Powers Supergroup on tv, Tits & clits in the news and Batman funding a graphic novel

Page 50 of Tomb of the Undead is available. The first page of the new scene called Trapped on an airplane, which you can read here.


I was really starting to get the hang of the inside of this airplane, and the light source. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I may have mentioned this before, and you can't really tell in these scenes, but I've got a few Easter eggs kicking around in the other seats on the plane. You definitely can't see them in this scene, but follow the link and see what you find!

For the record, you won't find the Easter eggs in this scene, I must admit.

We took a flight to Mexico for my dad's birthday and I made a point to pay special attention to airports and airplanes, things like that, knowing full well that I was going to be working on these scenes.

Graphic novel news

Michael Zulli Will Even Draw Batman To Fund New Graphic Novel, The Fracture Of The Universal Boy
bleedingcool.com
Rich Johnston

This is a Michael Zulli portrait of Batman.

I love Michael Zulli’s work. From Puma Blues to Sandman to that little Sweeney Todd prelude to a comic that never was. You’d have thought publishers would be falling over themselves to support his latest work. And his new work has been solicited and promised before. But it looks like it has hit a speed bump or two.

But instead he’s turned to Kickstarter.

The Fracture Of The Universal Boy is an original 200 page graphic novel by the man. And it is complete. All it needs is to be published. And Zulli is raising money for a print run.

As always there are various levels of donation and $45 gets you a signed copy of the graphic novel, a Fracture print and your name in the book. Penny for penny, that is fantastic value, which is why I’m just about to donate myself.

And for $2500, as he states, “To get this published, I’ll even draw Batman!”

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Joyce Farmer on Tits & Clits, Special Exit, and How to Write a Graphic Novel
Phoenix New Times
Claire Lawton

Joyce Farmer's more than happy to dish on what she used to create her graphic novel, Special Exits, she even pull out her bright blue mechanical pencil without an eraser and a worn and tattered grip.

The California-based artist and writer's known for her openness both in person and through her projects; she co-created Tits & Clits, an underground comic series to counter sexism in 1975, and just released Special Exits, a graphic novel about aging.

Farmer's also an old friend of New Times' art critic Kathleen Vanesian. The two discuss each others' influences (including each other) and the changing world of graphics in Special Entrances, which you can read in full here.

Farmer will present her novel and discuss "anything and everything" at 7 p.m. tonight at Changing Hands in Tempe. The event is co-sponsored by ASU Art Museum and local artist Jon Haddock will be leading a Q&A with the author. For more event info, see the Changing Hands website.

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FX Picks Up Comic-Based 'Powers' To Pilot
NELLIE ANDREEVA
Deadline.com

After lengthy development, FX has handed a pilot order to Powers, a drama based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The project, written by Charles H. Eglee and to be directed by Michael Dinner, is a police procedural set in a world where superpowers are relatively common and centers on two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, in a Homicide department that deals with cases involving "powers" (people with superpowers). Powers, from Sony Pictures TV and FX Prods., is slated to begin casting immediately for a spring shoot.

Dinner, who is under an overall deal at Sony, has been the driving force between the project. Eglee came on board to write a new script late last year, after a stint as an executive producer on a very successful cable series adaptation of another graphic novel, AMC's The Walking Dead. (Journeyman creator Kevin Falls was previously tapped to write the script.) In another Walking Dead connection, the company behind the AMC hit, Circle of Confusion, is attached to executive produce Powers alongside Dinner and Eglee.

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