News Flash: VILLAINS is profiled in this month’s Wizard Magazine! Ryan Cody posted a quick scan of the Secret Stash article here.

“Secret Stash” refers to the 2-page space allotted by Wizard to cover one book from the indy comics scene. Only one gets the full treatment each month, and some months don’t even have a Secret Stash section. In other words, getting selected is a rare thing and a great honor. I don’t mean to gush here, but this is the section I always flip to first whenever I get the latest issue. It’s just a phenomenal feeling to see one of my books occupying that spot.

Also, issue #3 of The Black Coat has been getting some enthusiastic reviews lately, and I thought I’d share a few of them:

Silver Bullet Comics

--“With outstanding writing by Cogan and an opulent tapestry of black and white uniqueness from Francavilla, The Black Coat once again arrives as welcome pulp adventure.”

Comic Book Commentary

--“So much better than a black-and-white period piece with a throwback storytelling sensibility has any right to be, I can't imagine that Hollywood won't come calling at some point, and deservedly so.”

Broken Frontier

--“ Cogan, along with artist Francesco Francavilla, have managed to create an entire world with pencils, inks and words. The reader sits down with the story and is instantly transported to this rollicking, fictional, Colonial New York.”

Kamikaze.com

--“If you love great comics, great art and a great story then ask you comic shop to carry The Black Coat.”

In other news, I’ll be attending the San Diego Comic-Con again starting this week from Thursday the 20^th to Sunday the 23^rd. I hope you’ll stop by the Viper Comics booth and say hello, since Ryan Cody and I will be there once a day signing copies of VILLAINS and selling t-shirts. Ryan loves doing sketches, and I think he plans to give them away for free. Also, Francesco Francavilla will be at booth 4609 selling comics and doing lovely sketches, and Ben Lichius and I will be swinging by there periodically throughout the show. This time around is much more about promoting my current books, rather than securing new ones. I only have one real book to pitch around this show and I’m anticipating a little more liesure time. I’m also in full production on another book at the moment and thought I’d post a little teaser of things to come.