Written by: Carole Nelson Douglas, Alan Dean Foster, Joe R. Lansdale, Timothy Zahn,
Kage Baker, Matthew Baugh, Johnny D. Boggs, Henry Darrow, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Win Scott Eckert, Jennifer Fallon, Craig Shaw Gardner, Joe Gentile, John Peel, Jean Schanberger, Richard Dean Starr,& Steve Rasnic Tem
Interior Art: Rubén Procopio
Cover Art: Douglas Klauba
240pgs, b/w, Squarebound, 6”x9”, $15.95
10 digit: 1-933076-53-4
13 digit: 978-1-933076-53-9
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Moonstone is proud to present More Tales of Zorro, the second anthology featuring all-new, original tales of The Fox!This groundbreaking compilation includes never-before-seen stories and essays from a fantastic lineup of today’s top writers including:
Best of all, MoreTales of Zorro includes stunning new cover art by Spectrum award-winnerDouglas Klauba and even moreoriginal interior illustrations by acclaimed Disney animator and sculptor,Rubén Procopio!
With the International success of the recent Telemundo television series Zorro: The Sword and the Rose, as well as the blockbuster films starring Antonio Banderas, the New York Times bestselling Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende, the Young Zorro novels by Jan Adkins, and the first Zorro anthology, Tales of Zorro, The Fox continues to be one of the most popular and enduring heroes of the twentieth-century.For more than eight-seven years Zorro has entertained and thrilled audiences around the world.
Is she alive or dead? Her family will do anything for her, and a seriously injured Agent Wade is their captive. Only his wits and a ticking clock stand between him and the ravenous thing the girl has become. Meanwhile, Agent Flynn rides the countryside in a ruthless search for him.
Horror and suspense like you've never seen in the old West!
We also wanted to take a moment to remember John Updike, who died on January 27. While he will be remembered as one of the greatest American authors, cartooning fans will also remember a lesser-known part of his career: cartoonist. In Hogan’s Alley #3, we ran a selection of his cartoons, along with an essay he wrote for the magazine. We are happy to present the essay, along with his cartoons:
A bit of background about the Updike feature, from HA editor Tom Heintjes: I was talking in 1995 with caricaturist David Levine to obtain his permission to run his drawing of author Flannery O’Connor that accompanied our feature on O’Connor in HA #2. In the course of that conversation, Levine discussed how numerous authors had an interest in cartooning, and he mentioned that Updike had been a published cartoonist while in college. I wrote to Updike in care of the Society of Illustrators (Levine told me the Society forwarded mail to him), and he graciously responded with the offer of an original essay and a stack of originals. I was petrified to have this artwork, so I scanned it and returned it as promptly as possible. Updike never asked for a penny for his essay, and any fee we could offer him would be laughably small, especially for someone of his accomplishment. So we sent him two vintage Big Little Books featuring Disney characters, which he wrote in his essay were early favorites of his. His thank you note, sent very promptly, was genuine and heartfelt. We sent him every copy of Hogan’s Alley after that, and we were proud to include him in our list of contributing writers. Sadly, his inclusion in issue #16 will be the last one.
If you like your justice served ice cold, baby, The SPIDER is it! The body count is high as the most ruthless crime fighter of all time stars in his very own wide-vision graphic novel! No one comes close to how deliciously deadly The Spider dispatches justice. The criminals are not left behind for the police; they are not rehabilitated. They are no longer a burden on society, as The Spider just mows them down with extreme prejudice! A murderous ghost of crime terrorizes New York City, dealing gruesome agonized death to any who stand in the way of his quest for power. The city reeling, threatened with wholesale murder, The Spider finds himself wounded and caught in a desperate battle within America’s very symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty. At stake, the fate of millions and the life of the woman he loves—Nita van Sloan! Painted in gorgeous noir b/w!
New sci-fi action/adventure comic now available FREE online!
"The YOUNG GODS creative team is a creative team that is well worth watching. We will see where they are going, with the story, with the characters. You want to interest the reader to follow the series, and this creative team has done that."– Paty Cockrum
Orang Utan Comics Studio has released the first part of their Young Gods OGN onto an unsuspecting world. An action packed adventure tale, Young Gods is certain to appeal to a wide range of comic book fans. The series sees OUCS make the bold leap from the printed page into digital media, with Young Gods being available to read completely FREE online, via the digital publishing site myebook.com. Orang Utan Comics Studio were the first organisaton to sign up to myebook’s publishing partnership plan when it went live last year.
“I think we recognized the huge potential of myebook about thirty seconds after first being shown it,” said Orang Utan Comics Studio’s Managing Editor and Young Gods’ creator, Ian Sharman. “It’s an ideal solution for small studios like ourselves who want to get our work in front of as many people as possible but don’t have the capital to finance large print runs.”
With the recent policy changes at Diamond reducing the opportunities for small press and independent publishers to reach a wide audience through traditional print publications, Orang Utan Comics Studio see online digital publishing as an essential tool for distributing their comics to a wider market.
Ian Sharman has been working on Young Gods since he was a teenager, gaining the initial inspiration while listening to the Little Angels album of the same name. However, the road from original idea to the comic book page has been a long one, and finding the right creative team to bring his ideas to life proved very challenging. “I think we went through seven artists, including at one point myself, before we found Ezequiel Pineda. His unique style was exactly what I was looking for, allowing the focus to shift from the overblown superheroics to the diverse characters that make up the team,” added series writer, Ian Sharman. The addition of Mauro Barbosa on colours proved that lightening can strike twice, as his dynamic colours proved to be the perfect complement to Ezequiel’s art. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate,” Ian continued, “finding not only one, but two extremely talented artists with the same passion for this comic that I have.”
The first part of the Young Gods OGN, which introduces the team and sets up plot points that will be continued in a six issue series that the Young Gods team are currently hard at work on is available to read FREE online right now, and the second part will be released on Feb 28th. Be one of the first to read this exciting new comic, and share it with your friends online, just as you would a YouTube video:
However, for people who prefer to read their comics on the move, rather than sat at a computer, Orang Utan Comics Studio are also exploring other areas of the digital revolution in comics, making Young Gods available to download to your mobile phone via ROK Comics.
The success of Young Gods will almost entirely depend on fan support, on word of mouth and the book spreading across the internet in a viral fashion. With this in mind, Orang Utan Comics Studio have produced a promotional video which they are encouraging their fans and supporters to put on their blogs and websites in order to spread the word about this ground breaking release.
To find out more about Young Gods, read character bios and creator profiles, please visit www.younggodscomic.co.uk
Orang Utan Comics Studio began life in 2007, bringing together rising talent from across the World.Since coming together to form the studio OUC creators have worked on titles including Contraband, Starship Troopers and Kong.Their Eagle Award Nominated Anthology “Eleventh Hour” was recently picked up by AAM/Markosia.They are also developing a number of new comic projects including Slam Ridley, Young Gods, Mamluk and 5th Outlaw.. For more information about Orang Utan Comics visit www.orangutancomics.co.uk.
myebook
Myebook.com (http://www.myebook.com), a web-based ebook community, gives people the tools to create book content and 'get it out there' for free. Every aspect of publishing content is covered - from creating, to sharing and reading - in a slick and simple way.
ROK Comics
ROK Comics is a new way of delivering comics in partnership with comics creators to mobile handsets using a sophisticated digital publishing system and Digitally Rights technology.
As a digital publisher ROK Comics enables you to create and upload your own comic strips for free that can then be delivered to mobile phones worldwide. http://www.rokcomics.com
EAGLE ONE MEDIA LAUNCHES ON-LINE COMIC BOOK DIGITAL DOWNLOAD STORE
Featuring books from such publishers as IDW, Moonstone, and Antarctic Press
Eagle One Media is proud to announce it has teamed with some of the comic book industry’s leading publishers in making available comic digital downloads to readers world-wide. Consumers are now able to
purchase and download hundreds of comic book content through the Eagle One
Media website at www.eagleonemedia.com. With comics and graphic novels
available from such publishers as IDW, Moonstone, Antarctic Press,
Alterna, Rorschach, Heroic, and others in simple to use pdf format and for
as little as 99 cents an issue.
Each comic available through the Eagle One Media website
www.eagleonemedia.com is formatted in easy to use full page pdf files that
can be viewed through the free Adobe Reader computer application.
Consumers will be able to save the content to multiple machines and even
print the issues they purchase (background watermarks applied). The first
couple of pages of each comic can also be previewed for free at the
website prior to making a purchase. Each week more comics and graphic novels will be added along with content from newly added publishers wishing to make their content available.
The launch of Eagle One Media’s comic digital download store comes one
week before the Company’s major February 3rd release of its next animated comic DVD titled Street Fighter: Round One – FIGHT! Based on the world-wide popular CAPCOM video game property and utilizing the bestselling Udon Street Fighter comic series. A 4+ minute video clip from
the DVD can be seen on You Tube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xDamwlii5E
About Eagle One Media:
Eagle One Media, Inc. (www.eagleonemedia.com), a multi-media company,
produces animated comic DVDs based on well-known, globally recognized,
licensed properties for the retail market. It has recently released
animated comic DVDs based on the Street Fighter video game franchise, the
anime classic TV series Voltron: Defender of the Universe, the blockbuster
sci-fi film The Terminator, and the world-wide popular toy line of the
Micronauts. Eagle One Media also releases feature length "family friendly"
animation features on DVD for the retail market such as Dragon Blade: The
Beginning - the world’s first 3D computer animated martial arts feature
film from action director Stanley Tong. And Dragon Hill, the GOYA Award
(Spain’s Academy Award) winning and European hit animation feature film.
For additional information contact Eagle One Media (info@eagleonemedia.com).
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