pm, 629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn
A friend wondered if I had a spare old digital camera. I dug up my mom’s 2004 Canon Digital IXUS 500 5.0 megapixel camera — and discovered it’s glitching in an absolutely glorious way.
I gave my friend another working camera and kept this miraculous garbage machine.
“A couple of dudes in a cool car chasing monsters, demons, and ghosts? Tongue-in-cheek but deeply-felt emotional story of sibling rivalry and family tragedy? Hugely fun, anti-authoritarian heroes and vibes? Look, I was hooked with the ghosts, but I’m all in. Fans of Supernatural know the show is a blast and it’s an enormous pleasure and privilege to be able to dig into this wild world, especially with Eder Messias. We’re going for fun and grounded, and then we’re going to absolutely cut loose when the time comes. I can’t wait to show more, and thanks so much to everyone for coming along for the ride!”
Please do ask your local comic shop to pre-order a copy for you today — first issue comes out in October!
