Skullkickers

This Saturday, on May 12th, Jim Zub will be appearing at the award-winning Strange Adventures comic shop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for a signing.

If you live in the area you should swing by to get your copies of Skullkickers, Makeshift Miracle or Street Fighter signed.

This weekend is the wonderful annual Toronto Comic Arts Festival and Skullkickers will be there. Writer Jim Zub and Color/Ink Assistant Mike Luckas are set up at the show right beside each other. How convenient!

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Come by to grab a copy of Skullkickers Treasure Trove, browse our books, get stuff signed and, while you’re at it, snag a copy of Jim’s new non-SK graphic novel Makeshift Miracle: The Girl From Nowhere which is debuting at the show!

On Sunday, you can also attend a spiffy panel on comic writing:

Sunday, May 6, 2012
Ristorante Fortuna – Google Map
12 Cumberland St
Toronto, ON M4W 1J5

2:00 – 3:00 – Writing Pictures with Words: Comic Writer’s Craft
Brainstorming ideas, describing scenes, building plot and creating dialogue. Learn comic writing techniques and tips from prolific comic pros Becky Cloonan (Conan, Wolves), Ray Fawkes (One Soul, Possessions), Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics, Adventure Time) and Jim Zub (Makeshift Miracle, Skullkickers).

This weekend Jim Zub will be exhibiting at the Calgary Expo, one of the biggest shows in Canada!

Bring your copies of Skullkickers or buy trades and issues directly from Jim at Table X-17. He’ll have copies of Skullkickers Treasure Trove, our soft cover trades, rare variant covers and the Skullkickers World Map for sale, along with sketches and more.

He’ll also be on two panels at the show:

Saturday April 28th
Writers Unite: Pitching Your Creator Owned Comics
Room: Palomino C
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Jim Zub will relay funny anecdotal stories of his own creative journey as he illustrates how to write comics, set goals, create pitches, and ultimately get your own work out to the masses. Be sure to come prepared with any questions you want answered.

Sunday April 29th
Convention Horror Stories
Room: Palomino C
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm

And you thought horror movies were scary! Jim Zub will regale you with bone chilling and hair raising real life stories of some of the conventions he’s attended.

Over the weekend at Emerald City Comicon we met Vanessa Knight, our very first Skullkickers cosplayer! YAY! She makes a fetching Kusia and we’re thrilled to start of the convention season on such a sharp note.

Thanks, Vanessa!

We had a special sketch cover variant of Skullkickers #13 at Emerald City Comicon over the weekend. In addition to Zub sketching up a slew of SK characters, we asked some of our artist pals to contribute sketches. Check out these beauties:

Jeff ‘Chamba’ Cruz (Street Fighter, RandomVeus)

Joe Eisma (Morning Glories)

Ray Fawkes (Possessions, One Soul)