Jim Pavelec and Chris Seaman’s upcoming IMPACT book Ink Bloom is featured in the current issue of Imagine FX. Check out the article and don’t forget to follow Jim and Chris’s progress on their blog. Ink Bloom will be available in April 2010.

Have a great weekend!

mary

IMPACT author Steve Ellis is having a busy month in publishing — he’s got two books hitting the shelves within thirty days.

Book #1: The Harvey Award-winning online comic High Moon illustrated by Steve and written by David Gallaher recently printed in bound graphic novel format. Check out this stylish promo or buy it on Amazon.

Book #2: The ultimate guide to drawing Ellis’s trademark werewolves as well as other vicious, blood-sucking, brain-gobbling creeps appropriately titled Scream. It includes 23 complete step-by-step demos for vampires, witches, zombies, mummies, ghosts and other classic horror characters such as this part bat, part demon WEREBAT:

Or this evil, rotting ZOMBIE PIRATE.

Click on the book cover below to buy a copy online, just in time for Halloween 2009.

No need for templates when you are a deviant artist! For this Halloween’s sampling of treats, check out the pumpkin art gallery at deviantART.com.

What are you carving this Halloween?

More than 200 students came to two presentations given by Scape Martinez last week.

GRAFF author Scape Martinez gears up this week to head to Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, California on Friday, October 30. If you live in the area and you’d like Scape to visit your school, contact us here or visit Scape’s website. You can also write us to get free graffiti lesson plans and step by steps!

Mona

Celebrate the amazing feminal strengths of Princess Diana of Themyscira this weekend to benefit Domestic Violence Awareness month. This Sunday, October 25th, two comics shops in Portland, Oregon and Fleminton, New Jersey are raising money for the cause through awesome festivities and Wonder Woman silent art auctions. Don’t worry, you don’t have to live on either coast to participate, you can bid online by proxy up until tomorrow at midnight EST.

IMPACT authors Scott Tipton and Chris Ryall write at length about the Amazon princess on their website, www.comics101.com, and in their introductory guide to comics, Comic Books 101. Check ‘em out!

Astro Boy opens in theaters tomorrow. Check it out!

Fantasy artist and IMPACT author Chuck Lukacs has created a Facebook fan page for his upcoming IMPACT book FANTASY GENESIS! Connect with other friends (including yours truly, IMPACT Books) and get sneak peaks of art and the latest updates.

• Visit the Fantasy Genesis page
• Look inside Wreaking Havoc, the book Chuck wrote with this friends, Jim Pavelec, Chris Seaman, and Thomas Manning

We’re just days from sending Master Digital Color: Styles, Tools, Techniques, by Brian & Kristy Miller (of Hi-Fi Colour Design) off to the printer. Master Digital Color is the follow up to Hi-Fi Color for Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results, the Millers’ first book with IMPACT. 

It’s a fortuitous time for the completion of book 2, since we’re all celebrating the success of the new Echo series by Terry Moore, winner of this year’s Best New Series Harvey Award. Brian Miller colored the covers for the series, and some of Terry’s work appears in Master Digital Color.

Hmm…maybe we should change the subtitle of Hi-Fi Color to Digital Techniques for Award-Winning Results?

Master Digital Color hits shelves in February 2010. Stay tuned.

–Mona

Learn More about digital coloring: 

• Pick up your copy of Hi-Fi Color the book here.
• Click here for a downloadable video lesson with Brian Miller.
• Check out Special Effects for Digital Coloring with Brian Miller DVD.

IMPACT author Steve Ellis and his High Moon collaborators David Gallaher and Scott O. Brown have won a 2009 Harvey Award for best online comics work. The prestigious award ceremony, named after comic great Harvey Kurtzman, was held Saturday at the Baltimore Comic-Con.

Steve won’t have time to rest on his laurels anytime soon. He has a new intrigue-style comic called Box 13 coming out for the iPhone this week, and he’s working on a Marvel Winter Guard project, due out this December. If you’re in the Brooklyn area this Saturday, stop by Bergen Street Comics for a High Moon and Scream book signing.