Purveyor of sheer awesomeness.
Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Harvey, Eisner, and Emmy Award nominated writer of graphic novels, animation, video games, film, and television, including:
THE LIFE AFTER, THE BUNKER, PUNKS, ELK'S RUN, TUMOR, ECHOES, KING, PACIFIC RIM, THE ULTIMATES, I, VAMPIRE, and JEFF STEINBERG CHAMPION OF EARTH. He's also written television including MAX’s YOUNG JUSTICE, NBC's CHICAGO MED and NETFLIX’s AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER.
WONDERCON '08: THE TOP COW PANEL - NEWSARAMA
Cozine started the panel with a Pilot Season recap, announcing that both Fialkov and Pilot Season: Cyblade artist Rick Mays will return to Cyblade later this year, while Joe Casey will be returning to write a Velocity project, although Kevin Maguire will not be able to return with him on the upcoming book.
WONDERCON '08: THE DARK HORSE PANEL - NEWSARAMA
Gore announced that she’s also shepherding a new horror series entitled The Cleaners which focuses on trauma scene cleaners who are called in to clean up cases that the police don’t want people to know about…things that could not, or should not have happened and border on the supernatural. Gore said she was pitched the series by Mark Wheaton and Joshua Fialkov, and fell in love with it immediately. The artist for The Cleaners is Rahsan Ekdal, a newcomer who first showed Gore his portfolio at last year’s WonderCon. “He draws like if Geof Darrow and Kevin O’Neil had a little love baby.”
Back home from San Fran. Survived, and had a blast. Not exactly sicker than before I left but....
Ah that sweet LA morning air. San Francisco-ho.
Packing my bags (mostly filled with medicine) for the drive up to Wondercon. See you there.
Five hours in the emergency room on breathing treatments and a heaping helping of codeine laced cough syrup later, and I'm actually feel ...
Hey Gang, I've got the superflu, but, assuming I'm over it by Saturday morning, I'll be making my way up to San Francisco for Wondercon. I'm only doing a couple of things for the show, so, here's where you can catch me. Saturday 2pm-3pm Signing - Top Cow 3pm - 4pm Panel - Top Cow 4pm - 5pm Panel - Dark Horse Sunday 12pm-1pm Signing - Top Cow Here's hoping the vitamins I've been taking all week do their thing. See you in San Fran. j. www.thefialkov.com
My laptop has finally shit the bed. Go team.
In my sickness, I've reread all of Morrison's New X-Men... It's really a remarkable piece of work.
Day Two of superflu, remarkably similar to day one.
TOP COW AND MYSPACE COMIC BOOKS ANNOUNCE
PILOT SEASON WINNERS Velocity and Cyblade are the People’s Choice!
LOS ANGELES, Calif., February 19, 2008 - Top Cow Productions Inc. and MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, today announced the winners of Pilot Season, an exclusive contest that encouraged established comic book writers to create a pilot for a potential series using characters that are already well known by comic book fans. Five pilots were submitted and the MySpace Comic Book community was asked to “Take Control” and vote online at http://myspace.com/pilotseason to determine which two characters would receive their own series in 2008.
The two winning titles for 2007 were announced as Velocity and Cyblade, two of the dynamic female characters from Marc Silvestri’s original creator-owned property Cyberforce. Both series are slated to debut in the fall of 2008 in time for the Cyberforce 17th anniversary.
Velocity will be written by original Pilot Season writer Joe Casey (The Last Defenders,Youngblood) and an artist to be named later. “I couldn’t believe the voting topped four million votes,” marveled Casey. “Better than a New Hampshire primary! If only that many folks would buy the comics...! In any case, the Pilot issue was only the beginning of what we’re going to make sure is a wild ride when the new series hits in the fall.”
Cyblade will see the return of the Pilot Season team of Joshua Hale Fialkov (Marvel Comics Presents, Punks The Comic Book) and Rick Mays (Kabuki, Gen 13). “I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who voted for the book, and I’m positive they won’t be disappointed with where the series goes,” said Fialkov. “It’s going to be balls-to-the-wall explodo, and I’m psyched to be along for the ride.”
“Congratulations to Joe, Joshua, and Rick, as well as Kevin Maguire, who all helped shoot Cyblade and Velocity to the top,” said Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik. “The fans got out there and made damn sure their voices were heard loud and clear. The guys have a ton of great ideas they’re waiting to unleash on the comics community and if you sign up as a friend on the Pilot Season page you’ll be privy to exclusive sneak peeks.”
The Pilot Season profile received more than 4 million total votes in one month and fans who purchased all five pilot issues were rewarded with a secret voting code printed in each booklet, which doubled the value of their votes. The voting portion of the event was held in conjunction between Top Cow Productions, Inc. and MySpace Comic Books, http://myspace.com/comicbooks. For more information visit the official Pilot Season MySpace profile at http://myspace.com/pilotseason.
And I now have superflu. Thank you weakened immune system. You've really come through for me again.
If there was any doubt that allergy season has begun in L.A., the balls of phlegm liberating themselves from my throat disagree.
Hey folks,The illustrious comics award season has begun. I have a couple of books eligible, so, if you don't mind taking a second to vote, I'd be mighty grateful.
The Eagle Awards are open to anybody. You go here http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/Nominate.asp and enter the names of the books, creators, characters, etc. that you're voting for. If you'd be so kind as to vote for Elk's Run or Punks, I'd be extremely grateful. While I doubt we'd actually win, if we get enough votes, we'll get nominated. Just being nominated means extra sales and yada yada yada.
Then, there's the Harvey Awards. Open only to 'professionals in the comics industry' this means journalists, editors, creators, bloggers, etc. You fill out a quick form and either fax or e-mail it back in. You may remember Elk's Run being nominated (and then getting it's ass kicked by Ed Brubaker... even in categories he wasn't nominated for he still managed to beat us.) Anyways, you can fill in that form here: http://www.harveyawards.org/2008ballot/Harvey_2008_nom_ballot.pdf
Thanks for taking the time, y'all.
See some of you next weekend at Wondercon.
j.
Things going through my head: Why does Neil Peart wear that silly hat anyways?
Nice interview and feature about Elk's Run over at the Pulse today. I must've done the interview a long time ago, cause I don't actually remember doing it. But it's actually one of the smarter interviews I gave. I don't say "Fuck" once. http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=39;t=000350
I deeply resent living in a world where a category on a major tech store's website is 'bling.'
This may be the sickest year, thus far, of my life. So far this year: Sprained Back, Diabetes Scare, Flu, Food Poisoning, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something. Damn you, decaying body. Damn you straight to hell.
