More great news about Skullkickers at San Diego Comicon this coming week!

We\’ll be bringing two exclusive convention art prints to the show, both taken from rare variant covers you may not have gotten your hands on. These illos won\’t be in our trade paperback and have never been reproduced without our skull trade dress before, so you\’ll want to snag these 11\” x 17\” beauties.

We received our advanced copies of Skullkickers #9 in the mail yesterday so we\’re bringing some copies to the show for eager readers who want to get the first crack at reading part 3 of \’Five Funerals and Bucket of Blood\’.

And, of course, we\’ll have the previously-announced new exclusive hard cover edition of \’1000 Opas and Dead Body\’ for sale at the show. It\’s looking amazing and we can\’t wait to get these limited edition copies in to your hot little hands.

See you at SDCC!

Here we go! Preparations are underway for the biggest comic/game/movie/pop culture convention of the summer – Comic Con International, the wild and wooly San Diego Comicon!

Edwin and Zub of Team Skullkickers will be stationed at Booth #2729, the Image Comics booth, mashing monsters and signing books… and not just any books, mind you…

The limited edition hard cover Skullkickers Vol. 1\’s we printed up for Emerald City Comicon vanished faster than expected, but since we were headed back to press on the regular edition anyways, we printed up a brand new convention-exclusive hard cover edition for SDCC with a spiffy new cover! Check it out:

Convention-only hardcover special edition for $25!

In addition, both Jim and Edwin will be doing a couple signings at Booth #5037, the UDON Entertainment booth, as part of the studio\’s Mega Man Tribute art book release.

Click on the zoomed in map below for a larger version of the whole crazy exhibit floor.

If you\’re attending San Diego Comicon this year, we want to see you there! Come by the Image Comics booth and tell us what you think of Skullkickers!

It\’s nerd prom and everybody\’s getting ready to dance! 🙂

This weekend in Alberta is the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo! Skullkickers writer Jim Zub will be there, set up in the Guest Creator section at table K09.

Come by, say \”hi\”, get Skullkickers books signed and snag a sketch while you\’re at it. Jim will have some Skullkickers convention-only hardcovers, rare variant cover issues and more on hand. It\’s going to be a great show!

Click for larger map of the con floor

This weekend is the HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina. Skullkickers writer/creator Jim Zub will be there signing and selling trades and issues (including some rare variant covers for sale) all weekend long at the Image Comics booth, Booth #424.

Come by, say \”Hi\” and let him know what you thought of the newly released issue #7.

Just a quick reminder that Edwin Huang, our amazing Skullkickers line artist, will be in Artist Alley at the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con this weekend! If you live in the New York area make sure you stop by Artist Alley table 602 to get your Skullkickers comics signed and pick up an advance copy of issue #7.

TCAF was amazing! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to purchase books and let us know how much they enjoy Skullkickers. Working on a creator-owned project like this is a constant roller coaster of excitement and fear as you release each issue and hope that the reading audience digs in on what you\’ve created. Getting your vote of confidence in person means a lot to everyone on the creative team.

Thank you!

Jim Zub is exhibiting at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend, selling copies of Skullkickers and a lot of other books, sketchbooks and mini-comics. TCAF is a free event in downtown Toronto with tons of amazing creators displaying their work. The show has a great atmosphere for comic lovers of any age and any style. If you live in the area you should come downtown and check it out.

Zub will be at table 212 in the 2nd floor Salon section.

Skullkickers cover artist Chris Stevens and writer Jim Zub will both be appearing at Heroes Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 3-5. It\’s going to be a great weekend for comics and you can get your Skullkickers issues/trades signed up while you\’re there. Once we have the table #\’s nailed down we\’ll be sure to post them here.

For other summer signing appearances, check out our Conventions page.

The C2E2 convention in Chicago starts tomorrow and we are pumped. If you are in the Chicago area, please come out to the show and get a copy of Skullkickers, or get your books signed.

In addition to having 30 copies of the limited edition hardcover version of Skullkickers Vol.1, we\’ll have the regular softcover trades, rare variant cover issues and an exclusive version of the Skullkickers Sketchbook:

We hope to see you there!