Limited Edition Specials Also Offered Through www.billytucci.com
BCC CELEBRATES THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EINSER AWARD-NOMINATED SHI: KAIDAN!
SHI: SAKURA CLOSES OCTOBER 31ST 2022!
To celebrate All Hallow’s Eve, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offering two very special exclusives for the Baltimore Comic Con, the Shi: Kaidan 25th Anniversary Halloween Edition and an accompanying 11” X 17” print. The remastered original 1996 Tucci cover sports a ghostly blacklight color theme by Wes Hartman that is the perfect “Cheers for Fears” companion to fan’s collection.
Both exclusives are priced at $25.00 each and limited to JUST 99 EDITIONS. For those unable to attend the BCC, Crusade is offering a limited number of the exclusives at www.billytucci.com.
Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Anthology, and created and written by Peter Gutierrez, SHI: KAIDAN sports an all-star cast of artists, (Billy Tucci, Michael Kaluta, Stan Sakai, David Mack, Jamal Igle, Val Mayerik and more) that pulls Ana Ishikawa and the reader through a terrifying collection of wicked, ghostly horror. This Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Special celebrates a dynamic quarter century of Shi. 32-pages B/W with color cover.
“SHI: KAIDAN is the kind of comic I enjoy. Fun. Well-written and wonderfully drawn. A rarity today.”
The 72-page Shi: Sakura graphic novel Indiegogo Campaign (https://igg.me/at/Shi-Sakura/x#/) closes for good on Halloween! Crusade has thus far shipped over 1,500 rewards and continues fulfillment while readying its next crowdfunding campaign, The Shi: Senryaku Omnibus Edition launching in November.
Shi: Sakura Indiegogo Exclusive Campaign Can Be Found Here: https://igg.me/at/Shi-Sakura/x#/
Inkpot Award recipient Billy Tucci is a cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai saga Shi. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Shi has been printed in five languages and sold more than 3 million comic books. The graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology has earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and has been nominated for four Eisner Awards. In addition to his own creations, Billy’s DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for its depiction of the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of Japanese-American soldiers. His earnest retelling of the Christmas story in A Child Is Born has quietly turned into an international blockbuster, winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award. Billy’s critically acclaimed Miss Fury: Joy Division saw the return of the Golden Age Icon for Dynamite Comics. Billy has recently released Shi: Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Omnibus Edition and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,000,000.00.