Image Comics: A 20th Anniversary Celebration

For those of you who are going to be in the Bay Area for Image Expo, I wanted to tell you about a great event that's happening at the Cartoon Art Museum on Feb 23rd.  That night will be the opening reception for the Image Comics: A 20th Anniversary Celebration exhibit.  Featured guests will include our very own Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley as well as the amazing Fiona Staples with many more yet to be announced. 

Hit the jump to find out more about this great event.  Hopefully you'll join us for a fun night in celebration of Image Comics.

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Something to Fear.

After Rick and the other survivors are brought into a larger world, they are given something to fear.

 

Check back tomorrow for another glimpse of what’s in store for Rick and his people.

- Robert Kirkman

What a Steal: Image Expo Thief of Thieves Variant Cover

With all the talk about Image Expo that’s been floating around the interwebs these past few days, I’m jealous that I haven’t been able to share anything super awesome with everyone.  Well, that’s about to change. 

As Sina stated before, everyone at Skybound is really pumped up for the release of Thief of Thieves #1 next week.  But I’m personally excited for what we have in store for Thief of Thieves fans at Image Expo. 

Exclusively at the Skybound booth (Booth #100) we’ll have a limited edition Image Expo variant for Thief of Thieves #1.  And here’s a peek at the cover!

Image Expo is Coming!

February is almost upon us. Though it’s the shortest month, it will be a busy month for Skybound, culminating in Image Expo at the month’s end! 

From February 24-February 26, Image will be holding this convention at the Oakland Convention Center to celebrate 20 years of creator-owned comic book publishing, and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of it. This will be an amazing opportunity to attend panels and workshops with some of the biggest names in comics. Skybound’s own Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley will both be there, along with Image Partners  Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino and Founders Rob Liefeld and Whilce Portacio.

Tickets are for sale at http://www.imagecomicexpo.com/registration/.

For the next few weeks, we here at Skybound.com are going to be your source for everything Robert Kirkman and Skybound related that's happening at Image Expo.  Be sure to keep checking back for more info!!

We also just got a list of other creators who will be attending, and we couldn’t be more excited!

See Image’s full press release with a list of attendees after the jump:

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5 Things To Know! Jason Howard

Welcome Friends!

This is a new, on-going segment we'll be running only on the Skybound site: 5 Things to Know.  Every week, we'll be chatting with some of your favorite folks who are making your favorite comics.  To kick off, we asked SUPER DINOSAUR co-creator Jason Howard to throw down with us.  Read below, and I hope you get as much a kick out of this as I do!

5 Things To Know: Jason Howard

"The first comic book I remember reading was Tin Tin. The second was Spider-Man."

"My first published art in a comic was in the letters pages of Savage Dragon #17."

"I never had an art class in high school."

"Non comics authors whose books I have enjoyed recently are Scott Sigler and Brandon Sanderson."

"In college I signed up for a ping pong class. Due to my schedule I had to drop it before ever attending. Its a big regret."