Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color

A historic first publication by Kirby Museum Press and is the first official crowdfunding campaign for a Jack Kirby book.

The Sky Masters of the Space Force newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby. The strip narrates, with a realistic approach, the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s, just as a new front opened in the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: a frenzied space race. Now fans and scholars can experience this lost piece of Kirby history as never before, with Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color.

Created and developed by Kirby with writer Dave Wood at the beginning of 1958 while Kirby was working for National (DC), the Sky Masters daily strip debuted on September 8 of that year. Five months later, on February 8, 1959, the color Sunday strips arrived featuring a totally independent storyline from the dailies.

Sky Masters features spectacular art from two of the comics industry’s leading lights of the era. Kirby and embellisher Wallace Wood were both at the peak of their careers, and brought the art of the strip to unprecedented levels. Compared to the Sky Masters dailies, the Sunday strips were the maximum expression of the team’s artistic prowess.

While the Sky Masters Sundays have seen print before, they’ve never been presented in their complete form or in color. Spanish designer Ferran Delgado, who compiled and produced the Eisner Award-nominated first edition of this book published in 2015, found all the best source material, including an extra 100 panels that were created to allow for the various formats of  Sunday newspaper sections. Some of these panels hadn’t been seen in any reprint editions. Delgado also featured the first re-printing of strip #52, which hadn’t been printed since its original publication in newspapers. Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color contains all 54 complete Sunday strips, including the extra panels, compiled in color, all painstakingly remastered in this deluxe volume

Mike Grell’s 50th Anniversary Art Book

A collection of career-spanning (50 years and counting) of Mike Grell art! A coffee table collection of Grell’s greatest creations!

For the first time, a collection of lavishly painted, fully colored, and black and white pencil and ink illustrations by one of comics’ masters of the form, Mike Grell, is being made available. In association with Grell’s Masterstroke Studios, and assembled from the rarest of pieces of art culled from private collections of fans, this is a definitive examination of Grell’s most iconic characters in epic illustrations.

This will be a deluxe oversized hardcover book, with high-quality page stock and colors. We are pulling out all the stops to make this something amazing and special!

Dozens of fans have assembled to contribute hi-quality images of unique commissions by Grell, cover recreations, and some newly painted images from unique fan commissions spanning the following:

• JON SABLE FREELANCE!
• MAGGIE THE CAT!
• SHAMAN’S TEARS!
• STARSLAYER!
• THE WARLORD!
• THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES!
• GREEN ARROW!
• IRON MAN!
• JAMES BOND!
• and more!

Grell has done it all in his 50 years, and this book commemorates that with unique art pieces that represent every character and every book he has touched with his magic pencils and inks!

For the FANS, by the FANS!

For nearly two decades, writer Todd Dezago and artist Craig Rousseau have been chronicling the always unusual, sometimes outrageous adventures of The PERHAPANAUTS – a team of colorful cryptids working for a secret organization to keep the world safe from the strange and mysterious monsters that show up from time to time.   in this complete and definitive collection now self-published by us (plays well with otters), YOU can discover these now-classic stories anew, presented in order, continuing the adventures – with this exclusive limited cover (or the retail edition)!  Join Big, Choopie, Arisa, MG and Molly – and so many, many more –  as they draw back the veil on the creepy and the bizarre, the unexplained and the unexpected – the terrifying and the nightmarish!   The Perhapanauts: TRIANGLE  collects The Perhapanauts nos 1-5 (image comics) and the all new 10 page story, “The Van Meter Visitor” (previously published in The Perhapanauts Triangle Non-Stop no.1 from black caravan), and some other stuff in volume 3 of the DEFINITIVE PERHAPANAUTS editions…

NOW SELF-PUBLISHING THESE BOOKS UNDER OWN OWN PLAYS WELL WITH OTTERS IMPRINT, We’re coming to kickstarter to raise $8,000 – the minimum to cover the printing costs for this new, definitive version of the book (and cover shipping costs).  Everything beyond that covers KS fees and funds to continue working on remastering the original series for new editions AND the NEXT ‘haps graphic novel (or 2).

Like Father, Like Daughter: A Superhero Drama Origin Story

A powered teen must choose between her deadbeat superhero father and her evil spy mother – a two volume origin story!

A father with superpowers, leaves his wife and daughter to become “Invulnerable” – the world’s only superhero. Ten years later, his daughter discovers that she has inherited the very superpowers that made her father leave their family.

Invulnerable isn’t the only person keeping secrets! Casey’s mom has been a villain this whole entire time as a lifelong KGB agent. But is being a villain or hero as black and white as we paint them out to be?

The second volume of Like Father, Like Daughter collects the finale (issues 5-8) of Casey’s superhero saga. NOTHING will be the same when you read this jaw dropping conclusion. If you’re new to the Like Father, Like Daughter universe you can grab the first two volumes for the full story!