Comic PR Digest – 10/30/7

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT released images and information today
concerning RED SONJA #30, which is scheduled for a January release and
will kick-off a whole new event for Dynamite’s She-Devil with a Sword!

Beginning with issue #30, Red Sonja will feature a new, different
and special creative team each and every month leading towards issue
#35! This month, Ron Marz starts things off and he’s joined by
fan-favorite artist Lee (Painkiller Jane) Moder as the pair send Red
Sonja straight to Hades! Issue #30 – and each issue in this special
event — is a great jumping on point for new readers! Future issue
including the pairings of Joshua Ortega and Fabiano Neves, Christos
Gage and Pablo Marcos, Luke Lieberman and Homs and the return of Mel
Rubi with new series writer Brian Reed!

As part of the beginning of this special Red Sonja event, issue #30
features a special Alex Ross cover, as well as two alternates – one by
Luke Ross and the other by Fabiano (Marvel Zombies vs. the Army of
Darkness) Neves!

In November, fans should look for the second issue of Sword of Red
Sonja: Doom of the Gods mini-series, the sequel to last year’s Red
Sonja vs. Thulsa Doom mini-series and trade paperback.

RED SONJA #30 (NOV073455) Writer: RON MARZ; Penciller: LEE MODER;
Covers: ALEX ROSS (50%), FABIANO NEVES (25%), AND LUKE ROSS (25%)

{tab=DC Comics}DC COMICS NAMES LEGENDARY BATMAN ARTIST JERRY ROBINSON CREATIVE CONSULTANT

New York, NY – October, 26 – DC Comics, the largest
English-language publisher of comics in the world, and home to
Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman announced today that legendary Batman
comic book artist Jerry Robinson, a key contributor during the early
years of the Batman comic book series, will be a creative consultant
for the company.

"It’s an honor to have Jerry complete his journey from DC’s bullpen
to advising us on characters he was intimately involved with, and the
international world of comics he knows so well," said Paul Levitz, DC
Comics President and Publisher.

“I am delighted to be affiliated with DC Comics, my alma mater, as
Creative Consultant,” said Jerry Robinson. “I look forward to working
with Paul Levitz, whom I greatly admire, and the enormously talented DC
editors, artists and writers.”

Born on January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey, Robinson was a student
at Columbia University in New York when he first began working for
Batman creator Bob Kane in 1939. Kane, along with writer Bill Finger,
had just created Batman for National Comics, the company that would
eventually become DC Comics. Robinson first began as a letterer and
background inker, eventually moving into the role of penciller and
primary inker for the early Batman strips.

In 1942, Robinson began a stint as the series’ main artist,
followed by other comic book legends, including Dick Sprang. Robinson
played a vital role in the early appearances of legendary Batman
characters, notably The Joker, Robin, Alfred, and The Penguin, and
executed many of the iconic covers of the Golden Age of comic books.

After leaving the Batman line, Robinson continued working in the
comic book field, writing and drawing numerous features for a variety
of publishers. In 1961 he began a new career, creating the
political/social satire “still life” and later “Life with Robinson,”
syndicated daily for 34 years. Another popular creation ”Flubs &
Fluffs” ran in the Sunday New York News for over two decades.

Robinson’s new role as creative consultant will reunite the
legendary creator with many of the characters he spent decades working
with, including the Batman.

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ABOUT JERRY ROBINSON:

In addition to his comic book work, Jerry Robinson is an
accomplished artist, writer, historian and curator. Robinson’s
published works include The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic
Strip Art (Putnam), acclaimed as the definitive study of the genre. His
other books include the biography, Skippy and Percy Crosby (Holt), and
The 1970s: Best Political Cartoons of the Decade (McGraw-Hill).
Robinson‘s drawings of Broadway theatre appeared for years in Playbill
magazine. He is the co-art director of the hour-long animation,
“Stereotypes,” filmed at the Soyuzmult Studios in Moscow, and co-author
of the musical Astra: A Comic Book Opera. The premiere of Astra was
performed in Washington, DC in June 2007. A graphic novel adaptation of
Astra was published in Japan and the U.S.

Robinson has made several tours of Europe, North Africa, Japan and
Korea entertaining the armed forces. He has traveled to over 40
countries, serving on international art juries and as comics curator,
including the first exhibition of American cartoon art in Tokyo,
Taipai, Warsaw and Moscow; and others in Portugal, Slovenia and
Ukraine. At the invitation of the United Nations, Robinson’s company
CartoonArts International produced major exhibitions at UN summits in
Rio de Janeiro (ecology), Cairo (development) and Vienna (human
rights).

Robinson produced numerous exhibitions in the U.S., including the
first show of American comic art at a major fine art gallery, the
Graham Gallery in New York (1972). He served as special consultant for
the largest cartoon art exhibition, at The Kennedy Center, Washington
DC, and for the landmark show at Whitney Museum in New York. In 2004 he
produced the first in-depth exhibition of the super-hero genre, The
Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1939 –1950 at the Breman
Museum, Atlanta, which is now on world tour. In 2006, Robinson curated
the exhibition, The Superhero: Good and Evil in American Comics, at the
Jewish Museum in New York.

Robinson was a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts,
The New School, Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute, all in
New York City. An exhibition of his color photography was held at SVA
Galleries. In 2000 Scriptorium Films produced a ninety-minute
television documentary on Robinson’s career for Brazilian TV. Harry N.
Abrams will publish Robinson’s biography, written by Professor
Christopher Couch in 2008. Robinson is currently the curator for the
United Nations exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights that will be opened by the UN
Secretary General on December 10, 2007.

Robinson served as president of both the National Cartoonists
Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, the only
person so honored by his peers. In 1978 he founded Cartoonists &
Writers Syndicate/CartoonArts International, which represents political
and humor artists from around the world.

Robinson has been honored time and again for his contributions to
comics, including the National Cartoonists Society award for the Best
Comic Book Artist (1956), the first year that award was given; the Best
Newspaper Panel Cartoon for Still Life (1963); and their Special
Features Award for Flubs & Fluffs (1965). Robinson received the
Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He received the
Clampett Humanitarian Award in 1999 and was inducted into the Comic
Book Hall of Fame in 2004.