LIMITED GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER NEW YORK COMIC CON EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS WITH CERAMIC STEEL, SIGNED AND NUMBERED COVERS
CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF SHI WITH GIANT-SIZED GATECRASHER & SENRYAKU 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS WITH BILLY TUCCI AT ARTIST’S ALLEY BOOTH HB904!
New York Comic Con is once again set to take over the Big Apple TODAY 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 GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER & SENRYAKU NYCC EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS.
Limited to just 199 sign and numbered editions, the Giant-Sized Shi: Gatecrasher NYCC Exclusive also includes a certificate of authenticity. This massive 11” X 17”, 28-page, black and white Pure Line edition is Part 2 of Tucci’s latest graphic novel. Crusade Comics is also offering the book in a reduced-price, limited package bundle with San Diego Comic Con Part 1, which was offered at the SDCC.
CRUSADE CELEBRATES SHI: SENRYAKU’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NYCC EXCLUSIVE JIM LEE COVER!
Senryaku is Crusade Comics’ groundbreaking, critically acclaimed series written by comics’ legend and creator of DC Comics’ Amethyst and Blue Devil, Gary Cohn. The book uniquely details Shi’s upbringing and training through thirty-six self-contained Art of War “stratagems”. Stratagems lushly showcased and illustrated by many of the industry’s greatest talents, including Jim Lee, Frank Frazetta, Adam Hughes, George Perez, Jeff Smith, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Quesada and Billy Tucci.
For the first time ever, Crusade is publishing a special limited edition of Shi: Senryaku #1 exclusively for the NYCC! Also offered for Senryaku’s 30th Anniversary will be extremely rare, Metal, Bamboo, Foil and Pearl Exclusives at the con and through https://billytucci.com
CLICK HERE TO JOIN BILLY & DEBORAH TUCCI LIVE TONIGHT ON YOUTUBE 9pm EDT/6pm PDT!
Billy and Deborah Tucci will go live tonight on Billy Tucci’s PopXP YouTube Channel to showcase all their NYCC exclusives and to also give a sneak peek at their next Indiegogo campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior so fans can sign up on its preview page. Ran campaign launches next Thursday, October 16th. It’s always an entertaining interaction as the Tucci’s answer and engage in all sorts of comic book conversation with the viewers.
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: Sunflower 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, Sakura and Gatecrasher. 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 $1,700,000.00.