ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS
ZCN #1 is out now! wait, what
If you head into your local comic shop today you may see something SHOCKING:
In my continued drive to do stupid things that lose me money, I have sent 50,000 copies of ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS to comic shops this week! It’s my new four-page physical newsletter that I’ll be putting out monthly, exclusively to comic shops. I’m writing, illustrating and designing the damn thing because what else do I have going on, really?
After this first issue stores can order as many as they like for pennies a copy, so if you miss out on this number one, I’m sorry, but issue two is even BETTER and you don’t need to have read issue one to follow the plot (the plot is I’m an idiot)!
I gave an interview with the fine folks at AIPT about the project, so please go check that out for answers to your burning questions, and for great quotes like this:
“Once those 50,000 are gone, they’re gone. I had to do some unsavoury things to pay for all of them and I just can’t bring myself to do any more “sensual” Captain Carrot commissions.”
Ultimately, the reason I’m doing this is because I love comic shops and I love print. I miss the days of Wizard Magazine and Marvel Age and Comic Buyer’s Guide and wanted to do my own little version of those which will hopefully be as fun for you to read as it was for me to make it.
WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO GO INTO A SHOP AND WANT TO READ THIS ONLINE
Too bad!! I’m sick of “online” and everything being available all the time! This is special and it’s for comic shops and it’s goddamn PHYSICAL (of course if any of my paid subscribers want to see a copy, sound off in the comments and I’ll email you one)!
Anyway, here’s the cover to ZDARSKY COMICS NEWS #2, out next month. Tell your shop you need it with this handy code!!
JUN247233 ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #2 BUNDLE OF 10
This project is being shipped through Diamond Comic Distribution, so sadly if your shop doesn’t deal with them, they may not get copies.
Also, ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS needs to sadly print its first retraction. Some comic retailers already went and attempted the WORD FINDER and realized it’s missing three BATMANs.
I would like to point out that the word “Batman” actually appears three more times within the rest of the newsletter so I just wanted readers to think outside of the box, but the reality is I’m just bad at things.
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS regrets the error.
DO YOU REALLY
Nah
While ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS will give fun insights into, uh, stuff, for REAL information on me and my process you can check out this extensive interview I did with POPVERSE about PUBLIC DOMAIN, THE DOMAIN, BATMAN, AVENGERS, all of it! We did this during C2E2 and I was very tired so maybe not everything makes sense OH WELL
In PAL NEWS, it’s no secret that Charles Soule is very talented. He’s a comic book writer, a best-selling novelist, and a goddamn lawyer. But did you also know that he’s a stellar musician? Honestly, it’s pretty angering.
Well, he’s taken those talents and is putting out a genuine rock opera where he plays and sings all the parts (except for drums because it’s the one thing he can’t do, like a real loser). It’s a concept album that revolves around his hit comic book CURSE WORDS that he did with Ryan Browne and it’s AMAZING. Like, it’s so damned professional it makes ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS look like dogshit!!
Anyway, you should really pitch in to his Kickstarter for the project. It’s what Kickstarter was made for! Wild ideas of pure art and the love of making things!
And that’s it for me this week! No new releases, JUST ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS! I hope you enjoy it!! Tell your friends, I guess!!
Love,
Chip
UPCOMING BOOKS
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS VOL 1 —July 23
PUBLIC DOMAIN #7 — Aug 7
BATMAN #151 — Aug 7
THE DOMAIN #2 — Aug 14
SEX CRIMINALS: LETTER DADDIES — Aug 20
BATMAN: THE BAT-MAN OF GOTHAM TPB — Aug 20
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #2 — Aug 21
AVENGER: TWILIGHT TPB — Aug 27
BATMAN #152 — Sept 4
BATMAN: THE JOKER YEAR ONE — Sept 10
TIME WAITS #1 — Sept 11
THE DOMAIN #3 — Sept 11
CREEPSHOW VOL 3 #1 — Sept 25
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS VOL 2 —Jan 1
THE ALL-NIGHTER VOL 3 — Jan 21
UPCOMING SIGNINGS
ROSE CITY COMIC CON (Portland) — Sept 6-8
CXC (Columbus) — Sept 27-29
Chip, this is INSANE.
hey chip, not to brag or anything but a video I made on youtube about Public Domain got 1.2 MILLION views and 110k likes! I'd like to hope that maybe i inspired atleast one thousand of them to buy it because it really changed how I viewed comics as a whole, and I really want to work in the industry now!