Hello and thank you so much for checking with the updates. We’ve had to focus all our energy on a special project of late, and that’s the Greatest American Hero 25th Anniversary Retrospective which we taped with five cameras and it was hosted by John Tesh, and featured Stephen J. Cannell, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare,  Mike Post and the amazing alumni behind the show. It was a magical night and a historic one at that! We sat and talked for over 3 hours and John Tesh is the “man”. He was an amazing host and the stories were engaging and fresh. It was just too damn fun and we can’t wait to get this show out to everyone. We will keep you update as we change our website in the next week!

In Sparks news, issue 4 comes out Oct 1st. There was a week delay with our printing company and to be as honest as possible, we didn’t want to pay $550.00 for Fed Ex by one week to get it our prior after they had the book for printing for over a month and lost some paper work on how many issues were going directly to Diamond and to our home office. We just got the issue delivered to our office and it looks amazing though!

We’ve been very fortunate of late to get some amazing interviews in AICN, Geek Monthly,  Comics and Other Imaginary Tales and even the Los Angeles Times and other wonderful print and online.

Here’s an interview that just came out today with Chris that’s about as honest as one can get at our friends Comics and Other Imaginary Tales. 

http://comicsand.blogspot.com/2008/09/chris-folino-interview-2nd-time-around.html

Mythology Wars is on track by the way for 2009 and we are working overtime to get GAH in a place that will be great.

Thank you so much for checking in and we wish you and your family well.

Best,

William Katt

First off, apologizes for the lack of updates, we’ve been working hard on preparing for Sunday, September 7th, 2008 historic evening to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Greatest American Hero.

Our gracious host will be John Tesh and our guest for the evening are true icons and they include Stephen J. Cannell, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare’, Mike Post, Frank Lupo,Chuck Bowman,
Jo Swerling Jr, Alex Beaton, Dennis “Danger” Madelone and a video taped appearance by Rod Holcomb.

This all started in Stephen’s office when we asked if he would mind coming to Las Vegas with the cast to promote the comic book at the retailers convention. However, things didn’t work out with Diamond and we were like “Okay, we’ve got all these fantastic people, let’s move it to Los Angeles and tape the event.”

And bam, that’s where we are at!

I’m beyond excited for the event, not just to catch up with dear friends, however, the opportunity to have all these icons in one room, it’s a true blessing.

We will be posting photos from the event after Sunday.

Again, this is a once in a lifetime event and I’m glad to see it happening in my lifetime.

Here is a new review by Jim Martin from Comics And Other Imaginary Tales.

RATED: A

“This is the best issue to date and I have loved this book from the jump. ”

Read the full review here.

http://comicsand.blogspot.com/2008/08/spotlight-review-spark-3-of-6.html

Thank you to Jim and his crew for the amazing support of Sparks.

Catastrophic Comics, first time publisher and our first title for the market, Sparks reaches number 284 in ranking for June 2008 Comic Book Sales Figures. These are comics sold to North America Comics Shops as reported by Diamond.

Take a look. Congrats to everyone involved in making this quality and critically acclaimed book!

http://www.comichron.com/MonthlyRankings/Diamond2008/DiamondJune2008/tabid/305/Default.aspx

We are going to do our best to bring you some news from Comic Con and give some inside information.

The booth is set up and ready to go for preview night tonight, It’s booth 2109 and a special thanks to Derek and Tyler for making it all happen.

We have a very cool looking banner and come get some sold out issues of Sparks 1 and Sparks 2, we brought enough for all 120,000 of you

We won’t be selling any Greatest American Hero merchandise until tomorrow, all I got to say is get there early, they won’t last. Wow, it looks amazing.

Again, tomorrow, Thursday at 12:30PM to 1:30PM please join us for amazing panel with Bob Culp, Connie Sellecca, Dennis “Danger” Madalone, Sean O’Reilly, Derek McCaw, Clint Hilinksi, Christopher Folino, and the very entertaining hosts of Pulp Secret Jusin, Alex, and Pete. And of course, a special video message from the ”Man” Stephen J. Cannell.

We have some very cool videos to show and we will talk about the show, the new comic book, the animated web series, and we will have some special moments.

It’s an amazing feeling to be able to see Bob and Connie again and to have us all together again, this is truly the start of something GREAT, or should I say “GREATEST”

All the best,

WK 

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080722-GAHReturns.html

See you at comic con, it’s going to be a hell of a good time!

Official news about how Catastrophic Comics and Arcana Studios are teaming together to bring The Greatest American Hero to the comic book world. After 25 years, with Stephen J. Cannell’s watchful eye and blessing we will tell some original stories and adventures about Ralph, Maxwell and of course the lovely Pam. By the way, Connie Sellecca and Bob Culp will joinng me at Comic Con on Thursday July 24th from 12:30PM to 1:30PM and Stephen J. Cannell will have a special video announcement. Read it all here on Newsarama and watch the very cool Teaser Trailer. But, wait there are two more announcements..you’ll have to be come to the panel to learn them more!

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/07/19/believe-it-or-not/#more-8864

Wow, Chris Folino you’re a tool! This interview made me laugh and you’re shameless with your promotion of Gamers The Movie, it’s inspiring to no one! Read this funny interview.

Here’s my favorite highlight from it!

Richard: What do you do with any free time you have?

Christopher: I write Sparks and wash all of Bill’s twenty five cars and I also do his laundry and once month, I have to prepare and feed him fugu fish dressed in the Greatest American Hero outfit. Sure, it’s creepy as hell, but, I’m getting a comic book made.

Read the entire interview here.
http://www.jazmaonline.com/interviews/interviews2008.asp?intID=139

Here is a new review by Jim Martin of Book 2 of Sparks from comics and blogspots.

Overall Grade A

The tag line: Sparks is a golden age noir super hero saga that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go.

http://comicsand.blogspot.com/2008/07/sparks-2-of-6-spotlight-review.html

Thanks to Jim Martin for everything, he’s opened a lot of doors for us and we really appreciate his kindness and he and his team do an amazing job on their site, it’s good stuff!