War Is Boring, a collection of reportage covering current and past conflicts and hosted at medium.com, has issued a feature-length profile of GDC client Wayne Vansant.  In an article titled “Meet the Comics Artist Who Draws War in Meticulous Detail”, Kevin Knodell writes, “Wayne Vansant brings a historian’s touch to comics from the Eastern Front […]

Grand Design Communications represents graphic novel rights to Osa Johnson’s classic autobiography I MARRIED ADVENTURE, and the Johnsons seem to be popping up everywhere these days – Huffington Post just included “Osa” as one of “14 Baby Girl Names Inspired By Strong, Adventurous Women“. But I MARRIED ADVENTURE wasn’t just a best-selling book – several months […]

  Comicsalternative.com, the website of the podcast featuring “Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics!”, has an interview with cartoonist Joe Ollman about his work on GRAPHIC CLASSICS and more.  Grand Design Communications is the digital and foreign rights agent for GRAPHIC CLASSICS . Ollman has contributed to multiple volumes of GRAPHIC CLASSICS.  His first Graphic […]

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.