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Happy Free Comic Book Day 2023!
Today is Free Comic Book Day around the world: that annual event celebrated on the first Saturday in May, and usually timed to coincide with the release of Marvel Studios’ latets movie—as is the case with the super space actioner Guardians of … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Digital Comics, Events, heartstopper, Pandora Zwieback, Sebastienne Mazarin
Tagged alan larsen, bill lavin, comic books, david c. matthews, digital comic books, eliseu gouveia, events, free comic book day, free comics, heartstopper, heroines and heroes, holly golightly, Pandora Zwieback, scott beaderstadt, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, the saga of pandora zwieback #0, uriel caton
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National Bombshells’ Day 2023 Is Tomorrow!
In case you were unaware of it, tomorrow marks the annual celebration of National Bombshells’ Day, which, according to the National Day Calendar, was launched by a well-known lingerie company: “Victoria’s Secret created Bombshells’ Day as a day for women to celebrate … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Digital Comics, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Lorelei, Nonfiction, Sebastienne Mazarin, vampirella
Tagged comic books, digital comic books, from the stars a vampiress, graphic novels, heartstopper, holidays, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: genesis, lorelei: sects and the city, national bombshells day, nonfiction, sebastienne mazarin, starwarp concepts backlist, vampirella
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SWC at 30: The Little ‘Warp That Could
Welcome to the second part of my history of StarWarp Concepts, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. In Part 1, we left off in 1992. After breaking ground by publishing a few digest-size comics between ’89 and ’92, … Continue reading
Happy National Superhero Day 2023!
The second trailer for the latest DC Comics/Warner Bros.’ movie, The Flash, dropped the other day to much excitement and an advance screening has everyone buzzing about it, a week from Friday there’s the opening of the highly anticipated Guardians of the … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Digital Comics, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Superheroes
Tagged comic books, digital comic books, graphic novels, heroines and heroes, holidays, joni m. white, national superhero day, randy zimmerman, reggie golden, richard c. white, richard dominguez, steven a. roman, superhero comics, superheroes, troubleshooters incorporated
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Memories of a Swamp Thing Trilogy That Never Was
Here’s something that takes me back to my days as an editor—and my previous posts here at the SWC blog that I called Tales of Development Hell… Just last week, on April 17th, the online version of the comic-book industry magazine The … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Interviews, Steven A. Roman
Tagged comic books, ibooks inc., Interviews, stephen r. bissette, steven a. roman, swamp thing, tales of development hell, the comics journal
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SWC Artist Lou Manna Featured in Alter Ego Magazine
On sale right now at comic shops, from TwoMorrows Publishing, is Alter Ego #180, the latest issue of the comic-history magazine overseen by writer/editor/comic legend Roy Thomas (The Avengers, Conan the Barbarian). The issue focuses on Thomas’s The Young All-Stars, a DC … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Art, Comic Books, Lorelei
Tagged alter ego magazine, comic books, Interviews, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lou manna, roy thomas, shameless plugs, tomorrows publishing, young all-stars
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Happy Kiss a Ginger Day 2023!
According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, today is International Kiss a Ginger Day, a holiday created in 2009 as a “karmic counter event” intended to offset negative comments made about fiery-haired people (e.g., that gingers have no souls, that … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Horror, Lorelei
Tagged comic books, graphic novels, holidays, horror comic books, international kiss a ginger day, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: genesis, lorelei: sects and the city, succubus fiction
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Welcome to StarWarp Concepts!
StarWarp Concepts—I’ll admit it’s not exactly the kind of name you’d expect for a publishing company that mostly specializes in tales of horror and dark urban fantasy, but then we’ve always had that penchant for making unexpected (and sometimes unusual) … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Digital Comics, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Horror, Illustrated Classics, Nonfiction, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sketchbooks, StarWarp Concepts, Writing Reference Books, Young Adult
Tagged comic books, fantasy and science fiction, graphic novels, horror classics, horror comic books, horror fiction, illustrated classics, nonfiction, science fiction, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, starwarp concepts backlist, young adult fiction
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Happy Love Your Red Hair Day 2022!
Redheads unite! Today is National Love Your Red Hair Day, so get out there and celebrate! According to the National Day Calendar, this annual event was created in 2015 by Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti, cofounders of the beauty site How to … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Digital Comics, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Horror, Lorelei, louis small jr.
Tagged comic books, digital comic books, graphic novels, holidays, horror comic books, lorelei, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: genesis, lorelei: sects and the city, national love your red hair day, starwarp concepts backlist
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