Batman Odyssey #4 leaves for the printer !

I am very excited about Batman Odyssey this week . We finished the color on Issue#4 and it

looks great.We are now inking Odyssey #5. We handed in Page 20 in pencil on Batman Issue #11. It is definitely moving along. I am hoping Batman Odyssey #4 is out in time for the New York Comic con that we will be attending. We will be selling the new "Art of Neal Adams from Vanguard, The Batman Odyssey #3 cover T-shirt from Graphitti Design. All of the "Neal Adams Batman Illustrated" books from DC , "The 4 Adams" book , all of Neal's sketchbooks, Original art and so much more.

Now I want to discuss what I have put up in art this week.

The piece on the top of my site is a piece from Batman Odyssey #4. The piece that is still being

inked to the right is from Batman Odyssey #5 and the pencil spread below is from Batman Odyssey #6. I feel like the story is really moving along. Every time I read the books I notice another piece of story, so make sure you go back and read the first couple of issues and you'll see what I mean. It's starting to really come together. Neal has left many clues that I think you have to be patient about. Why does Neal keep going back every issue to Bruce Wayne? It's not something that Neal does??? Who is Bruce Wayne talking to?

I will be updating again on Tuesday. I will be making a list of what we are doing at the comic con as well as showing some sneak peaks of art that Neal is doing for a Gallery show.I might just have some video of Neal painting.

Stay Tuned

K:)

You have to get this Book "The Art Of Neal Adams"

Hi Everybody,

I am back from the summer fun and ready to start blogging again. This week I decided to write about the new "Art of Neal Adams " book that just came out from Vanguard this week.

I believe this is the best book that has ever come out of my dad's work. My brother Jason designed and picked the pieces that are in this book. We decided to dig deep into the art drawers and make, the best book so far of Neal's work. (That so far means I want to do another one.)

It starts with pages that Neal did while he was in high school and leads into his first commercial job for Johnstone and Cushing, which was how to make Fish prints. I got this piece of art from Bob Le Rose and I coudn't believe that my father actually bought a fish and printed with it. (Somehow I thought that was cheating. Why didn't you draw it?)The book than goes on to his Archie Joke pages which I did get a chuckle when I read "Jughead In Soup's On." The book then goes onto some Ben Casey work with the photos that Neal shot of himself as Ben Casey so that he would get the intense acting that he wanted to draw in his strip. Chapter 3 is Neal's comic art which we pulled pieces that are well known and pieces of "Son of God" which might not be as known. It has Neal's Savage paintings and Movie Poster paintings all very large on the pages. (I personally hate when I can't see the art really big) It has some of Neal's commercial work that we have done with well known superheroes and it even has a chapter on Theme Park design work that Neal has done. The book is beautifully printed with really rich color. I have a hard time putting it down. I like to flip through it when I really should be making phone calls looking for work.

THIS IS A MUST HAVE BOOK ! And I know you will agree. I have loaded some of the images from the book so that you can see what I am talking about.My page has 6 pages from the book for you to see. We are selling this in our store on the first page of our site. Just look for the STORE button and I know the bigger comic stores will be carrying it as well.

Now on to Batman Odyssey.

We are very close to finishing the color up on Book #4 which ships in October and we handed in up to page 15 of Issue #11. Neal is cruising.......

K

Heading to San Diego Comic Con

This is a big exciting week at Continuity. Batman Odyssey is out and doing well. I hear rumor of a lot of re-ordering by the stores so make sure you get your copy before they run out. I know I have my copy stashed away. We had a fantastic and exciting signing at Midtown Comics last weekend that had great people with great conversations as Neal signed away. I must say the people at Midtown comics are the greatest they really made us feel at home and they have a fantastic store. All I saw was lots and lots of happy people discussing the Batman Odyssey while on line waiting for signatures.

So here is my update on what we have handed in to date on Batman Odyssey ..... Neal handed in page 15 of Odyssey episode #10 in pencil. We are handing in the complete coloring of Batman Odyssey #2 this week and it looks fantastic. I am bursting to tell everybody what happens in it.. Neal is inking away on Odyssey #3 and Scott Williams is inking away on Odyssey #4. I must say his pages look great.

Check out the cover for Odyssey #4 on the side. Batman looks really tortured by something that has happened. I also have put up some more penciled pages as a sneak peak of what's to come. I love the piece with the guy getting his tooth knocked out by Batman.

On to more news.

Everyone at Continuity is leaving this weekend to head down to our LA office and then down to San Diego. All of my brothers are busy with the new sketchbooks they are making to sell at Comic Con. I believe Jason Spyda Adams is giving away all of his trade secrets in his book on sculpting and I believe it has pictures a long the way to illustrate what he is talking about. He will also be selling his sculptures and he always has a great display booth of all his sculptures, come and look and talk to him.

Joel Adams is displaying his "Little Creatures of the Night" He will be selling T-shirts of the "Lilz" and I here he has made some Skateboard decks with the "Lilz". I have creatures of the Night displayed lower on my page.

Josh Adams has also made a sketchbook of a lot of his best pieces and I must say his Gallery piece in the back of Batman Odyssey is a great piece. Inked by Kevin Nowlan. Josh will be at the convention so you can get Neal and Josh Adams to sign Batman Odyssey at the booth.

Next.....drum roll please.......Yes, Neal Adams will also be at the convention signing away very happily his Batman Odyssey project that he is very happy about. He loves being back on Batman.We will be selling Sketchbooks of Neals, T-shirts of Batman Odyssey, Batman Books, Original Art. I hear he even has a couple of pages for sale of Batman Odyssey #1 up at Heroic Fine Arts that will also be at the convention. I can't believe Neal is selling his pages from Batman Odyssey #1. Be the first to own one. We will have other pieces of art for sale at our table as well.

I will be showing up at Comic con for Friday and the weekend. I will take photos of who shows up at our booth and on Monday I will add a list of all the panels Neal will be doing.

So see you at Comic con

K:)

Neal Adams Batman Odyssey is on Sale !

Batman Odyssey #1 Is on sale this week at your local comic store and I have to say "It looks

Great" ! Neal Adams will be signing Batman Odyssey this Saturday July 10th at Midtown Comics at 2:00 to 4:00 so come on down and check out the book and meet Neal. He would love to sign your book and answer questions on Batman's Odyssey .

Continuity is gearing up for San Diego. All the boxes have been pulled out and everything is getting packed up. I can hear the sound of the tape guns outside my door sealing up the boxes.

Neal Adams will be showing pages of up coming Batman Odyssey stories and signing away. Joel Adams will be showing and selling his line of Lilz "Creatures of the Night" He has some great product with the Lilz a Ashcan convention sketchbook as well as , skatedecks for skateboards, prints, button sets and handcrafted Lilz jewerly . He also is selling The Big Joel Adams sketchbook.

Jason Adams will be showing and selling his statues. He also will be selling his new book "Spyda's Creations A study of Sculptural Method".

Josh Adams will be showing his artwork and will be selling a book called "Drawing Features"

And we have a group book of all the male Adams' "4 Adams".

Don't miss out on all of these great books.

K:)

Batman to Superman ?

This week we have been knee high in supervising color for the Superman Vs Muhammad Ali reprint. It is looking fantastic. We are not going overboard with new color. We are keeping the flavor of the original color and just bringing it up a notch. When I first started working at Continuity one of the first jobs I had besides answering the phones and making sure the coffee pot was full for the "Crusty Bunkers" was that I got to zip some of the pages of the Superman Vs Ali job. I remember being really scared of screwing up. I was using an exacto- blade (which is a small razor blade) and I was cutting this thin skin stuff called zip-a-tone on Neal Adams original art and what if I cut through the paper? "OH MY GOD !" Well the first page I ever zipped is the spread with the green aliens pointing. I zipped the ring in the sky. Now I am watching over the book again. I'm so glad that we get to refurbish it and DC is printing it again. Thank you Paul Levitz.

I also wanted to remind everyone that not this weekend, but next, Neal will be in Long Beach at the Science Day Convention. Neal is doing a panel on his " The Earth is growing" theory. He will be showing his animated fun and interesting video as well as talking about it. If you can't make it we do sell Neal's videos on his theory on the front page of our site. Don't miss out.

I also wanted to share this week a piece of original art that we recently sold. It is a gorgeous Supergirl piece so please keep your eyes on the original art that we have for sale on our site. Jason who runs Neal's original art is always changing things up.

Next week I will be showing what we will be selling at San Diego and all the great people that will be at our table during San Diego. I have 4 weeks left to convince you to come meet us in San Diego. I have heard that we may be attending some more conventions so stay tuned and I will be listing them next week.

Happy Fathers Day to all you Dad's

Kris:)

What will I get Neal to do next ...... ?

We have had a lot going on at Continuity these days , it feels like we have a lot of comic plates spinning so lets review.

Batman Odyssey #1 Has been handed in complete to DC. The coloring is fantastic. The book has a different look than what I see across the stands of the comic stores. I find it new and challenging and refreshing. A new kid on the block ! We also handed in the 20th penciled page of Book #9 in the series and we are cruising through the inking on book#2. I have posted to the right, our Cover on Issue#2 of Odyssey as well as one of the inked interior pages.

The " Art of Neal Adams " coming out from Vanguard, is a fantastic art book which covers Neal's early early commercial work, through the superheroes that we love at DC and Marvel. Painted pieces of Movie poster art. My banner at the top is one of the pages from this book . I believe it is a cover from a Kung Fu magazine. Make sure to reserve your copy at your nearest comic store.

Wolverine- We are getting very close to starting the work on this exciting project. Neal says we will be starting plots this coming week. "Neal Adams doing a Wolverine series, that's exciting to me and I feel I have seen it all." I will keep you posted.

Continuity Comics..... Yes, we have had many discussions at Continuity about refurbishing some of the titles from Continuity Comics. I felt like posting them under my blog. A "Megalith" piece that we never published. "Samuree", still one of the sexist fighters in comics. "Knighthawk",

a hybrid with wings thats tougher than Batman and does carry guns. LOL.... And then I felt like putting up one of Neal's Barbarians. So where am I going with all of this?

What will I get Neal to do next?????

Stay Tuned,

Kris

Big Bat Week !

I thought last week was a big Bat Week. This week I got to see the most fantastic coloring I have seen Continuity do. I am so excited that I had to show some of the Batman Odyssey pages this week. We have completed Odyssey #1 and are moving into inking Odyssey #2 which will be Neal Adams inking and we will be beginning the color on Issue#2 as well.

We handed in 5 more pencil pages to Odyssey Issue 9 this week after finishing off the color on Issue #1.

I hope comic stores are going to have enough copies. This Odyssey Project is going to rock the marketplace. Next week I will be doing a section on some of the pencils and I'm hoping I can videotape Neal inking some of Odyssey #2 that I will put up on Kris World.

I have left up the Neal Adams Skateboard designs hoping I would get some feed back on the designs. I know I want the Barbarian coming out of the swamp one for my office.

I also included two spreads from the "Art of Neal Adams" from Vanguard which is this fantastic art book that has a lot of work that has not been published in a long time as well as some great Movie Posters from the past that Neal has worked on. I will be putting up one of those spreads next week.

Batman Odyssey ships July 7th and I am worried stores may not have enough copies so please make sure your store has enough because I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on it.

K