Veteran's Day & Remembrance Day

Best wishes to all on this Veteran's Day (USA) and Remembrance Day (Canada/UK)

wonderful Catwoman pumpkin carving (with tutorial)

Elizabeth Amber Love posted photos of her carved pumpkin with a decidedly Darwynesque theme and graciously shared her step-by-step process on her website.

http://www.amberunmasked.com/2016-pumpkin-catwoman/

Amazing work, Amber! Thanks for sharing!

You can follow Amber on twitter for updates on her podcasts, writing and more:

https://twitter.com/elizabethamber

Long Beach Comic Con tribute panel

Pop Culture Maven has the video from the Darwyn Cooke Tribute panel held at the Long Beach Comic Con. Hosted by Jimmy Palmiotti, it features several stories and memories from Darwyn's friends and family.

http://www.popculturemaven.com/conventions/darwyn-cooke-tribute-lbcc-2016/

SDCC Tribute Panel

Jamie Coville has a recording of the Darwyn Cooke Tribute Panel held at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. Heidi MacDonald has links on her Comicsbeat news website:

http://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-16-the-eisners-and-21-must-listen-panels-in-audio/

Tribute panel at SDCC

There will be a panel at this year's San Diego Comic-con to celebrate the life and art of award-winning cartoonist Darwyn Cooke with moderator Jimmy Palmiotti and some of the biggest names in comics and animation, including Mike Allred, Scott Dunbier, Cully Hamner, Frank Tieri, and Bruce Timm.

The panel will be held on Saturday July 23rd from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in Room 25ABC of the convention centre.

https://comiccon2016.sched.org/event-goers/dbcca73ef1ac7ed4514fbe54975db735

We regret to inform you that Darwyn lost his battle with cancer early this morning at 1:30 AM ET. We read all of your messages of support to him throughout the day yesterday. He was filled with your love and surrounded by friends and family at his home in Florida.

Donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society and Hero Initiative.

Please continue to respect our privacy as we go through this very difficult time.

A longer statement will come later today.

“Then we shall not be weary. Then we shall prevail.” -- John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier speech

fuck cancer

It is with tremendous sadness that we announce Darwyn is now receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer. His brother Dennis and I, along with our families appreciate the outpouring of support we have received. We ask for privacy as we go through this very difficult time. Urgent inquiries please contact David Hyde david.hyde@superfanpromotions.com 

Marsha

Digital Darwyn Sale on at Comixology

Comixology is having a sale on Darwyn's DC and IDW works.

You can get New Frontier and the one-shot special as well as Jonah Hex and more from this link

and the four Parker graphic novels, adapting the Richard Stark books, are on sale here.

They make great Father's Day gifts, too!

win a copy of The Hunter signed by Darwyn!

Good day, folks! 

We recently uncovered a copy of The Hunter from our original cache of signed copies!

It has a bookplate done exclusively for Strange Adventures Bookshops in eastern Canada.

This will be given away by a random draw on June 30th, 2016. To get your name in the draw, send 

a postcard, a real goddamn postcard, showing your town, village, city, neighbourhood, province, county, state, or country, to:

Parker 

c/o Strange Adventures

5110 Prince Street

Halifax, NS

B3J 1L3 Canada

Note your name and return address on the postcard and we'll put all postcards received into the draw.

Winner will be announced on the blog and on the facebook page on the evening of June 30th, 2016

The draw will be done after mail is received on June 30th so you've got plenty of time to find a  picture postcard get some stamps! Open to anyone in the world though the book is intended for a mature audience so let's say 16 years and up.

we've received a number of postcards from all over. Thanks for the kind words and thoughts. There's still time to send in yours. 

Batman Omnibus cover

here's some sketches and the final illustration for the cover of 

Batman: Golden Age Omnibus vol. 1

784 pages of vintage Batman by Bill Finger, Gardner Fox, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson.

From the publisher's sales blurb:

The stories that catapulted Batman to legendary status are collected here in a single, massive volume. These original stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #27-56 and BATMAN #1-7 include the origin of the Dark Knight, as well as the debuts of Robin, Commissioner Gordon, Professor Hugo Strange, The Joker, Catwoman and more!