Jason Aaron’s Scalped nominated for Eisner Award

Eisner Awards logoThe nominations for one of the most respected awards in comics include a Kansas City creator. Writer Jason Aaron’s series Scalped has been nominated for an Eisner Award as Best Continuing Series.

“Big congrats to the whole Scalped crew,” Aaron wrote on his blog, “including all the artists who worked on the series last year, along with our usual culprits, including our long-suffering editors Will Dennis and Mark Doyle. If we win we’ll have to carve off chunks of the trophies for everybody to share.”

Jason Aaron, originally from Alabama, has lived in suburban Kansas City for several years. In addition to Scalped, he writes several series for Marvel Comics, including Wolverine, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine, and PunisherMAX.

Scalped is an on-going crime comic book series published by Vertigo Comics. It is set on a fictional, modern day Indian reservation in South Dakota. The story centers on undercover FBI agent Dashiell Bad Horse and his interactions with tribal Chief Lincoln Red Crow.

The series has also been nominated for several other awards, including the Harvey awards and Spinetingler Awards.

Mellon to sign his new Marvel comic book Wednesday

Kevin Mellon
Kevin Mellon

Local artist Kevin Mellon will appear at Elite Comics this Wednesday, April 13, from 4 PM to 8 PM to sign his latest comic book, S.H.I.E.L.D. Infinity.  Mellon is one of multiple artists who illustrate stories written by Jonathan Hickman in the one-shot comic book.

Mellon’s previous work includes Gearhead (Arcana), Thirteen Steps (Desperado), The Atheist (Desperado), and Hack/Slash (Devil’s Due). You can find out more about Kevin Mellon on his website or follow him on Twitter.

Elite Comics is located at 11842 Quivira Road in Overland Park, Kansas. Find them on the web at www.elite-comics.com.

Kansas City writer Jason Aaron rips the X-Men apart

X-Men: Schism
A cover image from X-Men: Schism #1.

Marvel Comics announced that Jason Aaron will write X-Men: Schism, a five-issue limited series that will divide the X-Men into two teams. The announcement was made Saturday at WonderCon in San Francisco.

According to Marvel’s announcement: “X-Men: Schism puts writer Jason Aaron at ground zero as the simmering tensions between Wolverine and Cyclops come to a boil.”

“In some ways this culminates everything that’s been going on in the X-Men universe going back to House of M,” explains Aaron. “Things have been building towards this for awhile.”

The X-Men will divide into two factions, one led by Wolverine and another following Cyclops. While Jason Aaron has been writing Wolverine in his own series and in Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine, this is Aaron’s first opportunity to write the full X-Men team.

“I’ve never written a team book before.” Aaron said in a Newsarama interview. “I’ve written a lot of these characters before, I’ve written Cyclops before, and Emma Frost, but usually as guest stars. So, yeah, it’s fun getting to tackle the whole group, and not have it be a Wolverine story that guest stars everybody else. This is most definitely an X-Men story. At the end of the day, it’s really a story about Scott [Cyclops] and Logan [Wolverine] — those two guys, and their relationship.”