Heads up, comic fans! It’s that time between one volume of the fabulous digital anthology Aces Weekly completing and the next beginning, when subscribing gets you the whole, fat, delicious, seven week compilation of the dedicated team’s latest volume – Aces Weekly Volume 69 – instantly, that’s now, on joining, followed in the space of a few short days – Monday 26th August to be precise – by Volume 70, then Volume 71, then 72, etc, etc, forever…
And you definitely want to be on board for Aces Weekly Volume 70 – because it sees the return of the great Val Mayerik, who’s no stranger to the title, working with writer Eric Fletscher, with an SF serial, “The Convoy”…
Longtime subscribers to Aces Weekly will know Val Mayerik, has a successful commercial illustrator for forty years, is no stranger to its pages, having contributed to Volume Two with the late James Hudnall, back in 2012, with “The Blue Cat”, which continued in Volumes 5, 8 and 9.
Val has worked in all fields of illustration, from advertising to comics, to film pre-production. After majoring in art and theatre . at Youngstown State University in Ohio, he moved on to New York City to work for Marvel Comics and to establish himself as an illustrator.
Val worked for Marvel Comics for more than twenty years, working on Conan the Barbarian, Spider-man and more, and was co-creator of Howard the Duck. He went on to illustrate for Heavy Metal magazine, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. He has also illustrated for Marvel’s classic monster series and The Punisher. He then moved on to advertising working as a storyboard and concept artist for many large agencies. His clients have included Nike, Microsoft, Coca Cola, and many others. He has also worked for Modern Ciricullum Press, doing educational and historical illustration for high school text books.
In the past ten years, he has turned his attention to gallery work focusing mostly on the Western Art genre.
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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