Steve Ellis, author of IMPACT Books’ Scream (2009), has been nominated for a Harvey Award for best inker. Ellis is the author of Scream, which you can purchase by clicking on the cover of the book. The Harvey Award winners will be announced at the Baltimore Comic Con August 20th. Don’t forget that San Diego Comic Con, and with them, the Eisners, are also coming up. Who do you think should win?

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.

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.

Happy Friday everyone! We’re wrapping up the week with a fourth installment of super-awesome designer Wendy Dunning’s exploits at Mid-Ohio-Con:

With a Little Help from Your Friends
Comic Art Collaboratives and Groups
I found that Columbus has a couple of groups of folks that get together to share their art with each other. One of these is Sunday Comix, founded by Max Ink. Sunday Comix meets once a month (on a Sunday) so that members can share works in progress and get feedback. It’s open to artists, writers and readers. Their website is www.sundaycomix.blogspot.com. They are sponsoring Comix from the Crypt, a haunting art show of member’s works, now through the end of the month of October. A couple of members are pictured here.

Also in Columbus is a group called PANEL. This is a writers and artists collaborative that publishes anthologies with Ferret Press. The anthologies come out twice a year, with the current one being number 14, PANEL of Horror. I stopped to talk to Brent Bowman, who did the cover art for PANEL of Horror.

Q: How long have you been doing this?
A: So long, I can’t remember. But more in the last 4 years since I’ve been with PANEL.

Brent is working on a comic called Allied Powers (www.alliedpowerscomic.com). The writer is Craig Bogart, who has his own comic called The Ineffables (www.theineffables.com). I picked up a couple of issues of both. The Ineffables is kooky fun from the two issues I’ve read so far, and I have not yet broken into Allied Powers.

PANEL website: www.ferretpress.com/weblog
Ferret Press: www.ferretpress.com

The moral of the story: hook up with some of your comic buds to keep the comics dream alive.

Here’s a book by some comic artists that work together: Wreaking Havoc. Written by Jim Pavalec, Chris Seaman, Chuck Lukacs and Thomas Manning, this book shows you how to draw the characters and creatures that wreak havoc and their weapons of destruction. And if October has you in the mood for some horror, check out Jim Pavalec’s Hell Beasts or Steve Ellis’s Scream.

I usually like vampire-themed movies and TV shows (love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel), but I have yet to jump on the Twilight bandwagon (too much teenage angst?). However, I have wondered, what if Buffy and Edward existed in the same world? Turns out I’m not the first to consider what might happen if the snarky slayer and the brooding vampire met up. This remix is, well, pretty awesome.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

Whether you’re into blood-sucking monsters or suave, debonair counts, check out Scream by Steve Ellis. It’s sure to have a vampire to suit your fancy. Scream will be available in early September, and you can pre-order your copy here.

High Moon, created by writer Scott O. Brown and IMPACT’s Scream author and artist, Steve Ellis, is nominated for 2 Harvey Awards for Best New Series and Best On-Line Comics Work. Congratulations, fellas!

You can read the entire list of nominees here.

Can’t wait for Steve Ellis’s book Scream to be published? Pre-order it here.

AHHHHH!!!!! Scream: Draw Classic Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Monsters and More by Steve Ellis is now on its way to the printer and will be available in September 2009 (just in time for Halloween!). Preorder your copy of Scream here. You can also see some sample art and pages from the book on IMPACT’s facebook page.

Also, be sure to sign up for IMPACT’s newsletter here (or click the link at the top right). By signing up, you’ll be the first to know about upcoming art instruction releases from IMPACT Books, what our authors are up to as well as any other interesting news and tidbits about comics, graphic novels, pop culture, and, of course, art instruction.

Have a great weekend!
mary

New York Comic Con 2009 is taking place today through Sunday at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC. If you’re lucky enough to be there, click here to download this handy guide to the educational panels (thanks to Buddy Scalera for providing us with the link!).

Several IMPACT authors (Steve Ellis, Andy Schmidt and Buddy Scalera, to name a few) will be hosting panels, all of which are free with admission, so be sure to check them out!

Click here to go to the official New York Comic Con website.