Life with Archie Gets Jinxed

LIFE WITH ARCHIE #7

In "Archie Loves Betty: Freshman Year--The First Semester" Part 1, Archie & Betty come home to Riverdale to start their careers in education, but Mr. Lodge is out to shut down their beloved Riverdale High!

SCRIPT: Paul Kupperberg
ART: Norm Breyfogle, Andrew Pepoy, Janice Chiang and Glenn Whitmore
FRONTISPIECE: Norm Breyfogle and Tito Pena

Meanwhile, in "Archie Loves Veronica: The Trial of Reggie Mantle" Part 1, newly appointed mayor Moose Mason has his hands full when Reggie is framed for the exposed corporate corruption that lead to his mayoral victory!

SCRIPT: Paul Kupperberg
ART: Norm Breyfogle, Joe Rubinstein, Jack Morelli and Glenn Whitmore
FRONTISPIECE: Norm Breyfogle and Tito Pena

NEW ADDITION, "Jinx" begins a brand new storyline as "Li'l Jinx Grows Up" and starts her first day of high school! Be reintroduced to Jinx, Charley, Greg, Gigi, and more now that they're not so Li'l!

SCRIPT: J. Torres
ART: Rick Burchett, Terry Austin, John Workman, and Glenn Whitmore
FRONTISPIECE: Rick Burchett
COVER: Norm Breyfogle and Tito Pena

Shipping Date: 1/19/11
On Sale at Comic Shops: 1/26/11
Newstands: Week of 2/8/11
Magazine, 80 pgs, glossy stock, Full-Color
$3.99 US

In Stores This Week

BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #22 
Written by J. Torres • Art and cover by Andy Suriano

An outrageous aquatic adventure is in store for Batman when he teams up with the King of the Seven Seas! It's Batman and Aquaman vs. Ocean Master for the fate of all the water on the planet!

Johnny DC * 32pg. * Color * $2.50 US

This is the last issue of the current series! Although, there's the second trade collection out next month, which includes two of my previous stories, so I'm not quite done with the title just yet...

Wonder Woman Day

Today is Wonder Woman Day! At least it is in Portland, Oregon and Flemington New Jersey, and anywhere Wonder Woman fans choose to celebrate it. But it's not just about Wonder Woman fandom. It's also a day to raise awareness about domestic violence and raise funds to support programs that help victims of domestic abuse.

You can visit the official Wonder Woman Day website for more information about the organization behind this celebration as well as bid on a host of artwork and merchandise to help them raise money.


For my part, I've decided to donate to a local women's shelter all my royalties from the Wonder Woman issues #11-12 downloads which became available on comiXology just this week.

Central Canada Comic Con

Central Canada Comic Con takes place Halloween weekend at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. I'll be there all day on Friday and Saturday only. This is the second time I've been invited to C4. My first show was great and I'm told this year it's going to be bigger and better than ever. Please visit the C4 website for the complete guest list, schedules and more information.

Fit to Post

I was recently interviewed by blogger Jiggy Cruz (you gotta love that name) for Fit to Post on the Yahoo! Philippines News site. He asked me about growing up in Canada, Lola: A Ghost Story, and whether or not I have a "third eye." I think I may have accidentally let it slip about a previously unannounced new project with Dean Trippe for Oni Press. Whoops.

Also, apparently, I soar.

You can read the interview here.

Dead Goombas

Robot 6 reports:

Cartoonist Tom Williams let me in on a little secret: his next big project. Coming next year from Oni Press is a new graphic novel titled Dead Goombas. Written by J. Torres, the artist William describes it as a B-movie horror dramedy with the tone of the John Landis’ film Innocent Blood except with zombies.

There are four pages of artwork from the book for your viewing pleasure here.

League of Super Evil

Eek! The episode of League of Super Evil that I wrote a story for aired on YTV on Saturday! I didn't know it was going to be on then, otherwise I would have told people to check it out. I only found out because I record the show now and then. Anyway, my story is the first of two and it's called "Journey to the Center of Evil." It'll probably rerun once or twice this week so please consult your local listings. If you miss it, don't worry YTV reruns the show a lot  and it's also on Nickelodeon Canada. Incidentally, I'm listed in the credits as "Joseph Torres" for some reason.

WordFest

J. Bone and I are guests at WordFest which takes place in Calgary and Banff from October 12-17. This year's stellar line-up includes no less than William Gibson, Yann Martel, and David Suzuki among many, many others. We'll be there to present Alison Dare at three school visits as well as two public events along with award-winning Australian author Richard Newsome:


Thursday, October 14
John Dutton Theatre @ Calgary Public Library
12:30 - 2:00


Friday, October 15
Margaret Greenham Theatre @ The Banfff Centre
1:15 - 2:45


We'll be doing a short presentation, followed by a Q&A session, and then a book signing. For ticket and other information about WordFest, please go here.