Gregory Benton Archives

Three of my studiomates from Gowanus, Brooklyn and Hang Dai Studios, were present signing, so I thought I'd check out the event. Here are some photos of Fantom Comics: And some of Hang Dai Studios signing two new books just released this week in time for SPX: Beef with Tomato by Dean Haspiel, and[...]

Founded by several contributing members of the studio including Dean Haspiel, Gregory Benton, Seth Kushner, and Josh Neufeld, the idea of the imprint was simply to acknowledge their common goal of producing creator-owned comics that met their own agreed upon standards of quality and voice,  and then to self-distribute, primarily in person at shows and[...]

The Hang Dai Editions imprint was created about a year ago by New York cartoonists Gregory Benton, Dean Haspiel, Seth Kushner, and Josh Neufeld to publish their creator-owned comics based in Hang Dai Studios in Gowanus Brooklyn, and they even espoused, for some of their comics, the principle of only hand-selling only at shows via[...]

Bleeding Cool received a strangely urgent missive tonight in the wake of all of the Big Two announcements that undermined the stability of all fictional

How many people would think there are connections between Archie's Dark Circle line, Oni Press' The Bunker, a MoCCA Fest award winning book, and an upcoming biographical graphic novel about John Leguizamo? Throw Action Lab books and plenty of indie publications into the mix and you're beginning to sketch out the things that come out[...]

I've just returned from Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend, one of the most comics creator-driven cons in the country, and my swag was such that I had to climb on a chair to take this aerial shot. So, we have the Skottie Young designed t-shirt for the con, a sticker for Heroes Aren't[...]

Next to Dorian on the left hand side of the entrance were Gregory Benton, whose B+F from Adhouse Books recently went on a Canada-US signing tour, taking Benton with it on long car journeys, and Dean Haspiel, whose Fear My Dear: A Billy Dogma Experience was recently released in hardback by Z2 Comics Both are[...]

They're teaming up with the non-profit Delete Blood Cancer to handle the registration process at the signing. Hang Dai Studio members attending include Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel of The Fox, and currently appearing in The Fantastic Four #5, Gregory Benton of the MoCCA Fest Award winning B+F from Adhouse Press, Christa Cassano of The Giant[...]

It's never too late to adjust your rewards I spent weeks on figuring out my rewards and how much to price them.  I made a list and studied it like a rabbinical scholar reading the Torah.  I didn't launch until I felt confident everything lined up perfectly, or so I thought.  Now, three weeks in, I[...]

The MoCCA Fest award-winning graphic novel B+F, expanded to large sized, glorious hardback is on tour with its creator Gregory Benton He's been traveling all over the world, and the country with B+F doing lavish illustrated inscriptions of poster-like dimensions for fans and here it is: his last stop on the B+F tour, at Quimby's[...]

HANG DAI Editions, an independent publishing imprint of Brooklyn, NY featuring the work of Gregory Benton (B+F), Dean Haspiel (The Fox), and Seth Kushner (Schmuck), has announced a new fourth member to their roster: Josh Neufeld. Neufeld is the critically acclaimed creator of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon) In addition, he is the illustrator[...]

The cover for the anthology is drawn by Gregory Benton, reflecting the Gowanus, Brooklyn location of Hang Dai Studios, and the book itself is edited and designed by Seth Kushner. The anthology encompasses a wide range of genres, from semi-autobio comics to zombie tales, and esoteric and haunting pieces that leave room for the reader's interpretation[...]

Monday, February 17th Locust Moon Comics will be hosting a stop on Gregory Benton's massive book signing tour for his award winning graphic novel B+F from 6pm to 9pm Don't miss out on getting one of Benton's famous double-interior cover original sketch spreads in color (poor guy's hands must be falling off by now)[...]

The event will start at 6pm at Wooden Shoe Books and Records at 704 South Street in Philadelphia. Monday, February 17th Locust Moon Comics will be hosting a stop on Gregory Benton's massive book signing tour for his award winning graphic novel B+F from 6pm to 9pm Don't miss out on getting one of Benton's famous double-interior cover[...]

[Benton at a recent Forbidden Planet NYC signing, photo by Jordan Isip] B+F started off as a large-folio self-published and lavish art comic that turned the heads of judges at MoCCA Fest 2013 in New York, and was picked up by Adhouse Books for a full graphic novel treatment in the hands of visual arts master[...]

Forbidden Planet NYC is located at 832 Broadway, New York. Emmy-Award winning artist Dean Haspiel will be signing copies of The Fox #3 at Forbidden Planet NYC on January 8, 2014, also at 7PM. Gregory Benton's new book B+F is out from AdHouse Books and he, too, will be signing copies at Forbidden Planet NYC at 7PM[...]

I am not sure why there are psychedelically colored manga-like characters cut out to stand on the hall stage every year, but they do lend a surreal atmosphere to the event. Seth Kushner and Dean Haspiel with their brand-spanking-new banner for Hang Dai Editions, a self-published imprint with fellow studio mate Gregory Benton They debuted their[...]

Gregory Benton will be signing copies of his completed graphic novel B+F, (a shorter form of which won an Award of Excellence at MoCCA Fest 2013), from Adhouse Books this Saturday at Comic Arts Brooklyn It's one of the wildest stories you're likely to encounter, a mythical free-flow of impressions and ideas exploring a strange[...]

The new communal space brought with it cartoonist and illustrator Gregory Benton, and something clicked into place within that enclosed creative environment Suddenly they were making battle plans and before long I heard rumors that they were setting out to establish their own studio imprint and their own line of books For the trio, it's[...]

The event runs from 7-9PM and there you will find Franca Barone, Gregory Benton, William Buzzell, Hannah Lee, Kristen Liu-Wong, Hazel Lee Santino, and Paula Searing as curated by Jordin Islip The particular comics connection is Gregory Benton, whose MoCCA Fest award winning B+F, now expanded into a full graphic novel is premiering at Comic[...]

He's one of the founding members of Hang Dai Studios, so his "bootlegger" Dean Haspiel (The Fox) had plenty to do with the guest list to the Speakeasy, and studio mates Christa Cassano, Gregory Benton (B+F), and Shiraj Ganguly wouldn't have missed the event Also present were Josh Neufeld (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge),[...]

It'll be available from December 1st. Force of Nature by Gregory Benton from Hang Dai Editions Gregory Benton won one of MoCCA Fest's coveted awards last spring for his monograph B+F which is appearing in formal published form very soon Recently, he produced another self-published work, Force of Nature, in full color, under the imprint of the[...]