San Diego, CA - Visionary Comics Studio and Strider Nolan Publishing are pleased to announce the formal release of Visions #1. A quarterly prose anthology topping out at over 250 pages per issue, Visions is a hybrid child of comics and the classic pulp tales that inspired the very origins of the medium.

Each issue will feature stand alone short stories, novellas and serialized novels of fantasy, horror, adventure, westerns, science fiction and super-heroes. Each issue will also include covers and spot illustrations for each tale done by up and coming as well as top pro artists.

Visions borrows the format and high paced energy of the classic pulp magazines, with a modern sophistication to the writing and art. But what makes this project different from other anthologies is that all the tales of Visions are set in the Visionary Universe, a fictional world developed by Visionary Comics.

"The Visionary Universe is something we've been mentioning since we launched the studio and this year we begin to finally focus on building it and launching it as a multi-media setting." Creative Director C. Edward Sellner explained, "Unlike most 'comic' universes, focused on current time, sometimes one city, the VU has tales from its distant past, far future and everything in between. Each story in Visions is written to stand on its own with beginning, middle and end. Yet for the less casual reader they will quickly find threads, some subtle, some not, that will begin to weave together the various tales into a rich tapestry that is the Visionary Universe."

Stories include works from award winning writers like Dianne K. Salerni, comic professionals like Bryan Baugh, as well as art from Eagle nominated artists like Azim Akberali. Pulp expert and writer Ron Fortier calls it a "diverse collection of fantastic tales...in a truly gorgeous package. Pulp fans rejoice. This is the mag we've all been waiting for!" Now, the wait is over!

Visions is now available world wide through Amazon and other fine book distributors online. Copies went on sale at the New York Comic-Con and Wizard World Philly, with more available at San Diego Comic-Con Interntional and Chicago Comic-Con. A Signing Tour with creator C. Edward Sellner will also be announced later this summer. Finally, announcements concerning availability with various distributors will be coming by the end of the year.

  

Philly News Flashes from

Here's a quick summary of news flashes that came out of Wizard World Philly revealed first exclusively on our Twitter feed:

 

 

• Jerry "The King" Lawler will now be the regular cover penciler for Headlocked!
• John Hebert has signed on to do finishes and inks for Monarch of Manhattan!
• John has also signed on with Chris McCay to resurrect Midnight Run!
• Talks have begun to bring Greg Laroque on board a Visionary Universe title!
• Pat Broderick's T-Rex has been signed as the first VCS title from Bluewater!

Thanks to everyone who made Philly a wonderful show! We had fans lined around the table! Sold a ton of complete runs of Headlocked: The Tryout  as well as Visions #1 and Frog Princess. Jerry Lawler had a blast meeting so many wrestling fans. We even had top folks from major publishers and movie studios coming by to express their fan status! And the biggest stuff is stuff we can't talk about yet, stuff still in the works! Stay tuned!

Visionary's next convention stop...

NEWS: Visionary and Bluewater Productions

 

Visionary Dives Into the Bluewater - Visionary Comics Studio and Bluewater Productions are celebrating a new creative partnership. Visionary's talent will be working on a number of upcoming Bluewater projects, including some of their highest profile licensed books. In addition at least two VCS titles will be coming out under the Bluewater banner hopefully by years end. "Darren and I have known each other for some time and often talked about doing some things together. It just so happens that several pieces all fell into place at about the same time," said VCS Creative Director C. Edward Sellner.

The first project out of this partnership will be coming out in Bluewater's Vincent Price Presents #10: Road Rage hitting stands June 24th! Fully illustrated by VCS artist Pat Broderick the story continues the series of stand-alone tales of terror in the gothic tradition of Vincent Price, with a tale of nightmarish retribution.  

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Pat's stint as artist on VPP will then be followed later this year with C. Edward Sellner stepping into the writer's spot in a tale of monsters, damsels in distress and young heroics where nothing is quite what it seems. The story entitled Pawns will be scheduled for this fall.

Pat Broderick once again steps up to bat, but this time as the regular artist on one of the hot new William Shatner Presents titles, namely Man O' War.

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             But it doesn't end there! Bluewater will also be publishing at least two creator-owned series from Visionary and announcements will be coming soon regarding C. Edward Sellner helming up another licensed title from the publisher later this year.

More details as we have them!

 

 

 

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