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3 June 2008 - I sent Age of Bronze issue #27 to the publisher today. Publication will be in about six weeks. Here's the cover:
26 April 2008 - Yesterday I finished penciling issue #27. Click here to see four non-consecutive pages. This .pdf file opens in Acrobat.
March 2008 - My friend, playwright and author Edward Einhorn, several of whose books I've illustrated, has his stage adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle currently running Off-Broadway in New York City.
March 2008 - If you've been searching for a copy of A Thousand Ships, the first Age of Bronze volume, on Amazon.com or another online bookstore, it's not available at the moment (except for maybe some used copies). I've also heard that comic book stores haven't been able to fill customer requests for the book. All this is just TEMPORARY. A new printing of the softcover edition is right now in production at Image Comics. Meanwhile, you can still order a copy from the Hungry Tiger Press store associated with this Web site. They still have copies in stock.
Feb 2008 - I'll be at Wondercon this weekend, at the Hungry Tiger Press booth #1016. Click the link for more info on the convention.
Nov 2007 - Here's my interview with Elias Katirtzigianoglou on the Greek website Comicdom. The text is in English.
Nov 2007 - Image Comics, the US publisher of Age of Bronze: Betrayal, has a short preview here of the book, which goes on sale this week in stores.
Nov 2007 - During my late-October signing tour in France, I was interviewed on Laurent Goumarre's Minuit/Dix on France Culture radio. At first I didn't really know what a big deal France Culture radio is, but as I mentioned my upcoming interview to people, France Culture's importance became clear. It's sort of the NPR of France. As the night of the interview approached I grew more and more nervous. When the publishers of the French edition of Age of Bronze were explaining to me the way to the studio, they pointed to my tourist map of Paris. The radio station building was actually ON the map!--a little drawing of it with its name. My nerves were not calmed. But it turned out to be a blast. Most radio interviews I do are by telephone. Only one other has been in a studio--a college radio station where the equipment was definitely not state-of-the-art. Minuit/Dix was slick and shiny. It's hard to judge how an oral interview's going when I'm in the middle it, but I think this one went well--that's what everyone told me, anyway. And I had a good time. Jean-Baptiste Soufron, the co-host, blogs about it here (in French). You can listen to the Oct. 29 broadcast here (in French--my French-speaking ability is not presently sufficient for the radio and I had a translator). The Minuit/Dix website has photos in the studio.
Oct 2007 - My latest interview, this one with Park Cooper at Silver Bullet Comics.
Oct 2007 - Age of Bronze #26 is on sale now! Here's a preview of the first five pages at Cultureboom (scroll down the list).
Sept 2007 - Comic Book Resources presents an Age of Bronze interview with me by Matt Adler. Click here.
Sept. 11 2007 - Last night I uploaded the final materials for Betrayal Part One to the publisher. So the third Age of Bronze book should be out in the next six weeks or so from Image Comics. Both a $27.95 hardcover and a $17.95 paperback version will be available. Betrayal Part One collects issues #20-#26 of the comic book serialization. Here's the cover:
Aug 2007 - August 9 - Earlier this week I approved the proofs for Age of Bronze #26, so it'll be on sale soon. This issue presents Menelaus's drunken ramblings about his marriage to Helen.
July 2007 - I spent most of last week at San Diego Comic Con International 2007. One of the most frequent questions people asked me was, "When will the next Age of Bronze volume be available?" My best estimate as of this date (July 30) is mid-September. I still have four pages to draw and the forematter and backmatter to finish. Then it'll be off to Image Comics and from thence to the printer, to the distributor, and finally to the sales shelf. Please be patient--Betrayal Part One is on its way!
July 2007 - As of July 23, the art for Age of Bronze #26 is at the publisher, Image Comics. The finished issue should be on sale within the next few weeks. Better late than never.
May 2007 - Cities of the Underworld is a television series currently running Monday evenings on the History Channel. The series is produced by Emre Şahin and Sarah Wetherbee, the son and daughter-in-law of Haluk Şahin of Tenedos (Bozcaada). I met Sarah and her production team last summer while I was visiting Troy and Tenedos. You can read about that encounter here.
March 2007 - The Age of Bronze discussion at the Captain Comics website is open. Click here to read what others have to say, or register to join in with your own comments.
March 2007 - This is a mildly funny video: The Lego Trojan War.
March 2007 - Click here for my interview with Christopher Hoerdemann's Comics Corner.
March 2007 - On March 15 I spoke about Age of Bronze for the keynote speech at Illinois Wesleyan University's Ides of March program. To hear an online recording of my speech, click here, find the entry for March 15, and click on the link
March 2007 - Click here for my visit to the WESN radio program It's Clobberin Time in Bloomington, Illinois, where the host, Rick Lindquist, the other guests, and I discuss a variety of comics-related subjects.
March 2007 - Age of Bronze #25 is on sale now. All subscription copies of Age of Bronze #25 have been mailed. And here's a rave review at PopSyndicate.
February 2007 - Here's a brand new online interview from Strategy First with Eric Shanower about Age of Bronze. This one has video--watch me on the phone discussing my work! If the video doesn't start automatically, click on the "February 2007" link.
February 2007 - Click here for my latest interview, this one with Steven Saunders at Silver Bullet Comics. And here are some supplemental images.
February 2007 - Latest online interview here with Fist Full of Comics and Games.
February 2007 - Adventures in Oz made Number One on Comics-and-More's top ten list for 2006!
February 2007 - For a quirky look at the Trojan War, click here. The link to these models is courtesy of John Younger by way of Aegeanet.
February 2007 - Good Breeding is a brand new Trojan War-related play I saw recently. Read my comments about it here.
February 2007 - I just got back from a signing tour of France in support of the beautiful new French edition of Trahison - Premiere Partie--that is, Betrayal Part One--published by Editions Akileos. Click here for a report. I had a great time meeting readers and seeing French comic book stores. They're getting to read the material from Age of Bronze #25 before it's published here in the USA!
January 2007 - All subscription issues of Age of Bronze #24 have been mailed as of 18 January 2007. Thanks for your patience, subscribers, and sorry for the delay. It shouldn't happen again.
December 2006 - New Age of Bronze T-shirts are now available exclusively here! Two designs - Paris and Helen - Achilles and Patroklus - and two styles of shirt - regular and women's. Click here to go to the info page.
December 2006 - Click here for a five-page preview of Age of Bronze #24, courtesy of ComicsContinuum.com. Actually it's only four pages--the last one expands to something non-Age of Bronze. But click here for a complete five-page preview on Broken Frontier.com.
December 2006 - Age of Bronze #24 is on sale now in stores and on this web site.
December 2006 - Age of Bronze (or rather L'eta del Bronzo) won the Gran Guinigi, the highest Italian comics award, in the category of Best Serialized Comic at November's Lucca Comics Festival in Lucca, Italy. The Italian edition of Age of Bronze is published by Free Books.
November 2006 - Adventures in Oz just made #3 on Scoop's list of top graphic novels for 2006.
October 2006 - The hardcover edition of Sacrifice is out of print from Image Comics. But you can still order copies from this website if you haven't got one. There are no plans to reprint Sacrifice in hardcover. The paperback edition will stay in print.
October 2006 - Here's my latest Age of Bronze interview at Comicus.it. The text is in Italian. There are also an overview of the series and reviews of the Italian editions of A Thousand Ships and Sacrifice.
October 2006 - Watch this hilarious Trojan Horse video.
October 2006 - Here's a New York Daily News article on my trip to Troy.
September 2006 - Here's my latest interview at Suicide Girls.
September 2006 - I'm back from a summer trip that included twelve days in Troy, the first time I've ever been there. Click on these links for my photo-illustrated report:
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
August 2006 - I'm excited to plug the new book Helen of Troy by Margaret George, the best-selling author of The Memoirs of Cleopatra and Mary, Called Magdalene. It's yet another telling of the story of the Trojan War, and just out from Viking. The author and I corresponded about story sources and other pertinent things while she was writing the book and she has graciously acknowledged Age of Bronze within. I've so far avoided contemporary retellings of the Trojan War by other authors, but this is almost too tempting to resist. I did break down and see the Peterson Troy film two years ago, so maybe I'll allow myself to break down again. (Not, I'm certain, that there's any justifiable comparison between Margaret George's Helen of Troy and that lackluster movie.)
August 2006 - IDW Publishing just released Adventures in Oz, a collection of my five Oz graphic novels. Click here for a Sequential Tart review. Click here for a Newsarama review. Click here for a Comic Pants review. Click here and scroll down for desktop Oz wallpaper at the IDW website.
July 2006 - Super news! Age of Bronze has been nominated as Best Continuing Series and I've been nominated as Best Writer/Artist for the 2006 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The awards will be announced July 21 at the Eisner Awards ceremony at San Diego's Comic-Con International.
June 2006 - Reviews of Age of Bronze #23: ComiXtreme.com
Lost Pages/Found Pages (scroll down to May 31)
June 2006 - Age of Bronze #23 is on sale NOW and all subscription copies have been mailed. A 6-page preview from Jen Contino at The Pulse is here. And here's a different preview at The Comics Review and here at Silver Bullet Comics.
May 2006 - Scipio Garling of Big Monkey Comics conducted a short interview with me about Age of Bronze. Read it here.
Apr 2006 - Age of Bronze issue #23 is at the publisher and should be out in late May. A preview from Jen Contino at The Pulse is here.
Apr 2006 - Here's a letter to Oprah Winfrey from comics journalist Andrew Smith (aka Captain Comics).
Apr 2006 - A Thousand Ships is on the reading list of Prof. Kim Shelton's Classics 130 class at the University of California, Berkeley for Spring 2006! How 'bout that!
Apr 2006 - The exhibit "No Straight Lines: Queer Culture and the Comics" runs April 1 through June 25, 2006, at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum. The show includes a scene from Sacrifice featuring Achilles and Patroklus.
Mar 2006 - Editions Akileos, publisher of Age of Bronze in French, has just released L'Age de Bronze - les Coulisses de l'Oeuvre (roughly translated as Age of Bronze - Examples of the Work), ISBN 2915168318. This collects Age of Bronze Special #1, Age of Bronze: Behind the Scenes, the covers of issues 1 through 22 in color without logos and bar codes obscuring the artwork, previously unpublished character and costume sketches, and more. The text is in French. Although it's not available here on this website, you can find it, among other places, at Amazon.France for 14.25 euros (approximately $20 in USD) and at Amazon.Canada for $26.55 Canadian (about the same price).
Jan 2006-Dec 2006 - The Age of Bronze discussion at the Captain Comics website is open. Click here to read what others have to say, or register to join in with your own comments.
Dec 2005--Age of Bronze #22 "Betrayal 3" is on sale now. All subscription copies have been mailed.
Nov 2005--The hardcover edition of A Thousand Ships is sold out. The softcover edition is still available. Sacrifice is still available in both hardcover and softcover.
Nov 2005--Eric Shanower in Cincinnati
I'll be speaking on Age of Bronze at the University of Cincinnati in mid-November. The general public is welcome. Click on the "Upcoming Appearances" link below for details.
Oct 2005--Edward Einhorn's puppet play Unauthorized Magic in Oz which utilizes my designs for the characters and sets will be performed, paired with the puppet play Evolution, also by Einhorn, every Saturday morning from October 15 to November 19 at 11:00 am at Looking Glass Theater, on 57th Street in New York City, NY. Tickets $15, Call 212-352-3101 or visit www.theatermania.com for reservations For more info: Untitled Theater Company
The New York Times says this about the show: "Broadway revisited the land of Oz in a big way with Wicked. Now the writer and director Edward Einhorn is returning there in a small way -- but an exquisitely ingenious one . . . Mr. Einhorn's production takes place in two such houses, based on the illustrations of Eric Shanower . . . in ways that are truly enchanting."
Sept 2005-Jan 2006 - An in-depth discussion of Age of Bronze began September 5 at the Captain Comics Message Board. As of early January, it seems to have slowed to a stop, although there are still three more issues to discuss. All are welcome to read the discussion so far or sign up and post your opinions.
Sept 2005 - New E-mail Newsletter
If you signed up before Sept 10, 2005 for the occasional Age of Bronze newsletter by e-mail. The newsletter distribution has changed, and you will need to sign up again if you wish to receive it in the future. All e-mail addresses previous to that date have been completely erased. Scroll to the bottom of this page to send a "subscribe" request. New subscribers are always welcome, too.
August 2005 - Manfred Korfmann, the leader of the current excavations at Troy begun in 1988, died on Thursday, August 11, of a serious illness. He was 63. I send my condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
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