Five Star Comics: Five Star Creators

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Five Star Creators-Matt Marshall

Not Just an Artist but an Author, Too

Matt Marshall has been interested in comics and illustration since he was a kid. Over the past few years, he has created three Mothman poster designs for the annual Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Matt is also the author and illustrator of a Mothman novel, End of Tomorrows, published in 2010. You can order the book straight from its publisher, Publish America.

As a Five Star creator, Matt is working on two stories based on a pulp fiction character from the 1930s and '40s. His work is unique, like nothing you have seen in the comics lately. The first of Matt's two stories will appear in the second issue of Five Star Comics, due out in time for the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo (S.P.A.C.E.) in Columbus, Ohio, April 21 and 22, 2012.

Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go out to Matt Marshall and his family. Matt's mother, Donna Rae Marshall, passed away last week and was laid to rest this week.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Five Star Creators in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Five Star creators Terence Hanley and Jordan Lowe were at the River City Comic Con in Marietta, Ohio, this past weekend, and both were interviewed by a reporter for a local paper, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Jordan, owner of Asylum Comics in Marietta, was the organizer of the event. Terence, creator of two cryptozoological and extraterrestrial coloring books and the comic book Lucky Girl, was one of about twenty vendors at the convention. It was a hot, humid day, but the vendors and the attendees gamely stuck it out for an enjoyable show. Jordan Lowe and Terence Hanley were both featured on the website of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel. You can read all about it in Natalee Seely's article, "River City Comic Con: First in the Area in 10 Years," here.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Five Star Creators-Jordan Lowe

Keeper of Asylum Comics

Writer Jordan Lowe is a relative newcomer in the indie comics game, but he’s already amassing a resume to be proud of and feels right at home with the gang at Five Star Comics. He opened the store Asylum Comics in his hometown of Marietta, Ohio, in 2005, which he has freely admitted to doing in order to meet fellow comic creators. His first such collaboration was with artist Michael K. Easton on the city-full-of-superheroes tale Paradox City and continues to this day on their web comic Short Pants Romance, about a famous former kid sidekick who’s pushing thirty. Jordan and Michael co-founded OVAL, the Ohio Valley Artists League, where writers and artists gather for collaboration, motivation, and the production of a yearly anthology of their work. Jordan wrote the script for “Flip Falcon in the Fourth Dimension,” drawn by artist Gary Gibeaut for Five Star Comics #1, due out this summer. Jordan is also ready to begin posting the third volume of Short Pants Romance online and is producing an anthology of short, offbeat horror and fantasy stories with artist Z.D. Brooker called Strange Books and Paper. If that wasn’t enough to lose sleep over, he is also hosting the first annual River City Comic Con in Marietta, Ohio, on July 24, 2011. Five Star creators Larry Blake and Terence Hanley will be there, too.

Jordan Lowe's Links:

Asylum Comics

http://www.facebook.com/AsylumComics

Short Pants Romance

http://www.shortpantsromanceonline.com

Ohio Valley Artists League-OVAL

http://mkeaston.com/oval/

River City Comic Con

http://mkeaston.com/rivercity/

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Five Star Creators-Gary Gibeaut

Guardian of the Guard Dawgs

Gary Gibeaut has drawn comics since he was a kid. Now his artwork is in print--in comic books and coloring books, on t-shirts and stickers. Gary's main title is Guard Dawgs, the story of a supergroup that began shaping in his mind and on his drawing board many years ago. There are three issues of Guard Dawgs in print with more--and maybe even a web comic--on the way. Gary is also the creator of a Mothman coloring book, a "Mothman Rocks!" sticker, and Mothman t-shirt designs sold every year at the Mothman Festival in Gary's hometown of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Best of all for fans of Golden Age superheroes, Gary has illustrated Jordan Lowe's "Flip Falcon in the Fourth Dimension" for Five Star Comics. In Jordan and Gary's story, Flip Falcon must travel into the fourth dimension to rescue a group of scientists from a circle of demons and their newly crowned king, the evil Doctor Blanc. Look for "Flip Falcon in the Fourth Dimension" in Five Star Comics #1, due out in the summer of 2011!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Five Star Creators-Terence Hanley

The Man Behind Mothman

Cartoonist Terence Hanley broke into small press with his own self-published coloring book, Mothman, Aliens, and Flying Saucers. Now he's bringing Mothman to Five Star Comics, where Mothman the creature will meet Moth Man the Golden Age hero for the first time. Terence's story, "Moth Man Meets Mothman," begins in the mountains of West Virginia and ends at a place everyone remembers as one of calamity. Look for Mothman and Moth Man in the first issue of Five Star Comics, coming soon!

Terence Hanley's website: www.hanleyart.com

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Five Star Creators-Larry Blake

Larry Blake: Wanted in Twelve States, Unwanted in All the Others

Larry Blake has been drawing small press comics for almost forty years and has been writing and drawing comics since at least 1960. Now he's on board with Five Star Comics. In his first story, "Yesterday and Today," Larry will bring Silver Streak, a popular Golden Age character, back to life and into the 21st century. And who does Silver Streak meet but his own great granddaughter, a new character and new heroine named Missile. If you have read Larry's long-running Psychozort and Kevin Cool, you'll like "Yesterday and Today."

The character, name, and concept of "Missile" are the property of Larry Blake. All rights are reserved.

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