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Home / Escapism / Comics: Blackjack is Back!

Comics: Blackjack is Back!

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Almost best to let the press release speak for itself here …

Blackjack In 1996, award winning writer Alex Simmons brought his greatest creation to the comics book world, Blackjack, an African-American soldier of fortune, battling fierce enemies, the ghost of his past, and the racism of his times. The reaction from critics and fans was amazing …

“…one who fills a deep void in the pantheon of world class heroes…” – Morgan Freeman, Oscar winning film star

“…it’s his [Simmons] storytelling style that makes Blackjack really sizzle…” – Comic Shop News

“…There is always a lesson to be learned in Blackjack, be it social, historical, or more philosophical…” – Darryl Alladice, school teacher

Simmons and his creative team produced several issues before the economics of publishing such a quality product took its toll. But over the years fans and agents of the media industry couldn’t forget this unique hero – and neither could its creator. So … they’re back.

BLACKJACK RETURNS! First with a spectacular web site: www.BlackjackAdventures.com

Simmons and artist John Jennings are creating a new online Blackjack comic strip series to debut in August.

Next — a BLACKJACK ADVENTURES page on Facebook! That's right, though this is an action adventures series set in the nostalgic 30's, Arron Day is a hero for all ages — even the digital one! So catch him on Facebook.

Now it’s fundraiser on Kickstarter.com. The purpose is to publish a new collection of tales entitled BLACKJACK: BURIED SECRETS. It’s an 80-page anthology that pits our hero against assassins in Asia, werewolves in Scotland, it also tells ta tale of his older sister as she pitted against brutality of another kind in the heartlands of America.

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Additional funds are needed to complete this thriller, and people can help Simmons meet his goals by pledging to the Blackjack Returns fundraiser on Kickstarter.com. Become a co-publisher and supporters of the project and receive not only a copy of the new book, but back issues, new art, and much more.

It's globetrotting adventure, drama, intrigue and mystery in an era seldom seen through the eyes … of a man of color.

“Please help me make this one of the best independent series around,” Simmons says. “It’s the 1930s. A good time for a dark hunter.”

For more information contact, Alex Simmons

Don't call it a comeback …

[Source: Alex Simmons]

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About Hannibal Tabu

Born in Rockford, Illinois; raised in Memphis, Tennessee; matriculated in
Tacoma, Washington and broadcasting live from Los Angeles, Hannibal Tabu is
a writer, a brother, a husband, a misanthrope, a son, an emcee, an uncle, a
poet, a father, a designer, a nephew, a romantic, a storyteller, and by
god, a fan. He spent more than ten years doing the journalist thing for
Vibe, Slave Trade, MTV Online, Rap Pages, America Online, the Los Angeles
Sentinel, Spinnerrack.com, Speak and The Source. Hannibal has worked as a
web designer/producer and graphic artist for American Honda, eHobbies.com,
Quicken.com, Express.com, the California Association of REALTORS, Disney
Channel, NextPlanetOver.com, Toyota Motor Sales, Kaiser Permanente,
California Bank & Trust and many more. As a poet, Hannibal has been
published in The Drumming Between Us, (sic) Vice Verse, Drumvoices Review,
Voices From Leimert Park and other anthologies, as well as being author of
the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL.
As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both
available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi
political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, writer of Waso: Will To Power for Stranger Comics, Project: Wildfire for Legends Press, and co-writer of an issue of Watson & Holmes (alongside 2 Guns writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios. For six years he was the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good
Men Project, and uses his Operative Network website (www.operative.net) to
publish his poetry, market what he's doing, rant at the world and emit
strangled cries for help. In addition to all that, Hannibal collects comic
books, has scores of action figures, DJs private parties, is a Mac OS
zealot, sings and sometimes even hosts karaoke, practices a form of
spirituality based on ancient Egyptian belief, and goes to bed every day,
secretly hoping that half the world will commit suicide in his honor.

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