LIMITED SHI: HAIKYO #1 NYCC COMIC CON EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS WITH CERAMIC STEEL, SIGNED AND NUMBERED COVERS
For Fans Who Cannot Make The NYCC, A Limited Number Of Specials Are Now Offered Through www.billytucci.com
New York Comic Con is once again set to take over the Big Apple as it hosts 275,000 artists, exhibitors, and fans at Manhattan’s Javits Convention Center. To celebrate the nation’s largest comic book convention, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offering some very rare debut exclusives for NYCC, the SHI: HAIKYO #1 NYCC EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS and accompanying 11” X 17” print.
Signed, limited editions, numbered 0-99, includes certificate of authenticity. This 32- page, black and white edition caps off the celebration of Billy Tucci’s 30th Anniversary in Comics. Shi: Haikyo, (the second graphic novel of the Return of the Warrior trilogy) is 32 masterfully illustrated pages of story and black and white art from Billy Tucci and Steven Peros’ indie blockbuster. Cardstock Cover depicts Tucci’s Shi striding toward the reader over a kaleidoscope of colors and an all-new “I heart Shi NYCC logo”.
LET’S GET METAL!
Crusade Comics is also offering their rarest Shi comic ever (limited to just 15 copies), with the Haikyo: NYCC Exclusive Ceramic Metal Edition features an actual metal cover featuring Shi and a rainbow-colored logo. All books come signed and numbered.
For those who cannot make the New York Comic Con, www.BillyTucci.com, is also offering limited, special, reduced- SHI: HAIYKO #1 – NYCC EXCLUSIVE BUNDLES along with a limited number of specials from the 2024 30TH Anniversary Celebration comic con tour.
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 contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics For Ukraine: Sun Flower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured 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. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00.