The original Caliber Presents anthology title was one of Caliber's inaugural releases and featured predominantly new creators, many of which went onto successful careers in the comics' industry.
In this new version, Caliber Presents has expanded to graphic novel size and while still featuring new creators it also includes many established professional creators with new visions. Creators featured in this first issue include nominees and winners of some of the industry's major awards including the Eisner, Harvey, Xeric, Ghastly, Shel Dorf, Comic Monsters, Horror Comics, and more. Although the anthology will primarily feature all new, self-contained tales, it will also spotlight existing Caliber titles with a preview, present classic Caliber short stories from its archives, and an artist sketchbook.
In this first volume of the all-new Caliber Presents, Alex Sheikman presents a science fiction tale inspired by the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leon. Joe Pruett and Ken Meyer Jr. team up on an introspective tale of a mundane life punctuated by tragedy. Jason Walz illustrates a tale of cosplayers at conventions. Sam Costello and Steven Perkins team up for an unexpected look at victims. Gary Reed and Laval Ng show a glimpse from the pages of Saint Germaine's "Magus". Renton Hawkey and Nick Barber present a look at the promise of tomorrow. Mark Bertollini and Jerome Eyquem tell a tale of instant time travel. Gary Scott Beatty takes us to the cool age of Jazz and E. Mayen Briem and Emerson Dimaya take us further back for a horror tale during the war years. Ben Sherrill and Rowel Roque show us a futuristic big game hunting trip and for the artist sketchbook feature, Mark Bloodworth from "Clive Barker's Hellraiser", "Midnight Mortuary", and "Deadworld" shows off his art.
Gary Reed is the author of 100s of comics and books including his award-wining "Deadworld", "Saint Germaine", and the Harvey Award nominated, "Baker Street". Joe Pruett was the editor of "Negative Burn", the multi-award winning anthology and has also written "X-Men" titles for Marvel Comics. Sam Costello is the writer of the award winning anthology, "Split Lip", which received the Best Web Comic in the 2014 Horror Comic Awards. Jason Walz's debut graphic novel, "Homesick", was nominated for a 2014 Eisner Award. Alex Sheikman is the creator and artist of "Moonstruck" and "Robotika". He recently completed a series of graphic novels serializing the origin of the "Dark Crystal" universe. Mark Bertolini is a Canadian-based comic book creator with work published by Markosia, Action Lab, 215 Ink, and IDW. Artist Jerome Eyquem has done work for Heavy Metal magazine. Mark Bloodworth was the artist of the critically hailed "Abel" and worked on "Clive Barker's: Hellraiser" for Marvel Comics. Gary Scott Beatty received the Xeric Award for his "Jazz" series and his one-shot "Number One" was on Bleeding Cool News' list of the best indie comics of 2014. E. Mayen Briem is the writer and editor for the two "Horror City "anthology books. Steven Perkins has been writing and drawing professionally since 2001 on titles such as "Max Payne", "Pacify", and "Se7en". Ken Meyer Jr. has appeared five times in the juried annual of the best science fiction/fantasy art of the year, "Spectrum". Ben Sherrill is the author of the graphic novel "The Ballad of Rory Hawkins". Rowel Roque has worked on "Sleepless" and "Binary Gray" as well as "Blokes of Terrible Tomb of Terror".
