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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel

Created by James Aquilone

Comic book anthology from Moonstone Publishing with stories by Steve Niles, Gabriel Hardman, Rodney Barnes, Kim Newman, Nancy Collins, David Avallone, Jonathan Maberry, Peter David, James Chamber, and James Aquilone. Artists include J.K. Woodward, Julius Ohta, Colton Worley, Jonathan Marks Barravecchia, Paul McCaffrey, Clara Meath, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Marco Finnegan, and Tom Rogers. Covers by Dan Brereton, Jerry Ordway, Colton Worley, and J.K. Woodward.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

My Next Kickstarter Is a Secret; More Kolchak?
2 months ago – Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 11:47:35 AM

This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.

Dracula: The Impaler Graphic Novel Is Live!
5 months ago – Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 09:01:24 AM

We're a week away from Halloween and it's the perfect time for this amazing project from Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones. I'm helping to manage the campaign for Dracula: The Impaler, a 100+ page graphic novel about Dracula's secret history. I've read it, and let me tell you, it is awesome! This is a really special book and Matt and Kelley are planning to release three more graphic novels in this epic series. Don't miss out.

Check it out here.

Back Dracula: The Impaler today!

Kolchak 50th Anniversary Wins Scribe Award; True Believers Comic Kickstarter Launches
6 months ago – Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 11:05:51 AM

Guess who I met at the Colorado Festival of Horror over the weekend? Kolchak was well represented at the convention and I sold out of all my books. Kolchak is going strong!

But that's not all the love Carl has gotten recently. The graphic novel won a Scribe award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. The 50th anniversary book is  now 4 for 4 when it comes to awards, following the Stoker, Rondo Hatton, and Imadjinn awards.  Thank you all for your continued support! There will be a lot more coming up. Speaking of which...

TRUE BELIEVERS

While at the Colorado Festival of Horror I got to be part of the launch for True Believers, the upcoming comic by Stephen Graham Jones and Josh Viola.  I'm helping run their Kickstarter, which has a ton of amazing rewards, including a variant cover from Kolchak artist Clara Meath as well as a very cool and creepy mask of the comic's slasher character, and the chance to be drawn into the second issue. 

Isn't this cover amazing? Juan Samu did the art and colors. It's one of the six variants you can pick up through the True Believers Kickstarter. I'd love see you all over at the campaign. Give it a look and let me know what you think.

Back True Believers Now!

Kolchak Has Won a Bram Stoker Award!
9 months ago – Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:39:40 AM

Unbelievable news — our Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary book won the Bram Stoker Award for best graphic novel Saturday night! I am floored. The first person to win this award was Alan Moore and a couple of years back Neil Gaiman won it. So we're in amazing company. And we couldn't have done this without you! That's not hype. This book WOULD NOT have happened if you didn't support the project through Kickstarter. This is an amazing honor and I thank the nearly 2000 backers who helped us get there. Your support means a lot to me.

And in a perfect coincidence I've just gotten my hands on 10 copies of Kevin J. Anderson's Kolchak / Dan Shamble comic, which he'll sign for you. The 42-page comic is available thru my new Kickstarter for Dead Detectives Society and Monstrous Magazine. Act fast, because they will go fast.
 

Head to the Dead Detectives Society Kickstarter for more Kolchak comics!

I discovered that I'm 35% more handsome while holding a Stoker Award, so I'll be taking all my selfies with it from now on.

New Kickstarter Coming Soon...What is the Dead Detectives Society?
11 months ago – Tue, May 02, 2023 at 11:35:45 AM

What is the Dead Detectives Society?

I can tell you, but then I’d have to—

Well, let’s just say it will soon be your favorite anthology. Or I should say “anthologies,” because it’s going to be a series. And it’s going to include a bunch of…surprises.

This project is very close to my heart and I’ve invited some awesome people to collaborate with, plus it has strong Kolchak vibes so…

Click the link to sign up for an alert for when the Kickstarter campaign launches.

You don’t want to miss this, or I just might have to...send the Dead Detectives Society to investigate and you don’t want that. Or maybe you do!

DEAD DETECTIVES SOCIETY LAUNCHING SOON!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR AN ALERT



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Stephan Franck's PALOMINO Volumes 2 & 3

Acclaimed cartoonist and award-nominated animator, writer, and director Stephan Franck has worked with some of the most popular characters of all time—including Spider-Man and the Smurfs — and has contributed to classic contemporary animation projects, including Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, The Iron Giant, and Marvel Studios’ What If...? as head of animation and director. This spring, the LA-based creator is returning to a passion project: writing and drawing the graphic novel series Palomino, a neo-noir graphic novel series set in the lost culture of Los Angeles’ country music clubs. Franck and his company, Dark Planet Comics, are returning to Kickstarter to crowdfund volumes 2 and 3 of the planned 4-volume graphic novel series.