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Popular writer/artist and hometown hero Dan Jurgens made his usual appearance at the Minnesota show, and other featured guests included artists JK Woodward, Aaron Lopresti, Ben Templesmith, Peter Gross, Pat Gleason, and Gordon Purcell. A good number of comic book dealers were at the show, proving that Golden Age and Silver Age comics still have a[...]

UPDATE: And here it is! Ben Templesmith has told recipients of his mailing list about his next project Dagon Adapting the story by HP Lovecraft. DAGON is the first Lovecraft story I ever read It's also one of his earlier ones, is public domain, deals with things dear to my squidly heart… and is just oozing in[...]

Okay, I'll admit it… I love seeing Ben Templesmith's art on a DC Batman title Ben brings such an amazing mood to his work that I think goes so well with the darker side of the Dark Knight The third issue of Gotham By Midnight comes out tomorrow and here are some preview pages for[...]

IDW has heralded their partnership with Farrago by bringing 10 #1 issues of fan-favorite comics to the app for free, including work by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith, Jonathan Maberry, Chris Roberson, Ashley Wood, and many more. Those comics and the dates they will be available are: Now: 30 Days of Night #1 Mystery Society #1 Winterworld #1 Zombies vs Robots #0 On[...]

That's certainly what we see in Gotham Academy and Batgirl and now, in Gotham by Midnight. I've been a fan of Ben Templesmith's work for a number of years, from 30 Days of Night to Fell, and a host of series since, and he's been in the forefront of individual style couched firmly in horror and[...]

This moody, dark Bat-book is perfect for Ben Templesmith, and is recommended for anyone who digs DC dark titles Deathstroke #2 is here, it's fast paces and full of surprise guest stars I'm not a fan of the direction of this younger Slade, but I did enjoy this issue more than the first If you[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

This will be self-financed and produced by the publisher. Godkiller was created by Matt Pizzolo, Anna Muckracker Wieszczyk and Ben Templesmith and first appeared in 2008 It's the story of an escape teenaged slave who survives in a post-apocalyptic world. Pizzolo has done a previous experimental film starring Lance Henriksen called Godkiller: Walk Among Us A remastered[...]

And as Kodansha prepare for the release of the fourteenth volume of Attack On Titan next week, Ben Templesmith makes some Titan-inspired imagery. By being rather literal about the title. That certainly is a Titan Find his prints, and more, for sale here. It's always nice to end the day with some entertaining artwork And as[...]

And next year, we can expect a new one, courtesy of Ben Templesmith and Shane Pierce. That's not it above, that's Pierce's variant cover for Ben Templesmith's  The Squidder. Just imagine him with a not-horned helmet or something and you'll probably be close…   We've had a spate of Vikings in the media of late[...]

Soon enough, the two are on the run from cops, killers, drug dealers, and crime gangs in this super-powered spin on True Romance andBadlands. ________________________________________ TRANSFERENCE Writer Michael Moreci Artist Ron Salas An elite team of special agents run black ops utilizing a secret form of time travel technology called "transference," which enables them to send their consciousnesses back[...]

His path lies in shadows, his enemies' legion. 156 PAGES 8" x 12" / BW / M $29.99 A VOICE IN THE DARK: GET YOUR GUN #1 (of 5) Story/Art/ Cover A: Larime Taylor  Cover B: Ben Templesmith Now in FULL COLOR! A great jumping-on point for new readers With Zoey and several of her roommates[...]

So, last year Ben Templesmith was replaced as the artist on JMS's Ten Grand comic series for Image Comics A work-for-hire gig for Ben, he seemingly went incommunicado after being sent a script At the time JMS wrote,  Most recently, we gave Ben a full script on July 26th It is now September 4th, and we[...]

Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night / Squidder); comic book artist Orlando Baez; Director of Photography David Kruta, and micro-photographer and biochemist Linden Geldhill have all stepped up to lend their unique talents to this cutting-edge psychological massacre. Elevator Pitch: Set against a backdrop of 1980s Russia, a drill team will dig the deepest hole known[...]

I rather enjoyed the pilot. Well, that means lots of DC Comics with Gotham in the title… And the latest is Gotham by Midnight, by Ray Fawkes and Ben Templesmith. With Detective Jim Corrigan, better known in the Pre 52 as The Spectre, tracking down supernatural cases in Batman's back yard Though the Dark Knight won't be in[...]

Scott Campbell (Danger Girl), Arthur Suydam (Marvel Zombies), Nick Bradshaw (Wolverine and the X-Men), John Bolton (The Books of Magic), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash), George Perez (Avengers), and many more. The cover to The Art of Army of Darkness features artwork from the original movie poster by painter Michael Hussar, which[...]

By Trent Pitts            Once a summer in a hotel ballroom in Charlotte, North Carolina, comic fans and creators gather together to celebrate art and

Adam Daughhetee moderated a panel featuring Ben Templesmith, Rafael Albuquerque, Rachel Deering, Matthew Roberts, and Vanesa Del Rey about their life and work. He started off by asking them, "What are your roots in horror, and what's drawn you to this genre?" Albuquerque, who is best known right now for his work with Scott Snyder on American[...]

Funded on Kickstarter at the end of last year, to the tune of $137,000, The Squidder is Ben Templesmith's new work, and will be serialised by IDW from July. This all-new four-issue series finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind He was one of the last[...]

IDW Entertainment, the production arm of IDW Publishing, have commissioned another of their own books for adaptation, with Ben Templesmith's Wormwood being developed as an animated series. David M Stern, who has written for The Simpsons and created Ugly Americans, is writing the pilot and will executive produce the series Also on as a producer is[...]

Bleeding Cool's Gavin Lees writes from ECCC, in Seattle. Ben Templesmith would like everyone to know that he is alive and well He promises that The Squidder will be released in May, and he has photos from his 4am drawing sessions to prove it! Terry Dodson is hard at work on a new European-album format graphic novel,[...]

No one knew who we were and Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith weren't well known yet. So, I sent copies of 30 Days of Night to every single person I'd met in my comic book career – retailers, press, people at Diamond It worked out because Wizard Magazine got behind the book and started listing it[...]

This week, it's a storm of pros who are taking up the challenge to use Submit as their platform to keep things creator-owned as well as newer indies continuing to make their mark. Top Pick: The Undertaker Mortonstone #1 written by Gary Chaloner, with art by Ben Templesmith and Ashley Wood If you're thinking "What??", the only[...]

Social media being extremely social.  We launched our kickstarter campaign last week and are already 20% funded.  We are in the process of adding a video in our first update this week to give you a better idea of this projects goals. We also have secured for our cover,  an original piece by Eisner Award winning[...]

Peter David, Sergio Aragones, Timothy Zahn, Ben Templesmith, Jan Duursema and many others did. Post-prequels, Dark Horse launched two of their best ongoings: Knights of the Old Republic, written by John Jackson Miller with various artists, and Legacy, by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema. Knights of the Old Republic was such a brilliant concept and soooo good,[...]

Contributing to the whopping 200-page softcover will be Ben Templesmith, David Stoupakis, Riley Rossmo, Christopher Mitten, George Pratt, Menton3, and more.  And those process insights have been teased a couple of times in press releases–we'll get an insider view on some of the art production contained therein. 44Flood perfected the development of these art/comics anthologies previously with two contributors: Menton3[...]

Artist Ben Templesmith has been fired up about drawing Twin Peaks material.  Could it be that he's heard the announcement of David Lynch's additional footage being filmed for the show, probably for the Blu-Ray edition (As reported on Bleeding Cool here)? And the first thing Templesmith thinks of? BOB And then all art breaks loose[...]

I made friends with Ben Templesmith, Nat Jones, Jay Fotos, Nick Stakal, Ben Roman, Dan Taylor, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Szimon Kudransky, Illka Lessonen and the late Josh Medors I'm sure I'm missing some more. Another one of the artists that I got to know there is Butch Adams Butch and Steve teamed up in 2004 to[...]

In his new newsletter Orbital Operations, Warren Ellis caught his fans up on some of his current projects including the long waited for next issue of Fell with Ben Templesmith. FAQ: Ben's had the FELL #10 script for a couple of years, but his life is massively busy and complicated I know he's broken ground on[...]

New York Times bestselling comic book artist and writer Ben Templesmith has won the Spike TV Scream Award, the International Horror Guild Award and frequent Eisner nominations for his work As one of the four co-founders of dark art collective, 44FLOOD, along with Kasra Ghanbari, Nick Idell and menton3, Templesmith has been part of the[...]