Last year, during New York Comic Con, Random House announced the book “Kenobi,” by John Jackson Miller. Until now, the book didn’t have a cover but io9 has a photo of the final cover along with a description of the book.
“Kenobi” is scheduled for an August 27, 2013 release.
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J.W. Rinzler tweeted two photos today to show off two upcoming books, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episode Guide” and the highly anticipated “Star Wars Storyboards: The Prequel Trilogy.” The photos show off the covers of both books while one shows some interior pages of the “Storyboards” release.
Rinzler’s book, “The Storyboards,” is slated for a May 14th release and is available, as of this writing, for only $24.82 on pre-order from Amazon.
“The Clone Wars Episode Guide” was written by Jason Fry and will include information on all five seasons of the television show, 108 episodes. Slated for a June 3rd release, the books is being published by DK Children and is also available for pre-order from Amazon ($9.43 as of 4/25).
Sara Richard has been nominated for a 2013 William Eisner Comic Industry Award for her work on the book “Kitty & Dino.”
The children’s book is the story of a baby dinosaur and a cat who become friends. It’s Richard’s first illustrated book.
Sara does freelance sketches at comic book conventions, including the excellent Darth Talon she did for me back in 2010, and has also been working on cover art for IDW. You can check out her appearance schedule on her website, sararichard.com.
Based on the original screenplay by George Lucas, “The Star Wars” will be written by J.W. Rinzler and drawn by Mike Mayhew. Scheduled for September, the 8 issue series was first announced yesterday at WonderCon and now we have the full press release and a piece of art from the series.
THE BIGGEST EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF
STAR WARS COMICS!
George Lucas’s original-draft screenplay for The Star Wars to be adapted by J. W. Rinzler and Mike Mayhew!
APRIL 1, MILWAUKIE, OR–It’s no April Fools’ prank! Dark Horse is honored to announce a dream project: working with J.W. Rinzler, executive editor at LucasBooks, and artist Mike Mayhew (Avengers) to adapt the rough-draft original screenplay which spawned the biggest franchise in film history!
Three years before his 1977 film, George Lucas put down on paper his first story set in a galaxy far, far away—a tale of fantastic adventures, daring escapes, “lazer swords,” romance, and monsters. A story of Jedi Annikin Starkiller and General Luke Skywalker, an alien named Han Solo, and evil Sith Knights. The screenplay was titled The Star Wars!
“I’m not sure where I first read about The Star Wars—it was years and years ago—but the idea of Luke Skywalker being an older Jedi General, and Han Solo being a six-foot-tall lizard, turned my Star Wars fan brain on its side,” said longtime Star Wars editor Randy Stradley. “I always assumed this would be one of those stories that would be ‘lost to history,’ so getting to work on bringing it to life is kinda like a dream come true.”
“While researching in the Lucasfilm Archives I’ve found many treasures—but one which truly astounded me was George’s rough draft for The Star Wars. His first complete imaginings were hallucinating to read—mind blowing,” said writer J.W. Rinzler. “While working with George on another book project, I once asked if we could adapt his rough draft. He was hesitant. Years later, with Dark Horse’s invaluable help, we showed him a few drawn and colored pages of what it might look like. He gave us the okay.”
Originally conceived in 1974, The Star Wars has been the subject of rumor and legend in the fan community throughout the history of the galaxy far, far away. Now, Lucas has seen fit to grant Dark Horse the right to adapt this fabled story into an eight-issue comic series launching in September!
About Dark Horse
Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent such as Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Brian Wood, Gerard Way, Felicia Day, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends such as Will Eisner, Neal Adams, and Jim Steranko, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, including The Mask, Ghost,Timecop, and SpyBoy. Its successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Mass Effect, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Emily the Strange, Tim Burton’s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys, Serenity, and Domo. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading publishers of both creator-owned content and licensed comics material.
About Lucasfilm Ltd.
Lucasfilm Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is a global leader in film, television and digital entertainment production. In addition to its motion-picture and television production, the company’s activities include visual effects and audio post-production, cutting-edge digital animation, interactive entertainment software, and the management of the global merchandising activities for its entertainment properties including the legendary STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES franchises. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in northern California.
Lucasfilm, the Lucasfilm logo, STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. TM & (c) 2013 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.
ComiXology has launched their new Submit self-publishing platform. Independent creators can upload their work to the comiXology website where it will be formatted for digital distribution. Check out the full press release after the jump
J. W. Rinzler has been working on Star Wars: The Making of Return of the Jedi for the last several months and today Del Rey has tweeted that they’re starting to review the layout pages, putting them another step towards publishing.
Star Wars: The Making of Return of the Jedi is scheduled for an October 2013 release.
Dark Horse has just announced their titles for the 2013 edition of Free Comic Book Day and once again there will be a Star Wars title. The story will feature Boba Fett and Darth Vader.
Other offerings incldue “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” “Mass Effect,” “R.I.P.D,” “Captain Midnight” and the debut of “True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.”
Free Comic Book Day will be May 4, 2013, which is also, coincidentally, May the 4th, the unofficial Star Wars day.
Del Rey was promoting the upcoming “Scoundrels” book along with the newly announced “Kenobi,” from John Jackson Miller.
DK had their new “The Old Republic: Encyclopedia” on display along with their books on Lego and other topics.
Random House had signings throughout the weekend at their booth, including Pablo Hidalgo, Timothy Zahn and Jason Fry.
Today, at New York Comic Con, Random House announced a new book about Obi-Wan Kenobi by John Jackson Miller. Titled simply “Kenobi,” the book will take place between Episodes 3 and 4 and go into more detail about how Obi-Wan became the Ben Kenobi that we first met in Star Wars: A New Hope.
The artwork, from Jackson’s website, is not the final for the book cover (although, I’d take it) and pre-order information will be forthcoming.
Don’t forget that today there are a couple really cool Star Wars events, and that’s not even including the new Clone Wars episode you should have just finished watching.
Barnes & Noble, along with independent book stores and libraries, is holding Star Wars Reads Day. You can check the B&N website for the event closest to you. Some stores will have Star Wars authors and personalities appearing, the 501st Legion will be out in some areas as will Star Wars fans of all ages.
Today is also the Fall Debut of the new Hallmark ornaments. All the ornaments that weren’t out for the preview in July should now be on store shelves. That includes a couple of the Star Wars offerings.
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Last year, during New York Comic Con, Random House announced the book “Kenobi,” by John Jackson Miller. Until now, the book didn’t have a cover but io9 has a photo of the final cover along with a description of the book. “Kenobi” is scheduled for an August 27, 2013 release.
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