The People’s Publisher

The Two Ways I Considered Starting This Post:

1) Fear not, gentle reader. The thunderous silence in response to my last post has been heard. Never again shall I try to bestow upon you the wisdom learned over my years, years I say, in the comic industry. I tried to give you the benefit of hard-learned lessons, but clearly it was seen as a dry and useless exercise. I only do this for a living, I’m sure I’ve nothing to offer people in a community who also want to create for a living. It’s OK. I’m a little hurt, but I’ll get over it. (sniff!)

2) Oh, thank god, there’s finally been enough progress on the books that I can start showing some finished art and stop desperately filling entry after entry with the mind-numbingly boring minutiae of the comic creation process. I wonder if anyone’s still reading these things, now? I wouldn’t be…

Whichever beginning I chose to go with, including 3) all of the above, which is what won out, the end result is the same. No more endless rambling from ye olde editor. Instead, I bring you the delicious toppings of our comic book banana splits, the art.

Specifically, I give you the approved pin-ups for both my books. I was seriously tempted not to post the BLACK JACK O’BREEN pin-up, just because I know artist Frank Grau’s dying for the community to see it, and it’s always a good policy for editors to actively aggravate their artists.

Oh, wait, no it isn’t. OK, so you get the BJO pin-up, by Frank, as well as this:

The KNIGHTCAP: NOVEMBER’S SONG pin-up by artist John Keane.

And that was the long-awaited Z2H debut of the BLACK JACK O’BREEN pin-up (can I please have my cat back now, Frank?).

If these images aren’t enough for you, well, good, because I’ve got more. The official Z2H KNIGHTCAP: NS and BJO galleries are now live. Feel free to pop in and take a look at what we’ve got there.

I wasn’t joking when I said as an editor I do as little as possible. And to prove that, and the fact that I don’t absolutely HAVE to type ridiculously long posts (I don’t, I just like them, I don’t have a problem I’m not listening to you lalalalalalalala) I will sign off…

Now.

Foley