Big news! I’ll be signing “The Totally Awesome Hulk” #1 and “The Princess Who Saved Herself” at the Dragon’s Lair in Austin, Texas from 12-6 pm, December 5, with the great Marjorie Liu, writer of “Monstress.”
Here’s the address:
Dragon’s Lair Comics and Fantasy
2438 West Anderson Lane
Austin, TX, 78757
Come see, come see! More details here.
Hey, hey! Comixology is having a huge digital sale of INCREDIBLE HERCULES comics starring Herc and Amadeus Cho, written by me and Fred Van Lente, and drawn by a slew of amazing artists, including Khoi Pham, Rafa Sandoval, Reilly Brown, Neil Edwards, and Clayton Henry. Check it out!
Also worth noting — the series actually launched with INCREDIBLE HULK #112, which isn’t part of the sale, but which can be grabbed here.
Just noticed that Amazon is selling WORLD WAR HULK for just $2.99 for the Kindle. That’s 88% off list!
No idea how long this will last, so jump on it fast!
Paul Gullas has posted a great write up of last Friday’s standing-room-only NYCC Asian American Comics and Creators panel, which was moderated by yours truly and featured Marjorie Liu, Larry Hama, Amy Chu, Janice Chiang, Wendy Xu, and Ethan Young. Here’s an excerpt:
Pak said that he sometimes grappled with whether to use things that could be considered stereotypes in his writing. He said that while he loves Chow Yun-Fat and Jet Li movies, he’s never written an Asian martial arts story because he doesn’t want to feed that trope. “But at the same time, am I foolishly cutting myself off from something I love as a result?“ He asked the other panelists about their thoughts.
Amy Chu said that she is grappling with it right now, with a series that she has been considering writing. She brought up the Strange Fruit controversy, and said that there could be a chance of this story being misinterpreted or coming off wrong. She wants to do the story, but on the other hand, there are so many bad depictions of that culture, and does she, as an Asian-American, want to do that? She also doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as “the Asian doing the Asian stories”.
Liu said that she has almost developed an allergic reaction to certain representations of Asians in media. “There’s always the Chinatown episode. There’s always the Yakuza episode. There’s always the ‘abused, beaten Chinese woman terrorized by the Chinese man’ episode.”
Today’s the day for BATMAN/SUPERMAN #25, written by yours truly with art by Cliff Richards. Superman takes on Vandal Savage! Batgirl in the house! The beginning of the massive climax of the SUPERMAN TRUTH storyline!
This is a trip — CBR reports that Amadeus Cho, aka the Totally Awesome Hulk, will appear in the “Marvel Puzzle Quest” video game!
I’m writing the Totally Awesome Hulk comic book, drawn by Frank Cho with art by Sonia Oback, that debuts on December 2. Pretty wild, huh?
ACTION COMICS #45, written by Aaron Kuder and yours truly with art by Scott Kolins and colors by Tomeu Morey hits stores today!
Check out the preview here and ask your local comics shop to hold a copy for you!
Yep, I’m going to be at the New York Comic Con half of the day on Thursday and all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! See below for my schedule — and see you soon!
An extra special bonus is that I’ll be in Artists Alley, table W17, between my frequent artist collaborators Mirko Colak (KINGSWAY WEST, TUROK, and RED SKULL INCARNATE) and Aaron Kuder (ACTION COMICS)! Come see us all!
And yes, I’ll have copies of THE PRINCESS WHO SAVED HERSELF and CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD for sale.
Thursday
10 am – 12 noon – Artists Alley table W17
12:15 – 1:15 pm – Dark Horse Creators: Crafting the Original Story – 1A18
Friday
10:45 am – 12 noon – Artists Alley table W17
1:45 – 2:45 pm – MARVEL: Iron Man and the Avengers – 1A06
3:00 – 4:00 pm – Asian American Comics and Creators – 1A05
4:30 – 8:00 pm – Artists Alley table W17
Saturday
10 am – 12 noon – Artists Alley table W17
12:15 – 1:15 – DC Comics – Heroes to the Core – 1A06
2:00 – 8:00 pm – Artists Alley table W17
Sunday
10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Artists Alley table W17
I’m signing today from 6-8 pm at Mission: Comics and Art in San Francisco! Come see, come see!
If this kind of info is helpful to you, please feel free to check out my Patreon, which is packed with practical articles about the craft of comics writing!
From time to time, folks have asked me for a format template for writing a comic book script. I finally took a few minutes to prep one — so download the MS Word template here!
This is the format I use every day, a variation of the version the great Fred Van Lente introduced me to when we were co-writing Incredible Hercules back in the day. It’s a simple MS Word document with two custom formats — ACTION and DIALOGUE. The dialogue in the script is formatted using the “DIALOGUE” format, shockingly enough. Everything else is formatted using “ACTION.”
I wrote up some thoughts and examples of other formatting things I do in the body of the template.
Hope it’s helpful, and all the best! And for an another example of a great template, please feel free to check out Fred’s original version here!
And while you’re at it, please do consider picking up MAKE COMICS LIKE THE PROS, the how-to book written by yours truly and Fred Van Lente with illustrations by the great, Eisner-award winning cartoonist Colleen Coover.
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