Our friends at the Podomatic.com podcast “In Country:  Marvel Comics’ The ‘Nam” have just posted a special hour-long program featuring an extensive interview with KATUSHA and Zenith Graphic Histories writer/artist Wayne Vansant.   Host Tom Panarese has been chronicling the issue-by-issue publication of Marvel’s highly regarded Vietnam War series THE ‘NAM, featured work by Grand […]

Comicbooked.com ran an overview of Wayne Vansant’s recent graphic novel output in their Independent Comic Spotlight column by Jeff Hill.  Hill recommends all of Vansant’s graphic novels from Zenith Press and Grand Design Publishing, writing: This time around, [Vansant’s] striking artwork and penchant for meticulous and accurate research and dialogue make for a realistic and […]

Blogger James Robert Smith has a review of KATUSHA BOOK ONE and KATUSHA BOOK TWO up on his blog, Til The Last Hemlock Dies.  Smith, an accomplished novelist and comic book writer, wrote: These books follow the title character, a female soldier in the Red Army of the Soviet Union. The reader sees her as […]

Now readers have even more ways to read Wayne Vansant’s KATUSHA, GIRL SOLDIER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR graphic novels. Katusha Book One: Edge of Darkness and Katusha Book Two: The Shaking of the Earth are now available from the Amazon Kindle store.  The books can be read using the Kindle app for Kindle, iOS […]

CHAMPIONS ADVENTURES #2 and #3 have been released on comiXology.  Each comic sells for only 99 cents and features some of the most classic adventures of Heroic Publishing’s long-running super-team.  Grand Design represents Heroic Publishing for digital and foreign publishing rights. Grand Design Communications President David Bernstein comments, “With the continuing release of Heroic Publishing’s […]

Great news from our clients at New Paradigm Studios: Watson and Holmes has been nominated for two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards:  Best New Series (by Karl Bollers and Rick Leonardi) and Best Single Issue (#6 by Brandon Easton and N Steven Harris)! Congratulations to all our friends at New Paradigm for this prestigious honor! […]

Publisher signs up with international licensing agency, open catalog to publishers PITTSBURGH P.A.- Action Lab Entertainment, the home for cutting edge comics is proud to announce they have entered into a partnership with Grand Design Communications. Grand Design is a licensing agency representing comic books and graphic novel, properties for worldwide licensing, with clients including […]

Fans of Doug Murray and Russ Heath’s HEARTS AND MINDS and Wayne Vansant’s KATUSHA should head over to the excellent podcast series In Country: Marvel Comics’ “THE NAM”, presented by Tom Panarese on Podomatic.com.  In each episode Panarese summarizes an issue of the groundbreaking 1980s Vietnam War comics series.  The series was notable as the […]

The worlds of television, movies, books, and most of all comics and graphic novels will converge this weekend in Macon, Georgia. Graphic novel fans will have the chance to purchase Molly Danger and Katusha Books 1 & 2 from their creators this weekend, March 15th & 16th, when the Macon Centreplex Convention Center and Coliseum hosts […]

Champions Adventures #1 has been released on comiXology, the leading digital comics reading platform.   The Heroic Publishing series features classic adventures of Flare and the League of Champions.   Issue #1 is priced at only $.99 for 28 color pages and features “The Gods at War” with a story by writer Dennis Mallonee, layouts by […]