SOLICITATIONS: Heavy Metal spotlights DRAVN

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The World’s Greatest Illustrated Magazine Spotlights Jesse Negron’s DRAVN In #262

Hitting stores now, fans are in for another themed-issue treat as DRAVN is unleashed for a full-issue saga of inter-related tales where dizzying heights of storytelling mastery cross paths with unadulterated science-fantasy. What if super-powered heroes and villains have always existed, buried somewhere under our mythology and folklore? We’re not talking about capes and tights, we’re talking about the real demi-gods that walked and pounded the Earth!

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CONTEST: Heavy Metal announces new art contest

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The Heavy Metal’s 35th Anniversary Release Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse has launched its third art contest “What is your Vision of Famine?”. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series has garnered high reviews wherever it has been read. The series itself is available digitally and in print and the final book in the series is hitting stores this November. Artists everywhere have been asking for months when the next art contest would be happening and the answer is now! Entering is simple. Post your submission to http://www.facebook.com/Thefourhorsemenoftheapocalypse AND YOU ARE IN!

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DIGITAL COMICS: Heavy Metal goes day and date

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Heavy Metal Magazine announced today that with the June 27th comic store release of their 35th anniversary book Four Horsemen Of the Apocalypse Book 1: Helldiver (ISBN: 978-1935351-49-8)they will be changing their release policy to Day and Date for all future books. Digital copies of the book will be available for purchase at www.heavymetal.com. Fans can find a local comic store via the Heavy Metal Comic Shop locator by visiting http://www.heavymetal.com/index.php?id=1946. Is your store not listed? Email russell@rightangleinc.com with the details of your location.

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SOLICITATIONS: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arrives in April

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Kevin Eastman, owner and publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine, today announced the first major publishing event for the year-long 35th anniversary celebration with the launch of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Eastman states “This incredible three-book series featuring the stories of Michael Mendheim and art of Simon Bisley will also include special fan incentives and social media-focused promotions and preview exclusives that aim to thrill our die-hard fans, friends, fans and Heavy Metal followers.”

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SNEAK PEEK: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Kevin Eastman, owner and publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine, today announced collaborating collaboration with video game creator and producer Michael Mendheim and world-famous fantasy and comic book artist Simon Bisley on the first of three books entitled, THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, to be released this December, with the second and third books to be released in the Spring/Summer of 2012.

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SDCC’11: Robert Rodriguez to bring back Heavy Metal movie and wants your help

Who doesn’t like the Heavy Metal movie from 1981.  Robert Rodriguez has announced he’s picked up the rights to the property and wants to continue to make new animated movies… with your help.

Don’t take my word for it, listen to the director explain it to you.

Now head over to the Heavy Metal page at Bad Ass Digest for more.

SDCC’11: Heavy Metal releases special imaginary friends edition at show

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Heavy Metal, the premiere magazine for fantasy and science fiction, is proud to announce a special edition that will feature the artists of Imaginary Friends Studios. Set for mass release in September 2011, Heavy Metal will also be presenting a limited edition version at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 with a wraparound cover from IFS co-founder Stanley “Artgerm” Lau.

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Fluorescent Black arrives in July

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Heavy Metal Magazine will publish and distribute the graphic novel Fluorescent Black in July of 2010. A hardbound limited edition will be sold at San Diego and New York Comic Con. The novel is nearly 200 pages long and was written by MF Wilson, illustrated by Nathan Fox and colored by Jeromy Cox. Fluorescent Black is one of the most popular stories featured in the adult illustrated magazine and has a massive cult following. “We are very excited to be publishing Fluorescent Black. This book is like nothing else out there! It’s crazy, original and totally punk,” says Kevin Eastman, Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Metal Magazine.

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New Heavy Metal movie has heavy hitters on board

Film School Rejects has a tasty bit of information regarding a new Heavy Metal movie; James Cameron, Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and David Fincher have all signed on to direct segments.  If this is news is solid and true, then count me impressed.  In addition to this this, Mark Osborne and Jack Black will also direct a comedy segment for the film, with two more directors to be announced later.

Either this is going to be one long ass movie, or the segments are going to be incredibly short.  I just hope everyone takes the spirit of the comic magazine and the first movie and brings all the R-rated goodness to the silver screen.

via io9.com

IDW Publishing Gets Starstruck

IDW Publishing has announced it is bringing Starstruck back to store shelves.  If the cover is any indication, this could be a highly sought after series.

Set in a far-flung and very alternative future, Starstruck chronicles the lives and relationships of Elaine Lee’s characters from her play of the same name. The sometimes dark, often hilarious, and always surprising Starstruck is a visually stunning tale in which the offspring of two powerful houses vie for wealth and dominance in a newly free, but completely anarchic universe. First printed in Heavy Metal and as a Marvel epic series, then a Dark Houre comic, Starstruck is a joyride to the far side of the spiral arm.

The 13-issue series will use the original art of Michael Kaluta, but this time artist Lee Moyer will re-color everything to make it nice an pretty for modern time.  As a bonus, each issue will include Galactic Girl Guides featuring material never before published.

Starstruck debuts in August.

via IDW Publishing

Aphrodite IX Goes 3D

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Aphrodite IX, the sexy cyborg assassin, is getting the 3D treatment for the upcoming feature film.   Platinum Studios, Threshold Entertainment, and Top Cow Productions are teaming up to bring the comic to the silver screen.

Threshold’s Larry Kasanoff and Platinum chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg are producing. Top Cow CEO Marc Silvestri and former Universal Pictures exec Randy Greenberg of the Greenberg Group are execu¬tive producers. Top Cow president Matt Hawkins and Platinum’s Rich Marincic are co-producing.

If this is going to be 3D, I wonder who the target audience is going to be. This could certainly be the Heavy Metal of its time if done in a way to traget the adult male demographic.

via THR