NEWS.....

HOT ARTISTS ON NEW SERIES.                                                                                            Artists of the Multimedia Studio, Draxhall Jump, Ken Lashley and Christian Zanier have regular art assignments for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off ANGEL (Dark Horse Comics) and the top selling, Top Cow series by the creator of Babylon 5, RISING STARS, beginning with the third issue, but also including the Wizard 1/2 edition and RISING STARS #0.  Chaos comics has not been left behind using these talents from Ken's Draxhall Studio for their current PURGATORI miniseries and the VAMPIRELLA & PURGATORI special. Plus, there is more on the drawing board to announce when the time is right.

After 3 years, long time artist of DC's AZRAEL, Roger Robinson, is moving to the new Batman title: BATMAN, GOTHAM  NIGHTS. He is the regular penciler starting with issue # 8. Roger has a lot of experience with the Batman family of comics and should bring that excitement to the new series.

NEW ON THE SCULPTING FRONT
Tim Bruckner has been continuing his run on of DC direct toys and statues. After the Crisis medium statue with Superman-Supergirl, the next statues to ship are Supergirl, the Golden and Silver Age Flash set and a Sgt Rock figurine. Tim is following up his Vertigo & Hard traveling heroes  action figures with DC's supernatural characters, Spectre, Doctor Fate and Zatanna.... Tony Cipriano, is also sculpting away with a new, improved toy line from the producers of Cyboars.  Of course, Tony's sculpting on Playing Mantis' Sgt Pepper model kit figures (John Paul, George, Ringo in Pepper mode)   is available in stores now.   

NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

HASBRO DESIGNS

As of now, we can only mention one of Hasbro's toy/animation lines that our toy designers have been involved since the others are not public yet.  Beast Machines, is not only airing on Fox Kids, but out in every local toy store as well. You will be seeing more Hasbro toy lines based upon animation, film and other properties that have utilized many of our leading art, ideation and writing talents by and  including Draxhall Jump Studio, Errol McCarthy, and Tomm Coker.

FOX KIDS MAGAZINE

Adam Conner, and Draxhall Jump Studio created all of the production art for two Fox Kids Magazine stories which are; Godzilla and Xyber-9 that are already airing on Fox's Saturday morning animation line-up.


PETER DAVIDS NEW ASSIGNMENT WITH POP
Pop Mhan (Artist of Marvel's GHOST RIDER and DC's FLASH) is the series artist on Dark Horse's new series with writer Peter David. The title is SPYBOY. It looks like it will be filled with Peter Davids brand of fun, action writing.