A new interview’s just been posted up on Broken Frontier about Skullkickers, including some background material on the series and why the human mercenary runs around with a gun in a fantasy world of swords and axes.

If you want to get an autographed copy of Skullkickers the week it’s released, you have 4 different ways to make that happen in New York and Toronto. Click on each one for the Facebook event and RSVP.

Here they are:

Can’t wait until the first issue is out!

Wednesday September 22nd
Skullkickers #1 arrives in stores and I’ll be signing twice in Toronto that day:

3:30 – 6:30pm at Paradise Comics uptown, 3278 Yonge Street, Toronto for an in-store signing.

7:00 – 9:00pm at The Central Bar & Lounge downtown, 603 Markham Street, Toronto with the Beguiling gang and I’m sure a few celebratory drinks afterwords.

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Friday September 24th
Edwin signs in downtown New York.

7:30 – 8:30pm at Midtown Comics downtown New York, 200 West 40th Street, New York artist Edwin Huang will be doing an in-store signing along with free sketches!

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Saturday September 25th
I’ll be signing downtown Toronto.

1:00 – 4:00pm at The Silver Snail Comic Shop downtown, 367 Queen Street West, Toronto for an in-store signing.

UDON and the Beguiling are celebrating 10 years of the UDON studio with a big FREE party and VENT book launch next Thursday night. If you live in the Toronto area, you should attend!

UDON 10th Anniversary/VENT Book Launch – FREE Event!

September 16
7:00pm

Revival Bar
783 College Street
Toronto, ON

COME ONE, COME ALL, TO CELEBRATE THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF TORONTO PUBLISHER AND CREATIVE STUDIO UDON!

The Beguiling are throwing their friends at UDON a birthday party, to celebrate the occasion of their 10th anniversary of publishing and creating comics, illustration, video games, and much more! Past and present UDON alumni are invited to attend, as is the general public and fans of this mighty studio.

Aside from publishing their …own comics and art books for years, they’ve also created comics, illustrations, and video game material for the top names in the industry, including Capcom, DC Comics, Wizards of the Coast, Konami, Marvel Comics, Toy Biz, Nintendo, Game Pro, Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures, Alliance/Atlantis and dozens of other companies!

The evening will also see the launch of VENT: VOLUME ONE, Udon’s 10th Anniversary Artbook, which features new art and comics stories by nearly two-dozen top creators, extensive behind-the-scenes on the history of the company, and tutorials on drawing and colouring comics/illustrations.

Doors for the event will open at 7PM, with festivities getting underway at 8pm. Great music, some fun presentations, comics, and of course video games will permeate the evening, all in the beautiful Revival Bar space.

Presented by The Beguiling & UDON Entertainment

Arrived home this morning from PAX on an overnight flight from Seattle. The show went fantastically well, possibly our best show of the con season once it’s all said and done. The expo was incredibly well put together, the staff was amazing and the fans were gracious and excited. We sold a lot of stuff and had a blast.

If you click through to the photos linked below you’ll also see a lot of head sketch drawings I did at the con. I posted up my favourites from the weekend. I ended up sketching about 30 different character pics for fans, which is something I’ve never done at a show before. Normally I only draw 2-3 head sketches at a con, if any. Hunkering down and doing that many was a good experience, giving me added confidence and extra interaction with people coming by our booth.

Click here for PAX photos

Needless to say, it was a great show. Given the strength of sales I think it’ll be much easier to convince Erik to take a chance on PAX East in Boston coming up in March.

Other stuff:

Comic and movie rumour master Rich Johnston posted an article up this morning comparing Skullkickers to runaway successes at Image like Walking Dead, Chew and Morning Glories. Here’s hoping he’s right.

I’m trying to get caught up on stuff but am relaxing a bit too. Seneca’s Fall term starts tomorrow and two new classes of students will be starting off, full of awkward excited energy. It’s a fun time of year.

Chris and I arrived a day early to set-up for PAX and had some wandering time, so we headed to the famous Pike Place Market. I’ve skirted the edge of it before and grabbed food in the neighborhood, but this was the first time I’d actually had a chance to check it out during the day. It was a great experience.

Click here for Seattle photos

PAX photos and more as the weekend rolls on. Wish us luck at the show!

Another teaser/quote ad released by Image:

Click for full-sized version

Click here for Fan Expo Photos

The Toronto Fan Expo has come and gone again. The crowds this year hit insane levels, with crazy lines wrapping around the building and convention centre staff caught completely off guard. There were quite a few times where they had to stop letting people up the escalators, trying to organize things futiley while more and more bodies piled up on the street level waiting to get in. It was bonkers.

Anyways, lots of photos posted at the link above.

I leave for PAX later this week, wrapping up the summer con season hopefully on a high.

Multiversity Comics interviewed me about action-fantasy, characters and cats. Click the logo and go check it out!