King of the Castle!

One of the greatest influences in horror films of the 50's and 60's, schlockmeister and gimmick-man supreme, William Castle! From my forthcoming book- about which more anon.

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Characters I Created for an App Part 1

Innsmouth Endpapers

Here are the endpapers (inside front cover and first page- last page and inside back cover) for out PS Illustrated edition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth- coming in a few months. Hope you like!

LAST REVELATION OF GLA'AKI second edition with New Cover!

I had the opportunity to do a new cover for the second edition of the great Ramsey Campbell's THE LAST REVELATION OF GLA'AKI. I was very happy for the chance- the first cover I did was done without my having been able to read the book- and although they seemed pleased, I didn't feel the image really represented the spirit of the story very well! It looks more like a Kaiju story than what it really is! The new one (bottom) is much more true to mood of the thing, at least I think so!
The book will be out very soon I believe, and it's a great story. I am proud to be associated with it, and with Ramsey--- and with the extraordinary Pete Crowther of PS!
(Our line of Lovecraft books is due to start coming out soon, more on those anon.)

BENEFIT for Stan and Sharon Sakai

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE & REPOST

Contact: Steven Wyatt

E-mail: stevew@bigwowcomicfest.com

CAPS TO LAUNCH ART AUCTION FEATURING ORIGINAL WORKS BY MATT GROENING, JACK DAVIS, MIKE MIGNOLA J. SCOTT CAMPBELL, ADAM HUGHES AND HUNDREDS MORE TO BENEFIT FELLOW CARTOONIST STAN SAKAI AND FAMILY

On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Southern California's CAPS, the Comic Art Professional Society, will launch an ongoing series of eBay auctions of original comic art. Its goal is to raise funds for medical care for Sharon Sakai, the wife of respected cartoonist and longtime CAPS member Stan Sakai, creator of the samurai rabbit USAGI YOJIMBO. Sharon has been battling a debilitating brain tumor for some time; after an extended hospital stay and convalescence, she is currently at home, but her condition requires 24-hour care and medicine that costs more than the Sakai's insurance covers. 100% of the proceeds of these auctions will go directly to Stan and Sharon Sakai to help pay their ongoing medical expenses.

The CAPS auctions will be conducted through eBay.com beginning on Thursday, March 6, with a new set of auctions every following Thursday. Each auction, sold under the seller name of "CAPSauction", will be ten days in length with twenty to forty items in each set of auctions. The donations of original artwork and collectibles (including newly created art unique to this event, vintage comic book pages, comic strips, illustrations, animation art, limited edition statues, and IDW Artist's editions books) number over three hundred with new items arriving every day. 

Contributors include:  Adam Hughes, Alex Maleev, Arthur Adams, Batton Lash, Eric Powell, Jan Duursema, Jerry Ordway, Jordi Bernet, Matt Groening, Michael Allred, Mike Mignola, Paul Gulacy, Sanjuliàn, Scott Shaw!, Jim Steranko, Tim Sale, William Stout, Bill Sienkiewicz, Cameron Stewart,  Dan Brereton, Daniel Parsons, Dave Gibbons, Dean Yeagle, Doug Sneyd, Dustin Nguyen, Bill Morrison, Tone Rodriguez, Sergio Aragonés, Fabio Moon, Francisco Francavilla, Gene Ha, Geof Darrow, Gilbert Hernandez, Jack Davis, James O'Barr, Kevin Eastman, Jeff Lemire, Jeff Smith, Kazu Kibuishi, Liam Sharp, Tom Richmond, Michael Jantze, Olivia, Oscar Martin, Paul Chadwick, Richard Corben, Tom Mandrake, Walter Simonson, Charles Vess, Dan Spiegle, J. Scott Campbell and many more.

Many of the pieces featuring Usagi Yojimbo will appear in a new oversized hardcover book from Dark Horse, THE SAKAI PROJECT: ARTISTS CELEBRATE THIRTY YEARS OF USAGI YOJIMBO, which will be released on July 23, 2014. All proceeds from this book will go to Stan and Sharon Sakai. Much of the custom Usagi Yojimbo art created for this book will also be sold as a part of CAPS' online auctions.

These fund-raising auctions will be promoted through ComicArtFans.com, and the CAPS - COMIC ART PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY Facebook page where you will be able to see updated information such as when certain pieces will be auctioned.

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If you would like more information on CAPS' Sakai Benefit Auction or Dark Horse's THE SAKAI PROJECT book, please contact Steven Wyatt at stevew@bigwowcomicfest.com.

What I did in college...

Made this in college at Syracuse U in around 1970. Still have it! Could'a been better but oh well. At least it serves as a small tribute to the Hog Of Steel! Speaking of whom... there is now a nice collection available which everyone who like FUNNY comics should get! Look it up!

Mystery Foto?

Not a "foto" and not a mystery- but oh well. Anyway

can anybody identify the scene represented here? The source for the image, I mean? Just wonderin'...

Now HERE is something I never thought about seeing!

Somebody actually did a CGC GRADING on my Tim Leary book.
The mind reels... Maybe grading a book makes it possible to sell anything??

Jake!

UGH! The comics for short attention-spanned readers! Available only at Creature Features in Burbank!!!

Each issue of UGH! contains

just one 8-page story- black and white!

But with a nice color cover! Produced in very limited quantities

right here in the Von Sholly Publicational Plant. Inquire at Creature

Features' new Burbank Ca store. Oh, $5 @ book. Frankly a lot for

what you get.