Michael Kaluta & Elaine Lee: Starstruck and Kickstarter

Here's an interview with Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta about their Kickstarter project for a new graphic novel, Harry Palmer: Starstruck or "Old Proldiers Never Die." Check out their Kickstarter page and throw them some lucre. They've already reached the goal to publish a B&W edition of the 176 page book, now's the push to raise the funds to publish it in color.

Attention Starstruck & Mike Kaluta Fans!

Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to complete a new Starstruck book, Harry Palmer: Starstruck - or "Old Proldiers Never Die". There's lots of neat extras for the various levels of funding, get all the info here.

And...blogger, writer, researcher, and pop historian Booksteve, of Booksteve's Library, Hooray for Wally Wood, Shades of Gray, and many other informative and entertaining blogs is raising money to buy a new computer to keep up with his blogging duties we have all come to enjoy. Throw some lucre his way over here.

Kaluta and Wrightson

A couple issues of The Comics Journal with cover
art by Michael Kaluta and Bernie Wrightson.

The Comics Journal #103, November 1985.

The Comics Journal #76, October 1982.

Michael Kaluta and Starstruck

Starstruck was originally a stage play written by Elaine Lee with costume and set designs by Mike Kaluta. The play was first staged in 1980. Lee and Kaluta collaborated on a prequel to the play that was serialized in Heavy Metal magazine in 1982. These stories were later collected in a Marvel Graphic Novel. The graphic novel was followed by six issues of new material published by Marvel's Epic line of creator owned comics. Later, the Epic issues were reprinted by Dark Horse with new material added. Below are some images by Michael Kaluta from the Starstruck portfolio. The portfolio was published by Sal Q. Productions in 1980 in a signed & numbered edition of 2000. Below the portfolio images are scans of the original art for the Marvel Graphic Novel cover and the back cover for one of the Dark Horse issues.