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British Comics' Best Kept Secret, Mark Stafford, Has Something For You
Whatever 2023 brings in terms of doom and despondency, bringing Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbordinto the world may make up for a lot of it. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ People aside from me who have backed the campaign include Gene[...]
Looking Into Radical, Dave Elliott, Alan Moore, Steve Moore And Hercules
This is why, even as the story raced across social media, we received no responses from them regarding our enquiries. C0-founder of Radical, and one mentioned in a negative fashion by Alan Moore in the interview, is Dave Elliott Elliott's relationship with Radical was not exactly smooth, and upon his firing by the publisher and their attempt[...]
Get Your Massacre On In New York Tomorrow
Tomorrow night, at Forbidden Planet in New York, Dave Elliott is doing a signing of the second issue of his Monster Massacre anthology, published that day The first hundred people in the store get a free copy of A1 issue 1 (either a Phantom Variant or Forbidden Planet variant cover) And anyone buying a set[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Dave Elliott And Brian Winkeler At San Diego Comic Con
This time around I catch up with old podcast friend and A1 creator Dave Elliott to discuss what's new We find out what he's been happening since we last spoke and how things have evolved for this new incarnation of A1. From there I chat with new podcast friend Brian Winkeler about his work on Knuckleheads[...]
Nine Glorious Pages From October's A1 Annual
Gilbert, Sandy Plunkett, Scott Hampton, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Johnson, Garry Leach, Stanley Lau, Toby Cypress, Dave Elliott, Barnaby Bagenda, Norman Felche, Alex Shiekman, Mark Kneece, Dominic Regan, Madeline Holly-Rosing, Emily Hu, Sakti Yuwono, Jessica Kholinne, Bambos Georgiou and more 176 oversized pages, $23, get in there. Island in the Sky – written by JOE SIMON, penciled[...]
A1 – Seizing The Day
We're very happy here at Bleeding Cool Dungeons about the return of the A1 anthology from Dave Elliott to comics, courtesy of Titan Comics, publisher of CLiNT and a bunch of new creator owned comics. These are the covers for A1 issue 2 in July (and issue 1 below) CARPEDIEM Agents must save their leader, Sir[...]
eBay Art Not By Brendan McCarthy… But By Dave Elliott?
Brendan McCarthy writes; Just to bring you up to speed, the mystery of this Paradax artwork has been solved. Dave Elliott wrote to me and explained that he'd done a homage based on photocopies of some of my drawings (hence the inverted Mirkin on the page) to see what he'd be like inking my material[...]
A1 Issue Zero Launches, Digitally, For Free, Right Here
And now here it is, for free, A1 issue zero, from Dave Elliott and friends. The 60 page book contains previews and character designs for Odyssey and Odyssey: Blazing Glory by Dave Elliott, Garrie Gastonny and Sakti Yuwono, Carpo Diem by Rhoald Marcelius and Sakti Yowono, and Weirding Willows by Dave Elliott and Sami Basra. The first[...]
A1 To Relaunch Digitally, This Week (UPDATE)
UPDATE: Here's the cover, Sometime this week, I don't know where, I don't know when, Dave Elliott will relaunch A1 For the fourth (I think) time. Originally spinning out of Dave's time at Quality Communications working on Warrior, he and Garry Leach created Atomeka, to publish A1, containing the creator owned work of Alan Moore, Garry Leach,[...]
DeviantArt Launch New Ways To Pay Their Creators
Expect this to be a major story at the show, especially amongst the majority of comic artists… While there have been a number of questions about the details and impact, comments from deviantART members have been generally positive, including Dave Elliott's "THE IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! Thank you!" Angelo Sotira, Co-Founder and CEO of[...]
BC Mag #0: The Atomeka Age
Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Rich Johnston Dave Elliott is back Best known for being a comic book inker, editor, and publisher, his greatest success has been facilitating the projects of other people. From Alan Moore and Garry Leach on Marvelman for Warrior, to Simon Bisley, Ted McKeever, and Glenn Fabry for the anthology A1 at his[...]
Dave Elliott IS Bringing Back Atomeka
Earlier last week we saw some images of Dave Elliott's future plans for comics, from both Heavy Metal and a new Monster Massacre volume For a man known for working for a number of prominent comics publishers, some wondered if it could be a blast from the past, of the days of A1… When asked on[...]
Dave Elliott's Shiny New Things
  Dave Elliott, the man who has published great work from creators including Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Brian Bolland and, basically, anyone decent He's best been known for facilitating the talents of others, from Atomeka to Radical But now he's doing it himself The Weirding Willows is his League Of Extraordinary Fairy Stories, with Alice, Frankenstein's[...]
Heavy Metal Revives Monster Massacre For San Diego Comic Con
We knew something like this was coming. Some of you may have fond memories of Monster Massacre, an Atomeka volume from Dave Elliott and Garry Leach that was full of Simon Bisley, Dougie Braithwaite, Simon Furman, Dave Gibbons, James O'Barr, Kevin O'Neill, Peter Snejbjerg and more. Well now it's back, courtesy of Heavy Metal Magazine, launching at[...]
Marksman Collection Gets Extra Pages – Here Are A Couple Of Them
The TPB collection of Image Comics' The Marksman will contain a new four page prologue by Dave Elliott that didn't appear in the original series, out next month And here are two pages of it… Based on real life economic hardships, MARKSMEN takes place in dystopian world just one step removed from our own[...]
The Return Of Dave Elliott's Monster Massacre
Monster Massacre was an A1 Atomeka publication from Dave Elliott and Gary Leach in the nineties, featuring work from Simon Bisley, Dougie Braithwaite, Simon Furman, Dave Gibbons, James O'Barr, Kevin O'Neill, Peter Snejbjerg and more, followed by a Monster Massacre Special from Blackball with Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley, James O'Barr, Kevin O'Neill and more, as[...]
Odyssey – A New Graphic Novel From Dave Elliott, Garrie Gastonny… And Jim Steranko
Whether by working on Warrior Magazine, creating publisher Atomeka and A1 publications, developing comics at Radical and standing behind a new line of comics at Image. But now the sister is doing it for himself. Dave Elliott is writing his own graphic novel, Odyssey, drawn by Gary Gastonny, artist on Lady Death and Supergod for Avatar/Boundless and[...]
The Tenth Annual Rumour Awards – FIRING OF THE YEAR
But it would be McFarlane Toys that downsized the most losing almost all their employees reducing to a skeleton staff. Then there was Dave Elliott, fired from Radical, with a court case planned for October. But the firing of the year wasn't really a firing, more of a slightly-pressured resignation, as Paul Levitz left his role as[...]