Pizza Party!

Bernie Wrightson, 1970

Ships in space will forever be @spacebarbarian inspiration!

Kazonga, italian porn comic, grendizer-inspired. Edifumetto, 1980.

More weird @spacebarbarian kindred art spirits.

Kindred @spacebarbarian spirit art.

A detail of a detail of a sketch

(pencil, in sketch book, coloured in PSSSH)

Check out Pablo Clark’s uber-rad take on Mars: Space Barbarian!

Just got a package from Dark Horse containing an Image book. #friendship - I did a one page comic with my pal, and DH editor Jim Gibbons in the back of Savage Dragon 202. Printed nicely. Thanks @jimgibbons for the comps.

Ain’t nothin’ funny about how cool that back up story is!

SAVAGE DRAGON 202 is out today, and it’s pretty great. This issue features THE END of VANGUARD! Gary Carlson and Frank Fosco are one of my favorite writer/artist teams to work for, and the story they’re concluding here wraps up threads that have been developing for years—from the early days of Megaton through the Vanguard series (including the original series, the Strange Visitors mini, the Ethereal Warriors one-shot), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the 2009 Ethrian and 2011 Vanguard backup serials. Crazy!

This issue also features a special FUNNIES page — featuring just one strip: MARS: SPACE BARBARIAN! Mars is a super-awesome webcomic by Jim Gibbons, Andrew MacLean, and Ryan Hill, and I’m super stoked to see its print debut in the pages of FUNNIES. Jim is an editor at Dark Horse, a writer (he recently released a comic called Birch Squatch with Caleb Goellner), and a swell all-around dude. Andrew has been making a real name for himself with his self-published HEAD LOPPER books, as well as a bunch of independent titles (such as Jamie Gambell’s DEPARTMENT O), and he’s about to release his debut graphic novel APOCALYPTIGIRL, which looks breathtaking. Ryan Hill is one of the best colorists in the biz, and can frequently be seen making Ulises Farinas’s work even more beautiful, if such a concept makes sense. Ryan’s recent & upcoming work includes STUMPTOWN, EFFIGY, and JUDGE DREDD.

The regular Funnies page (featuring Average Dragon, Knight Watchman, and others) will return in Savage Dragon 203. Woo!

If you didn’t know.

...now you know!

Last week, we posted the first three pages and a link back to the official site, but… here’s the whole, glorious thing for you, Tumblr!

Mars: Space Barbarian in “Only the Strong”

Story by Jim Gibbons

Art and lettering by Andrew MacLean

Colors by Ryan Hill

Co-created by Gibbons and MacLean

This is the first 5 pages from our new randomly updating sci-fi swords and sorcery webcomic and we certainly hope you enjoy them.

Head over to SpaceBarbarian.com for future comics, covers, sketches, and process posts. And follow us here on tumblr at SpaceBarbarian.tumblr.com for even more Mars-related madness!

(Many, many thanks to those that helped spread the word about our little comics endeavor last week! You guys and gals are the best!)

More MARS from the guys. Good stuff.

SAVAGE DRAGON 202 is out today, and it’s pretty great. This issue features THE END of VANGUARD! Gary Carlson and Frank Fosco are one of my favorite writer/artist teams to work for, and the story they’re concluding here wraps up threads that have been developing for years—from the early days of Megaton through the Vanguard series (including the original series, the Strange Visitors mini, the Ethereal Warriors one-shot), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the 2009 Ethrian and 2011 Vanguard backup serials. Crazy!

This issue also features a special FUNNIES page — featuring just one strip: MARS: SPACE BARBARIAN! Mars is a super-awesome webcomic by Jim Gibbons, Andrew MacLean, and Ryan Hill, and I’m super stoked to see its print debut in the pages of FUNNIES. Jim is an editor at Dark Horse, a writer (he recently released a comic called Birch Squatch with Caleb Goellner), and a swell all-around dude. Andrew has been making a real name for himself with his self-published HEAD LOPPER books, as well as a bunch of independent titles (such as Jamie Gambell’s DEPARTMENT O), and he’s about to release his debut graphic novel APOCALYPTIGIRL, which looks breathtaking. Ryan Hill is one of the best colorists in the biz, and can frequently be seen making Ulises Farinas’s work even more beautiful, if such a concept makes sense. Ryan’s recent & upcoming work includes STUMPTOWN, EFFIGY, and JUDGE DREDD.

The regular Funnies page (featuring Average Dragon, Knight Watchman, and others) will return in Savage Dragon 203. Woo!

Big thanks to Adam O. Pruett (goshisdead) for lining this up!

Bought this reminder that there are no new ideas at @Powells yesterday. Go check out www.spacebarbarian.com, why don’tcha?!

Ha! Thanks for the reblog, powells!

Last week, we posted the first three pages and a link back to the official site, but… here’s the whole, glorious thing for you, Tumblr!

Mars: Space Barbarian in “Only the Strong”

Story by Jim Gibbons

Art and lettering by Andrew MacLean

Colors by Ryan Hill

Co-created by Gibbons and MacLean

This is the first 5 pages from our new randomly updating sci-fi swords and sorcery webcomic and we certainly hope you enjoy them.

Head over to SpaceBarbarian.com for future comics, covers, sketches, and process posts. And follow us here on tumblr at SpaceBarbarian.tumblr.com for even more Mars-related madness!

(Many, many thanks to those that helped spread the word about our little comics endeavor last week! You guys and gals are the best!)

An oldie but a goodie.

Jiří Horáček

Kindred spirit.

Big ol' space beasts are my fav!

Boris Vallejo - Mercenary, 1980.

Inspiration!

I promise I haven't been updating the tumblr for nothing. More Space Barbarian comics are coming!

jenniferhom:

Beautiful, fun take on my favorite helmet—the bubble helmet.