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J.C. VAUGHN NEWSLETTER - August 20, 2006For regular updates, check my blog,
http://www.welldefined.blogspot.comGEPPI'S ENTERTAINMENT MUSEUM at CAMDEN YARDS
GEM opens to the public Friday, September 8, 2006, the
day before the Baltimore Comic-Con. This place is going to be incredible, offering visitors a chance to walk through 230 years of American entertainment and education. It's an amazing place, even if I am incredibly biased. There's an official website, but it's not up yet, so I'll include it next time.
Until then, stay on the lookout for
POP CULTURE WITH CHARACTER: A LOOK INSIDE GEPPI'S ENTERTAINMENT MUSEUM, a 272-page hardcover book from Gemstone Publishing. It will be available in the museum store, and very soon it'll be featured in PREVIEWS.
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ANTIQUES UPDATE
Illustrated by BRENDON and BRIAN FRAIM, my weekly comic strip for ANTIQUE TRADER is going great guns. The guys have been turning in killer stuff, and they're sending through #24 in this week (I just sent them through #31 - to keep them going). Check out their site on the subject:
http://www.brosfraim.com/antiques.htmlYou can check out ANTIQUE TRADER at
http://www.antiquetrader.com***
THE WICKED WEST 2
In 2004, a pair of screenwriter-directors teamed up with a well-established comic book artist and began collaborating on a series of original graphic novels. Together, Todd Livingston, Robert Tinnell and Neil Vokes began to get noticed almost immediately for their Image Comics release, The Black Forest, which went onto win several awards. Later that year, they released The Wicked West. Both ended up in Scoop's Top Ten for the year. The Black Forest 2 followed. Livingston and Tinnell also wrote The Living and The Dead, and separately Tinnell also issued The Faceless:A Terry Sharp Story with Adrian Salmon, the Eisner-nominated Feast of the Seven Fishes with Alex Saviuk, and the recently released Sight Unseen with Bo Hampton. At present, Tinnell also authors the online daily strip The Chelation Kid about his son's autism, and Livingston co-writes America, Jr., an only daily about a town that finds itself no longer part of the union.
Here's a Scoop interview I did with Livingston, Tinnell and Vokes:
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=12942&si=122There are two stories by me in the book, by the way. One is a McCANDLESS & COMPANY story and the other is FASHION IN ACTION. I enjoyed working on both of them. Check PREVIEWS under IMAGE COMICS for this one.
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ZOMBIE-PROOF
At San Diego, I met a great new artist, VINCENT SPENCER. Fairly soon, I think, a lot of people are going to know about this guy. What a talent - and he is a machine about delivering pages when he says he will.
ZOMBIE-PROOF is the story of Billy Bob Driwahl, locksmith and zombie-proofer in a world without zombies… until now. More details soon.
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24: NIGHTFALL 
The new 24 mini-series is a big departure from the previous one-shot graphic novels we’ve done. MARK L.
HAYNES and I are finally getting a shot at telling the first 24 story we came up with… and in a 32-page, standard format mini-series. It’s in the September 2006 PREVIEWS under IDW Publishing.
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I usually like to through in a link or two about my friends' work. This time, it's a new show that hits the air Monday night:
VANISHED DEBUTS ON FOXI haven't seen much about this show,
VANISHED, but I know my friend Ming-Na is one of the players and from the preview they ran during the last episode of 24, I think it looks like maybe she has a role see can sink her teeth into...
It's on at 9 PM Eastern Time, starting Monday, August 21, on Fox.
Let me know what you think of it. I'll be watching, too.
http://fox.com/vanished/
