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First Page of Issue #3 of The Tide of Blood

Posted by Anthony Del Col, April 18, 2013 – 4:13 pm

Yesterday we posted the cover for The Tide of Blood #3.  Today we’re going to do something different by posting the first page of the issue – with lettering.
The issue begins with a significant character (hint: his name is in the title…) in hiding as as fool at a bar.  What happens when he is [...]

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Cover for Issue #3 (to be released next Wednesday)!

Posted by Anthony Del Col, April 17, 2013 – 10:01 am

We have just received word from IDW Publishing (our publisher, obviously) and Diamond Comics (our distributor) that Issue #3 of The Tide of Blood (titled “Darkness Which the Blind Do See”) is being released next Wednesday (the 24th of April).  It’s a fitting release day as it’s the day after the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth/death [...]

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Beware the Ides of March (preview of first page of Issue #2)

Posted by Anthony Del Col, March 15, 2013 – 11:01 am

Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.

Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
So goes one of Shakespeare’s most popular lines.  And yes, today is The Ides of March (the 15th of March).  To recognize this day, I am posting a preview of the first page of our The Tide of Blood [...]

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First Page Preview of The Tide of Blood #1

Posted by Anthony Del Col, February 7, 2013 – 12:27 pm

Here is the artwork for Page #1 of The Tide of Blood mini-series, debuting later this month (either the 20th or 27th, depending on when they are shipped).  The issue starts off with this page, the beginning of a dream sequence that will set the tone for the rest of the series…
Amazing art by Andy [...]

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Glimpse at the process behind Andy B’s artwork

Posted by Anthony Del Col, February 5, 2013 – 10:44 am

With Issue #1 of The Tide of Blood being released later this month (either the 20th or 27th) I thought it would be cool to tease out previews of our first page.  But what’s cool about this is that it gives a really cool insight into how our amazing artist Andy B works.
Featured below are [...]

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Check out Andy B’s amazing variant cover for Issue #1!

Posted by Anthony Del Col, January 28, 2013 – 10:32 am

Last week we gave you a sneak peek of our Cover A for the first issue of Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood.  Today we present our variant cover, created by series artist Andy Belanger – and it’s amazing!
Heavily influenced by the covers of Hellboy artist Mike Mignola, Andy has put together a visual treat [...]

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A preview of our Cover for Issue #1 of The Tide of Blood

Posted by Anthony Del Col, January 22, 2013 – 10:10 am

We are now one month away from the release of our first issue of The Tide of Blood mini-series and we’re getting excited to get it into the hands of our fans as well as new readers.  We’re quite happy with the story – and the numerous twists and turns that it takes throughout.  Just [...]

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Preview Pages from Issue #1 of The Tide of Blood

Posted by Anthony Del Col, January 12, 2013 – 10:35 am

Here are a number of (non-lettered) pages from the first issue of The Tide of Blood.  Entitled “The Winter of Our Discontent”, the issue finds Romeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Othello and the rest of the Prodigals defending their newfound freedom from opposing forces but then discover a greater danger – the wizard Prospero’s goal to destroy [...]

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KS art in offices!

Posted by Anthony Del Col, October 6, 2012 – 5:37 pm

Fan David Peterson from the Burbank Public Library, who won an auction at the American Library Association Annual Conference back in June in Anaheim, emailed me recently to show me that he has proudly placed Andy’s piece of artwork up on his office wall.  As he writes:
“I wonder what effect upon my work productivity that [...]

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Hawaiian Students’ Take on Falstaff

Posted by Anthony Del Col, December 27, 2011 – 5:38 pm

A number of months ago I was contacted by Lanaly Cabalo, a teacher from Roosevelt High School in Honolulu.  She teaches a number of classes there and introduced some of her students to Kill Shakespeare this past semester and they – along with some other teachers – really took to it and did a number [...]

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