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!

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/

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