The Sharp Variant editions have extremely limited print runs, with only 400 copies of the color variants and 100 B&W sketch variants per issue. Turok, Magnus, and Solar were made available for sale exclusively at C2E2 in April at the SharpComics booth. Limited quanities of these issues are still available for purchase through Ebay ID: sharp comics. Individual copies of the Dr. Spektor #1 color variants will be available for $19.95 each. Sketch variants of each cover will be available for $49.95.
Extensive and tiring. Never ending. I could research all day. I love it, adding to my creative inventory. I have old magazines from antique shows, old comics, new comics, old pornography, photo job lots, medical books, vet books, sewing books. Books on the paranormal. Film. Always so important to me, always. John Waters, Ingmar Bergman, Lynch. French new wave, Kenneth Anger. I watched Betty Blue recently, love Beatrice Dalle in that. And Cinema Paradiso. I love the films of Ari Aster and Robert Eggers right now.
Bailey Sharp is a cartoonist originally from the American south, now an Australian resident living in Melbourne. She makes comics, animates, is involved with Other Worlds Zine Fair and Glom Press, and is currently the co-art editor of the Melbourne magazine The Lifted Brow. Bailey Sharp is a Center for Cartoon Studies alumnus whose work has been published by kuš!, Short Box, and Glom Press.
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Revered creator LIAM SHARP cuts loose in his visually stunning six-issue masterpiece, STARHENGE, BOOK ONE A future Merlin travels to 5th-century Britain to prevent monstrous time-traveling killer robots from robbing the universe of magic, and Amber Weaver's lively present-day narrative reveals how she becomes drawn into a war across time The Terminator meets The Green Knight in 30 enthralling story pages, setting the scene for this original epic inspired by the Arthurian sagas SELECT EARLY PRAISE:"A star-spanning saga of ancient magic and deep science, vividly told by a modern master of the comics medium." -DAVE GIBBONS "The kind of %E2%80%98epic' you crave-both noun and adjective. And even that doesn't quite capture LIAM SHARP's astonishing scope and vision. There's magic in these pages." -KELLY SUE DeCONNICK "Jaw-dropping and epic and massive and totally a LIAM SHARP book, but not any kind of LIAM SHARP we've ever seen before or maybe even expected? LIAM is breaking out all kinds of moves and modes that people who know him-from, like, Green Lantern or whatever-will never see coming. This is a gorgeous and incredible and MASSIVE swing for the stars that declares his ambitions have taken him to some exciting and undiscovered territories... Bravo, congrats, cheers, and exhale-this is glorious." -MATT FRACTION
Sharp: It's been a long journey. For the last six issues of DC's "Green Lantern," we'd been playing around a lot with techniques all the way through there. I was talking to Grant [Morrison] and we loved the idea of the whole series not just being an exploration of time and space, but that there's Green Lanterns of viruses, of the spectrums, of art, of comics, of anything. We were fully exploring our love of particular eras of comics.
The other thing that occurred to me along the way, because people started enjoying it, it went against the tenets of what's generally accepted in comics, that you need to find a style and stick with it and define yourself by it. Which is something I've never liked because I think it's anti-art.
Sharp: I hope people are surprised and that it's more fun and more accessible than on the surface it might seem. And for readers that tend to shy away from sci-fi comics, that they give it a shot and find it more light-hearted and entertaining and relevant than they imagined.
Jeff Spry is an award-winning screenwriter and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books, and comics. His work has appeared at SYFY Wire, Inverse, Collider, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere. Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.
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