The Liberty Brigade - Graphic Novel - 100+ pages of action!!

Big update - shipping, art, etc.
about 7 years ago – Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 03:08:20 AM

Thank you all for your continued patience as we work to make The Liberty Brigade the best possible work that it can be -- I wanted to give everyone an update on where we are but first a few sneak peaks.

Below are some tiny pictures of some of the pages so you can get a sense of how much detail we are getting from Ron Frenz, Barry Kitson and the other artists working on the book -- these are some colored pages by Chris Sotomayor.

Second - I'm going to disappoint some of you with the news that we are  moving the shipping date to December 2019 as we want to be 100% confident we will make that date and want you to KNOW it -- there is no doubt here that we will MAKE the December 2019 date -- here is where things stand.

The Encyclopedia is complete and finished,

The Villains origin - we deleted an Ad page and are replacing it with a gorgeous origin page by Reilly Brown of The Aryan Hyena.  It is being inked now but we want to show off the pencils.  

The Heroes Origins - we are waiting on one artist but are adding some others so we can move this book to print if we can't secure the pages from the original artist.  We also added an opening/closing page as we thought that it made the story run better.  Another sneak preview -- here is the origin of Icarion by Keith Giffen and inker Michelle Delecki.

The Liberty Brigade Graphic Novel - Ron Frenz finished and we await 5 pages of inks from Joe Rubinstein who should have them by the middle of the month.  Likewise, Barry Kitson and Mick Gray hope to complete all of their page by the end of September so we should be in the coloring/lettering mode come mid-October.

The free .pdf story - this story is over 25 pages and I think everyone will be very happy with it.  Thought we'd show off one of the two pieces for this story by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer.

Again, my complete apologies for running so late -- I can only say that want this to be an amazing book and that we have top talent producing at top levels so I do hope that you'll love it. 

Short update --
about 7 years ago – Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 02:09:37 AM

Thank you all for your incredible patience -- the book continues to roll along -- Ron Frenz has turned in his pages and they are all being inked by Joe Rubinstein right now -- Barry is pushing forward on his but Mr. Kitson has some massive pages filled to the brim with characters -- take at look at this 1/3 splash from Barry and you will see how much quality he is poring into every page --  

On other news, we are finally getting ready to goto print on two of the books and ought to have them both at the printer by the end of August which then leaves us focused solely on the 100+ page graphic novel -- I've been showing off art for months now so I hope/trust you see how it is coming together.   

Also, as promised, we have the free online .pdf story being worked on as well.  Joe has been working on those between pages and once he finishes Ron's final pages, he turn to ink that story.    

Hope you like the art from Barry and Mick Gray -- 

Big Art Update for The Liberty Brigade
over 7 years ago – Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:30:15 PM

 As I’ve said, art is pouring in as both Barry and Ron move into the final stretch. Barry just finished a great run on Doctor Strange and is now full-time on The Liberty Brigade as he moves to the final pages of his section. I’ve enclosed a panel from a page Barry sent to inker Mick Gray yesterday. Also, Ron Frenz is down to his last few pages and here is a nice panel that Joe Rubinstein just finished inks on featuring Air Male and Stampy, two of the great Golden Age heroes now forgotten. Garrie Gastonny has finished work on the Encyclopedia and I attach the opening panel of the last page. Next up is colorist Chris Ivy who just finished coloring The Origin of The Marksman featuring stellar work by Alan Patrick. And, last is a page from the free bonus .pdf story by David Quay.

Major Update Part 2 - Steranko Cover
over 7 years ago – Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 03:30:42 AM

I spoke to Jim and he was happy for us to unveil his cover -- we think it is one of the greatest and most patriotic covers Jim has ever done - we could not be happier with it and hope all of you are as excited as we are -- just an amazing cover by one of the most talented illustrators to ever draw a comic book page or cover!!

Major Update
over 7 years ago – Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 10:48:31 PM

Thank you all for your amazing support of The Liberty Brigade and thank you for your patience as we work to bring this amazing graphic novel to light. I wanted to give everyone a status update on where things stand with he book:

1) Liberty Brigade Zero – complete, printed and ready to ship with everything else.

2) Liberty Brigade: Heroes of the Golden Age Encylcopedia – we added original art from Chuck Patton to all three of our original characters. Two of the panels need to be colored and then this book goes to the printer. Again, the delay is because we wanted our supporters to get the best possible product and we realized that every other entry had some panels showing off the character from their Golden Age stories SO we went out and commissions Justice League artist Chuck Patton to create some panels for us. Below is one of the panels featuring The Bill of Rights. This book heads to the printer next week. 

3) Liberty Brigade – The Villains Origin book – All of the origins are with our editor for comments after which we do any edits and then this book will ship to the printer. We also added a 1 page prologue and 1 page epilogue that ties these origins to the actual story in the Graphic Novel. Garrie Gastonny who drew our Zero issue is drawing them now. Yes, this means we added pages to the Villains origin for all of you. I’ve attached the prelim for the epilogue so you can see that page. This will head to the printer in the next two weeks.  

4) The “Sorry This Is Taking So Long” free pdf comic for all of you – art from that is pouring in and we have designed a special PHOTO cover which is attached. 

Also, below is one of the "photos" that will be in the photo album --

5) Jim Steranko cover – I talked to Jim last night and will post up the image later today. We are also working on trying to find an amazing 3-D, die-cut printer to do a special die-cut poster in a highly limited edition. Stay tuned.

6) The Liberty Brigade Graphic Novel – we are working on this as fast as we can – our two great pencilers – Barry Kitson and Ron Frenz – are both are plugging away and our hope is to get this to the printer in late August/early September. We are able to process and shop 500 items per day as NewKadia is handling the shipping. I expect that we will ship everything in mid-to-late September. To make up for this, we commissioned several ADDITIONAL one-page origins of the Golden Age Heroes including one by Joe Bennett who is tearing it up over at Marvel on Immortal Hulk. Joe and his studio mates have already penciled and inked their origins and they are currently out for coloring/lettering.

I know everyone would like it to be faster but we have wanted this to be the best possible item – I have been showing art almost weekly to enable everyone to see the progress – we are almost there and have learned some lessons as we think about plotting issue #2 and issue #3 which will be closer to 40 pages each to enable us to hit our deadlines. This is a massive set of books and everyone involved wants them to be GREAT.  Most delays are because we are adding pages to make this a GREAT story and GREAT product.  I really thank you all for your patience.