Diversions #4 and Guns & Rosa Special Edition On Sale Now At DriveThruComics!

 Diversions #4 and Guns & Rosa Special Edition On Sale Now At DriveThruComics for only $1.75 per .pdf copy! 

Diversions #4 is here at last!

Under the stunning Steven Butler (with colors by Mort Todd) cover you'll find awesome tales of heroism and action!

Introducing the late, great Donnie Page's U.S. FLAG and LIBERTY LAD! From the unopened files of WWII comes the story of the Starred and Striped Sentinel's battle against the evil of Von Loke and ...no, you won't believe it until you see it! Art by Donnie Page and John Gentil.

NIGHT SPIDER is on the trail of a murderous creature from your worst nightmares in "Nights of the Iguana! Part 1" with art by JW Erwin.

Plus a re-mastered look at the debut of the sci-fi Men of Mystery, MAX MIRACLE, as the meet "Liv Elaine at the Center of the Universe!" Art by Joe Koziarski!

All this and a special faux Snazzy Snak Cakes ad featuring NIGHT SPIDER illustrated by JW Erwin!

All stories written by Lloyd (The Groovy Agent) Smith!

Guns & Rosa Special Edition #1 is blasting your way!

Saddle up, Pardners! The first two GUNS & ROSA tales from Diversions issues 1 and 2 are collected for the first time. Join writer Lloyd Smith and artist Joe Koziarski as we follow the beautiful lady known only as Rosa through the Old West and straight down the Vengeance Trail! Plus a wild and wooly sci-fi Western mash-up to boot!

Merry Christmas, 2020!

 I've been waiting to spill the news about a couple fun projects I've been involved in, and it looks like now is the time! Ho, ho, hoo-ray!

Just found out that InDELLible's  All-New Popular Comics #4 is on sale at Amazon right this very moment! This album-sized, 70 page, FULL COLOR anthology features TWO stories written by yours truly and penciled by my pal, the late, great Donnie Page! First is "The Owl and the Pantherman!" This one stars the famed Public Domain creature of the night superhero at his battling best! If you dig this one, we really must take our collective hats off to inker/finisher John Gentil who literally saved this story from oblivion by inking the whole story from PHOTOGRAPHS Donnie had sent me as he drew it. Haltacolor did an amazing job enhancing Donnie and John's art with their colors and lettering. The second story in the ish, "King of the Hill" might sound familiar to those of you who grabbed a copy of Diversions #1--that's because it's the same story, except this time Mort Todd's incredible colors are in full view! Ho, ho, hoo-whooooo! You can order your copy of All-New Popular Comics #4 (aka PopCom #4) directly from Amazon by clicking right here!

Art by Donnie Page and John Gentile/colors and lettering by Haltacolor

Oh, and the fine folks at InDELLible have issue #5 of PopCom almost completed--and I have a story in there, too, illustrated by the sure-to-be-artistic-superstar--Truman Vasco! It's another classic Public Domain character, The Voice in "Lucky Dog!"

And speaking of classic, public domain heroes, I did a brand new Green Mask tale for my pal Mark Davis' Golden Era #2! Once again, I was fortunate to be paired with another uber-talented buddy on the art-end, David Johnson Jr.! Ho, ho, hoo-hah! It's on sale NOW at IndyPlanet! Click here and get your copy!

Cover art by Ken Johnston

Oh, and don't let all of that make you think for uno momento that things are slowing down on Diversions! Here's a taste of ish #4...

Cover art by Steven Butler and Mort Todd

Night Spider art by JW Erwin

U.S. Flag art by Donnie Page and John Gentil

Ho, ho, have a holly, jolly Christmas, everyone!

New Diversions and InDELLible!

Hey, I'm back with another update! 

First off, I sent Diversions #3 to Ka-Blam! for printing, so it should go up for sale on IndyPlanet some time in October (I hope). I'll be uploading it to DriveThru Comics around the time it goes live on IndyPlanet. I'm very proud of our first theme issue, "Crime Busters!" Brand new tales of Night Spider (art by JW Erwin) and Midnight Stranger (art by Joe Koz), plus an edited/corrected reprinting of Black Rose. 

And over at InDELLible, I have two  stories, both drawn by my late friend Donnie Page coming out in All New Popular Comics #5, which should go on sale in the next few weeks on Amazon. The "King of the Hill" story from Diversions #1 will be published in full color (inks by Ken McFarlane; lettering and color supplied by Mort Todd) in that issue, and a 12 page Owl story we worked on will debut in the issue. It will be in color as well. (Inks by John Gentil, lettering and colors by Kevin Scott Halter.)

I'll keep you posted on the "when" for both these books as soon as I get concrete info. 

Pax!

A Great, Big Update!

Oh, my goodness, I can't believe I have let this blog languish for so long! I've noticed some interest with all the new folks asking to join the Writer of Comics Face Book page and keep thinking I need to do a new post, but then I get (easily) sidetracked and time slips away. Well, here I am with a huge update. Hopefully the first of many more regular posts. ONWARD!

Updates of my newest work in print/digital, Publisher by Publisher: 

Blue Moon Comics

The first two issues of Diversions and Ash-Aman Special Edition #1 are out and ready for your reading pleasure! Issue #1 is available via ComiXology, IndyPlanet, and DriveThru Comics; issue #2 can be gotten via IndyPlanet and DriveThru! I am so very proud of how these books turned out. The artists, JW Erwin, Joe Koziarski, the late Donnie Page, Ian Groff, Greg Rieves, and Russ Martin have given their all--and the amount of talent their "all" is capable of demonstrating just floors me! Hope you dig 'em as much as I do! Visit our Facebook Page, @bluemooncomicsgroup,  for quick updates!

Warrant Publishing Company

I recently had a story published in The Creeps Magazine. I was thrilled to get a sci-fi-centric tale in that awesome mag--and doubly thrilled that it appeared in their 25th anniversary issue! And to top it all off, the story is magnificently illustrated by Martin Peniche! Looks like it's straight out of a 1970s ish of Creepy or Eerie, doesn't it? 

 

Surprising Comics

The sixth issue of Unbeatable Brick was recently released from Surprising Comics (via Lucky Comics), and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Joshua 1:9 Holley KILLED it with the art, and Anna Holley rocked the COLOR! Yeah, it's in color! Check it out!

A-a-a-and Josh is working on a brand new Kragor tale for Diversions! I'll let you know when to expect it!

InDELLible Comics

And last (but not least), I'll have stories in the next TWO issues of InDELLible's All New Popular Comics (issues 4 & 5)! Issue #4 will feature two of my collaborations with my late, lamented friend Donnie Page ("King of the Hill"--in color! and a 12 page Owl story painstakingly inked from photographs of Donnie's pencils  by artist John Gentil, with colors by Haltacolor Art.

 

All New Popular Comics #5 will have a story I wrote three years ago starring The Voice! I've never been happier to wait three years to find an artist, because when you see the art (and lettering and coloring) of Truman Vasco, you're eyes are gonna POP! Stay tuned and I'll share some samples when I get the "go ahead" from InDELLible!

Try my comics! Please? And make sure to visit Blue Moon Comics' website, as well as our Face Book pages to stay up to date on all the comix I'm working on! Lots more to come!

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!

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!