The Art of Daniel Warren Johnson Kickstarter Campaign is Live!

Hi, everyone,

Our Art of Daniel Warren Johnson Kickstarter campaign is live!

We are thrilled to bring you the latest art book collection from Flesk! The Art of Daniel Warren Johnson showcases the majority of his kinetic career since his start in 2013. There are a multitude of sections covering his favorite comic-book covers and pages, along with rarely seen commissions and personal works, preliminaries and cover thumbnails. Full access was given to his personal sketchbooks, allowing for a deep look at over 200 sketches that are presented in a dynamic and exciting way.

Here’s the link to the campaign page.

This art book is offered as a paperback and as a signed deluxe hardcover edition. We also have two premium signed 13 x 19″ prints available. Every book pledge comes with a Kickstarter exclusive 8.5 x 11″ signed print.

This sizable book reveals great detail by sharing extended commentary covering DWJ’s thoughts and pathos for almost every piece. This collection has been methodically put together from the original art and through numerous interview sessions with DWJ over the span of four years.

DWJ is the writer/artist who brought us Space-Mullet, Extremity, Murder Falcon, Do A Powerbomb!, The Moon is Following Us, along with Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star, and a magnificent run on Transformers. And let’s not forget his short Wolverine and Superman stories, and his many variant covers. It’s unbelievable what he has accomplished in the last decade. His high-quality output is nothing short of spectacular. We’re all big fans of DWJ and are honored to showcase his work.

Enjoy,

John

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July 3, 2025July 15, 2025

Flesk at Heroes Con Wrap-up!

Hi, everyone,

We had an absolutely spectacular time together at Heroes Con. Nine creative giants who we work with were at the show. Nothing beats being together in person. We had so many great moments during our time together on the showroom floor and at our dinners. We got to meet many wonderful people who stopped by our booth and even some legendary pros for the first time. It felt more like a vacation with family than an event. A big thanks to Shelton Drum, Karla Southern and the entire Heroes crew for treating us with such kindness. We’ll be back!

In this picture, from left to right: Vicky, John, Joe Dragunas, Gary Gianni, Mark Chiarello, and Mark Schultz. William Stout, Richard and Wendy Pini, Daniel Warren Johnson, Jeffrey Alan Love, and Arthur Adams were also there!

Another Heroes Con high note was spending extended periods of time with Richard and Wendy Pini, along with David Mizejewski at our Flesk booth. Vicky and I consider ourselves to be the luckiest people in the world to have their friendships.

We also sat down with our friend Jeffrey Alan Love to view the original art for the first four issues of News From the Fallout. The originals are stunningly beautiful! Issue #1 of this new comic, written by Chris Condon and drawn by Jeff, is now available from Image Comics. Go grab yourself a copy! Jeff’s new book, The Last Battle at the End of the World and expanded editions of Notes From the Shadowed City and The Thousand Demon Tree were hits at the show!

Check out this recently completed drawing by Mark Schultz! Mark has enough pieces for an all-new collection. We’re working on a fresh title for the first volume of his next series. This book will be released in 2026.

Enjoy,

John

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June 4, 2025July 15, 2025

Bruce Timm Signed Vampirella #1 Exclusive Variant Cover Now Available!

Hi, everyone,

Welcome to Bruce Timm’s first signed variant comic event! We are offering a new exclusive Vampirella #1 cover featuring a new color piece by Bruce!

We also have limited quantities of Bruce’s previous signed sketchbooks that he self-published in the 2000s. Plus, a small number of various signed Naughty and Nice books and Teasers. Plus, two signed prints!

Here is the link to see all of the goodies and to read the descriptions. Sorry, no international orders.

Each signed item is limited to 1 per person. This is to help ensure that the most people possible can get something signed by Bruce at a fair price. Many of these books and sketchbooks are from Bruce’s personal stock. Most of these items are available in limited quantities.

Bruce has no foreseeable plans to appear at any events. This is a great chance to get something signed by this amazing producer/director/writer/animator/comic artist and co-creator of Harley Quinn!

There are still unsigned copies of the latest edition of Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm and some unsigned prints that are available at affordable prices.

There are 150 signed copies with the title on the cover and 100 signed copies with no title (virgin cover) available direct from Flesk.

“Nosferetta” and “Slime Thing” 13 x 19” signed prints by Bruce Timm!

Bruce Timm’s previous signed sketchbooks that he self-published in the 2000s are available in very low quantities. These are direct from Bruce’s personal stock and his last copies.

Our Flesk B.T. Teasers from 2011 to 2013. These were limited to 1000 copies and sold out a decade ago. These are copies from Bruce’s personal stock.

Warehouse finds! A handful of copies of the two Big Tease hardcover editions and some first edition paperback copies of the original Naughty and Nice book are available. All come signed by B.T. on the title page!

Enjoy,

John

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March 10, 2025July 15, 2025

Flesk Book Sale! Runs from March 10-14th, 2025!

Hi, everyone,

Here’s the link to the sale on our Flesk website. If you like reading details, I have a bunch to share.

Our Flesk bumps sale runs from today until Friday, March 14th. This is your chance to get some of our books for up to 70% off the cover price. We normally run this sale during the holiday season in December, but we were too busy shipping the Portfolio by Mark Schultz, ElfQuest Covers, and Arthur Adams Preliminary Studies books throughout the last three months of 2024. Throughout January and February, we were focused on finishing the new Jeffrey Alan Love, Gary Gianni, Tran Nguyen books. All six of these books are 100% done. We’re finally caught up and ready to launch this big sale!

These sale books all have slight marks, or a bump on them. Whenever a new book comes in we set aside any copies that may have a slight scuff. We save these for our big yearly sale. In this way you have this chance to load up on our books at a greatly reduced price for one week out of the year. We may have anywhere from 2-40 copies of each book offered. You can expect many of these discounted copies to sell out within the first day or two. We love packing and shipping these books to you and look forward to having a busy week.

Another thing that this sale helps us with is to free up some space in our warehouse for new titles. These sales also help us to add to our emergency fund—an important thing for us to do. Especially this year with the unknowns regarding tariffs, as well as the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy. Unfortunately we are affected by their bankruptcy. The ElfQuest Covers books delivered to Diamond last December remain unpaid and we have no idea if we will receive any funds or not. Luckily, we are not in any trouble. This is because I run this business with no debt and with an emergency fund. You never know how outside forces will try and challenge you. This strategy of not taking on debt and having savings got us through the pandemic, and I’m confident it will move us forward through this year as well.

Thanks for supporting us!

Enjoy,

John

February 13, 2024February 25, 2024

Flesk at SHM Con–San Jose State University 2024!

On February 11th, we were invited to exhibit at SHM Con. This is a one-day student run event at San Jose State University that is open to the public. SHM is an acronym for the Shrunkenheadman Club Animation/Illustration organization.

As soon as you step onto the campus you can feel the excitement from the students. These are highly skilled, smart, energetic, humble, and hungry individuals who are our future. We’ve been extremely lucky to participate in this yearly event.

If you have ever wondered if young people care about art or books, all you need to do is visit this show to get your answer. Not only was our Franklin Booth book the best seller at the show, but also one of the SHM volunteers had a Booth tattoo on her shoulder! Here’s Vicky at left, with the volunteer in the middle, followed by a student who picked up our Booth book.

We brought 30 boxes of books with us and came back home with five. To give you some perspective, we typically bring about half that amount to a 3-day comic show such as Baltimore Comic-Con. To be fair, we brought roughly 200 mixed titles with bumps and scratches that we gave away for free to students. The four tall stacks of freebies were gone in less than two hours. Also, this is the only show were we offer our books at a big discount to students. I clearly remember what it was like to be young with very little money, so in this way we can play a role in making sure everyone can get something, regardless of their available budget.

We had the chance to see our friends, Bunny Carter and Courtney Granner, and the department director, Dave Chai. These three have been very generous to us.

We were incredibly impressed with the SHM president this year, and how smooth and well organized the day was. And we met a bunch of terrific young people. We have no doubts about the future knowing that more SHM members will be heading out into the world to create more beautiful art.

See you again next year!

Enjoy,

John

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September 13, 2023October 1, 2023

Mark Schultz Original Art for Sale on our Flesk Website

Hi, everyone,

We have posted new Mark Schultz original art for sale!

We have added a fresh batch of Mark Schultz original art on our Flesk website. Everything that is currently available is posted and 100% of the funds go directly to Mark.

There are published brush and ink pieces, personal carbon art, and works from Storms at Sea. These originals are gorgeous in person!

Here’s the link to view what is available:
https://www.fleskpublications.com/mark-schultz-original-art

Enjoy,

John

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September 10, 2023October 1, 2023

Flesk at Baltimore Comic-Con 2023

Hi, everyone,

Baltimore Comic Con is a wrap!

Vicky and I enjoyed chatting with everyone who visited our Flesk booth and those we bumped into in and around the convention center. We have a ton of lasting memories from the show.

Seeing Arthur Adams is always a pleasure. A lot of people shared with us that they are looking forward to his new art collection in October.

Being set up next to Richard and Wendy Pini for three days made for one of the most enjoyable shows we have ever had. We started to tease about the upcoming Elfquest book that we will be publishing next spring.

I was thrilled to reunite with Steve Rude and to have a few extended conversations with him. Steve is awesome and I truly enjoyed the chance to catch up with him.

Hang time with my buddy Frank Cho is also always a pleasure. Frank is a generous and helpful guy who I appreciate greatly.

Again, it was wonderful to see you all! We look forward to Baltimore 2024.

Photo, top, left to right: Arthur Adams, Wendy Pini, Richard Pini, John Fleskes.

bottom, left to right: John Fleskes, Richard Pini, Vicky Lien, Wendy Pini, David Mizejewski.

Enjoy,

John

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July 19, 2023

San Diego Comic-Con 2023 — Flesk Booth #5019

Showtime!

San Diego Comic-Con starts today! Terry Dodson will be at our Flesk booth #5019 during the entirety of the show. He will have prints, original art, and will be promoting our upcoming “The Art of Rachel and Terry Dodson” collection coming out late this year.

Vicky and I will not be at this event. We are staying at the Flesk office to focus on new books, plus we are finalizing the Arthur Adams bonus items for our Kickstarter supporters.

Here are the Flesk published artists who will be exhibiting–along with their respective booth locations.

Richard and Wendy Pini are scheduled to do two signings at the Dark Horse booth. The first on Thursday from 12:00 noon to 12:45 PM and the second on Saturday from 1:00 to 1:45 PM. Booth #2615

Arthur Adams (with Joyce Chin) will be at booth #4700

Daniel Warren Johnson will be at the Felix Comic Art booth #4612.

William Stout will be at booth #4803

Frank Cho will be at booth #4901

Have fun everyone!

John

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May 23, 2023May 31, 2023

Upcoming Events and Artist Appearances

Murder Falcon artwork by Daniel Warren Johnson

Upcoming Events and Artist Appearances

Monsterpalooza

Brynn Metheney will be exhibiting at Monsterpalooza this weekend in Pasadena, California. We will be announcing the details about Brynn’s first book from Flesk soon! You can visit Brynn at this show to see her amazing art in person.

Wendy Pini–Celebrating 45 years of Elfquest!

Did you know that 2023 marks the 45th year anniversary of Elfquest? So exciting! Richard and Wendy Pini are making some appearances this year to celebrate. To start, Wendy will be appearing all three days at áyA Con this June 9-11, 2023. This event is located at the McNichols Civic Center Building in Denver, Colorado.

Heroes Con

In two and a half weeks we’ll be heading to Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina. The show runs from June 16-18th.

This will be our first time exhibiting at this show and we’re bringing a variety of art books with us. We’ve heard a lot of great things about this show and look forward to seeing everyone there!

Four artists who we are actively working on new books with will be making special appearances.

Daniel Warren Johnson, who is the artist for this fun Murder Falcon cover, will be at the Felix Comic Art table signing all three days. We’ve been working hard on his upcoming book to have the first pass available to show Daniel when we see each other. Pretty exciting!

William Stout and Mark Schultz (Xenozoic and Carbon art book series) will be with us at our Flesk table throughout the event. Both will be signing and have an assortment of original art with them. We have the massive three-volume Stout Comics retrospective in development, and something planned with Schultz, too.

We’re also fortunate to have Jeffrey Alan Love (Thousand Demon Tree and Notes From the Shadowed City) with us at the show. Jeff will be signing between our table and the Felix Comic Art area. We have a new book with Jeff that is getting very close to being done.

Between now and the show we will be continuing to work on these new books. I’m looking forward to seeing these artists as much as you all must be!

Enjoy,

John

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April 18, 2023April 25, 2023

J.A.W. Cooper’s 2023 Solo Show “Curious”

J.A.W. Cooper’s 2023 solo show “Curious” at @gallerynucleus in the Los Angeles area is now available to view online (and also in person through April 30th)!

Cooper completed over 30 new originals that were revealed during the opening night on April 15th from 5:00-8:00PM. We were delighted to see Cooper swarmed by visitors. The line to meet and talk with Cooper lasted throughout the full three-hour premier and eventually had to be moved outside since the gallery had to close. It was great to see everyone there. We had such a good time!

https://gallerynucleus.com/events/953

Enjoy,

John

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