Zub Tales

I hope this CANDY CANE-O-MANCER finds you well and that your holidays look bright, with lots of downtime to visit loved ones – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Deadlines have been met. Emails are getting wrapped up. It’s a good time to relax and reflect.

Thank you for helping make 2024 so special, both creatively and personally. I’ll have more thoughts on the year that was in my annual Year In Review post next week.

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400 Fortresses

Fortress Comics celebrated their 400th episode with a Zub interview!

We chat up a storm about iconic characters, sword & sorcery vs other fantasy, making Dungeons & Dragons stories accessible to non-gamers, role-playing characters in stories, my Conan the Barbarian journey, Samurai Jack, Avengers Tech-On, passion projects, and more!

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12 Days Of Croms-Mas

The official Conan the Barbarian Facebook page is running 12 days of sneak peeks of upcoming Conan-related material and a couple of my projects are in the mix.

Here’s a script page from our 2025 Free Comic Book Day issue:

And here’s a special Final Order Cut-Off variant cover for Conan the Barbarian #18 illustrated by Giada Marchisio.

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Current + Upcoming Releases

Conan the Barbarian Vol. 3: The Age Unconquered TPB – released November 19th.

Conan: Battle of the Black Stone #4 (of 4) – released December 4th.

Conan the Barbarian #17 – released December 11th.

Savage Sword of Conan Vol. 1 TPB – releases January 14th.

Conan the Barbarian Vol. 4: Frozen Faith TPB – releases February 18th.

Conan the Barbarian #18 – releases February 19th.

Conan the Barbarian #19 – releases March 19th.

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Upcoming Appearances

My 2025 convention schedule is already starting to fill up, with lots of shows where I’m now signed on but guests haven’t been publicly announced yet. If you run a show or know anyone who does and want me to come to your spot on the map in 2025, reach out to Comic Sketch Art or drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch.

Mar 20-23, 2025

Gary Con XVII

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA

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Links and Other Things

• If you get my newsletter you’ve almost certainly already seen it but, just in case, the new Superman teaser trailer does exactly what it needs to do – brings hope and builds excitement. Nice work, Team DC!

• ComicBook.com had a week of cover art reveals for the upcoming Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring mini-series by Patch Zircher, with cover art by Mike Mignola, J.H. Williams III, Andrew Maclean, and Dan Brereton.

• One of my former students has opened a new bar & bistro in Toronto called The Wych and they have special Krampus promotion going right now around the holidays.

Jim