Eisner Awards

Wow! I've been nominated for two Eisners! My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies for Best Original Graphic Novel and for Best Penciller/Inker!

Bad Weekend

Hollywood Reporter

Criminal #5

CRIMINAL #5
 
WRITER: Ed Brubaker

ARTIST: Sean Phillips

COLOUR: Jacob Phillips

COVER: Sean Phillips

JUNE 05 / 40 pages / FC/ M / $3.99

Dan Farraday, private detective and skip-tracer, comes to town looking for a dangerous woman. This issue begins the long and winding tale of THE SUMMER OF '88… the story of the last days of Teeg Lawless.

As always, CRIMINAL contains back page art and articles only found in the single issues.

Con, Festivals and Signings

Updated my appearances for this year on the right...

Django and Keoma wraparound DVD covers for Arrow

Criminal #4

WRITER: Ed Brubaker
 
ARTIST: Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips
 
COVER A: Sean Phillips
 

APRIL 24 / 40 pages / FC/ M / $3.99

A breathtaking single-issue story finds Ricky Lawless caught in the grip of violence and double cross after a robbery. As always, CRIMINAL contains back page art and articles only found in the single issues.

Criminal #3

CRIMINAL #3

WRITER: ED BRUBAKER

ARTIST: SEAN PHILLIPS & JACOB PHILLIPS

COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS

MARCH 20 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99

“THE LONGEST WEEKEND,” Part Two

Jacob’s weekend taking care of his old mentor takes a turn for the worse.
As always, CRIMINAL contains back page art and articles only found in the single issues.

Tokyo

I'm almost over the jetlag of going to Tokyo, so here's a few of my favourite photos from the trip...

Criminal #2

CRIMINAL #2

WRITER: ED BRUBAKER

ARTIST: SEAN PHILLIPS & JACOB PHILLIPS

COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS

FEBRUARY 13 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99

“THE LONGEST WEEKEND”

Archie Lewis was the artist’s artist in his heyday, although that’s not what he’s famous for. He’s famous for being a nightmare to work with—and dangerous. So when an old assistant is forced to chaperone his one-time mentor to receive his lifetime achievement award, well… let’s just say things don’t go well.

As always, CRIMINAL contains back page art and articles only found in the single issues.

Sketchbook

I've made a new limited edition sketchbook of movie illustrations...
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CRIMINAL #1

Criminal #1

Writer: Ed Brubaker

Artist: Sean Phillips 

Colours: Jacob Phillips

January 09 / 48 pages / FC / M / $3.99

THE RETURN OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED CRIME COMIC OF THE 21ST CENTURY! Hot off their bestselling series KILL OR BE KILLED and their original graphic novel MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, crime comic masters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS finally return to their most-demanded title—as a new MONTHLY SERIES! In this double-sized (at no additional cost!) debut issue, Teeg Lawless is back in town. But he finds himself in more trouble than ever, thanks to his delinquent teenage son—and this time, fists and bullets may not be enough to solve his problems. A perfect introduction to CRIMINAL and its dark, exciting world, this series will also include back page art and articles to bring readers more fully into the noir experience.

In The Heat Of The Night

It was a pleasure to be asked by Criterion to do another bluray cover for them. In The Heat Of The Night is out January 29th with a new cover by me. I also did a few extra drawings, some of which will be used too in the included booklet.

Django

Out on Blu-ray in November with a new cover by me from Arrow Films.

Festivals

New festival appearances listed on the right...

The Night Stalker

Painted a couple of Blu-ray covers for Kino Lorber
Out in October, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.

THE FADE OUT TP

THE FADE OUT TP

WRITER: ED BRUBAKER

ARTIST: SEAN PHILLIPS with colours by ELIZABETH BREITWEISER

COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS

NOVEMBER 14 / 352 PAGES / FC / M / $24.99

ADVANCE SOLICIT

A bold new paperback edition of the entire Eisner Award-winning tale of Hollywood in the early days of the Blacklist!

THE FADE OUT tracks the murder of an up-and-coming starlet from studio backlots to the gutters of downtown Los Angeles, as shell-shocked front man Charlie Parish is caught between his own dying sense of morality and his best friend’s righteous sense of justice.

A picture-perfect recreation of a lost era, THE FADE OUT is an instant classic from the bestselling team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, with acclaimed color artist ELIZABETH BREITWEISER.

Collects THE FADE OUT #1-12

The Etruscan Kills Again

Soundtrack on vinyl out in August from Arrow Video with a gatefold cover from me...

My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies teaser...

MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES

MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, the first original graphic novel from the award-winning and bestselling team Ed Brubaker (writer on HBO’s Westworld, co-creator of Too Old to Die Young with Nicolas Winding Refn for Amazon Studios) and Sean Phillips—the creative team behind CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE—will hit stores this October.

"Sean and I have been talking about doing our version of a romance comic for a long time, so naturally it ended up being a crime story, too. But it's one that allows me to mine some of my own pop culture obsessions and delve back into my teen years and the kind of trouble you can only get into when you're young," said Brubaker. "And coming off a long project like Kill Or Be Killed, it just felt like this was the perfect time for us to experiment with format and finally do an original graphic novel. We're both very excited to be creating something that's designed to be seen first in hardback. That's a new one for us, in nearly 20 years of working together."

Ever since the death of her junkie mother, Ellie has been obsessed with famous drug addicts. Those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been her angels and idols. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it appears to be... she'll find another more dangerous romance, and find out how easily drugs and murder go hand in hand.

MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES will be presented in a gorgeous hardcover format and is sure to be a seductive coming-of-age story, a pop and drug culture-fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness... and what she finds there.

MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES (Diamond Code FEB188004, ISBN: 978-1-5343-0846-6) will be available in comic book stores on Wednesday, October 10th and bookstores on Tuesday, October 16th.

Sleeping Dogs and Smash Palace

A couple of DVD covers I've painted for Arrow Films recently...