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April 10, 2008 : New York Comic-Con

I will be attending the New York Comic-Con, April 18-20. You can find me at my spot in Artists Alley, Table J-31. I'll be glad to sign your comics and chat. I'll also have tons of original art pages with me from Jack of Fables, G.I. Joe and other titles for sale.

On Sunday I'll be on the Archie Comics panel and maybe the Vertigo panel on Friday. I may also be doing signings at the DC Comics booth, but no firm times yet. Hope to see some of you there.

February 02, 2008

Starting Thursday February 7, "The Adventures of Simone & Ajax" goes full-color with the first of their ALL-NEW tales, available online for free at www.ComicMix.com or click here to go directly to the Simone & Ajax comics. We meet up with S&A right where the last of their old stories left off for 3 weeks of "Simone, Queen of the Jungle". After that will be a 10-week serial of the first Simone & Ajax graphic novel, "The Case of the Maltese Duck", with more to come beyond that as Simone & Ajax meet up with Pirates. Please note that Simone & Ajax will now be updated on Thursdays instead of Saturdays. Keep checking back here or S&A's homepage, www.simoneandajax.com, for more news and previews. Please click on any of the thumbnails below for a larger image of these new Simone & Ajax pages.

image © Andrew Pepoy

image © Andrew Pepoy

image © Andrew Pepoy

As for my other work, I'm still inking Jack of Fables for DC/Vertigo, close to wrapping up our 2nd year. The third Trade paperback collection will be out in June. I've also been helping out on some recent issues of Fables. As well, I'm continuing my run on Futurama for Bongo Comics. Besides inking the new issues, some of my earlier issues will soon be collected into books, so please keep an eye out for those.

Work on the Katy Keene paperback collection is done and the book will be out in August. It collects all 10 stories that ran in Archie & Friends plus an all-new 22-pager written and drawn by me and promotional art, all behind a new cover by me.

I've started making my convention plans for 2008, so you'll find me at the New York Comic-Con Artists Alley, April 18-20, as well as Wizard World Chicago, June 26-29, and Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 23-27. I will post news as to where I'll be at those shows or any other shows, so please check back again later.

This summer the Chicago Tap Theatre will present an expanded and revised version of The Hourglass in "The Stop-Time Chronicles", a superhero tap dancing opera, running for 6 weeks this time starting Friday June 27, so it will be running the weekend of Wizard World Chicago. Think about checking it out if you're in town.

Finally, I've continued to add pages to my original art sales page at Comiccon Art, where you'll find pages from Jack of Fables, Katy Keene, and more. And if you're wondering about Simone & Ajax originals, I'll begin selling those for the first time pretty soon.

That's it for now, so please check out the new Simone & Ajax comics at ComicMix. Thanks!

December 28, 2007

AND YET ANOTHER SPECIAL UPDATE:
Podcast Interview: Comics Coast to Coast's latest podcast features an interview with me talking about my work on Simone & Ajax, "Katy Keene", and more, as well as my influences and other comics. I'm usually embarrassed by my interviews after I hear myself, but I think this one turned out well, so I hope you'll give it a listen. You can download it through iTunes or directly from www.comicscoasttocoast.com by scrolling down the page to the description and clicking on the "listen" button at the bottom of my paragraph (Episode 27). Hope you like it.

December 19, 2007

ANOTHER SPECIAL UPDATE:
Time for another special update, and TIME is the word, as Jack of Fables Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape, which I inked, has been named Time Magazine's #5 graphic novel of 2007. Click here to check out the story. And of course you can check out the book itself at your local book or comics shop.

Meanwhile, work continues on the new stories of The Adventures of Simone & Ajax, which will start running online at ComicMix in February. Please visit the Simone & Ajax homepage for a preview. In the meantime, you can still read another classic Simone & Ajax each Saturday at ComicMix, including a couple recently-posted Simone & Ajax Holiday mini-comics even the biggest S&A fan likely hasn't seen before, so please check 'em out.

A full update coming in January!

October 07, 2007

SPECIAL UPDATE: "The Adventures of Simone & Ajax" is now available online at www.ComicMix.com, or click here to go straight to the S&A page. Please read below for more info on what's in store for S&A and their new online home. And please check back on ComicMix each Saturday for more of the classic S&A tales, leading up to all-new color stories early next year.

And besides visiting here for S&A news, you can also check out the start of the new Simone & Ajax webpage at www.simoneandajax.com or by clicking on the S&A logo on the first page of www.pepoy.com. There are just a couple of preview images there now, but I'll be adding more soon.

Lastly, I forgot to mention in my previous post that I've continued to add pages to my original art sales page at www.comiconart.com/AndrewPepoy.html, where you'll find pages from Jack of Fables, Katy Keene, and more. And if you're wondering about Simone & Ajax originals, I'll begin selling those for the first time pretty soon.

October 01, 2007

It's BIG NEWS time, so ... The Adventures of Simone & Ajax is back! I've been hinting at this for a while now, and now I can finally tell you more. Hopefully most of you have seen S&A (I'll shorten it to that for the rest of this) in comic books or here on the website, but if not, you can read the series proposal by clicking on the S&A logo at pepoy.com. S&A have joined the newly-announced line of comics that will be appearing at ComicMix online (www.comicmix.com). Please check their site out for more info on the whole line. Their pop-culture newssite is already there, along with a podcast interview with me, and the comics line goes live there Tuesday, October 2, with S&A debuting on Saturday October 6th. Each day ComicMix will adding new comics to the site, each of the features being updated weekly, so that means a new installment of S&A every Saturday. Eventually I'll post how to add a direct link to the S&A comics to your favorite sites list and even how to make the S&A comics page your homepage.

Best of all, its FREE! No memberships or even a sign-up. Just free comics all the time, so as someone who had enough interest in my work to visit this site I hope you'll check it out each week. And while it's free for you, just by clicking on each page of my comics at ComicMix.com (and hopefully reading them while you're there), you're supporting me and the site. And please tell your friends about it. The more people checking out my pages, the better, so please visit often, … weekly, daily, every few minutes even.

And what will you find there? First up will be all the classic Simone & Ajax adventures in glorious black-&-white to get you up to speed. Maybe you read them before, but try 'em again … I bet there are a few stories you missed. After that will start all-new S&A tales in, for the first time, full color! My good friend Jason Millet joins me as colorist, so now Ajax will be green, the lemmings will be yellowish, and Simone will be colorful in more than personality. First up will be a two-parter, Simone, Queen of the Jungle, followed by the first feature-length S&A graphic novel, The Case of the Maltese Duck, serialized over 10 weeks (click on the preview image left for a larger view) and then a novel-length pirate swashbuckler. After that? I have many more S&A tales I'd like to tell, but you hold the fate of S&A in your hands. If enough of you visit the S&A pages at the ComicMix site, the kind people there will keep S&A going, so please visit often, tell everyone you know, anyone you just happen to see, whatever it takes to get the word out.

image © Andrew Pepoy

Now you may be thinking, "But I don't like to read comics online" (though that will change once you see the nifty new way ComicMix has come up with) or "But I want a nicely printed Simone & Ajax book I can take anywhere." Well, ComicMix will quickly follow the online version with book versions that will be available at your local comics shop, bookstore, or online bookseller. So please read S&A online for free first and follow it up by adding it to your library.

OK, now you know the news. Remember… Saturday October 6th! I hope you'll enjoy the comics. I'll be glad to hear what you think of them. Thanks for reading this long post. I promise the comics will be much more fun.

And just case you're wondering, I will be continuing my work on Jack of Fables and for Bongo Comics, plus doing a little more Katy Keene. On DC/Vertigo's Jack of Fables I'm inking through #15, with a guest artist on #16, and then continuing on from #17. For Bongo I'll be inking Futurama at least through #35, as well as part of this year's Treehouse of Horror special, plus a "Ralph Wiggum" story and a long "Radioactive Man" adventure. And for you "Katy Keene" fans, I'm writing and drawing a new 22-pager telling the story of how Katy went from smalltown girl to superstar, which will appear early next year in a paperback collection of all 10 Katy stories from Archie & Friends, plus all the pin-ups and paperdolls, all topped off by a new cover, published by Archie Comics.

I'll be posting again soon with more Simone & Ajax news and anything else new. Thanks for visiting

June 07, 2007

Summer's here, so it's time for another update on what I've been working on and what's coming soon. Last time I mentioned some big news. Here it is: The Adventures of Simone & Ajax are back! I'll be writing and drawing all-new stories of the adventurous duo soon, but that's all I can say about it for now. Believe me, I wish I could say more, but as soon as I can, you'll read it here.

I'm continuing to ink Jack of Fables for DC/Vertigo, even penciling half of #10, as well. After skipping #11, a new story begins in #12, and starting with that issue, one of my all-time favorites, Brian Bolland, becomes the cover artist. Also, after inking parts of a number of issues of Fables, I've inked a full issue, #62, on sale soon.

I'm continuing my work on Bongo's Futurama at least through #34, as well as inking Bart Simpson #37, an upcoming issue of The Simpsons (the Simpsons Internationale Special), plus some other short stories for them.

As for Katy Keene, she makes her last story appearance in Archie & Friends #110, with a couple pin-ups slotted for future A&F issues. I'm working on an all-new 22 pager of Katy, telling the story of how she went from smalltown girl to mega-star. News on where you can find that, as well as more Katy news, coming soon.

I've also penciled a Wallace & Gromit story for an upcoming issue of Wallace & Gromit Comics Magazine, from Titan Publishing. While easy to find on UK newsstands everywhere, it may be hard to find in the US, but it can be special ordered through your local comics shop.

I'm continuing to add art to my art sales page, which you can find at the following link: www.comiconart.com/AndrewPepoy.html. Original pages from Jack of Fables, Katy Keene, G.I. Joe, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more are available.

Outside of comics, I've been helping plot and design a superhero tap-dance opera, The Hourglass in the Stop-Time Chronicles, which will be performed by the Chicago Tap Theatre every weekend in July. See this link for more info on the show, to see the poster I drew, and for how to buy tickets: http://www.chicagotaptheatre.com/events/hourglass-stop-time-chronicles.

And finally, being summer, it's convention season, so I'll be going to three conventions: The Comic-Con International on July 25-29 in San Diego; Wizard World Chicago on August 9-12; and the Baltimore Comic-Con on Sept. 8 and 9. At these last two, I'll have a table in the Artists Alley where I'll be selling art and comics by me, signing whatever comics you bring along, and just chatting in general. In San Diego, I'll be teaching my usual Professional Networking seminar, plus will be appearing on several panels. More on that as I know.

That's it for now. I'll try to post more news on the conventions and on Simone & Ajax soon. Thanks for checkin' in!

February 16, 2007

Hi! I've been holding off posting the news as I've been waiting for the OK to post some news on something I've been working on for a while, but since that's not ready and there is other news, here's what's new:

I'll be attending the New York Comic-Con on February 23-25 and will have a table in Artists Alley, table A218, sharing it with Rob Walton, creator of Ragmop. I'll have art and comics with me. Please stop by and say Hi!

Later in the year I'll be at the Comic-Con in San Diego and at Wizard World Chicago. More on those later.

New art is being added to my art sales page, at www.comiconart.com/AndrewPepoy.html.

Now on to the comics:

Continuing to ink Jack of Fables for DC/Vertigo. #7 is on sale now and starts a new story arc about Jack in Las Vegas. And the first book collection of Jack of Fables comes out in this month, so you'll be able to find that not only in comics shops but in bookstores, Amazon, etc. I've also done my first pencilling for the Fables line, contributing a short segment for Fables #59, on sale soon.

Over at Bongo I'm continuing to work on Futurama, inking the now-on-sale #29, as well as #30 and 31.

Katy Keene, which I'm continuing to write and draw, will appear in Archie & Friends at least through #110. #106, on sale now, features Katy and her sister, MacKenzie, getting ready for Mac's big high school dance. #107 tells of Katy filming the sequel to The Web (as mentioned in Katy's first new story in A&F #101), The Web Returns, in which we get to see the return of the Mighty Hero, The Web, though here played by actor, Topher McWire. And in #108 Katy visits Las Vegas.

Also now on sale is a short story featuring Liberty Girl that I pencilled and inked, which appears in Heroic Publishing's Anthem #4. Some of these pages have been added to the portfolio page, along with new Katy Keene art.

There are a few other things in the works that I hope to be able to post soon.

Thanks for checking in!

November 28, 2006

Hi, everyone! We're getting to the end of the year, so it's about time for another update. I've been keeping busy lately, but....

We interrupt this news with an important commercial announcement: Many readers have asked about buying originals, and while I've done what I could to answer emails and work out deals, I just haven't been able to keep up. So, I'm happy to announce that Court Gebeau is now repping my art online and has set up a webpage where you can find every page of comic book art, comics strips, drawings, I have for sale: www.comiconart.com/AndrewPepoy.html. Court will be happy to answer your emails and work out deals. Also, I'm still not taking any commissions, but will post here when I'm able to. Now, back to the news....

Here's what I've been working on:

Katy Keene, which I'm continuing to write and draw, will appear in Archie & Friends at least through #108. #105 is just on sale now and features Katy doing a bikini photoshoot in Central America. #106 features Katy and her sister, MacKenzie, getting ready for Mac's big high school dance. #107 tells of Katy filming the sequel to The Web (as mentioned in Katy's first new story in A&F #101), The Web Returns, in which we get to see the return of the Mighty Hero, The Web, though here played by actor, Topher McWire. And in #108 Katy visits Las Vegas.

I'm contuing to ink Jack of Fables for DC/Vertigo, as well as helping out on the inks on Fables #53-56. #56 is a special holiday issue featuring Santa Claus. And the first book collection of Jack of Fables comes out in February, so you'll be able to find that not only in comics shops but in bookstores, Amazon, etc.

Also inking lots for Bongo Comics. I've been inking short stories for The Simpsons, Bart Simpson, The Simpsons Winter Wingding, and upcoming special, Simpsons Internationale. I've also inked a number of full issues of Futurama, #'s 27-29.

Another chance for me to pencil as well as ink was a short story featuring Liberty Girl that will appear in Heroic Publishing's Anthem #4 in January. I also got a chance to reunite with Patrick Zircher, who I hadn't worked with since the cancellation of the original run of New Warriors, for a cover for Marvel's Cable/Deadpool #36.

Coming up I'll be continuing work on Jack of Fables, Katy Keene, and The Simpsons, plus, I'm hoping, something exciting that I'm hoping I can spill the beans on soon. Keep checking back.

And despite my best plans, I've been too busy to update the art and portfolio sections of this site, but I'll keep hoping to do so soon.

Thanks for checking in here, and I hope whatever year-end holiday festivities you have planned are the best.

-Andrew

August 21, 2006

Hi! A full update coming soon, but I wanted to let you know that there's a new interview with me at The Pulse news section of www.comicon.com about the new Katy Keene comics I'm writing and drawing. Please click here to take a look.

Also, keep checking out www.katykeene.com for my first-ever podcast interview which I'll be recording soon.

Thanks!

June 25 , 2006

Hi, Everyone! Time for another update. It looks to be a busy summer. First up, out in comic shops on June 14th is Archie & Friends #101, which will feature the first of the new series of Katy Keene stories that I'm writing and drawing for Archie Comics. See my portfolio section for a few pages and please visit www.katykeene.com, Katy's official website at Archie Comics. Katy will continue at least through #105. I hope you'll check it out and let Archie know you want to see more.

Next up will be Jack of Fables #1, out on July 26, the start of the monthly spin-off series from Fables, on which I'm inking Tony Akins. See the previous update for more info. If you can't wait, there will be a preview of Jack in Fables #50, on which I also inked Mark Buckingham on part of the lead-feature.

The Duck Tales paperback collection for which I inked an unpublished Carl Barks cover will also be on sale in July. It's volume 2 and from Gemstone Publications.

I'll be appearing at several conventions this summer. Come look for me in the artists alley section at Heroes Con, June 30-July2, in Charlotte, NC, and at Wizard World Chicago, August 3-6, and in the exhibitor's section, booth G-4, at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA, July 19-24. I'll be selling pages from Katy Keene, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Robin, Sonic, and many other comics I've worked on and will be glad to sign for free whatever comics of mine you bring along.

I'll also be signing, along with penciller, Tony Akins, Jack of Fables #1 on the day it comes out, July 26, at Comix Revolution in Evanston, IL, and at Graham Crackers Lincoln Park in Chicago. More details later.

Other current, recent, or upcoming work includes Bart Simpson #29-31, Simpsons Super-Special #3, and Futurama #27 and 28, as well as the paperback collection of the Freshmen mini-series (and news on the sequel to that coming soon).

Lots of new art has been added to the portfolio section since the last update. I hope to add more and get the inking section up in the next few weeks.

More news soon. Thanks for visiting!

P.S. This is the silver anniversary of my first published fanzine, Captain Dynamo #1. Watch for news about special Captain Dynamo events featuring me and Tom Negovan in Grand Rapids and Holland, MI later this year.

February 20, 2006

Happy New Year, Everyone! Happy Valentine's Day, too! After far too long, I'm finally updating and adding to my site. In the coming weeks you'll see lots of art added to the portfolio section, plus more news updates.

I had a great time at the San Diego Comic-Con International last summer. One of the highlights was meeting Freshmen co-creators Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov and doing some signings with them and penciller Leonard Kirk at the Top Cow booth. For a photo of all of us, along with much more about the hit mini-series The Freshmen, please check out Hugh's official Freshmen site at www.freshmencomic.com.

Are you a fan of Fables, from DC/Vertigo Comics? Then you'll be happy to know that coming this spring will be the spin-off monthly-series, Jack of Fables, co-written by Fables creator, Bill Willingham, with pencils by Tony Akins and inks by me. Looks to be a great series, so please watch for it.

My Katy Keene story has been re-scheduled for Archie & Friends #101, out in May. And some big news is that Archie Comics have asked me to write and draw two more Katy stories, the first of which will appear in Archie & Friends #102. I'll post the info here once the title and issue number of the third story is confirmed. Hopefully there will be more to follow. Please visit Archie's website at www.archiecomics.com and let them know you want to see more Katy Keene. Visit this link to read an interview with Katy Keene editor, Mike Pellerito, find out more about Katy and see more art from the series.

Also, a really fun book I did a few years back with good friends, writer Dan Slott and penciller James Fry, will finally be seeing print this spring. Big Max #1, the adventures of a masked, super-powered gorilla and his monkey sidekick, who in this issue battles a super-mime in Central Park, will be out in March, published by Mr. Comics (www.mrcomics.ca). Reserve your copy now!

Other recent and current work:

• Wrapped up work on The Freshmen, as well as inking Witchblade #94 and 95, for Top Cow
• Inked a story written by Alan Moore and pencilled by Rick Veitch for Tomorrow Stories Special #2, from ABC/DC Comics
• Continuing to ink issues of Sonic X for Archie Comics
• Inked Futurama #23 and 24 and various Bart Simpson stories for Bongo Comics, plus some Chief Wiggum stories and more Simpsons and Futurama coming soon.
• Inked parts of Fables #44 and 45 for Vertigo/DC Comics.
• Inked an unpublished Carl Barks "Uncle Scrooge" cover (wow!), which will appear as the cover for an upcoming Duck Tales paperback, from Gemstone Comics.

That's it for now. I promise to update this site again soon with more news and some more art. Thanks for taking a look!

P.S. Phil Moores, who's been doing such a great job building this site, has, along with his wife Kate, started a new business making and selling handmade bath products like soaps, fizzes and bath melts. It’s all really good stuff and makes great gifts. They’re based in the UK and I’m not sure where they ship to, but check out their website at www.oakwood-aromatics.com

July 13, 2005

Hi, Everyone!

Welcome to my new website. There's still a lot under construction, but you'll find a few sections open for viewing. More will appear in the coming weeks and months.

I'll be appearing at the Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, from July 13 thru 17. You'll find me at booth 1732, as well as at signings at the Top Cow Booth with Seth (Austin Powers, Buffy, Greg the Bunny) Green and the rest of the Freshmen comics team on Friday, 3:00-4:30pm, and Saturday, 12:30-2:00. Stop by and say "Hi!"

I'll also be giving my annual Professional Networking seminar on Thursday from noon-1pm. When at my booth , besides showing off the new Simone & Ajax and Monica Moon projects, I'll be selling original art from G.I. Joe, Scooby Doo, R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: Dark Elf series, Sonic the Hedgehog, Wild Girl, and many more projects I've worked on.

I'll also be at Wizard World Chicago. While I won't be setting up, you may find me wandering around. I'll have some of my art with me.

Current and recent work:

Upcoming work (subject to change):