Book Expo America (BEA), the largest trade show in the publishing industry in North America, kicks off this week at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.  Grand Design Communications’ David Bernstein will be attending, meeting with current clients and partners and marketing GDC’s Comics Production Services (CPS) as well as our extensive catalog […]

Legendary writer Roy Thomas has recently taken on scripting duties for two fantasy-adventure comics, ‘Roodhaar’ for Don Lawrence Collection and ‘John Carter’ for the Edgar Rice Burroughs website.  Grand Design represents a number of comics created by the Eisner Hall of Fame writer, including Alter Ego, Captain Thunder and Blue Bolt, and Anthem as well […]

On May 3 comic book shops around the world held their annual “Free Comic Book Day” promotion.  Publishers and retailers distributed more than 4.3 million free comic books to lucky shoppers.  Major American publishers Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, IDW, and Image were among the publishers that contributed more than 60 different titles handed out […]

Al Feldstein, the longtime editor of Mad Magazine, died April 29, 2014.  Through a long career in comics Feldstein contributed to the original line of EC Comics, developing titles as Tales From the Crypt, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science before embarking on a long career as Editor of Mad, which under his leadership achieved a circulation […]

GRAPHIC CLASSICS GOES DIGITAL GRAPHIC CLASSICS goes digital – the acclaimed GRAPHIC CLASSICS series is now on sale in digital format for Android and Apple (iOS) devices and browser-based reading from Ave! Comics and for Apple (iOS) devices from iVerse Media’s Comics+ app. The acclaimed Graphic Classics® series is now available for iPhone, iPad, and […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]