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August 29, 2010   2 Comments

Children’s Book Week

A special thank you to all of the Libraries that looked after me this week during the Children’s Book Week talks.

Every year I get booked out during Book Week in August and spend each day talking to schools that visit the libraries to hear Authors talk about their work.  it’s a real pleasure being able to talk to kids about how comics are made and spread the word about the relevance of the art form.  Each year the interest grows and grows.  It’s nice to know that in this world of computer games, internet and TV that there’s still a place left for comic books out there.

August 29, 2010   No Comments

Supanova Signage

Signings are always a lot of fun and it’s always a pleasure being able to talk one on one with the readers of any of the books I work on.  That being said the real highlight of Supanova’s signing schedule?  The fella that brought in something like twenty Drift figures for me to sign.  I’m sure they were all for him…

August 29, 2010   No Comments

Champagne Supanova

Why were Mark Lutz and I talking at Lou Ferrigno’s panel?  Why were we not talking about Lou but were instead talking about squirrels?  Well, that’s the magic of Supanova now isn’t it… [Read more →]

August 29, 2010   1 Comment

Why Drift?

I get this question a lot and, even though I’ve answered it in a few different interviews, here’s the run down on the “why” of Drift and how Guido and I came about creating the character… [Read more →]

August 29, 2010   36 Comments

Transformers: Drift

This September (just a few days away) the Tranformers: Drift mini series will be hitting the shelves.  This is the full origin of Drift as he journeys from Decepticon to…well…something else entirely.

Art is by Alex Milne who’s been doing some amazing work.  Special first time appearance by a particular Decepticon plus cameos of many of your favorites.

Plenty of fun to be had.

August 29, 2010   2 Comments

Samurai For Sale

Ravage and Rumble.  Those are the two Transformer figures I remember ever wanting to buy.  Well, let’s be honest, I wanted to buy Megatron and Optimus but those two were way out of my pocket money range.  The cassettes on the other hand…  I used to journey to the toy store almost every day when I was saving up just to take another sneak peak at my soon to be purchased treasures.  This year I got to feel something very similar, walking into a toy store to purchase a Transformer toy but this time one I’d had a hand in creating. [Read more →]

August 29, 2010   6 Comments