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Click here to read a 22-page high resolution excerpt from SACRIFICE (Age of Bronze, vol. 2). This is a large PDF file viewable with Adobe Acrobat. Primary sources for Age of Bronze's version of the Trojan War story begin with Homer's Iliad, include major and minor works from classical Greece and Rome, many Medieval European sources, and continue through Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and beyond. The art of Age of Bronze draws upon the archaeological excavations of the places where the story took place: Mycenae, Knossos, and Pylos, among others, and especially Troy itself. While everything in Age of Bronze is based on existing sources, whether mythological or archaeological, the final product is a version for the 21st century. All the comedy, all the tragedy, all the wide canvas of human drama of the Trojan War unfolds within the pages of Age of Bronze. Come along for the ride! can be found at: Silver Bullet Comics (text) Comic Book Resources (text) Fist Full of Comics and Games (audio) Archaeology Magazine extended interview (text) Comics Corner (text) The Comics Journal excerpt (text) Big Monkey Comics (text) World Famous Comics interview (text) Sequential Tart interview (text) Ultrazine interview (text) Minuit/Dix (audio in French) PlaneteBD interview (text in French) Comicus interview (text in Italian) BDesenhada interview (text in Portuguese) Theater of Ideas (text) an interview about Oz illustration TopTwoThreeFilms (text) an interview related to the film "Adventures into Digital Comics" Subscribe to the Age of Bronze Online Newsletter
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14 Jan 2009 - Image Comics will be releasing a new printing of Age of Bronze #1 in their series of Image Firsts. Priced at $1.00 each, Image Firsts are aimed at attracting new readers to Image Comics's most popular titles. The new Age of Bronze #1 will be on sale April 14. Details here. 12 Jan 2010 - Marvel's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in its sixteenth week on the New York Times Graphic Books bestseller list! 4 Jan 2010 - I'll be at the Age of Bronze booth at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America & American Philological Association in Anaheim, California, from January 6 through 9. The Exhibit Hall has separate discounted admission if you just want to enter the Exhibit Hall--where I'll be--and don't want to attend any of the presentations. See the Upcoming Appearances link above or click here. 10 Nov 2009 - Click here to see a sample penciled page from the upcoming Age of Bronze #30. You need Adobe Acrobat to view this pdf file. 10 Nov 2009 - All subscription copies of Age of Bronze #29 have now been mailed. 9 Nov 2009 - Age of Bronze #29 is in stock and available for order right here on the web site. 6 Nov 2009 - Age of Bronze #29 went on sale last Wednesday. It'll be available here on the web site and I'll ship all subscription copies as soon as my shipment arrives. 3 Nov 2009 - Click here to see a free online sketchbook of images by Skottie Young from our forthcoming Marvel comic series The Marvelous Land of Oz based on the book by L. Frank Baum. Commentary by Skottie and me accompanies the sketches. You can only see this material online. Issue #1 of The Marvelous Land of Oz goes on sale Wednesday, Nov. 4--and so does Age of Bronze issue #29! 29 Oct 2009 - Here's a five-page preview of Age of Bronze #29 on the Time.com website. 27 Oct 2009 - I just learned from Image Comics that Age of Bronze #29 won't be on sale this week, but has been bumped one week to Nov. 4. 16 Oct 2009 - I approved the proofs for Age of Bronze #29 yesterday. So it should be on sale in a couple weeks. Sex and even more violence. Also a little comedy from Cressida's aunts. And the funeral of Protesilaus. 28 Sept 2009 - Here's Zack Smith's Newsarama interview with Skottie Young and me about our next Oz project. 27 Sept 2009 - Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett will be published on Oct. 1 by Abrams. Since there are no photos of the meeting between this first functional robot and L. Frank Baum, I contributed an illustration of that scene to the book. Click here for more info about Boilerplate. Here's the book's trailer: 25 Sept 2009 - Wow! Marvel's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz just debuted on the New York Times Graphic Books bestsellers list at #9! 22 Sept 2009 - Whoa! The graphic novel edition of Marvel's Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Skottie Young and me is down to a ranking of 2,996 on Amazon.com! That's the lowest number I've ever seen for one of my projects! Thanks, everybody, and I hope you enjoy it. (But I must say I find it kind of strange that Amazon suggests you buy it along with some Wolverine books--not exactly the audience I'd predict! But who am I to wonder? Guess you're all just wide-ranging in your tastes.) 12 Sept 2009 - G-Man on Comic Vine presents this video review of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adaptation Skottie Young and I did for Marvel Comics. 9 Sept 2009 - I did the voice for the character Dylan in this short animated video by my friends at King Monkey Studios, Like Father Like Son. Watch the video and if you like it, go to the Aniboom website, register, and rate it. 4 Sept 2009 - This month's Free Feature is the "Song of Antigone" from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer. Age of Bronze #29 features my adaptation of this song within the story. 2 Sept 2009 - I turned in Age of Bronze #29 a couple weeks ago to the publisher, Image Comics. It'll be out in October. Click here for a three-page preview of the issue. And here's desktop wallpaper of the cover of Age of Bronze #29:  Cressida's Dream, issue #29 10 August 2009 - Read the latest interview with me and Skottie Young about our Oz projects for Marvel Comics here at Diamond Bookshelf. 24 April 2009 - This month's Free Feature is the poem "Iphigeneia," from the Hellenics by Walter Savage Landor. 21 April 2009 - For a Spanish interview with me by Eduardo Seradilla about Age of Bronze, Oz, and other stuff, click here. You may need to scroll down. 7 April 2009 - Here's Tom Spurgeon's review of Age of Bronze #28 at The Comics Reporter. 21 March 2009 - Lots of stuff to post today: "Age of Bronze: Some Thoughts and Sketches" is a ten-page article of mine published in Yikas: A Journal of Art, vol. 1, issue 1. The text is similar to the "Afterword" of A Thousand Ships and the text of Age of Bronze: Behind the Scenes, but many of my accompanying sketches are newly published, including character designs for Helen and Patroklus, costume design for Deidamia, sketches for the armor of Achilles and three other major characters, and step-by-step art construction for a page in Age of Bronze #27. A copy of Yikas is $7.98, available by Phone, email, or in person from: Book Loft Kathy Mullins 1680 Mission Dr Solvang, CA 93463 Telephone: 805-688-6010 Fax: 805-688-9930 Email: mail@bookloftsolvang.com Website: bookloftsolvang.com And speaking of Age of Bronze: Behind the Scenes, it's out of print and no longer available through this website. The expanded French version L'age de Bronze: les Coulisses de L'oeurve is still available, however. Click here for ordering info. At the end of February I was a guest on Fanboy Planet. Click here and scroll down to Podcast #130 to listen. 15 March 2009 - This month's Free Feature is a Summary of the Epic Cycle, the lost ancient poems telling the entire story of the Trojan War. 18 February 2009 - A new entry on the main menu bar to the left has just been added - Free Features. Some established features, such as Age of Bronze desktop wallpaper and my Troy Trip Report have been moved to Free Features, but brand new is an English translation of Theocritus's Idyll 18 - Epithalamium for Helen. Every so often I'll be posting lesser-known texts related to the story of the Trojan War in Free Features. 24 October 2008 - Listen here to the October 14 performance of Comic Book Club Live at People's Improv Theater in New York City. I was a guest along with Jacob Chabot. 1 October 2008 - The music video for the song "Worst Presnadent Ever" by Charlie Imes is here. I appear as a member of the White House Press Corps. Watch "The Movie" version--it's only 13 minutes long--and see me ask "W" the second question. WARNING: if you A) admire President Bush and B) have no sense of humor, DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO! 18 September 2008 - Here's my latest interview. It's conducted by Edward Einhorn, several of whose books I've illustrated. It's mostly about Oz, but Age of Bronze gets mentioned a couple times. 20 August 2008 - Click here to listen to "The Future of the Comic Pamphlet," a recording by Jamie Coville of a panel I participated in last month at San Diego's Comic Con International. At this point I don't remember exactly what I said. Hope it wasn't too embarrassing. 5 August 2008 - My graphic novel Adventures in Oz is the subject of last Sunday's Unshelved online comic strip. 31 May 2008 - Click here for a lovely review of Age of Bronze by John Hodgman in The New York Times Book Review. It starts about halfway down the page. Nov 2007 - AT LAST! Betrayal, the third Age of Bronze book, published by Image Comics, is NOW AVAILABLE. Both a $27.99 hardcover [ISBN 978-1-58240-845-3] and a $17.99 paperback [ISBN 978-1-58240-755-5] edition are waiting to be read by you. It's available here now through this website and arrives in comic book stores November 28. Betrayal collects issues #20-#26 of the comic book serialization. Here's the cover:  WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT AGE OF BRONZE "History never read so good." --Entertainment Weekly "Besides being beautifully drawn and intelligently, even intellectually, composed, it is archaeologically accurate--by those qualities it's better than any film I've ever seen on Bronze Age Greece. . . ." -- Archaeology ". . . the story also has many amazing scenes for an artist . . . and Shanower makes the most of them." --Publishers Weekly ". . . a feast for those new to Homeric tradition and modern archaeology as well as those who simply love mythology. . . . Shading, texture, and Shanower's use of a single image across several panels give depth to the black-and-white cartoon artwork that carries the story." --Booklist "Shanower may not create the poetry of The Iliad but he tells a story in a straightforward, clean manner that will keep you reading through one sitting." --Andrew D. 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