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Alex De Campi Teams Veterans With Comics Artists For True War Stories
250 page on and  kickstartered and teaming US veterans to tell their stories, with comic book creators to capture and publish them, co-edited by Iraq War veteran Khai Krumbhaar. Artists include Peter Krause, Ryan Howe, Skylar Patridge (drawing her own father's Vietnam story), Eoin Marron, Tish Doolin (a former Army medic), Dave Acosta, A[...]
Saladin Ahmed and Dave Acosta Set Kickstarter Ablaze with Dragon
Until recently, an established comics creator like Saladin Ahmed, taking a project to a crowdfunding platform, would have a lot of folks asking, "Why?" The answer is, of course, because Why not? Ahmed's campaign to fund Dragon, his hardcover graphic novel with Dave Acosta, has already raised almost $100,000, a number that any indie publisher would sacrifice[...]
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
The new tales will be tackled by writer David Avallone (Bettie Page, Twilight Zone) and artist Dave Acosta (Doc Savage) will be making their way to comic shops this July. The basis for the story is that the Mistress of the Dark has become unstuck in time and crashes Mary Shelley's monster weekend, beginning an epic[...]
Doc Savage
That means The Shadow vs Batman, Bettie Page, Dresden Files, James Bond, Agent 47 — and Doc Savage: Ring of Fire #1 by David Avallone and Dave Acosta. This is the first issue of the miniseries has the the classic pulp hero meeting up with one of the most mysterious people in history, Amelia Earhart[...]
Alex De Campi And Dave Acosta Launch HKMC, A Free Webcomic Starring Frank Castle And Bucky
Legacy, schmegacy! One of the best new comics in the Marvel Universe isn't even published by Marvel. Alex de Campi and Dave Acosta have launched a new webcomic, Hell's Kitchen Movie Club, with a brilliantly simple concept: "Frank Castle and Bucky sit around cleaning weapons & watching/critiquing action films." The context: pic.twitter.com/Jhb857RaOE — Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) September[...]
Writer's Commentary – David Avallone Talks Doc Savage: The Ring of Fire #2
The interior comic art is by Dave Acosta and the comic cover by Brent Schoonover. We dive into issue #2 as our heroes and villains converge in the South Pacific… spoilers follow Go read the book and come back and enjoy the footnotes! The covers: Anthony Marques' cover, like all his covers for this series, bursts with[...]
Creating A Super-Saga – David Avallone Talks Doc Savage: Ring Of Fire
It comes from writer David Avallone and artist Dave Acosta with covers by Brent Schoonover and Anthony Marques The series brings together Doc, Pat, The Five and the mystery of Amelia Earhart I chatted with Avallone about the new series and mixing classic pulp heroes with historical figures. DAN WICKLINE: I know that you've been writing[...]
Writer's Commentary – David Avallone On The Twilight Zone: The Shadow #3
A Writer's Commentary: David Avallone talks Twilight Zone: The Shadow #3, on sale now from Dynamite. Cover by Francesco Francavilla, interiors by Dave Acosta. I knew this would be the hard one: nothing is less visual than watching a guy write a novel… but I wanted to see if I could meet that challenge. The cover. I'm relatively new[...]
Writer's Commentary – David Avallone On Twilight Zone: The Shadow #1
Interiors are by Dave Acosta. Dynamite's Executive Editor Joseph Rybandt dropped me an email and asked if I could come up with a four-issue series combining The Shadow and The Twilight Zone He always likes to give me the easy ones After a little back-and-forth I came up with something that was able to satisfy the[...]
Dave Acosta's Process Art For Swords Of Sorrow: Vampirella / Jennifer Blood #2
Here we have some of the process art from the second issue by artist Dave Acosta and colorist Valentina Pinto. A team-up set up by SWORDS OF SORROW's Gail Simone, featuring the writer that she hand-picked: Nancy A Collins! Now that the threat of the Pacifica Slasher/Anaheim Ripper has been handled, Vampirella must figure out how to[...]
Free On Bleeding Cool – The Snare From Red Sonja #100
The Snare is by Eric Trautmann and Dave Acosta and published by Dynamite Entertainment. For more Red Sonja comics, check out the digital sale going on this weekend at Comixology. We have something a little different here Instead of a full free comic, we have a short story from the upcoming Red Sonja #100 The Snare[...]
First Look Inside Altered States: Doc Savage
This one shot is written by David Avallone, drawn by Dave Acosta and features a cover by Billy Tan This is the third Altered States book from the publisher with new takes on Vampirella and Red Sonja preceding it. For more on Altered States: Doc Savage, click here. Dynamite's new line of Altered States[...]
Exclusive First Look At Altered States Doc Savage
Dynamite has sent us some exclusive first look pages for their upcoming Altered States: Doc Savage comic written by David Avallone and drawn by Dave Acosta.Altered States is Dynamite's Elesworlds or What If? comics and takes familiar characters and puts them in very different worlds. Doc's research into the criminal inside all men backfires… and his own experiment[...]
Free On Bleeding Cool – Chastity #4 By Marc Andreyko And Dave Acosta
Today we have, free for you to read, Chastity #4 by Marc Andreyko and Dave Acosta from Dynamite Entertainment. What could be worse than being half-vampire and half-human? How about… high school? And while Chas tries to reacclimate herself to a normal life, Alyce continues her flagrant attacks on humans! But this has caught the attention[...]
Free On Bleeding Cool – Chastity #1 By Marc Andreyko And Dave Acosta
In their continuing effort to promote their DRM-Free Digital comics, Dynamite has sent over the first issue of the new Chastity series by Marc Andreyko and Dave Acosta The new series is part of Dynamite's relaunch of the Chaos Comics characters that includes Evil Ernie, Purgatory and Bad Kitty The initial relaunch of the characters[...]
Artist Spotlight – Dave Acosta From Dynamite's Chastity
The first time I saw Dave Acosta's work was on Zenescope's Tales From Oz #3 as he was drawing the origin story for the Scarecrow Now he's over at Dynamite as part of the Chaos! Comics relaunch and doing the art duties on Chastity We turn the spotlight on this up-and-coming artist to see how[...]
Boom! Launches Artist Search On Facebook
Kinda. They have launched an Artist Submissions page on Facebook for pencillers, inkers, colourists, letterers… but not writers! It's just for art samples, not for messages, and Boom will reoply to people's contact information if they wish to. However, by doing it so openly, it could also be a resource for other, smaller, less high profile publishers at[...]