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!

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!

Where Does the Time Go?

Oops! Didn't mean to let this much time pass between posts! Let's get right to the good stuff...

The finale of Ash-Aman's origin (brilliantly illustrated by Russ Martin)  was published in Fun Adventure Comics! #10...

And the just-released Fun Adventure Comics! #11 brings us my short shocker "Doomshadow" with awesome art by "Eerie" Ian Groff!

But that's not all...Blue Moon is coming back, and Lucky Comics is publishing it! More news about Blue Moon Spotlight coming very, very soon! Stay tuned!

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!

Summer Is Heating Up!

It's new update time! Are...you...ready...?

First up, did you catch Will Lill's Free Comic Book Day preview of Ash-Aman in the FCBD Fun Adventure Comics! 2018 edition? If not, get thee to DriveThru Comics and download it now! (Sports and exclusive cover by the incredible Russ Martin, don'tcha know!)

Ash-Aman's official debut is only a few weeks away in Fun Adventure Comics! #7, and honest to Irving, you don't wanna miss it! It's the most truly 1970s-style cosmic I've had worked on yet, and Russ' art and co-plotting is gonna blow your mind!

Over at Surprising Comics (which is now an imprint of Lucky Comics!), we're still waiting for Depthon #1 (with THREE underwater adventures written by Bronze Age Aquaman scribe supreme Steve Skeates) and Surprising Universe#2 to get their finishing touches, but here's something to keep your interest piqued:  another sample page from my Donnie Page illoed Depthon story and another page from my Unbeatable Brick story with art by Josepth Graves and Donald Willman...

Speaking of Unbeatable Brick, JW Erwin is still rocking the pencils and inks on our two-part shocker (slated for Surprising Universe issues 4 and 5). Here's his cover art and mock-up for ish #5 (though it could appear on #4--we'll see)...

JW and I are still hard at work on the Night Spider mini-series, and believe you me, this is another comic that's gonna blow your socks off! Here are some more of JW's design pages...

And finally, as I mentioned earlier in this post, Donnie Page knocked it out of the park (as he always does) with his Depthon pencils. Soon after he finished work on that story, Donnie learned that he has Stage 4 Prostate Cancer that has spread to multiple organs. Donnie has set up a FaceBook Donations page where you can contribute to help him with his medical expenses as he fights his cancer like the super-hero he is. As soon as we learned of Donnie's situation, a whole bunch of his pals from InDELLible Comics, Surprising Comics, Lucky Comics and Charlton Neo pow-wowed on the best way to help our uber-talented buddy...so naturally t'was decided to do a benefit comic featuring Donnie's own work, as well as art and stories from some of his favorite comicbook folk. I can't go into a lot of detail here, but Colnk Adink, Jim Ludwig, Mark Davis, Stephen Butler, and many others are putting together a sure-to-be-awesome benefit called Donnie's Pages! Stay tuned for details, but I can tell you that it's gonna feature at least two tales that Donnie and I have collaborated on: "King of the Hill" (thanks to Charlton Neo publisher Mort Todd for coloring and lettering it--as well as letting us use the story prior to it being published in an upcoming Charlton Neo mag)...

...and Donnie's own creation, U.S. Flag and Liberty Ladd! Get this: the page below (as well as the whole U.S. Flag story) is brand new, astoundingly penciled by Donnie as he takes his meds and prepares for chemo. I TOLD you Donnie's a super-hero!

Remember, you don't have to wait until Donnie's Pages comes out--you can help him RIGHT NOW by following the FaceBook Donations link. Thanks in advance for your generous help!

TOLD Ya 2018 Is Gonna Rock!

Whoa! I haven't posted yet this year, but it's not because nothing's going on in my little corner of the comicbook universe. Nope, nuh uh, no way! In fact, SO much is going on I actually kinda/sorta forgot to come by here and update. Sorry 'bout that! So, here's a giant/treasury-sized update loaded with awesome art to make up for the delay--and to (hopefully) make ya wanna buy a lotta my comics coming out in the next few months!

As promised, The Creeps magazine ran my "High Moon" in ish #13! Cool, huh? Well, get ready for ish #14 'cause I'll have a story in that one, too! Two issues in a row! "That's a Wrap" will show just how dangerous it is to make a mummy movie. It features stupendous art by Mansyur Daman (who killed it on "High Moon". Hope you "dig" it!

Surprising Comics is about to go to print with not one, not two, but THREE collectors' item classics very shortly!

Depthon of the Deep #1 features three brand new underwater adventures written by legendary Aquaman author Steve Skeates, but somehow I got lucky enough to write a fourth tale for that ish for the incredible art team of Donnie Page (penciler) and Coink Adink (inker). Here's their cover art...

...and the splash page, to boot!

Golden Era #2 allowed me to write a very Golden Age-style story featuring GA character The Green Mask! My buddy David Johnson Jr. supplied the most excellent art!

Surprising Universe #2 will feature the second Unbeatable Brick tale with our hero battling a pair of brotherly baddies known collectively as The Deadly Duo! The action-packed art is by Joseph Graves (penciler) and Donald Willman (inker). They even let me letter it! Here's the splash...

After that titanic two parter (yep, it's continued in ish #3) wraps up, I'm working with the indescribably talented JW Erwin on another multi-part Unbeatable Brick mini-epic...

And if all goes according to plan, Surprising Publisher Mark Davis has given JW and me the green-light to produce a Night Spider mini-series featuring full-length (22 page) stories! Yeah, here's a little sneak-peek just to whet your appetite for the goodness to come late this year...

Over at Will Lill, in just a few weeks "No Man Can Stop...Toombora!" with art by Phil Fried and the late, great Dick Ayers will be re-printed in Fun Adventure Comics! #6...

...but best of all, Ash-Aman, magnificently illustrated, co-plotted, and lettered by the awe-inspiring Russ Martin, will appear in all his cosmic glory in Fun Adventure Comics! #7...here's the cover and a  a few random pages guaranteed to make you go "wow!"

Later this summer, Midnight Stranger, with art by the incomparable Joe Koziarski, natch, will return to Fun Adventure Comics! with the wrap up of his first six-part story arc. Here are a couple teaser pages from Midnight Stranger part four...

Aaaaand, don't forget to order your copy of the a-w-e-s-o-m-e Monty's World Vol. 3 tpb which features the first five issues of  Fun Adventure Comics! (including the first three Midnight Stranger tales, Alex Miracle, Black Rose, and "Snake Eyes"). It's available most everywhere classy books are sold!

But wait, there's more!

Joe Koz and I are hard at work on two more features! One is Guns & Rosa, of course! Check out the splash for the second G&R saga...

Our second new feature is a brand new sci-fi super-hero: Max Miracle! Max is gonna be nothing but F-U-N! Check out these previews...

Whew! I think that's everything (for now)! Next time I go more than a month without an update, somebody slap me, okay?

Now, make sure you visit all my publishers and place your orders for all these cool comics coming your way! We're trying to create a new Groovy Age here, and you don't wanna miss out!

The Creeps

Surprising Comics

Will Lill Comics