2003 – Rob M. Worley (2024)

Comic Book Resources has a rare interview with Andy Kuhn in which the bass-slinger talks about working with the insufferable Rob Worley on “Young Ancient One” and also clues readers in on his hot new IDW project “Common Foe.” You’ll also find the first six, fully-lettered pages of “YAO” in […]

Today you’ll find part two of my interview with Cinescape online. Of special interest to potential YAO readers are two new pages of preview artwork. In this leg of the interview I talk about the transition from my Comics2Film duties to writing comics and screenplays, the Epic implosion and hopes […]

I’m still hearing talk here and there about the misconception (based on an erroneous publication) over the price “Epic Anthology #1.” It is definitely $5.99. Don’t take my word for it. Click over and peek at the price correction on the Diamond News page. Marvel claimed there would be a […]

Cinescape is the latest online press to give some space to “Young Ancient One.” Check out part one of a two part interview with your’s truly. Here’s a quote… We [even] realized that we could potentially do a martial arts “Spider-Man” story that would be set in the early 1500s! […]

When “YAO” artist Andy Kuhn and his band The Fuglees were celebrating the release of their new CD “Indiana” they found themselves chatting up the album on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom show. With some prompting, the Fuglees unveiled their freshly-penned holiday tune “Dollar Store Christmas,” performing it live […]

New press for “Young Ancient One” comes from Fanboy Planet. My pal Derek McCaw asks the tough questions that nobody else is asking revealing such untold mysteries such as my martial arts fighting style, why Donna D’Errico digs me and what is it with me and “Devil Dinosaur” anyhow? Oh […]

Our humble little “Young Ancient One” comic got a super-nice write up at the Kung Fu Cinema website. Click over for a discussion of the kung fu film roots of the comic!

There’s a nice “Young Ancient One” write up on Newsarama.com today. The inteview subject (me) blathers on about the book far too long, but there’s the first look at some nice new artwork by Andy and Bill. Check it out! I’ll be posting those images on the YAO mini-site soon. […]

So the comic solicitations came out last month and our very own “Epic Anthology” comic was in the “Marvel Previews” catalog, reasonably priced at $5.99. That’s good news. Then the e-mails started coming… It turns out that the “Diamond Previews” order book had the comic priced higher. In the past […]

I just typed ‘The End’ on page 96 of a screenplay I’ve been working on for over a year now. The writing proper started some time in October, but my partner and I have been laying the ground work and hitting the project on and off since September of 2002. […]

Everybody knows that Andy Kuhn has a black belt in the deadly art of comic book cartooning, which is why he’s kicking so much ass on the “Young Ancient One” comic. But few know of his secret identity as simian music god, jam-master K who happens to be one third […]

Part of the goal with “Young Ancient One” was to do a different kind of Marvel comic, which crossed over the rigid demographic boundaries of the comic marketplace. Yes, it’s a superhero book. But it’s also a kung fu book. Kung Fu Cult Cinema got wind of what we were […]

If you look around the web today, you’ll find Marvel’s February solicitations, including the anticipated listing of the whimsically titled “Epic Anthology” #1, featuring our love-child “Young Ancient One”. Here’s the description: The debut of a new quarterly anthology series spotlighting the best full-length Epic stories submitted by up-and-coming creators. […]

When you stop by your local comic shop today, be sure to pick up DC’s “Lobo Unbound” #4. It continues Keith Giffen’s hilarious story about the main man’s fall from fraggin’ grace and his feud with the scheming ho’ that jacked him. This issue is especially worth grabbing up as […]

The Epic anthology just got slimmer as Newsarama reports that Mike San Giacomo’s “Phantom Jack” will now be published by Image. According to the article Marvel found the move to be agreeable. Yours truly has not heard any new news about the Epic Anthology from Marvel so it’s unclear what, […]

On Friday word leaked out on Newsarma.com that the four Februrary-launch Epic titles, including our own “Young Ancient One” would not be released as individual series, but as part of one big anthology title. Follow up reports appeared on ComiX-Fan, Comicon Pulse and Comic Book Resources. Several outlets asked me […]

Well, the cat was released from said bag yesterday evening over at Newsarama.com. The “Young Ancient One” team only got word of this development some five and a half hours before they published it. There are no secrets in the information age, apparently. Needless to say, the anthology book is […]

The hype machine for “Young Ancient One” is slowly heating up. Preview pages and more news about the book should start filtering out soon. And of course, we’ll be in next month’s “Marvel Previews” catalog, so start bugging your retailer! In the mean time, check out the logo for the […]

The order of honorary Ancient Ones continues to grow each week. Today we got a photo from none other than Tony Harris! For those who don’t know their “Dr. Strange” history, Tony introduced the design for the mark of the Ancient Ones in his “Flight of Bones” storyline a few […]

Last week the news broke that Marvel was undergoing some managerial changes, with Epic founder Bill Jemas moving from his COO position to a newly created CMO. Some speculated that this was the begining of a move to transition Jemas out of the company. Today Newsarama.com published a statement from […]

I put in an appearance at the Motor City Comic Con this weekend. Although this is the small, fall version of the con (with the big show happening in May) the show is a good time and a great opporunity to chat with the guests (something that’s hard to do […]

Around this time last year I had a letter published in Comics Buyers’ Guide discussing my annual tradition of giving away comics on Halloween. The letter encouraged publishers to support this activity by producing low-cost comics in October that people like me could pick up cheap and distribute to impressionable […]

Anyone who is in the metro Detroit area and wants to collect a free YAO tattoo or get a sneak peek at the art for “Young Ancient One” should come by the Motor City Comic Con this weekend. I’ll be there on Saturday (not as a guest or anything…just milling […]

Flipping through the latest issue of “Entertainment Weekly” (the one with Jack Black on the cover) and right there is a bit of “Young Ancient One” colorist Bill Crabtree’s work. The magazine reviewed “Invincible“, the tradepaperback collecting the Image mini-series written by Robert Kirkman with art by Cory Walker and […]

Marvel issued a press release officially announcing the corporate shuffle at the top. According to the release COO Bill Jemas is not leaving the company at this time, but will be transitioing to the newly created, non-executive position of Chief Marketing Office. Reports from Friday speculated that Jemas might stay […]

The news came down Friday morning, from every credible comic-reporting outlet that Bill Jemas would be leaving his position as President of Marvel Publishing by January. Reports appeared on Comic Book Resources, Newsarama.com and Comicon Pulse giving details about the changing of the guard. This fueled speculation that the Epic […]

Apparently I’m going to be a guest on some kind of online radio talk show today. The folks at New Black City have invited me on to talk comics. I’ll be a guest on a show called “The Afternoon Blackout With Uncle Rudy” which runs for 12:00 to 3:00 CST. […]

They’re mysterious! They’re magical! They’re really, really, really old! They are the order of the ancient ones and people know them by their mark. Now you too can wear the mark of the anicent ones! Anyone who catches Rob Worley, Andy Kuhn or Bill Crabtree at a comic convention from […]

Andy Kuhn is off penciling and inking his little rock-star fingers to the bone and the pages from “Young Ancient One” are rolling in. Man! Is this exciting for me! I’ve not had the experience of creating something like YAO in words and then have someone render it visually. A […]

Admittedly the spider pictures were kind of creepy so here is some counter-programming. Folks will recall, a little over a month ago, a big chunk of the east coast lost power. That left many of us here at my condo complex to sit around on our front porches and talk. […]