Plus: An Exclusive Preview of the Entire First Chapter!
Oni Press –the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997– presents an exclusive look at the full first chapter of fan-favorite Down, Set, Fight! 10th Anniversary Edition! Featuring a new deluxe hardcover edition with all-new cover art, the YALSA-nominated graphic novel smackdown from co-writers Chad Bowers and Chris Sims (Deadpool: Bad Blood, X-Men ‘92) and artist Scott Kowalchuk (Lucha Liberty, Batman ‘66) throws its second punch into stores June 25th!
In Down, Set, Fight!, “Fearless” Chuck Fairlane was football’s fastest rising star, but his career came to a screeching halt when he was expelled from the league after goin’ HAM and causing the biggest brawl in the history of sports. Years later, Chuck has found peace as a high school football coach, until costumed mascots begin attacking him for seemingly no reason. Before long, Chuck’s going to discover that you can’t run away from the past – but you CAN punch it square in the face!
The gut-busting, gut-punching tale of football mascots, Down, Set, Fight! 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition HC settles a score in comic shops and bookstores everywhere June 25th!
PRAISE FOR DOWN, SET, FIGHT!
“With plenty of good old-fashioned fistfight action, tongue-in-cheek humor, and messages about honesty and mentoring, this comic would appeal especially strongly to sports-loving young men, teenage and up, who may be reluctant readers. Kowalchuk’s blocky, slightly retro art renders the action with clarity and zest.” —Library Journal
“Kowalchuk’s rock ’em, sock ’em art fits the action, and Sims and Bowers’s slam-bang, slapdash script manages to be both cynical and fuzzily warmhearted.” —Publishers Weekly
“You may never look at a mascot the same way again.” —Las Vegas Weekly
DOWN, SET, FIGHT! 10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION HC
WRITTEN BY CHAD BOWERS AND CHRIS SIMS
ILLUSTRATED BY SCOTT KOWALCHUK
$29.99 | HARDCOVER | 160 pgs. | FCON SALE JUNE 25th, 2024
About the Creators:
Chad Bowers is a comics writer and creator from South Carolina. With co-writer and pal Chris Sims and artist Scott Kowalchuk, he created the Yalsa-nominated original graphic novel Down, Set, Fight! for Oni-Lion Forge. With Sims, Chad’s other credits include the fan-favorite Marvel Comics series X-Men ‘92, Infinity Wars: Sleepwalker, Guardians of the Galaxy: Monsters Unleashed, and the best-selling original graphic novel, Deadpool: Bad Blood.
He’s also written and produced comics for PBS, Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, and BOOM! studios. After years of being encouraged by his high school’s coaching staff to join the football team, Chad played exactly two games before all agreed maybe he’d be better off pursuing his passion for making comics. No mascots were injured in either game.
Chris Sims is an award-winning writer and podcaster from South Carolina, where he met Chad Bowers while working at a comic book store. He currently lives in Minneapolis, where the winters do go on for quite some time, with his wife, AC, and his dog, Boberry Biscuit Sullivan-Sims, who is both the best little puppy on Earth and a goblin sent from Hell to punish mankind for their hubris. He can be heard weekly on the War Rocket Ajaxpodcast, along with what is almost certainly too many other shows.
Scott Kowalchuk is a perpetually award eligible illustrator and writer. His work in comic books includes Batman ’66, Constantine: The Hellblazer, Atari’s SwordQuest, The Mysterious Strangers, The Intrepids,and Down, Set, Fight! Scott has illustrated for DC Comics, Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, and Oni Press.