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DC
COMICS PRESENTS—Julie Schwartz Tribute Comic
Status: August 2004, DC Comics
story, Harlan
Ellison & Peter David; art, Unknown
Update: March 19, 2004
On his blog, Peter David gave some more information about the upcoming Julie
Schwartz tribute comic:
 DC has announced
the Julie Schwartz tribute comic project, in which they gave covers
of classic Julie comics to various writers and we are to produce
11-page stories tying in with the covers. This has been in the hopper
for a little while, but since they've announced it ... and attached
my name, I figured I'd tell you that I'm scheduled to co-write mine
with Harlan Ellison (Harlan would do the plot, I'd turn it into a script)
and the cover we're doing is Justice League of America #53,
which features the JLA being attacked by their own weapons
Click
here to read the complete entry.
Update: March 19, 2004
Comic Book Resources reported that DC Comics is putting together
a series of 8 comics to celebrate the memory of Julie Schwartz.
Today, DC Comics
announced they would be releasing eight new stand-alone "DC
Comics Presents" specials beginning this July to celebrate the life
and contributions of influential editor Julius Schwartz. According to DC,
the specials "pay tribute to Julie via one of his best-known editorial
trademarks: the cover-driven story."
Each special features some of comics' biggest names as they use a classic
Silver Age cover as inspiration for two 11-page stories. The contributors
are writers and artists who either worked with Schwartz or those that were
inspired by his work. Each issue will include Harlan Ellison's tribute to
Schwartz (published on CBR yesterday) along with the original covers.
In addition
to giving the basic information on the first four weekly issues to
be released in July the article mentions...
And in August, look
for four more "DC Comics Presents" Specials
showcasing Superman, the Flash, the Atom, and the Justice League of
America, with new stories featuring the work of Stan Lee, Darwyn Cooke,
Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, Dennis O'Neil, Doug Mahnke, Jeph Loeb, Dave
Gibbons, Mark Waid, Peter David, Harlan Ellison, Marv Wolfman, Dustin
Nguyen, Joe Giella and more!
Click
here to read
the complete article.
FALLEN
ANGEL TPB
Status: June 2004, DC Comics
story, Peter
David; art, David Lopez & Fernando Blanco
Introduction, Harlan
Ellison
Update: March 20, 2004
In their solicitation material for June 2004, DC Comics announced that Harlan
Ellison will be writing the introduction for the collection of the first six
issues of Peter David's series Fallen Angel. The collection, which will feature
a cover by Brian Stelfreeze, will be 144 pages and cost $12.95.
THE
UNCANNY COCKRUM TRIBUTE SC
Status: June 2004, Aardwolf Publishing
contribution, Harlan
Ellison
Update: March 20, 2004
In their solicitation material for June 2004, Aardwolf Publishing announced a
tribute book to benefit Dave Cockrum, artist of the X-Men, Legion of Super-Heroes,
and others, who has been hospitalized for some time now. The large list of writers
and artists that will be contributing material for the book includes Harlan Ellison.
No further details about any of the contributions is included. The book will
be in black-&-white, cost $29.95, and be 56-plus pages long. Click
here for more
information.
ALTER
EGO #31— "Ellison Marvel-Land"
Status: December 2003, TwoMorrows Publishing
Article on Harlan Ellison's 1970s work for Marvel Comics.
Update: October 2003
Issue 23 of Alter Ego (Dec 2003, TwoMorrows
Publishing), Roy Thomas' magazine of Comics and Comics Fandom History, features an article on the issues of Avengers and Hulk that
HE wrote the stories for. The article, "Ellison Marvel-Land,
Science-Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison's Marvel Age Masterworks—In His Own Words,
This Time!" reprints Ellison's original stories "The Hulk In The Grip of Syklop" (which
had previously been printed in Marvelmania #4 (1970)) and "Five Dooms
To Save Tomorrow" (which had originally been printed in Comic Art #7). The article
features an introduction and background by Roy Thomas, who scripted the three
comics over HE's plots, in addition to art from the issues, previously unpublished
art featuring the characters, and original art from Avengers #101.
TwoMorrows
has also published other magazines and books of interest to Ellison
fans. Comic Book Artist #23 (Dec. 2002) featured
an interview with Ellison and The Warren Companion features
information on Ellison's official (and unofficial) stories for that
publisher. Check out their web site at www.twomorrows.com for
information on ordering these titles.
DR.
FATE — "Untitled"
Status: Unknown Publication Date, DC Comics
story, Harlan
Ellison; art, Unknown
Update: March 2004
In an interview with Jon B. Cooke for Comic Book Artist #23 (Dec. 2002, TwoMorrows
Publishing) HE mentioned some of his potential future comics work:
CBA: So you
will occasionally continue to write comics?
Harlan: Oh,
absolutely. I'm doing some right now. If I had not gotten involved
in terrible, terrible, deadlines, I would have already finished a
Doctor Fate I'm doing for [DC Comics editor] Peter Tomasi, that takes
place back in 1940. In fact, it's a story that takes place immediately
after the banquet story in JSA Secret Files. But I was late with
it, and he had to reassign it to someone else, so we have decided
that we're going to do... I can't tell you exactly, but it will be
a one-shot, killer project. A kind of dream of mine come true.
It appears
that this was the story originally planned for the JSA All-Stars mini-series.
No official anouncements or further news has appeared since the interview. SEVEN
AGAINST CHAOS
Status: Unknown Publication Date, DC Comics(?)
story, Harlan
Ellison; art, Paul Chadwick; covers, Dave Stevens
Update: January 2004
In Paul Chadwick's bio in Dark Horse Comics' AutobioGraphix collection
(Dec 2003) amongst his works is listed "the upcoming (with Harlan
Ellison) Seven Against Chaos." No further information is
given.
Update: May 6, 2003
In an interview with
the internet web magazine Silver
Bullet Comic Books about his work writing
Star Wars for Dark Horse Comics, artist Paul Chadwick talks briefly about
an upcoming Ellison project: MIKE
JOZIC: You once said that Concrete was
your life's work and that you needed breaks from time to time. Is your
Star Wars work one of those breaks, or will you be staying
on Empire for the foreseeable future?
CHADWICK: I'll be around for six issues, which is a good run for a gadfly
like me. But I have a big commitment for the next two years, a collaboration
with Harlan Ellison on a science fiction comic, Seven Against
Chaos.
No more Star Wars for me for a while, alas. My Concrete miniseries, The
Human Dilemma, is pretty close to done, and should be out this year.
JOZIC: Can you say any more about Seven
Against Chaos?
CHADWICK: It's
a recasting of The Magnificent Seven—itself based on Kurosawa's Seven
Samurai—in a future where people are shaped for rough work on other
planets genetically and mechanically. Harlan wrote a film treatment
in 1978, dusted it off, and sold it to DC to do as a comic. I'm drawing,
he's writing, Dave Stevens will do the covers.
JOZIC: What about working with Harlan?
CHADWICK: Harlan's
a hoot and a half, a walking encyclopedia, veteran of a thousand battles
- often of his own making – and
uncountable romantic conquests, a never-grown-up 68-year-old kid.
For a melancholy, shy type who loathes conflict, he is an exotic
creature beyond understanding. So I just enjoy. He is endlessly
kind to his friends. I plan to leave as much room as possible for text,
encouraging him to lay on his diamond-edged prose.
Chadwick
has previously worked with HE on a variety of projects. Read the full
interview
here.
TOM
STRONG — "Untitled"
Status: Unknown Publication Date, DC Comics / America's Best Comics
story, Harlan
Ellison; art, Unknown
Update: March 2004
In an interview with Jon B. Cooke for Comic Book Artist #23
(Dec. 2002, TwoMorrows Publishing) HE mentioned some of his potential future
comics work and in addition to a Dr. Fate piece for JSA editor Peter Tomasi he
also mentioned possible work on the Alan Moore created Tom Strong for DC Comics
ABC Comics imprint:
Harlan: I'm
also doing a Tom Strong arc that will be something like four or five
issues, something like that.
CBA: Have you dealt
directly with Alan Moore? Have you spoken with him?
Harlan: Yes, I have
talked to Alan. I told him the plot. He liked it and it was approved.
Moore has
been phasing out his writing on the script and a variety of other writers
have come in to write stories. Also uncomfirmed to be writing Tom
Strong in the future is writer Michael Morcock. Tom
Strong is a "science-hero"
whose make-up is an analogue to characters such as Doc Savage, Tarzan, Captain
Marvel, and Superman.
No official anouncements or further news has appeared since the interview.
VIC AND BLOOD: THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF A BOY AND HIS DOG
Status: Published 2003, iBooks / Edgeworks Abbey
story, Harlan
Ellison; art, Richard Corben
The Definitive Collection
of Graphic Novel & Illustrated Post-Apocolyptic
Adventures
by Harlan Ellison
Illustated by Richard Corben(Cage, The Incredible Hulk)
128 Pages, Full Color
Publication Date: June 2003
ISBN: 0743459032
Price: $17.95 US
Overview: The only
volume to collect all "A Boy and His Dog" stories
from award-winning author Harlan Ellison!
The acclaimed series of stories relating the adventures of Vic and his
telepathic dog, Blood, by Harlan Ellison is brought together as one stunning
graphic novel illustrated by Richard Corben, one of the field's leading
fantasy illustrators. Through prose and full-color graphic adaptations,
the post-apocolyptic classic saga of loyalty, love and death, as only a
telepathic dog can relate it. Also includeds original Ellison stories with
never published Corben art!
Creators: Harlan Ellison and Richard Corben
In a career spanning
over 50 years, HARLAN ELLISON has won more literary awards than any
other living fantasist. After winning a Nebula Award for Best Novella, "A Boy and His Dog" was
made into a movie starring Don Johnson and Jason Robards, which itself
won a Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Film of the Year.
Featuring never-before seen material from RICHARD CORBEN, critically-acclaimed
illustrator for Heavy Metal Magazine, Hellblazer (DC Comics), and The Incredible
Hulk (Marvel Comics)
[Text from Komikwerks,
the site for iBooks line of Graphic Novels.]
In addition,
a Collector's Edition Hardcover was offered exclusively through Diamond Comics,
featuring Ellison & Corben's signatures in addition to new text from Ellison
and an exclusive painting by Corben. |
