Wayne Vansant’s epic war story KATUSHA, GIRL SOLDIER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR is being made available to read for free at katushagirlsoldier.com.  KATUSHA tells the story of a farm girl from Ukraine who becomes a Red Army tank commander during World War II. A coming-of-age story told against the backdrop of the bloodiest conflict […]

On the February 12 edition of the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s show “All In A Day”, host Alan Neal interviewed the creators of the recently published LUCIFERS SWORD MC graphic novel, writer Phil Cross and artist Ronn Sutton.  The two, joined by Phil’s wife Meg,  talked about the process of creating a graphic novel inspired by Phil’s life […]

GDC represents graphic novel rights for Osa Johnson’s famed autobiography, I MARRIED ADVENTURE, a book which has provided inspiration to dreamers ever since it was originally published in 1940.  In Spring 2014 the book was the inspiration for design firm Better Shelter’s display at the “Legends of La Cienga” design event, and in 2015 the […]

Lucifers Sword MC: Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club, an explosive new graphic novel written by Hells Angels leader Phil Cross (with Darwin Holmstrom) and illustrated by Ronn Sutton is out this month in stores across North America.  Grand Design Communications worked with publisher Motorbooks in developing the book, presenting the publisher with a […]

Kevin Knodell reviewed Katusha creator Wayne Vansant’s latest non-fiction graphic novel, Battle of the Bulge, on the Medium.com blog “War is Boring”. Knodell praised Vansant’s in-depth exploration of one of histories great battles: Vansant’s enthusiasm for history is apparent. His renderings of soldiers’ equipment and uniforms are painstakingly detailed. His research is impeccable, accurately capturing the battle’s sweeping […]

Wishing you a happy and safe 2015 from Grand Design Communications.

Secretidentitypodcast.com, the website of the popular long-running Secret Identity podcast, posted a review of Katusha by Matt “Matman” Herring on October 15.  Highlighting Vansant’s long career as a graphic novel creator primarily working in military history and military-related historical fiction, “Matman” wrote: If you have ever read any of Wayne’s previous books, you know what an […]

The annual four-days of multimedia madness known as the New York Comic Con opens today and more than 130,000 people are expected to attend the four day celebration of comics and other media.   Since the first NYCC in 2006 attendance has grown from a modest 16,000 to numbers that rival the largest such event in the […]

Last month Heroic Publishing ramped up it’s release schedule on the #1 digital comics platform, Comixology.  The California-based publisher had sporadically released a number of titles through Comixology earlier in 2014.  Now Heroic is releasing three digital comics a week through them, and so far titles released have included Flare, Flare Adventures, Champions, Champions Adventures, […]

Classic tales of Heroic Publishing’s FLARE and the CHAMPIONS are now available on the comic book industry’s premier digital distribution system, with new issues arriving every two weeks! In each issue of FLARE, follow the adventures of comics’ shining goddess of light, as she navigates the pitfalls of juggling her career as an international supermodel with the […]