Here's where you'll find me — I'm also printing up a limited run of 50 ACTION, OHIO stickers for lucky consumers... protect your favorite graphic novel, longbox, mylar-bagged or slabbed comic with this limited edition ACTION, OHIO "With Great Fiction Comes Great Responsibility" sticker! Swing by one of my signings and grab one while you can.

Hey, all!

I'll be signing preview copies of THE BIG KAHN this Sunday with artist Nico Cinquegrani at the NBM Publishing table and I'm signing from 1130AM-1PM and then from 330PM-5PM. At other times, I'll be wandering around saying hi to pals, checking out some minicomics and talking up KAHN, Dark Horse's CREEPY #1 in which I have an eight page story, ACTION OHIO and struggling to contain the big news about the next project on my plate.

See ya at MoCCA: http://www.moccany.org/

Hi,

Due to a much needed break, ACTION OHIO will go on hiatus for the month of May and will return again with chapter four on Monday, June 1st.

Paul and I appreciate our fans’ understanding and promise to resume with the quality and wonder you’ve come to expect from the strip. In the meantime, please feel free to read chapters one-three again as a single unit in preparation for the strip’s glorious return at;

http://www.shadowlinecomics.com/webcomics/#/actionohio/

Thanks again and we'll see you back in Action on June 1st!

Neil Kleid
Writer, ACTION OHIO

This July explore a family secret so well-hidden, even the family didn’t know about it until it was too late.



Rabbi David Kahn has lived a forty-year lie: he is not, nor has he ever been, Jewish. When at his funeral, the “rabbi’s” grifter brother reveals the truth, it forces the Kahn family to struggle with grief and betrayal as their congregation examines their every move and they question their very faith. Rabbi Avi Kahn, the heir apparent whose future is on the line, spirals into a tryst with his rebellious sister Lea’s non-Jewish roommate. Lea rethinks the religion she’s run from, religion strong enough to alter her father’s life, while Eli — the youngest Kahn — inherits his father’s long-forgotten legacy. Somehow, with the help of the uncle he never knew and his slowly re-awakening sister, Eli attempts to return faith and order to his family, community while reinstating his father’s good name.

Neil Kleid, Xeric Award winning author of Ninety Candles and NBM’s Brownsville, and illustrator Nicolas Cinquegrani offer THE BIG KAHN, a graphic novel drama about loss, lies, belief and renewal in this sequential exploration of a family secret so well-hidden, it questions the very nature of faith. Hitting shelves this July, THE BIG KAHN, a 176 page black and white graphic novel, is currently available to preorder via Diamond Comics Distributors (Page 271, Order Code; MAY090988) and through Amazon.com (ISBN 978-1-56163-561-0) at the low price of $13.95.

Dean Haspiel (THE ALCOHOLIC, STREET CODE) had this to say about THE BIG KAHN: “Does honoring tenets of a religion admonish the dishonor of heritage? Does the wisdom of experience overrule the righteousness of blood? Profound answers are discovered in the subtlety of behavior and the struggles of the heart in this modern dilemma of difference versus acceptance."

Click here for a ten page selection from the book, available at the NBM website.

Click here to read an interview with Neil Kleid about the book at Comicon Pulse.

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Diamond Distributors is also re-offering BROWNSVILLE for a limited time, Neil Kleid’s first book with artist Jake Allen about the Jewish gangsters of Murder Incorporated.



"Jewish gangster" isn't a term you hear much in post-Holocaust society... but back when the Dodgers played in the East and licorice cost a penny a bag, Brooklyn corners were lousy with semitic young toughs looking for adventure and excitement - none more so than in Brownsville. Follow the intertwined lives of Allie Tanennbaum, Abe Reles and scores of hoods organized by Louis Lepke Buchalter into the deadliest hit operation in Mafia history, "Murder, Inc.", as they escape the mean streets and lonely tenements of East New York., make themselves into the most dangerous men in America, only to eventually send their best friends and closest allies up the river.

Click here to read a selection from the book.

NBM Publishing: http://www.nbmpublishing.com
Neil Kleid: http;//www.rantcomics.com
Nicolas Cinquegrani: http://ncinquegrani.com

The news is out: I've got a story appearing in CREEPY COMICS #1, Dark Horse Comics' resurrection of the classic horror series. CREEPY COMICS #1 is out July 15th, Eric Powell paints the cover, and my little story is illustrated by the fantastic Brian Churilla. I'm very excited to get this out there and hope this is the first of many stories I do for Dark Horse. Here's the solicit from Dark Horse's website:



Creepy Comics #1
Writer: Neil Kleid, Joe Harris, Dan Braun, Mike Woods
Artist: Angelo Torres, Bernie Wrightson, Jason Shawn Alexander, and others
Cover Artist: Eric Powell
What's black and white and clawing its way onto your reading list? It's the newly resurrected Creepy, of course! Now, don't fret, my putrid pets -- these new terror tales are cut from the same cursed cloth as the outlandish originals, telling contemporary horror stories with gorgeously ghoulish art from a lineup that'll make you lose your head! Original Creepy artist Angelo Torres teams up with devilish Dan Braun on "Hell Hound Blues"; Michael Woods and artist Saskia Gutekunst serve up a dose of "Chemical 13"; Neil Kleid and Brian Churilla provide "All the Help You Need" at a weird weight-loss camp; and jaundiced Jason Shawn Alexander brings his phenomenal painting skills to Joe Harris's "The Curse"! Plus Bernie Wrightson, the return of "Loathsome Lore," and more. All this, plus one classic story from Uncle Creepy's dank dungeon, and you've got 48 freakish pages of terror to bring home to mummy!
Publication Date: July 15, 2009
Format: b&w, 48 pages
Price: $4.99
UPC: 7 61568 15862 5 00111

Make sure your comic book store orders some CREEPY today! Also, check out the awesome alternate cover:

Hi,

Sending out a request to my professional colleagues, hoping you’ll consider my 2008-2009 works when casting your ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards.

Eligible works include:

URSA MINORS: THE COLLECTED WAIT-FOR-THE-TRADE EDITION
With Paul Cote and Fernando Pinto
Publisher: Slave Labor Graphics
(Special Award for Humor in Comics, Best Writer, Best Artist, Best New Talent, Best Graphic Album Previously Published)

ACTION, OHIO
With Paul Salvi
Publisher: Image Comics/Shadowline
(Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Online Comics Work)

“The Beekeeper”, appearing in COMIC BOOK TATTOO
With Chris Mitten
Publisher: Image Comics
(Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Single Issue or Story, Best Anthology)

The Harvey Awards are one of the comic book industry's oldest and most respected awards, and recognize outstanding achievements in over 20 categories. Nominations are selected exclusively by creators - those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are otherwise involved in a creative capacity in the comics field. The Harvey Awards are the only industry awards both nominated and selected by the full body of comic book professionals.

Ballots can be downloaded from HarveyAwards.org and completed forms can be e-mailed to harveyballots@hotmail.com or snail mailed to: Paul McSpadden ; Administrator Harvey Awards ; 605 West Arapaho Road ; Richardson, Texas 75080

Ballots are due for submission by Friday, March 27th.
For more information, please visit www.harveyawards.org

Thank you for your consideration and support.

Hey, all! Check out a great interview I did with Jen Contino at Comicon's Pulse about THE BIG KAHN, my upcoming graphic novel from NBM Publishing.

An excerpt:

THE PULSE: How is working on this project different from some of your other works including your webcomics series, Action Ohio?

KLEID: I generally work the same way, no matter the project. Neil write artist. Artist say yes. Neil and artist drink and craft proposal-slash-outline. Neil go away and write script. Neil cry. Cry, cry, cry. Finally, Neil has script and can send to artist who reads panel descriptions and cry. Artist cry, cry, cry. Eventually, someone dumb enough to back up truck full of money and publish book. Publisher cry, cry, cry. But, you know, classier.

Share and enjoy! THE BIG KAHN, a 172 page book, debuts from NBM Publishing this summer.

There's a pretty great  ACTION, OHIO interview up at the Webcomics Overlook in which I discuss the benefits of company webcomics VS "self publishing", the style and tone of our comic and finally answer "why Ohio"?

Have a read and swing over to check out this week's new ACTION, OHIO page as we start to wind down the second chapter.

As comic book fans around the world usher in the holidays and a brand new year, the creators of Shadowline's offbeat webcomic, Action, Ohio, ask you to spend the holiday season in a little Ohio town that's hiding a very big secret.



Action, Ohio - written by Xeric Award winning author Neil Kleid and illustrated by Paul Salvi - asks what might happen if the comic book industry as we know it today was created to hide the existence of real-life superheroes living in the heart of Ohio?

Running one page per week at Image Comics/Shadowline's festive, red webcomics hub, the story explores detective Andrea Bruce's private dilemma and the sacrifices she must make in order to save an isolated community struggling to contain its secrets. Choosing between solving a murder and opening a Pandora's Box of evil or putting aside her vendetta to help a group of heroes contain their existence and freedoms, Andrea unfolds the mysteries of a sleepy little town that inspired the Silver Age of comic books and races to find a killer before he forces its inhabitants to reveal themselves and destroy the world.

Bundle up, gather the children and settle in to read the first complete chapter of Action, Ohio, now available online. Chapter Two begins this week and a new four-color, thrilling page goes live every Monday. Send the link to your friends and family; it's the perfect holiday treat because not only don't you have to leave your home to get it, not only don't you have to wrap it, but it's one hundred percent FREE, American.

For the complete ACTION holiday experience, check out and share these virtual stocking stuffers:

Newsarama interview
io9 interview
Facebook group
Message Board
Production blog

From all of us at Action, Ohio and Shadowline webcomics, have an action-packed holiday season and an incredible New Year.

Neil Kleid & Paul Salvi

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