Dresden Files Comic Books To Be Produced by Dabel Brothers

In the realm of “Coolest News Ever,” I am delerious with geeker joy to announce that Harry Dresden is making the leap to a new medium–graphic novels!
(Zap! Bing! Kapow! Fa-WAM!)
Working together with Dabel Brothers Productions, the Dresden Files are going to be translated into a graphic novel format. The current plan is to lay out the Dresden Files storyline at the rate of one of the novels every twelve to sixteen monthly issues, with occasional side-trips and independent stories thrown in. (Ever wonder what happened in Branson the month before Storm Front? How about what somebody saw in the lake in Minnesota between Storm Front and Fool Moon? Maybe I’ll get to tell those stories now! How cool is that?)
I will be assisting with the writing of the comics, and am also involved in the design and approval of the characters, art, tone, and so on. This is an actual hand-in-hand project in which I have full creative input and influence, and I’m friggin’ giddy about it. I mean, come on! Comic books!
As we come up with promotional materials and finalize artists, art, and so on, I’ll release names and samples of the art at the earliest possible moment, so that I can share my hysteria with you, the reader. 🙂
The Dabel Brothers have made quite a name for themselves lately, converting a lot of popular SF and fantasy to a graphic novel format, including the work of such authors as George RR Martin, Dean Koontz, and Laurell K Hamilton. They are distributed by Marvel comics, and you can find their titles in comic book stores and bookstores alike all over the country.
Granted, they don’t actually publish in the Marvel Universe, but there is a Marvel sticker on the label. And so, this humble geek dares to dream the impossible dream:
The Harry Dresden/Amazing Spider-Man team-up issue. 🙂
Jim

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Butcher Block Podcast – Episode Eleven

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(26min 21sec) Fred and Priscilla talk news, and the listeners phone in their Alera Love.

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The Music
– 2006 Pl@stic Soul
– .22
News Items with Priscellie
– September 4th, Release of Many Bloody Returns, “It’s My Birthday
Too.” Book signings all across the country. Jim was in Kansas City
at B&N. Early September book signings for Many Bloody Returns
– Cover art for Supernatural Honeymoon! Edited by P.N. Elrod, out
December 26th. My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon Cover Art
– Subterranean Press
– Real Life Comics Dresden Files Sighting
– Codex Alera on Unshelved
– The Drumstick Campaign
– Jericho
– dresdencity.org
– maenad.tripod.com
– dresdenfiles.org
– New Home 4 Dresden Petition
– PhauxCon in Philly, October 5-7
– Shannon Butcher
– The Dresden Files RPG Playtest Application
Alera Love
– Read about the Codex Alera
– We hear from Fred, Priscilla, Jackie in Austin, Meg, Charles from Texas, Gloria, and “The Man in the Shadows”… spooky.
Quick Addendums
– Strange Brew on P.N. Elrod’s Livejournal
– Captain’s Fury cover art preview
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Birthday Booksigning

Contributors of the upcoming short-story collection MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite will celebrate the book’s “birthday” at bookstore events across the country on September 4, the day the book is officially released to the public. Booksigning events have been scheduled in five cities, and birthday cake will be included in the celebration.
Jim Butcher will be appearing in Kansas City, MO, at the Barnes & Noble in Country Club Plaza.
Kansas City, MO * 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
Country Club Plaza
420 W 47th Street
816-753-1313
The other four parties are as follows:
Toni L.P. Kelner and Christopher Golden
Framingham, MA * 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
1 Worcester Road
508-628-5567
Charlaine Harris, P.N. Elrod, and Rachel Caine
Dallas, TX * 7:00 PM
BARNES AND NOBLE
616 Preston Royal Shopping Ctr
214-363-0924
Elaine Viets
Delray Beach, FL * 7:00 PM
MURDER ON THE BEACH
273 Pineapple Grove Way (at NE 2nd Ave.)
561-279-7790
Carolyn Haines
Mobile, AL * 6:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
3250 Airport Blvd B-30
251-450-0084
A fun and unique story collection, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, MANY BLOODY RETURNS contains thirteen all new, never before published stories, each one offering a fresh take on the concept of what birthdays mean to the undead. “Toni and I had some wonderful planning sessions about the theme for the anthology,” writes Charlaine Harris in the introduction to the book. “We decided to pick two apparently unrelated concepts—vampires (the dead) and birthdays (normally considered a celebration of life)—and see what different ways some very talented writers could combine the two.” Contributors include: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, and Elaine Viets. Harris and Kelner were careful to choose an even balance of traditional mystery and traditional fantasy writers; the result is an outstanding anthology and “a fantastic introduction for new readers to some of the best-known writers in the field” (RT Book Reviews).
MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, will be published in hardcover by Ace Books on September 4, 2007 ($24.95/ISBN: 978-0-441-01522-1).
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