ComiXology Originals Debuts Elephantmen 2261: Holiday Special
Today, December 12, 2018, ComiXology Originals releases Elephantmen2261: Holiday Special, the first ever Elephantmen holiday issue by the longtime creative team of writer/letterer Richard Starkings, artist/colorist AxelMedellin, a stunning cover by Boo Cook, and a holiday backup story by Richard Starkings and Superfreaks artist Margaux Saltel.
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But that’s not all. This stand-alone one-shot includes a special holiday short story outside of the Elephantmen universe written by Richard Starkings with art by Margaux Saltel (Superfreaks) titled, MARZIPAN! about a little alien who meets a little girl. Girl falls in love with
Not familiar with Elephantmen? Elephantmen are human/animal hybrids designed to fight a war. But the war is over, and now they live among us. Debuting nearly 15 years and 80 issues ago from Image Comics, comiXology recently released the5-issue miniseries Elephantmen 2261: The Death of Shorty as part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content. Both Elephantmen 2261: The Death of Shorty #1-5 and Elephantmen 2261: Holiday Special are included in Prime Reading, Kindle Unlimited and comiXology Unlimited at no additional cost and available for purchase only on comiXology and Kindle.
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About the Creators
Richard Starkings is also the creator/writer of Ask for Mercy; and co-creator of The Beef with Tyler Shainline and Shaky Kane. In the course of a distinguished career in comic books, Richard edited for Marvel UK in the 80s and founded the lettering studio Comicraft in the 90s. He has worked as a lettering artist on just about every comic book you might care to mention, including Batman: The Killing Joke, and has written for The Real Ghostbusters, Zoids, Transformers and Doctor Who.
Axel Medellin has been
creating art for the Elephantmen series since 2010 and is probably meeting a
deadline right now. Nevertheless, he has somehow managed to fit in drawing and
coloring other comics for HEAVY METAL, Zenescope, BOOM! Studios and Image
Comics’ Fifty Girls Fifty with Frank Cho.
Boo Cook studied at art college in Cambridge. In the year 2000 AD he approached the British comics weekly 2000 AD and was soon drawing Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson, ABC Warriors, Harry Kipling, Asylum and Blunt for the JudgeDredd
Margaux Saltel graduated with a degree in Fine Arts in 2011. She has established herself as a kid lit and comic book artist since 2014, mainly in Europe. More recently, she started collaborating with American publishers on comic book covers (Z2 Comics’Welcome to Showside, The Sweetness, BOOM! Studios and IDW.)