Independent comic book publishers Alternative Comics and Top Shelf Productions have teamed up to release the first issue of Dean Haspiel's Aim To Dazzle Bill Dogma comic book for late May 2003. Aim To Dazzle marks the return of cavalier vagabond, Billy Dogma, in the post-disaster adventure chronicles of the last romantic hero by Eisner nominee, Dean Haspiel.
Alternative Comics, a Silver Sponsor publisher of the industry-wide Free Comic Book Day - www.freecomicbookday.com - taking place the weekend of the X-Men 2 film release on Saturday May 3, 2003, will feature a four-page Aim To Dazzle story in their Alternative Comics #1 Free Comic Book Day comic book anthology to further promote the late May release of Dean Haspiel's Aim To Dazzle #1.
Also for May, the first issue of Dean Haspiel's Startling Stories: Thing - Night Falls on Yancy Street with Evan Dorkin for Marvel Comics will hit the stands May 28, 2003.
Also available for May is Dean Haspiel's groundbreaking Opposable Thumbs #1 (ISBN: 1-891867-06-7. DCD: MAY011908)
Aim To Dazzle By Dean Haspiel Co-Published by Alternative Comics and Top Shelf Productions Partial Color, 32pgs, $3.50. ISBN: 1-891867-30-X. Diamond Item Code: MAR03 1894. For Mature Readers
Aim To Dazzle marks the return of cavalier vagabond, Billy Dogma, in the post-disaster adventure chronicles of the last romantic hero. This issue features a special introduction by Publishers Weekly editor, Calvin Reid, and brandishes new yarns: Aim to Dazzle, Little by Small, Ice Man, and the 2-color mute tale Pinata. Including, the rarely seen 4-color Closet Shut-In, No Matter What, and anthology favorites The Big To Do, and The Y2-401-Special-K Problem.
Dean Haspiel (also known as Dino) is the author of super-psychedelic romances and semi-auto-bio comix who occasionally mangles franchise characters for Marvel & DC Comics. Dino was nominated for an Eisner 2002 award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition."
In the mid-80s, Dino worked as an assistant to Howard Chaykin on American Flagg!, Bill Sienkiewicz on New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin, and Walter Simonson on Thor. In 1987, Dino inaugurated his comics career when he co-created and drew The Verdict. Dino's work has graced the pages of various premiere anthologies including DC Comics' Bizarro Comics, Alternative Comics' 9-11: Emergency Relief, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. Dino recently drew Muties #3, a short story for Captain America: Red, White & Blue, a Juggernaut tale (written by Nick Bertozzi) for X-Men Unlimited #40, Spider-Man's Tangled Web #20, and is currently chipping away at a 4-issue Thing mini-series called Night Falls On Yancy Street (with Evan Dorkin) for Marvel Comics.
Dino's finest comix appear scattershot in the The Billy Dogma Experience, post-disaster adventure chronicles about the last romantic anti-hero, and the 48-page collection Opposable Thumbs, episodic tales of a native New Yorker living in the big bad city. Both series serve as the backdrop for informed, existential expression. Dino is currently developing a 48-page, Billy Dogma picture novella called The Devil's Muumuu.
