Wishing you a happy and safe 2015 from Grand Design Communications.
Wayne Vansant’s non-fiction graphic novels continue to gain praise and readers
Wayne Vansant’s non-fiction graphic novels for the Zenith Graphic History line continue to impress, just as the sixth (and final, for now) volume, The Battle of the Bulge, is released. The prestigious art book dealer Bud Plant has listed The Battle of the Bulge, The Red Baron, Bombing Nazi Germany, and Normandy as ‘recommended’ in their online catalog. A review […]
Secret Identity says Wayne Vansant is "A brilliant storyteller"
Secretidentitypodcast.com, the website of the popular long-running Secret Identity podcast, posted a review of Katusha by Matt “Matman” Herring on October 15. Highlighting Vansant’s long career as a graphic novel creator primarily working in military history and military-related historical fiction, “Matman” wrote: If you have ever read any of Wayne’s previous books, you know what an […]
GDC at the New York Comic Con 2014
The annual four-days of multimedia madness known as the New York Comic Con opens today and more than 130,000 people are expected to attend the four day celebration of comics and other media. Since the first NYCC in 2006 attendance has grown from a modest 16,000 to numbers that rival the largest such event in the […]
Heroic Publishing now releasing three comics a week on Comixology
Last month Heroic Publishing ramped up it’s release schedule on the #1 digital comics platform, Comixology. The California-based publisher had sporadically released a number of titles through Comixology earlier in 2014. Now Heroic is releasing three digital comics a week through them, and so far titles released have included Flare, Flare Adventures, Champions, Champions Adventures, […]
Flare and Champions arrive on ComiXology!
Classic tales of Heroic Publishing’s FLARE and the CHAMPIONS are now available on the comic book industry’s premier digital distribution system, with new issues arriving every two weeks! In each issue of FLARE, follow the adventures of comics’ shining goddess of light, as she navigates the pitfalls of juggling her career as an international supermodel with the […]
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES 2014-2015 CREATIVE SLATE
PITTSBURGH, PA- Flanked by Action Lab staffers and talent including Ray-Anthony Height, Jeremy Dale, Vito DelSante, Gayle Middleton, Emily Martin, James Wright, Phillip Selvy and Nick Marino, Creative Director and writer/ artist Dave Dwonch announced Action Lab’s slate of upcoming releases at the is years San Diego Comic Con International. Grand Design Communications represents foreign […]
Wide acclaim for Wayne Vansant's THE RED BARON
Wayne Vansant’s The Red Baron: the graphic history of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI, the fifth in his series of graphic novel for the Zenith Graphic History series, was released last month to wide acclaim. As with the previous volumes in the series, Normandy, Grant Vs Lee, Bombing Nazi Germany, and Gettysburg, the books were […]
Wayne Vansant signing at Marietta, GA Barnes & Noble store August 2
Wayne Vansant, creator of Katusha and the Zenith Graphic History series, will be signing books and comics at a Marietta , Georgia area Barnes & Noble store on Saturday August 2 as part of their “Get Pop-Cultured – Marvel Day” celebration of comics, particularly Marvel Comics. Vansant was the artist on Marvel’s groundbreaking Vietnam War […]
Fabrice (Spider-Man: Noir) Sapolsky's ONE HIT WONDER now available for foreign licensing
One-Hit Wonder, the five-issue series published by Image Comics, is now available for licensing to publishers worldwide from Grand Design Communications. Created by French writer Fabrice Sapolsky and Argentine artist Ariel Olivetti, One-Hit Wonder (published in France as Hollywood Killer) tells the story of Richie Reese, a child actor turned hitman. Image’s official press release […]