Legendary writer/editor Roy Thomas will contribute a story to X-Men: Gold, a special comic book to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of Marvel’s mutant franchise.   Thomas had two memorable runs as writer on X-Men, taking over from Stan Lee with issue 20.  He had a hand in the creation of two mainstay X-Men […]

With over 130,000 visitors, the 2013 edition of the New York Comic Con has brought the east coast pop and culture celebration to the same size as the older Comic-Con International in San Diego.  Over the course of four days, thousands of fans of comics culture packed Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Center to shop, enjoy seminars, […]

Wayne Vansant, author of NORMANDY, GETTYSBURG, GRANT vs. LEE, and BOMBING NAZI GERMANY, will have a booth at the F.A.C.T.S convention in Belgium to promote his work to the entire European comics community.  F.A.C.T.S is the largest American-style comics convention in Europe, and other guests include Toshio Maeda, Erik Larsen, and another GDC client (for […]

  Armchair General Magazine profiled Wayne Vansant’s KATUSHA, GIRL SOLDIER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR in their “Stuff We Like” column on July 26.  The prestigious magazine of military history wrote: “Writer and graphic artist Wayne Vansant has carved out a distinct niche for himself with his well-researched, concisely written books of military history presented in […]

GRAPHIC CLASSICS, the acclaimed series of comics adaptations of literary classics represented by Grand Design Communications, has had multiple titles included in the Diamond Distribution Core Curiculum list announced at the American Library Association Annual Conference June 28-July 2 in Chicago, IL.  Of the nearly 100 books on the list, 23 were from GRAPHIC CLASSICS. […]

  Zenith Press will release two new graphic novels by Wayne Vansant this fall, BOMBING NAZI GERMANY and GRANT VS LEE. The two books are part of the Zenith Graphic History collection, which already includes two volumes by Vansant, NORMANDY and GETTYSBURG. Vansant is represented by David Bernstein of Grand Design Communications. In BOMBING NAZI […]

Just released on iVerse Media’s ComicsPlus app – GOD THE DYSLEXIC DOG books 1, 2, and 3 by writers Brian Phillipson and Philip Phillipson and legendary artist Alex Nino! Now available for reading on iOS and Android devices and in-browser reading is Bliss On Tap Publishing’s GOD THE DYSLEXIC DOG, psychedelic-philosophical-theological trip that asks: What […]

WebComicsEU, the Greek publishers of THE CHRONICLES OF ALOS: THE TOWER, have released three promotional trailers for the graphic novel.  Titled “The Plan”, “The Vault”, and “The Escape”, each trailer covers a separate chapter in the adventure of The Tower. All publishing rights for THE CHRONICLES OF ALOS: THE TOWER outside of Greece are available […]

Here’s a great review of an English translation of the second volume of EXPEDITION, from Win Wiacek’s “Now Read This”.  Published by Methuen in 1978 under the title Atlantis Men and Monsters (original Polish title: Ludzie i Potwory), Wiacek calls it “A rather impressive, entertaining slice of speculative fiction dressed in a workmanlike yet enthralling no-nonsense art […]

Le Cercle Rouge has posted an interview with Cinzia Ghigliano on the creation of NORA, her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Non-Italian speakers can use Youtube’s captions translate feature to follow along. Rights for NORA and Ghigliano’s series SOLANGE (with writer Marco Tomatis) are represented by Grand Design Communications.