NEW SERIES BRINGS BUFFY BACK TO HER ROOTS OCTOBER 8, 2015—As revealed at the Dark Horse: CLASSIFIED! panel at New York Comic Con 2015, Dark Horse will deliver a new original graphic novel series titled Buffy: The High School Years, executive produced by Joss Whedon. The first volume will be written by Eisner Award–winning author Faith Erin Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl) with artist Yishan Li. Together they’re bringing the angst, the action, and the cool to Buffy the Vampire Slayer! “I’m thrilled to be writing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic; the TV show was a formative story for me. I loved it so much that the very first comic I ever created was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer homage....
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MAY 19 Name: Faith Erin Hicks A sentence about what comics-related work you do and/or are known for: I write and draw comics. I’m probably best known for Friends with Boys, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, and that one Internet comic about Wolverine going grocery shopping. What are your favorite working tools? My inking brush. I love inking! My favorite part of making comics. What talent would you most like to have? Oh man…I wish I was a faster artist, so maybe the ability to draw at superspeed? Outside of comics, I wish I could knit. I mean, I could learn, but who has time when you have comics to draw? What do you consider your greatest achievement? Is it really lame if I say, “learning to draw comics by...
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Dark Horse Comics: What do you think your work on the comics Zombies Calling and the dystopian Ice did to help bring the Last of Us comic to life? Faith Erin Hicks: It’s really nice having those two comics under my belt, both a zombie comic (I know, The Last of Us isn’t technically a zombie comic; the “zombies” are actually “infected”) and a dystopian comic, as it made the Last of Us world a little bit more familiar. I’ve drawn creepy, scary, gross things before, and I’ve drawn societies crumbling after a traumatic event, so I was able to build on those previous skills and make the art in The Last of Us: American Dreams extra creepy, scary, and...
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Join us Wednesday, April 10th at 11:30am Pacific Time for a Live Twitter Chat! We'll be taking over the Dark Horse Twitter feed for one hour next Wednesday April 10th to chat with Naughty Dog's Video Game Last of Us and Comics Writer Neil Druckmann and Comics artist and writer Faith Erin Hicks. We will host the chat using the #TheLastofUsAD hashtag. Join us to ask your questions about the new series #TheLastofUsAD, the writing process, and what we can expect from the brilliant new series based on the Video Game going forward! Not only will everyone get to ask questions of the two creators about the the brilliant and beautiful new series, but we are giving away 10 FREE Digital copies of Last of Us...
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The most anticipated video game of 2013, The Last of Us, comes to print with a comic series and an art book from Dark Horse Comics and Naughty Dog! The Last of Us: American Dreams will be a four-issue series by The Last of Us lead writer Neil Druckmann, with rising star Faith Erin Hicks (Zombies Calling, Friends with Boys, The Adventures of Superhero Girl) as cowriter and artist. Ellie, the heroine of The Last of Us, has grown up in a postpandemic world, shuttled between military orphanages in one of the last remaining quarantine zones and resigned to the fact that when she’s old enough, she’ll be channeled into the army or left to fend for herself—until she meets an older girl determined to find a third way out....
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