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Heavy Metal Teams With Humble Bundle Benefitting The Hero Initiative

Heavy Metal is teaming up with Humble Bundle on a “Heaviest Metal” bundle, which will give fans the opportunity to purchase Heavy Metal titles at a discounted rate, with part of the proceeds going to charity. Heavy Metal’s bundle contains over $341 worth of comics and magazine issues, with tiers ranging between $1-$25. The bundle includes horror titles like Dylan Sprouse‘s fantasy-folkloric…

Sector 13 writing team break into Heavy Metal

Many comic creators who started out writing or drawing on comic zines have gone on to work in the mainstream industry. It’s a great way to hone your craft, and it’s paid off for Belfast-based comics writer Mark McCann and script editor Peter Duncan, known for their work on the 2000AD-inspired comic zine Sector 13. The duo have just announced they’ve signed a contract with Heavy Metal magazine for…

Mark McCann’s VIRUS title for Heavy Metal, “Never Never”, launches soon

Advisory: Strong Language in some sample panels

On sale soon under Heavy Metal‘s Virus imprint is Never Never #1, described by Belfast-based creator Mark McCann as an amalgamation of Peter Pan, The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies.

In other words, a survival horror fantasy inspired by classics but intended for a new age.

In Never Never, Winter is seduced by the boy-sprite, Petros –…

Death of a Writer – R.I.P. Markus Wolfson

Markus Wolfson

Last Thursday I went to the funeral of fellow-writer Mark McCann. I wasn’t a close friend, I only knew him through our mutual membership of our writing group (London genre group, the T Party). He was intelligent and well-educated man, imperfect as we all are. I liked him.

Marks’ funeral ceremony was something special. Mark was a member of the Golden Dawn, magical ritual an…