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StarWarp Concepts Gets Back in the Comic Book Game
Hey, comic fans! With 2023 being StarWarp Concepts’ 30th Anniversary year, and this past weekend marking our annual celebration of Free Comic Book Day, the time is perfect to announce that we’ve got three special comic projects currently in development: two … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Eliseu Gouveia, Lorelei, Publishing, Publishing Announcements, Steven A. Roman
Tagged comic books, eliseu gouveia, lorelei, publishing announcements, steven a. roman
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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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SWC at 30: Convention Memories: New York Comic Book Convention 1992
My second convention appearance as a small-press publisher/creator was in June 1992, when Troubleshooters, Incorporated artist Dan Peters and I set up shop in artists’ alley at Great Eastern Convention’s New York Comic Book Convention (not to be confused with New York … Continue reading
Posted in Convention Reports, Conventions, StarWarp Concepts, StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged brian pulido, convention memories, convention reports, conventions, dan peters, evil ernie, great eastern convention, lady death, new york comic book convention, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, steven a. roman, steven hughes, swc at 30
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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
SWC at 30: Convention Memories: Great Eastern Convention 1991
As I explained last week, StarWarp Concepts officially launched as a comic-book publishing company in 1993—which makes this year our 30th Anniversary—but we actually started out in 1989 as a small-press comics publisher, turning out our titles on photocopiers and hand-stapling … 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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SWC at 30: In the Beginning…
Happy birthday, StarWarp Concepts! To celebrate, we got a Dumpy the Pumpkin ice cream cake from the vaults of Carvel! (They had to dig around a bit in the freezer, since Dumpy cakes haven’t been sold since the ’90s, but … Continue reading
Posted in StarWarp Concepts, StarWarp Concepts History, Steven A. Roman
Tagged dan peters, jim linehan, lorelei, lorelei one-shot special, lorelei: genesis, mister miguel, richard c. white, sam brown, small press comics, small press comics explosion, starwarp concepts 30th anniversary, steven a. roman, swc at 30, 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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It’s National Encourage a Young Writer Day 2023!
Here’s an annual tradition we here at ’Warp Central always get behind a hundred percent: Today is National Encourage a Young Writer Day, and although no one seems to know the origin of this “holiday,” according to the National Day Calendar: … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Steven A. Roman
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Happy Read an Ebook Week 2023!
Hey, book lovers! Today’s the day when e-book distributor Smashwords launches its 14th annual Read an Ebook Week Sale, during which you can purchase tens of thousands of digital books at special prices! It runs March 5–11—and yes, you’ll need to set up … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Urban Fantasy, e-books, e-tailers, Events, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Pandora Zwieback, Writing Reference Books, Young Adult
Tagged Dark Urban Fantasy, e-books, e-tailers, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, richard c. white, smashwords, smashwords read an ebook week, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, world building, writers reference, writing reference, young adult fiction
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