04/19/05 - Quesada, Cassaday and Bachalo to provide variant covers for House of M

Marvel has announced that the cover artist of the upcoming eight-issue House of M mini-series will be Essad Ribic, with variant covers by: House of M #1 Joe Quesada House of M #2 Terry Dodson House of M #3 John Cassaday House of M #4 Brandon Peterson House of M #5 Alex Maleev House of M #6 Greg Land House of M #7 TBA House of M #8 Chris Bachalo Retailers will receive the variant cover in a 21 to 1 ratio. Source: Newsarama

03/20/05 - Bachalo News

Chris Bachalo recently posted a message on his yahoo message group to let his fans in some interesting news: Bachalo will provide the artwork (including colors) to Witchblade #87. In his own words: "It'll be grand". He's also on board to supply a couple of pages for a Witchblade Special (Tenth Anniversary Special). He's taken on six entries for the Upper Deck JLA card game, not to mention he's got several covers in the works and looks to complete Hipflask: Stoneheart in the coming months. He also has a project or two in development for the next big offering but remains uncommitted at this time. Source: Chris Bachalo's Yahoo Group

02/13/05 - Age of Apocalyse Previews

Newsarama has posted several news items previewing Bachalo's art for X-Men: Age of Apocalyse #1, the first part of a six-issue mini-series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the event. For first item with preview art by Bachalo, click here For the second preview, click here Source: Newsarama

10/12/04 - Bachalo to do 10th Anniversary "Age of Apocalypse" series

Marvel will be publishing a 10th anniversary "Age of Apocalypse" spinoff series written by Akira Yoshida with art by Chris Bachalo and Tim Townsend. The first two issues are already drawn. The series is expected to ship in February 2005 - expect six issues published weekly. Marvel will also reprint the old "Age of Apocalypse" books with new original material, including the four issue Generation Next series, by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham. Source: Comic Book Resources & Silver Bullet Comics

10/12/04 - Bachalo Update

Chris Bachalo recently posted a message on his yahoo message group to let his fans in some interesting news tidbits. The full text of his message is reprinted below: Busy over here. I have about 11 pages of the "Unspeakable" project wrapped... Just finished pencils and colors on the Vamp/Mag [Vampirella / Magdalena] cover...Tim did an amazing job... Same with 6 new DC/Upper Deck game cards for the Superman edition...[Richard] Friend on inks on that project.... Continuing my Oakley work... hope to post a few of the drawings at a later date... Continuing on Hipflask... Micronauts cover is done but there has a been a delay in shipping....not sure when that will be out... Source: Chris Bachalo's Yahoo Group

05/09/04 - Chris Bachalo Update

Chris Bachalo recently posted a message on his yahoo message group to let his fans in some interesting news tidbits. The full text of his message is reprinted below: Hope you've all been well. Thanks for hanging out and keeping me company the past few months. I don't respond often enough but I continue to receive your postings. I wrapped my six issues of Cap about a week ago and though I'd drop by and say Howdy! What's up.... Special thanks go out to Tim. He puts up with my wobbly delivery of pages and never complains, makes me look good with his fabulous inks---anyone that has an original really knows what I'm talking about ---and makes time to hang out at this site. A class act. Check out the recently shipped issue number three of Common Grounds over at Top Cow. Jim showed me the original series independently published by Troy Hickman and company. I loved it, so I took a pay cut and managed to turn it around in the middle of my busy Cap schedule. I recently completed a pin up for Mark Millar's and Top Cow's Wanted, featuring Deadly Nightshade and Imp. I'll post that soon. I'm currently working on Comicrafts Hipflask:Captain Stoneheart and the Truth Fairy written by The amazing Joe Kelly. It's really good. The issue is going to be told via a series of collage images very similar to what I did in the Witching hour. They are going to print the art using scans of the pencils. Should prove interesting. I 'll have that done in a week or two. Check out the the new movie Around the World in Eighty days. I had a small part--so small I wasn't eligible for a credit-- in the design of the Bad Guys Scorpion Tattoo. I did travel up to Hollywood for a day to hang with the director Frank Coraci. Vey cool! Doing a few conceptual drawings for Oakley at the moment . Recently completed four cards for the upcoming Upper Deck/DC role playing game. I completed cards for Batgirl, Phantasm, Lady Shiva and Omen. Dunno when the release date is for that game. I believe that the Marvel Role playing game just shipped. I completed five cards for that game including Invisible Girl, Juggernaut, and Spiderman. I'm having a blast with the coloring. Hope you're enjoying the results on Cap, my covers and the trading cards. Special thanks go out to Marvel and Joe Q for giving me the opportunity, especially on Cap where time was a big issue. My next --super top secret-- project will be a big one. Akira Yoshida is writing-- he's new to me, but his proposal read very well--Tim's on inks---Yayyy!--and I'm lobbying for the coloring chores. It'll be a six issue mini and--most likely -- will debut early next year and published by MC! I'm putting together a proposal for a project after the top secret project--yep, I aim to write it. That'll be a first. It promises to be one that you will absolutely welcome. Hopefully, MC will agree. New art for sale soon. Tim and I have about 10 issues of art to split. I will continue to sell at ebay as well as well as my website that, I hope, is active shortly. I'll let you know when its up. I posted a few Cap pages as well as the sixth New Mutant cover that I did that was not used. They were concerned about differece of style --a reasonable reaction--considering the leap that I took on that cover. Ok. Back to work for me. Keep in touch!! Best! CB Source: Chris Bachalo's Yahoo Group

11/02/03 - Bachalo News

Chris Bachalo recently posted a message on his yahoo message group to let his fans in some interesting news tidbits. The full text of his message is reprinted below: HEY GROUP! Just posted a few of the New Mutant covers that I've been working on. Hope you enjoy them. You're getting the first peek at a few of them. One of the perks of being in this fish tank. Wrapping colors on Cap 21 next week. Have most of Cap 22 drawn. Also, continuing work on Hipflask: Stoneheart and the Truth Fairy for Comicraft. 7 pages into that book. Hope to have that finished by year end. Signed on to create a 9 page short for the anthology Common Grounds over at Top Cow. I believe its due to ship in Spring 2004. Check it out. The stories are wonderful--the reason I agreed to jump on board. Not sure of what I'll be working on after Cap 25 and Common Grounds. Have my hooks in the waters to see what I might scare up. I'll do my best to let know as soon as anything bites. Thanks for participating and for your kind words. They are always welcome. Best! CB Source: Chris Bachalo's Yahoo Group

11/02/03 - Chris Bachalo on Common Grounds

Chris Bachalo will be contributing a back-up story to Troy Hickman's upcomming Common Grounds series. The ongoing series will have two self-contained stories each issue, featuring Hickman as the writer. The series' regular artist, Dan Jurgens, will draw one story per issue. The other story will be drawn by a different guest artist, with Chris Bachalo, Ethan Van Sciver, and Michael Avon Oeming lined up. The series is set to debut at Top Cow in January. Source: Comics Continuum

11/02/03 - Bachalo covers New Mutants

Chris Bachalo will be the new cover artist on New Mutants after Joshua Middleton's departure. Bachalo's first cover will be on New Mutants #7. Source: Newsarama

11/02/03 - Bachalo contributes cover to Cursed

Chris Bachalo will be contributing an alternate cover to Top Cow's four-part Cursed mini-series. The series is written by Fiona Avery and Tippi Blevins with art by Dutch artist Romano Molenaar, who's best known for his work on Lady Death. Bachalo's cover will be the alternate cover to issue #3, which is scheduled to be in stores in December. Source: Comics Continuum

11/02/03 - More Hip Flask on the way

Next year Richard Starkings' Active Images will be publishing Hip Flask: Mud In Your Eye — the Hip Flask sketchbook with unseen art by Jose Ladronn, Mike Wieringo, Chris Bachalo, Ian Churchill, Matt Smith, Duncan Rouleau and Tim Sale -- amongst others. For the complete article, including news about other Hip Flask project by Jose Ladronn and Chris Bachalo, click here. Source: Newsarama

10/08/02 - Bachalo Goes to War

Chris Bachalo will be providing the art to the upcoming four-issue mini-series "Ultimate War" that pits the Ultimates against the (Ultimate) X-Men. The mini-series will be written by Mark Millar and the first two issues will ship in December. Source: Comics Continuum

08/21/02 - Bachalo Goes to the Ultimate!

It looks like Chris Bachalo will be the artist on Ultimate X-Men vs. The Ultimates, a December-debuting limited-series written by Mark Millar. For the complete article, click here. Source: Newsarama

05/19/02 - Chris Bachalo covers Chamber and Star Wars mini's

Chris Bachalo will be providing the covers to Marvel Comics' upcoming (4-part) Chamber 'X-Men Icon' mini-series, starring the former member of Generation X and current member of the Uncanny X-Men. The series covers will be illustrated and colored by Bachalo, who was of course the original GenX penciler. Bachalo will also be providing his artistical talents to the covers of Dark Horse's upcoming Star Wars: Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back (4-part) mini-series. Source: Newsarama

04/01/02 - Bachalo back at Marvel and working on new projects

The people at Newsarama have posted and interesting interview with Chris Bachalo on their site. It seems that Bachalo will doing a two-issue fill-in on Marvel's Ultimate X-Men. The two issue's, #18 and #19 mark Bachalo’s first work on any X-franchise in years, it will also be a creative first for him as well - the two issues will mark the first time he’ll ink his own pencils. In the interview he talks about several upcoming projects he will be working on after Steampunk is gone "on hiatus" with issue #12. To read the interview, click here. Source: Newsarama

02/03/02 - Bachalo to do Hip Flask project

Comicraft announced another Hip Flask project in the works, Captain Stoneheart & The Truth Fairy. Described as a "Grim Tale of Piracy and Broken Hearts on the High Seas", that project will be written by the Steampunk creative team of Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo. Format and release date are not yet confirmed, as work on the project will begin when Bachalo completes his commitments to Cliffhanger and DC Comics, though Comicraft is tentatively eyeing a summer, 2003 release. Check out the links below for more info and some preview images. Source: Newsarama & Hip Flask

12/20/01 - Creators, companies unite for September 11 softcovers

Many of the comics industry's top publishers and creators will pool their talents to create two memorable volumes of stories about the devastating terrorist attacks upon America for September 11. Volume 1 will be presented by Chaos! Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics, with contributions from Oni Press, Top Shelf Productions, and other publishers. Volume 2 will be presented by DC Comics, and will include WildStorm Productions, Vertigo, and MAD Magazine. Contributors who have donated their time and talents to this monumental project will include Frank Miller, Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Walter Simonson, Stan Lee, Chris Bachalo, Joe Kubert, Jim Mahfood, Tim Sale, Kurt Busiek, and dozens of other superstars. The cover for Volume 1 will be painted by Eric Drooker, while the cover to Volume 2 will be painted by Alex Ross. The softcovers -- each to be 224 pages in length -- are scheduled to ship on January 23, 2002. All publisher profits from the sale of the books will be donated to relief organizations assisting victims of the attacks. For more details about September 11, see the solicitation online. Source: Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.

12/20/01 - Chris Bachalo Interview

I found an interview with Chris Bachalo on the Silver Bullet Comics website. In this interview he talks about his old work and his current work on Steampunk. Here's a excerpt of the interview: Jason Brice: Are you willing to "break the rules" and throw out a writer's suggested layout for a page, and just do it your way? Chris Bachalo: The only writer that I've ever worked with that suggested page layout was Neil Gaiman and that was on Sandman #12, the first comic I ever worked on. If you're talking about page breakdown in the script then yes I do take liberties at times in how I tell the story. Sometimes I add panels, other times I take them out. I may add a splash page or make scenes a little longer, others a little shorter. The most important part is that with whatever I do it's important the message that the writer is selling doesn't get lost in the shuffle. To read the whole interview, click here. Source: Silver Bullet Comics

12/20/01 - Bachalo and Cassaday to re-create the DC Universe with Stan Lee

Mike Carlin, who is editing the Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating series for DC Comics, gave a nearly complete rundown of artists for the second set of books: Robin, with art by John Byrne and Terry Austin; Shazam!, with art by Gary Frank; Catwoman, with art by Chris Bachalo; Aquaman, with an artist to be named; Sandman, with art by Walter Simonson; Crisis, with art by John Cassaday. Source: Comics Continuum

02/04/01 - Bachalo's NASCAR Racers

Chris Bachalo has provided the art for a five-page NASCAR Racers story in the Spring, 2001 issue of Fox Kids magazine. Since subscriptions (for US residents only) are free, so you might want to check it out. (I live in Europe, so please feel free to send me a copy). Source: Comics Continuum

01/28/01 - Bachalo / Ladronn Interviews

I found two interesting interviews posted on the Silver Bullet Comics website. The first one is a Chris Bachalo interview and the second one is a interview with Jose Ladronn. The interviews were originally posted in June and May 2000, respectively. For the Bachalo interview click here For the Ladronn interview click here Source: Silver Bullet Comics

12/05/00 - Bachalo Cyber-Spaced

Chris Bachalo did a five-page "Cyber-Spaced" comic in the Winter, 2000 issue of Fox Kids magazine. Since subscriptions (for US residents only) are free, so you might want to check it out. (I live in Europe, so please feel free to send me a copy). Source: Wizardworld.com

07/11/00 - Steampunk Gets Clear

Comics Newsarama at Fandom.com posted an interview with Steampunk writer Joe Kelly in their newsarama weekly column. In the interview he explains why Steampunk's story and art is so very "dense", and maybe even somewhat confusing. And according to the writer - as it turns out - it was all part of the plan from the beginning... Here's a small excerpt of the interview: ... "The other part of it is, is that I figured this guy wakes up after a 100 years into this [bleeped]-up Victorian world, I want the audience to feel his disorientation, as and he starts to clear his head, we clear our heads along with him." ... For the full interview click here. Source: Comics Newsarama

05/03/00 - Jeph Loeb Talks Chris Bachalo

Bill Baker, a contributing writer for Comic Book Resources website, posted an interview with Jeph Loeb. In this interview he talks about his past work and his collaborations with artists such as Chris Bachalo and Tim Sale. Here is an excerpt from that interview: ... BB: What kind of scripts did you supply Chris with - the plot outline style or ...? JL: No, Chris worked from very, very detailed plots and descriptions and bits of dialogue. He also contributed to the dialogue when he wanted to. Karen had us do whole backstories for everyone to draw from. We researched a lot about Wiccans and Wiccan rituals, but in the end, it was a work of fiction, so we did what we wanted. Chris is the first and only artist who ever would read the script and then ask me to write MORE. To put in more panels and more detail. He was very much like working with a film director -- he saw it in his head and he wanted it on paper to make it come to life. Every page he did just lit up the work. Then, Richard Starkings came in and lettered and did the designs based on Chris' own handwriting. ... Loeb also said in the interview that the Witching Hour will be collected in a hardback (with a softcover edition coming later?!). There are also plans on doing further stories, but it will be up to Bachalo's schedule. Loeb says: "The only thing he and I have talked about is doing a Christmas story where Red and White meet a serial killer on Christmas Eve. It's called "What's Black and White and Red All Over?" -- so hopefully we'll do that sometime soon." For the full article please click here. Source: Comic Book Resources

12/23/99 - Witching Hour Sequel or Prequel?! / Dark Victory Turning Point

Comic Book Resources/The Comic Wire posted the following interview with Jeph Loeb: LOEB 2000: 'WITCHING HOUR,' 'SUPERMAN' 'DARK VICTORY' The end of the 20th century was very good to Jeph Loeb, giving him critical and commercial success with a pair of lauded DC Comics limited series. His 21st century may well look much the same, with a sequel to "Batman: The Long Halloween" and a move from the "Superman for All Seasons" limited series to the monthly "Superman" book receiving raves, as well as his "Witching Hour" limited series for DC/Vertigo. "The reaction to 'Witching Hour' has been phenomenal," Loeb told the Comic Wire on Tuesday. "As with most things these days, under-ordered, sold out, reordered, sold out, etc ... Chris [Bachalo] and I have been talking about something for late next year. We've got a neat little story cooked up where Red and White meet a serial killer on Christmas Eve called 'What's Red and White and Black All Over?' that is very ... disturbing. But, how and where that takes place, we haven't decided yet. We've also been thinking about the character of Gray - who apparently is our breakout lead - and dealing with the 300 years he was waiting for White and the various souls he met along the way. That would allow us to do a Western Witching Hour, a 1940s crime noir Witching Hour - that sort of thing. And weren't the 1950s McCarthy hearings just one big Witch Hunt anyway? "On the Superman front, the world just isn't ready for young Ed McGuinness (in about two short weeks). His style is going to set the course for Superman in 21st Century in the same way Swan and Byrne and Jurgens set it for their respective decades. What we're particularly excited about are the computer graphics designed by Ed and executed by Wildstorm for Brainiac 13 - the Brainiac of tomorrow's tomorrow. A lot has been tried using these graphics, but we don't think to the extent and importance of a major, major villain in the DCU. Not to be missed. "Lastly, as frightening as it seems, Tim [Sale] and I are working on the second half of 'Batman: Dark Victory' with the end in sight. It has been an incredible delight the way people have responded this time around - and the amateur sleuths writing in and posting on the message boards who are working on the mysteries are even more clever than during ['Dark Victory' predecessor] 'The Long Halloween,' so it's really keep us on our toes. All we can tell you is that Valentine's Day (#6 'Love') will be a critical turning point for the series." Source: Comic Book Resources

10/25/99 - Midnight Bell Tolls Jeph Loeb's Vertigo Premiere and Chris Bachalo's Return with the Witching Hour

At midnight strikes THE WITCHING HOUR, the new miniseries marking the VERTIGO debut of award-winning writer Jeph Loeb (SUPERMAN, BATMAN: DARK VICTORY). This landmark 3-issue Prestige Format miniseries is also the VERTIGO return of artist Chris Bachalo (DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING, STEAMPUNK, Generation X), elegantly inked by Art Thibert (SUPERMAN/FANTASTIC FOUR, X-Men). With issue #1 arriving in stores November 10, anticipation for this miniseries is steadily mounting among retailers, fans, and industry professionals alike. Set in Manhattan, the first issue of THE WITCHING HOUR introduces Amanda Collins, a mysterious woman who moves through the troubled lives of ordinary people armed with little more than a blank white business card and a strange, supernatural presence. She's giving them the chance to change their lives; but the choice they make will depend entirely on the forces that already exist in their hearts. Amanda herself is a mesmerizing presence and, as she works modern magic with the help of a colorful if not entirely loyal coterie of followers, another side of her begins to emerge: one that is troubled, powerful and centuries old. At the crossroads of the supernatural and the very real, THE WITCHING HOUR spins bold, provocative tales of sin, magic and redemption. Source: DC Comics Online Newsletter