by Jon B. COOKE - 176 page Trade Paperback with COLOR

The CBA Magic returns, in COMIC BOOK ARTIST BULLPEN! It collects every issue of the little-seen labor of love fanzine published in the early 2000s by JON B. COOKE (editor of today's Comic Book Creator magazine), just after the original Comic Book Artist ended its TwoMorrows run. Featured are in-depth interviews with some of comics' major league players, including GEORGE TUSKA, FRED HEMBECK, TERRY BEATTY, and FRANK BOLLE—and an amazing all-star tribute to Silver Age great JACK ABEL by the Marvel Comics Bullpen and others. That previously unpublished all-comics Abel appreciation (assembled by RICK PARKER) includes strips by JOE KUBERT, WALTER SIMONSON, KYLE BAKER, MARIE SEVERIN, GRAY MORROW, ALAN WEISS, SERGIO ARAGONÉS, MORT TODD, DICK AYERS, and many more! Includes the never-released issue #7, a new bonus feature on JACK KIRBY's unknown 1960s baseball card art, and a 16-page full-color section, all behind a Jack Kirby cover!

This item will be listed in the May 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#41).

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ISBN13: 978-1-60549-105-9

192-page FULL-COLOR HARDCOVER - by John COATES

Don Heck remains one of the legendary names in comics, considered an “artist's artist,” respected by peers, and beloved by fans as the co-creator of Marvel Comics characters Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, and for his long stint on Marvel Comics' team book The Avengers. He joined Atlas/Marvel Comics in 1954, and along with industry giants Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Joe Maneely, and Dick Ayers, Don became an integral player in “The Marvel Age of Comics”, drawing The X-Men, Spider-Man, Nick Fury—Agent of SHIELD, Daredevil, The Defenders, Ghost Rider, and most of Marvel's other characters. In the late 1970s he became regular artist on top-tier DC Comics titles such as Teen Titans, The Flash, Justice League of America, and Wonder Woman. In Don Heck: A Work Of Art, author John Coates has meticulously researched and chronicled information on Don’s storied 40-year career, including his time at DC, Dell, Gold Key, and as “ghost” artist on Lee Falk’s The Phantom newspaper strip. From personal recollections from Don’s surviving family, long-time friends, and industry legends, to rare interviews with Heck himself (where he discusses his career, artistic technique, triumphs, frustrations, and love of drawing), this book is full of insight into—and first-hand anecdotes from—the early days of Marvel Comics. It also features an unbiased analysis of sales on Don’s DC Comics titles, an extensive art gallery (including published, unpublished, and pencil artwork), a Foreword by Stan Lee, and an Afterword by Beau Smith.

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This item is listed in the June 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#42).

ISBN-13: 978-1-60549-058-8
ISBN-10: 1-60549-058-X

160-page Trade Paperback - Edited by Roy Thomas & Bill Schelly

This sequel to Alter Ego: The Best of the Legendary Comics Fanzine presents more fantastic features from the fabled mag begun in 1961 by Jerry Bails & Roy Thomas—covering undiscovered gems from all 11 original issues published between 1961 and 1978! Editors Roy Thomas and Bill Schelly uncover never-revealed secrets about the first super-hero fanzine ever published, with vintage articles about Tor, Hawkman, the Spectre, Blackhawk, the Justice League of America, the All Winners Squad, Robotman, Wonder Woman, the Heap, the Lensmen/Green Lantern connection, and so much more! Plus rarely-seen comics stories by Joe Kubert (a gorgeous, unsold "Tor" newspaper strip), Ronn Foss ("The Eclipse"), and Roy Thomas and Sam Grainger (adapting Gardner Fox's novel "Warrior of Llarn"), as well as Roy's entire "Bestest League of America" parody, collected for the first time ever! There's even a never-before-reprinted 1977 interview with Jean Giraud ("Moebius"), plus special sections on Bails' adzine The Comicollector and on "the A/E #10 that almost was"! It's all behind a classic cover of Gardner Fox and his greatest creations by then-future Marvel artist Sam Grainger!

ISBN-13: 978-1-60549-048-9
ISBN-10: 1-60549-048-2

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This item is listed in the June 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#42).

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Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters, & Culture of the Swinging Sixties

272-page full-color Trade Paperback - by Michael EURY

Welcome to the CAMP AGE, when spies liked their wars cold and their women warm, good guys beat bad guys with a pun and a punch, and Batman shook a mean cape. HERO-A-GO-GO celebrates the camp craze of the Swinging Sixties, when just about everyone—the teens of Riverdale, an ant and a squirrel, even the President of the United States—was a super-hero or a secret agent. Back Issue magazine and former DC Comics editor MICHAEL EURY takes you through that coolest cultural phenomenon with this lively collection of nostalgic essays, histories, and theme song lyrics of classic 1960s characters like Captain Action, Herbie the Fat Fury, Captain Nice, Atom Ant, Scooter, ACG’s Nemesis, Dell’s super-Frankenstein and Dracula, the “split!” Captain Marvel, and others! Featuring interviews with Bill Mumy (Lost in Space), Bob Holiday (It’s a Bird ... It’s a Plane ... It’s Superman), Ralph Bakshi (The Mighty Heroes, Spider-Man), Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean Meet Batman), Ramona Fradon (Metamorpho), Tony Tallarico (The Great Society Comic Book), Vince Gargiulo (Palisades Park historian), Joe Sinnott (The Beatles comic book), Jose Delbo (The Monkees comic book), and many more!

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This item is listed in the May 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#41).

ISBN: 1-60549-073-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-60549-073-1

120 page Trade Paperback with COLOR - By Eric Nolen-Weathington

Guy Davis is a master of the macabre, the mysterious... the just plain creepy. But underlying the eerie quality of his artwork is a remarkable sense of storytelling. Emotion drips off his brush, filling his work with life and energy. From his breakthrough hit, Baker Street, to the pulp noir Sandman Mystery Theater, to his current work on the Hellboy spin-off series, B.P.R.D., Davis has shown time and again that he is one of the best in the business. Join us as we lift the veil on the career of another Modern Master—Guy Davis! This book features a career-spanning interview with the artist, a discussion of his creative process, and reams of rare and unseen art, including a large gallery of commissioned pieces, and 8 pages of full color work.

ISBN-13: 978-1-605490-23-7
ISBN-10: 1-605490-23-6

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This item is listed in the June 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#42).

120 page Trade Paperback with COLOR - By Jorge Khoury and Eric Nolen-Weathington

Eric Powell is a sick, sick man. Sick... but brilliant. How else would he have been able to come up with a concept like The Goon—a smarter-than-he-looks brute raised by carnies, who runs the city's underworld while protecting it from being overrun by zombies? How could anyone not love that idea? Now’s your chance to take a look inside the sick mind of this Modern Master, courtesy of co-authors Jorge Khoury and Eric Nolen-Weathington. Through a career-spanning interview and heaps of fantastic artwork, including rare and unseen treasures from Powell's personal files, this book documents his amazing career and details his creative process,—it even includes a gallery of commissioned pieces in full-color. Experience the work and wonder of this master of modern comic art: Eric Powell!

ISBN-13: 978-1-60549-041-0
ISBN-10: 1-60549-041-5

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This item is listed in the June 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#42).

120 page Trade Paperback with COLOR - By Chris Arrant and Eric Nolen-Weathington

As the artist of DC’s New 52 breakout hit WONDER WOMAN series, CLIFF CHIANG’s star has never shone brighter. His bold, graphic style has a classic feel with a modern sensibility, and it’s no wonder he’s become one of the industry’s top illustrators. Now Chris Arrant and Eric Nolen-Weathington reveal just how CHIANG went from promising assistant editor to in-demand freelance artist in MODERN MASTERS VOL. 29: CLIFF CHIANG. It features a career-spanning interview, and loads of both iconic and rarely seen artwork from Cliff's personal files. There's also an in-depth look into the artist's work process, and an extensive gallery of commissioned pieces, many in in full-color. Experience the wonder of this modern master of comics: Cliff Chiang!

LUNAR Distributors Order Code: 0325TM906

This item is listed in the June 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#42).

ISBN-13: 978-1-60549-050-2
ISBN-10: 1-60549-050-4

120 page Trade Paperback with COLOR - By Eric Nolen-Weathington

Eisner and Harvey Award-winner Paolo Rivera grew up in his parents’ art store, so it’s no wonder his life’s path is that of an artist. And not just your run-of-the-mill comic book artist, but a painter, penciler, inker, colorist, and sculptor—Paolo does it all! From the pulp magazine feel of Mythos to the cinematic adventure of Spider-Man and the sleek stylings of Daredevil, Paolo brings a fresh storytelling approach to each project he illustrates. And his grand sense of design is on full display in the many covers he’s drawn. Whether he’s wielding a paint brush or a pencil, Paolo’s thoughtful work shows he has the Modern Masters touch! Eric Nolen-Weathington goes behind the scenes with Paolo to explore his career and his technique with access to his archives of published and unpublished work, including an extensive gallery of commissioned pieces, many in in full-color.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60549-060-1
ISBN-10: 1-60549-060-1

LUNAR Distributors Order Code: 0325TM907

This item is listed in the June 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#42).

Summer 2009 - 84 pages

DRAW! 18, the professional “how-to” magazine on cartooning and animation, features in-depth interviews and step-by-step demonstrations from top comics professionals. Issue #18 presents an in-depth interview and demo by R.M. Guera (the artist of Vertigo’s Scalped), showing how he produces the acclaimed series! There’s also a behind-the-scenes look in the Batcave with Cartoon Network’s James Tucker on the new hit show “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”! Plus: product reviews by Jamar Nicholas, and Comic Book Boot Camp’s “Anatomy: Part 2” by Bret Blevins and Mike Manley! All this, plus reviews, resources for artists, and more! Edited by Mike Manley. NOTE: May contain nudity for figure-drawing instruction; suggested for Mature Readers Only.

Summer 2012 - 84 pages

Draw! #23 (84 pages with COLOR) gets webbed up with top flight penciler Patrick Olliffe, as he demos how he produces such comics as Spider-Girl, his recent revival of Dark Horse's Mighty Samson, and digital comics for Marvel. Then, Jorge Khoury presents a comprehensive look at the career of Al Williamson, as the man and his work are remembered by Angelo Torres, Bret Blevins, Mark Schultz, Tom Yeates, Alex Ross, Rick Veitch, and others, including an examination of Al’s working process. Plus, there's another installment of Mike Manley and Bret Blevins’ “Comic Art Bootcamp”, a “Rough Critique” of a newcomer’s work by Bob McLeod, product and art supply reviews by "Crusty Critic" Jamar Nicholas, and more! NOTE: May contain nudity for figure-drawing instruction; suggested for Mature Readers Only.

Spring 2014 - 84 pages

DRAW! #28 (80 FULL-COLOR pages, $8.95), the professional “how-to” magazine on comics and animation, returns with a headliner spotlight on Xeric Foundation winner Farel Dalrymple (Pop Gun War, Meathaus, Society of Illustrators Gold Medalist). Dalrymple discusses the process behind his work and the upcoming second volume of his highly anticipated series Pop Gun War. Then, from Beware the Batman and Clone Wars to Transformers Prime and more, Draw! interviews top director and storyboard/comics artist Dave Bullock! Bullock discusses his animation work and covers for DC Comics, Valiant, and his upcoming comic project The Savage Blade of King Ronok! Plus, regular columnist Jerry Ordway draws on his years of experience to show readers the Ord-way of creating comics, Jamar Nicholas reviews the latest art supplies, and we present the latest installment of Comic Art Bootcamp by Bret Blevins and Draw! editor Mike Manley! NOTE: May contain nudity for figure-drawing instruction; suggested for Mature Readers Only.

Summer 2016 - 84 pages

Bwah-hah! DRAW! #32 (80 full-color pages) yuks it up with super-star penciler Howard Porter (Justice League 3000, Justice League of America, Superman Beyond) as he monologues and demos the creative process that has made him a top-tier penciler for DC Comics. Then we heckle power penciler Jamal Igle (Supergirl, Molly Danger, Zatanna) into spilling his guts about everything from storyboarding to penciling for the big boys, as he gives a breakdown of his working methods. Plus our regular line-up of columnists demonstrate their shtick: Crusty Critic Jamar Nicholas reviewing art supplies, Jerry Ordway showing the Ord-Way of doing comics, and Comic Art Bootcamp lessons with Bret Blevins and Draw! editor Mike Manley. No matter how you frame it, this issue kills!

LUNAR Distributors Order Code: 1125TM9090

This item is listed in the February 2026 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#50).

Spring 2020 - 84 full-color pages

From Deadpool to the Infinity Countdown, Mike Hawthorne has continued his upward trajectory to become one of today’s best mainstream comics artists. In Draw! #36, Hawthorne slices, dices, and dishes on what it takes to get to the top, and how he creates the razor-sharp imagery that got him there! Next, Draw! travels north of the border to catch up with Shuster Award-winning artist Yanick Paquette (Wonder Woman: Earth One, Batman Incorporated, and Swamp Thing), as he reveal the techniques and working methods behind his remarkable style. Plus, regular columnist Jerry Ordway continues demonstrating the “Ord-Way” of creating comics, Jamar Nicholas reviews the latest art supplies, and we present the latest installment of Comic Art Bootcamp by Bret Blevins and Draw! editor Mike Manley! NOTE: Contains nudity for figure-drawing instruction; suggested for Mature Readers Only.

This item is listed in the December 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#48).

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