Joeseph Simon Talks to Lloyd Smith About Ash-Aman and Kragor!

 Check out this interview Joeseph Simon did with Lloyd Smith about Ash-Aman and Kragor for First Comics News, "Getting Barbaric with Kragor the Savage and Ash Aman Creator Lloyd Smith"! We'd like to thank Joeseph and First Comics News for the opportunity!

Diversions #3 On Sale NOW on IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics!

 It's here at last! 

And remember, Blue Moon Comics make superior stocking-stuffers!

Back to Publishing!

That's right! It was bound to happen! I'll be self-publishing Blue Moon Comics again beginning in early 2020! Our flagship  title will be a b&w anthology called Diversions! More info to come, meantime check out our (still under construction) website: https://www.bluemooncomics.org/

Unbeatable Brick #4 Is On Sale NOW!

That's right! Unbeatable Brick #4, with amazing art by Dy-no-mite Donnie Page is available in .pdf  format via Drivethru Comics! It's our Malleable Master of Molecules doing his action-packed thing against the monumental menace of...Volcanus, the Mountain That Walked Like a Man!

A Brick, a Miracle, and a Paragon--all for you!

I've been away from this blog for a little while, but it's because I've been working! Besides writing, I'm lettering the books I do. It's a lot of work and a lot of learning, but I love it! But that's not what you're here for, is it? Check out the comics I've had the pleasure to write and (sometimes) letter...

Max Miracle has made his debut in Fun Adventure Comics #14 from Will Lill Comics. I wrote it, the magnificent Joe Koziarski (Joe Koz) illustrated it, and publisher Warren Montgomery lettered it and did the cover. If you like sci-fi super-heroics, you're gonna dig Max!

Unbeatable Brick #3 is also on sale from Surprising/Lucky Comics! JW Erwin plotted and did the art on this powerful mini-epic. Brick has to break free from the clutches of the Iron Baron and... Elektrisch!

Blue Moon Spotlight #2 just went on sale, too! This one features art by Jesse Landrum of Space Pilot fame. It's a blend of Twilight Zone and Adventures of Superman featuring "Paragon...Earthman!" The stunning cover is by JW Erwin!

Coming soon to Blue Moon Spotlight: Kragor! Night Spider! Guns & Rosa! And I just picked up a new title to write for Lucky Comics. Ever heard of this guy?

Onward!

Blue Moon Has Risen and Brick Is Still Unbeatable!

I'm back with more comicbook-writing news, my fellow comicbook fiends!

First off, thanks to Will Lill Comics for publishing my short horror story "Doomshadow" in Fun Adventure Comics! #11. Ian Groff knocked it out of the park with his art on this Warren-magazine-inspired short shocker. And a very special thanks to Michael Housel for his most righteous review of that said mag on his bodacious blog Bizarre Chats! Order your copy of FAC #11 here!

Next, the first two issues of Unbeatable Brick are on sale now! Created by Mark F. Davis, Published by John Helmer/Lucky Comics (under the Surprising Comics imprint), written by me, and dynamically drawn by David Johnson Jr. (ish #1) and JW Erwin (ish #2), with the remarkable JW providing covers for both issues. Unbeatable Brick is your favorite new super-hero. You just don't know it yet! If ya don't believe me, just ask Michael Housel (who has the best taste in comics I've ever seen!)--or just read his review on the great Bizarre Chats blog! You can order your own copies of #1 here and #2 here!

The biggest news, though, is...BLUE MOON COMICS IS BACK! Blue Moon Spotlight #1 features a revised version of the ORIGIN of Midnight Stranger, baby! Brand new cover by MS artist supreme Joe Koziarski! It's on sale NOW, and you can get all the info (and a sneak preview) by heading for the Blue Moon Spotlight blog--or you can just take the plunge and order your copy via DriveThruComics right now!

Lest you think that mini-avalanche of comics is all that's going on, check out these sneak-peeks of upcoming Unbeatable Brick and Blue Moon Spotlight wonderment!

Unbeatable Brick #3 cover art by JW Erwin

Unbeatable Brick #4 cover by Donnie Page and Michael Brewer

Max Miracle cover rough by Joe Koziarski

Future Blue Moon Spotlight cover by Joe Koziarski

The Holidays are just gearing up and so are Lucky/Surprising/Blue Moon! Stay tuned! The best is yet to come!

July's Almost Gone, August Is Almost Here, and The Brick Is Still Unbeatable!

Ya didn't think I'd let July slip away without an update, did ya? Yeah, I wasn't so sure either. It's not because things aren't hopping in my little corner of the comicbook world, though. Actually, it's because things are hopping in my little corner of the comicbook world (oh, plus the real-life addition of a brand new gorgeous granddaughter, Joanna Bethany Smith) that I'm so long in posting. Makes you kind of curious about what's happening, huh? Then, read on, Macduff!

Ash-Aman chapter three will appear in Will Lill Comics' Fun Adventure Comics! #9! That magnificent mag will be out around August 15, so don'tcha miss it! Here's the cover for the ish, as well as the superior splash page by the oh-so-talented Russ Martin...

The big news from Surprising Comics, publisher of Surprising Universe, former home of Unbeatable Brick, is that it's now an imprint of Lucky Comics (Beetle Girl et al)! Notice I said that Surprising Universe is the "former home" of Unbeatable Brick? Well, shed no tears! Now that Lucky is publishing the Mark Davis' Surprising heroes, Unbeatable Brick (as well as Skyscraper and Depthon) will be getting their own 8 page b&w mags in the tradition of the Lucky line of comics! That means that, any day now, you'll be able to get your hands (or digits, if you prefer .pdf) on your very own copy of Unbeatable Brick #1! That's right, the origin of Unbeatable Brick from the super-rare Surprising Universe number one-and-only (with awesome art by David Johnson Jr.) will be reprinted in ish #1, then brand new stories, written by yours truly and illustrated by  artists like Donnie Page, JW Erwin, Joe Graves, and more, will come your way starting in ish number two! Dig the covers (yep, Lucky does variants!) to ish #1 by JW Erwin and David Johnson Jr.!

Speaking of Dy-no-mite Donnie Page, he and I have been working on a few more projects that are gonna knock you out! One featuring the public domain hero The Owl...

And, as mentioned above, a brand new Unbeatable Brick tale! Check out this splash (literally, it's a splash!)…

Finally, Lucky Comics publisher John Helmer has made me a very tempting offer to bring my old company, Blue Moon Comics, out of retirement as a Lucky Comics imprint. Is it time for the Blue Moon to rise again? We're gonna test the waters with a rarely-seen Blue Moon superhero called The Luminary. If you like it, there could be more to come. Stay tuned!

Luminary promo art by Eric Douthitt

Ash-Aman Is HERE!

Fun Adventure Comics! #7 (from Will Lill Comics, natch) officially went on sale yesterday via Will Lill's shop, comiXology, Amazon Kindle, DriveThru Comics, IndyPlanet, and probably some more places I don't even know about. Whether you like your comics in print, .pdf, or in the handy comiXology readery, Warren at Will Lill has got ya covered! Not only do you get to groove to the amazing artistry of Russ Martin on Ash-Aman, but you get cool stories by guys like Ron Fortier, Jesus Marquez, Todd Jones, Bill Thompson, Rodney Lockett, Joe DeSantos, and more!

Don't forget the upcoming Donnie's Pages benefit book to help the marvelous Donnie Page out with his medical expenses as he battles cancer. Here's another peek at Donnie's creations U.S. Flag and Liberty Lad...

While you're waiting for Donnie's Pages, why not contribute to Donnie's FaceBook fundraiser page?

Oh, and here are a couple sneak peeks at upcoming covers for Surprising Comics' Unbeatable Brick! The first is by JW. Erwin (with colors by Rob Shalda) and the second is by Josh Holley! Man, Brick is lookin' great, ain't he?

That's it for now! Next time, I hope to have more on Night Spider, Max Miracle, Guns & Rosa, and a few other surprises. Until then, be on the lookout for Fun Adventure Comics #8 (on sale in July) which will feature part two of the Ash-Aman saga..."Chaos!" Here's Barry McClain Jr.'s cool Brother Bones cover...

...and here's the scrumptious Ash-Aman splash by Russ Martin!

Happy New Year! 2018 Is Gonna Rock!

Happy Holidays, everyone! Yeah, I slipped up and haven't filled you in on what's going on in the comicbook writer part of my life for a while--well, ever take that to mean that nothing's going on. Nossiree, that usually means that I'm busy as a bee! Busy doing what? I'm so glad you asked...

I've written an article on Neal Adams' Batman for Fanscene's 50th Anniversary Celebration of 50 Years of Comic Fandom in Ireland and the UK! Yeah, what's a Yank like yers trooly doing in there? They (Steve Poulacheris and publisher/editor David Hathaway-Price) asked me! Do you think I'd say "no" to getting to be part of a publication with articles by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and dozens of titans of fandom? I'll update this post when the e-zine is posted (I understand it'll be available as a pdf as well). It's actually due to be released sometime tomorrow, so I'll updated as quickly as I can. Here's the cover and a teaser image from my article (which, as you can see, starts on page 501)!

Yeah, I know you know I write about comics, but you're here to read about the comics I write, right? Okay, how about a sneak peek of "High Moon" from the soon to be released The Creeps #13?

I have more Unbeatable Brick news! Seems a few exceptional artists have taken a shine to our pliable pal, so I'm in the process of writing three more Unbeatable Brick eight pagers (which will bring us up to a total of six UB stories--and counting). A self-contained smash-em-up, "The Madness of Polarr!" to be illustrated by Josh Holley (here's Josh's take on UB and Polarr)...

And JW Erwin is doing a two-parter featuring giant robots, the evil of the Iron Baron, and his secret evil society, SPEER, and introducing ElecTrish--who's really gonna shock ya (and UB, too)!

Unbeatable Brick is poised to take over the world--and hardly anyone knows it yet! In fact, Surprising Comics publisher Mark Davis is toying with giving UB his own regular mag. Stay tuned!


Meantime, Russ Martin is still producing jaw-dropping art for our upcoming Ash-Aman mini-series planned for next year. Just dig this cover...

Joe Koziarski is knocking me out with his Guns & Rosa pages (for Charlton Neo)...

Aaaand, Will Lill publisher Warren Montgomery is releasing the third Monty's World tpb in February, which will reprint the first FIVE ISSUES of Fun Adventure Comics! That means all the Midnight Stranger stories, Kragor, Alex Miracle, Black Rose, and "Snake Eyes" (plus all the cool stuff from the other FAC! writers and artists) in one gi-normous book! You can pre-order it right now from Amazon, Books-A-Million, Barnes & Noble, and more!

And yep, "King of the Hill" is on the way from Charlton Neo (editor Mort Todd is lettering it now); Joe Graves' two-part Unbeatable Brick tale (featuring the villainy of the Deadly Duo) is coming soon (part one is about ready to be lettered, part two is being laid out), Fantastic Giants by me, Steven Butler, and Mort Todd is still in the works, and I have more Kragor stories that need artists!

There's also a possibility that my "creature of the night" super-hero Night Spider (formerly Black Spider) just might be swinging your way in 2018!

Stay safe--and stay tuned!

On Sale Now!

Check it out! Three comics with my stories in 'em are on sale right now, with more on the way!
From Will Lill Comics (available in print via IndyPlanet, and digitally via DriveThru) come issues 3 and 4 of Fun Adventure Comics! Midnight Stranger leads off issue #3, while Kragor and Black Rose fill the back 2/3 of ish 4! Art by Joe Koziarski, Louis Sollune (aka JP Dupras), and David Vance!

(And just 'cause I love ya, here's taste of my story in FAC! #5 on sale soon: "Snake Eyes" with art by Ben Ferrari...)

Also, Surprising Universe #1 is now on sale! Only 200 copies in print, available directly from publisher Mark F. Davis ($7.50 post paid via PayPal at markfdavis1@yahoo.com)! I love writing Unbeatable Brick (the big red guy on the cover), and I hope you enjoy his origin story!

 Stay tuned! Lots more stuff is in the works!

Kragor, Ash-Aman, and G.R.U.N.T.! Oh, My!

What's up, y'all! I've almost let June slip by without a post on what's going on in my little corner of the comicbook world! Letting a month go by without mentioning what's going on would make it seem like...nothing's going on! (That made sense in my head...) Ahem. Stuff is going on! Here it is:

Midnight Stranger in Fun Adventure Comics #3, and that magnificent mag is available digitally right now via DriveThruComics! It'll soon be available through comiXology and in print through IndyPlanet, too! And very soon, FAC #4 will be out with a classic Kragor story, so thank's Warren Montgomery and Will Lill Comics for making summertime Fun Adventure Comics time!

Speaking of Kragor, Incredible Ian Groff has completed the pencils for a brand new Kragor tale, "The Ballad of Setoora!" Here's a little teaser of a page for you to drool over...

Remarkable Russ Martin has completed the pencils for the first chapter of Ash-Aman's origin and is now inking away! Prepare to have your mind blown by this gorgeous splash page...

Wondrous Wes Wedman has teamed up with yours truly to create a brand new hero called G.R.U.N.T.! What is G.R.U.N.T.? He's a soldier...he's a zombie...he's a man who's been "Genetically Re-engineered with Ultimate Nano Technology"...and he's gonna knock your socks off!

Oh, yeah, more big news: I'm going to be contributing a brand new/retro feature to a future issue of InDELLible's All-New Popular Comics! We're doing an old-school story featuring an old-school character called...The Voice!

And, as always, I'm still looking for an artist for my western Guns & Rosa. I also have a few 5-6 page one-off sci-fi and horror comics if any artistic type out there is interested in just a fun little diversion...and I have some cool new super-hero ideas as well! If you're an artist who loves to draw good, old-fashioned comics with a twist, send samples to: thegroovyagent@yahoo.com ! Pax!!