LIMITED SPECIAL SKETCH BOOOK FEATURES THE PRIVATE COMMISSIONS OF COMIC BOOK LEGEND BILLY TUCCI
SIGNED, NUMBERED PREMIERE BOOKS, PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART OFFERED EXCLUSIVELY AT WWW.BILLYTUCCI.COM
Seduction and mystery are in the air this Valentine’s Day as Shi-creator Billy Tucci launches this extremely limited, special cadre celebrating the year’s most romantic holiday.
Featuring Tucci’s sultry Ana Ishikawa, lovingly bejeweled and garbed in a kimono of Valentine hues, this 32- page, black and white edition continues the celebration of Shi’s 30th Anniversary. Crusade Comics has gathered a stunning collection of Tucci’s private convention and campaign commissions from over the years in this limited volume. Featuring Tucci’s signature detailed artwork and including many of his creator-owned characters and some of the classics his written and illustrated over the years.
At just $24.99 US, Sultry Secrets: The Private Commissions of Billy Tucci Valentine’s Special is limited to just 99 signed and numbered copies. As a very special rarity, also offered are just 20 signed and numbered, Premium Ceramic Metal Editions featuring Crusade’s signature actual metal front cover. Matching numbered sets are available with request.
All Sultry Secrets books are signed, numbered, and include a special certificate of authenticity.
SULTRY SECRET’S ORIGINAL COVER ART!
Crusade is also offering Tucci’s Sultry Secrets ORIGINAL COVER art. This one-of-a-kind, cover illustration sensuously hints at a coy Ana Ishikawa revealing her bare back and riveting over the shoulder stare. The Valentine’s Day cover art features Ana Ishikawa garbed in a stunning silk kimono, traditional kanzashi hairpins and pearls celebrating 30 years in comics. Black graphite on 11”x17” art board, signed by Billy.
SULTRY SECRETS: THE PRIVATE COMMISSIONS OF BILLY TUCCI – VALENTINE’S EXCLUSIVE EDITION
Featuring a sultry Ana, garbed in a kimono and jewels of Valentine’s Day shades, this 32- page, black and white edition continues the celebration of Billy Tucci’s 30th Anniversary in Comics!!! Billy has gathered a sampling of the private convention and campaign commissions he has done over the years in this volume. Some quick, some detailed, some of his creator-owned characters, some of the classics… all near and dear to his heart! $25.00 USD.
Signed, limited editions, numbered 0-99, includes certificate of authenticity.
SULTRY SECRETS: THE PRIVATE COMMISSIONS OF BILLY TUCCI – VALENTINE’S EXCLUSIVE CERAMIC METAL EDITION
Signed, numbered 0-14, includes certificate of authenticity.
This 32-page, black and white edition features a metal, ceramic-gloss cover, and continues the celebration of Billy Tucci’s 30th Anniversary in Comics!!! Billy has gathered a sampling of the private convention and campaign commissions he has done over the years in this volume. Some quick, some detailed, some of his creator-owned characters, some of the classics… all near and dear to his heart! Limited to only 20 editions including Artist’s Proofs, this is the rarest of the Peek-A-Boo books!!!! $99.00 USD.
SULTRY SECRETS: THE PRIVATE COMMISSIONS OF BILLY TUCCI – VALENTINE’S EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK
SENSUOUS AND SULTRY… Bare back and riveting over the shoulder stare! The Valentine’s Day cover art features Ana Ishikawa garbed in a backless kimono with traditional jewelry, looking over her shoulder, and staring into your heart! Black graphite on 11”x17” art board, signed by Billy. $1,950.00 USD.
About Billy Tucci
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 the US Army’s segregated 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. He recently released Shi: Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Sakura, Shi: Way of the Warrior Omnibus, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,400,000.00.