URSULA WILDE GETS NEW ARTIST!

Ape Entertainment's upcoming Ursula Wilde comic, originally penciled by creator/writer Steve Bryant (Ape's Athena Voltaire, IDW's 24: Cold Warriors), will now be home to a new artist for the series: Jun Bob Kim. Over on the CGS forum, original artist and Ursula Wilde creator Steve Bryant posted this message:

"Back at CGS Episode 300 ... I mentioned that I would be drawing both Athena Voltaire and Ursula Wilde concurrently. I looked at my schedule and realized that I just can't do both. So I won't be drawing Ursula (aside from a teaser in the Ape Comics Free Comic Book Day offering). However, I'm thrilled to announce that none other than JunBob Kim will be replacing me on the book!! I can't express how excited I am about this collaboration."


Listeners of the CGS podcast that have attended their live episode events for episodes 200 and 300 will recognize Jun Bob as the artist for the Episode 200 giveaway poster (at left) and as artist of a double page spread inside the Episode 300 cover (seen below).







Jun Bob Kim, one of many longtime CGS listeners, was also the artist chosen to grace the cover for the premiere issue of Comics Now! Magazine featuring Nova the Human Rocket (in celebration of the character's critically acclaimed series published by Marvel - in case you didn't know) as seen here in its penciled stage:


Congrats to Jun Bob Kim, Steve Bryant and Ape Entertainment. We here at CGS look forward to grabbing Ursula Wilde off the rack!

- the Speakers of Geek

BRYAN INTERVIEWED AT SEQUENTIAL TART!

Lisa Lopacinski of Neptune Comics interviews Bryan about Comics Now! Magazine #1 for Sequential Tart. Here's a preview: 

ST: What are some of the big challenges you face putting together this magazine?

BD: I think the biggest challenge is finding an audience. There is a lot of product out there. People have limited budgets. It's hard to decide what to spend your money on. You could buy more comics with the money you would spend on our magazine. So we have to make it worthwhile for the reader. I try very hard to select content for the magazine that I feel is quality and informative. You can find almost any information you need on the Internet. To compete with that, we have to give the user more than just raw information; we have to put it all together into something meaningful.

You can read the rest here.