The Demonslayer section has a new piece by Marat Mychaels, inked by Marc Deering, and colored by Greg Waller. The Demonslayer: Lords of Night #1 Demonic Nude edition is a January 04 Solicited release.
[ posted Friday, November 21, 2003 10:51:30 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Marat Mychaels, inker Marc Deering, and colorists Nimbus Studios bring us a new Demonslayer: Lords of Night cover -- and by popular demand, it's the first Demonslayer adult piece. This Demonslayer: Lords of Night edition will be available for order in next month's issue of Previews, so be sure to ask your retailer for it.
[ posted Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:30:15 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

We've got a new Hellina vs Pandora piece in the Pandora section from that upcoming project, this cover is penciled by Marat Mychaels, inked by Marc Deering, and colored by Nimbus Studios. We'll have more info on this upcoming project shortly.

There's an all-too-rare non-Demonslayer piece by Marat Mychaels in the Pandora section -- a cover for the upcoming Hellina vs Pandora saga. Next up for Marat at Avatar is artwork on an Alan Moore story in Yuggoth Cultures called "Me and Dorothy Parker."
[ posted Monday, August 04, 2003 8:33:00 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

The Demonslayer gallery has another look at the forthcoming Demonslayer: Lords of Night series with an issue #1/2 cover by Marat Mychaels colored by Mark Nicholas.
[ posted Saturday, July 12, 2003 11:08:45 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

New in the Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures section is the cover for the Yuggoth Cultures NecroComicon, the preview book for that series debuting at the San Diego Comicon which has been the subject of a lot of buzz this week.

By popular demand, we are now making this item available for online orders. A special sneak preview of the Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures mini-series, the NecroComicon is set to debut at this year's San Diego Comicon, and a limited number of copies are available for online order. Check out preview art by Bryan Talbot, Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, Mike Wolfer, and Marat Mychaels, and a new essay by frequent Moore collaborator Antony Johnston. This is sure to be one of the most sought-after items on the convention circuit this year, and it's now available for online orders as well.

Order the Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures NecroComicon here, and check out our September releases in the store for Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures #1 and many other items.
[ posted Friday, July 11, 2003 9:24:50 AM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Avatar Press has announced that it will publish a career-spanning series of comic book horror stories from one of the medium's acknowledged masters with ALAN MOORE'S YUGGOTH CULTURES AND OTHER GROWTHS. The three part, 40 page per issue series begins in September 2003 from Avatar with stories by Moore and artwork from a number of high-profile creators including Bryan Talbot, Val Semieks, Oscar Zarate, Jacen Burrows (ALAN MOORE'S THE COURTYARD, WARREN ELLIS' SCARS), Juan Jose Ryp (ALAN MOORE'S ANOTHER SUBURBAN ROMANCE, FRANK MILLER'S ROBOCOP), and Mike Wolfer (WARREN ELLIS' STRANGE KILLINGS).

The series features classic and little-known comic book stories from throughout Moore's career, some hard-to-find tales that have appeared only in comic books outside the U.S., and some surviving stories from the tragically-lost Lovecraftian Moore epic Yuggoth Cultures, which will be seen here in comic book form for the first time. The YUGGOTH CULTURES AND OTHER GROWTHS series will include such gems as the now-completed first part of Moore and Bryan Talbot's important lost classic NIGHTJAR, a story started 20 years ago which was supposed to appear in UK comic book WARRIOR, the legendary anthology where other Moore classics such as MIRACLEMAN and V FOR VENDETTA appeared.

"Perhaps because it was a symptom of the strangeness of existence or perhaps because it was an unnerving reminder of the cyclic nature of life, but it was really bloody weird returning to and finishing a work that I'd started and abandoned when I was a young underground comic artist trying to break into the mainstream," says NIGHTJAR collaborator Bryan Talbot. "It was definitely weird inking a page drawn on yellowing watercolour board that another me had penciled over twenty years ago. It's not that I'd forgotten drawing it: I could remember penciling those panels, on some, even the music that was playing at the time (a pretty common phenomena), but it did give me a peculiar frisson all of its own.

"I don't know how he had heard about it but William Christensen got in touch, asking if I still had the artwork for the "lost WARRIOR story" NIGHTJAR," Talbot continues. "WARRIOR was the groundbreaking UK comic art periodical published by Dez Skinn (now editor/publisher of COMICS INTERNATIONAL) where Alan Moore made his name before being headhunted by DC Comics, bringing his unique and magisterial talent for writing sequential art universal acclaim. Alan was already contributing MARVELMAN (later MIRACLEMAN) and V FOR VENDETTA and he and I had talked about collaborating on a strip for WARRIOR for a while. We decided upon a horror piece. I started drawing from his script, fitting it in around paying work until, to be mercifully brief, Alan and Dez fell out big time. As a result, Alan stopped contributing to WARRIOR and NIGHTJAR, now with no home, was shelved. NIGHTJAR would have been Alan's first horror work. Many of the ideas he is playing with here emerge later in SWAMP THING, his concept of an urban sorcerer eventually manifesting itself in the form of John Constantine." (more...)
[ posted Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:21:33 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Both beauty and the beast are on display as the demonslayer gallery has another look at the upcoming Demonslayer: Lords of Night saga with a new cover by Juan Jose Ryp. Avatar has published numerous comics featuring the saga of Jaclyn Hayes, an archeologist whose trip to Tibet fullfilled an ancient prophecy and turned her into the Demonslayer.  Prior to Lords of Night, the most recent Demonslayer saga was Demonslayer: Path of Time.  There have been several other mini-series and one shots published at Avatar, and we also collected the Image-published material into the Demonslayer Trade Paperback.
[ posted Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:03:28 AM  |  permanent link to this item ]