Pre-order ships October
-Includes signed 6 × 8 inch bonus print
-Limited to 800 signed copies
-448 pages
-7.5 x 10”
-Hardcover deluxe
-Quarter-bound with copper fabric
-Title on cover and spine stamped with copper foil
-Alternate cover
-ISBN: 9781640411098
-Features more than 420 works
-Contains an interview with Schultz
-Brush-and-ink and pencil pieces, plus oil paintings are included
-Collecting all five Carbon books
-Includes an additional 80 pieces not previously collected in the Carbon or Various Drawings series.
-Signed by Mark Schultz on bonus page
The complete five-volume Carbon series—ten years of pictorial experimentation and evolution—is collected here in a single mammoth volume!
Featuring more than 420 illustrations and drawings, Carbon Collected showcases the extraordinary imagination and artistry of Mark Schultz. Schultz has built a body of work that fuses adventure, science fiction, fantasy, mythology, natural history and visual storytelling with remarkable craftsmanship. Across its pages are daring heroes, prehistoric wonders, distant worlds, mythic landscapes and the beloved characters of Xenozoic, including Jack Tenrec and Hannah Dundee. From finished illustrations and paintings to concept designs, sketchbook pages and preliminary studies, this collection offers an intimate look into the creative process of one of comics’ and illustration’s distinctive voices.
Gathering the contents of Carbon Volumes 1 through 5, this edition traces Schultz’s artistic development through a decade of work, revealing both the consistency of his vision and his continuing exploration of technique, storytelling and design. Readers will discover artwork from Xenozoic, Storms at Sea, Paleonauts and numerous personal and commissioned projects, alongside rare archival material, developmental work and previously unpublished illustrations.
As a special bonus, this volume includes more than 80 pieces not previously published in the Carbon and Various Drawings collections, plus an introduction by Schultz and an exclusive interview in which the artist discusses selected works and the ideas, influences and creative decisions behind them.
A celebration of imagination, craftsmanship and artistic growth, Carbon Collected presents a broad survey of Mark Schultz’s diverse creations.
About Mark Schultz
Since entering the world of cartooning in the mid-1980s with the science-fiction adventure series Xenozoic Tales, Mark Schultz has slowly but consistently produced a truly diversified body of work: He has produced illustrations for Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories; scripted four years of Superman and currently scripts Prince Valiant; composed a science guide to genetics and DNA; created the Stormforce 10 adventure SubHuman with paleontologist Michael J. Ryan; and written the novella Storms at Sea, which he also illustrated. Currently, in his free moments, Schultz continues to work on a new Xenozoic graphic novel as well as a sequel to Storms at Sea. Flesk has been the artist’s publisher since 2005 and continues to regularly release collections of his sketches, commissions and personal works.
Pre-order ships October
-Includes signed 6 × 8 inch bonus print
-Limited to 800 signed copies
-448 pages
-7.5 x 10”
-Hardcover deluxe
-Quarter-bound with copper fabric
-Title on cover and spine stamped with copper foil
-Alternate cover
-ISBN: 9781640411098
-Features more than 420 works
-Contains an interview with Schultz
-Brush-and-ink and pencil pieces, plus oil paintings are included
-Collecting all five Carbon books
-Includes an additional 80 pieces not previously collected in the Carbon or Various Drawings series.
-Signed by Mark Schultz on bonus page
The complete five-volume Carbon series—ten years of pictorial experimentation and evolution—is collected here in a single mammoth volume!
Featuring more than 420 illustrations and drawings, Carbon Collected showcases the extraordinary imagination and artistry of Mark Schultz. Schultz has built a body of work that fuses adventure, science fiction, fantasy, mythology, natural history and visual storytelling with remarkable craftsmanship. Across its pages are daring heroes, prehistoric wonders, distant worlds, mythic landscapes and the beloved characters of Xenozoic, including Jack Tenrec and Hannah Dundee. From finished illustrations and paintings to concept designs, sketchbook pages and preliminary studies, this collection offers an intimate look into the creative process of one of comics’ and illustration’s distinctive voices.
Gathering the contents of Carbon Volumes 1 through 5, this edition traces Schultz’s artistic development through a decade of work, revealing both the consistency of his vision and his continuing exploration of technique, storytelling and design. Readers will discover artwork from Xenozoic, Storms at Sea, Paleonauts and numerous personal and commissioned projects, alongside rare archival material, developmental work and previously unpublished illustrations.
As a special bonus, this volume includes more than 80 pieces not previously published in the Carbon and Various Drawings collections, plus an introduction by Schultz and an exclusive interview in which the artist discusses selected works and the ideas, influences and creative decisions behind them.
A celebration of imagination, craftsmanship and artistic growth, Carbon Collected presents a broad survey of Mark Schultz’s diverse creations.
About Mark Schultz
Since entering the world of cartooning in the mid-1980s with the science-fiction adventure series Xenozoic Tales, Mark Schultz has slowly but consistently produced a truly diversified body of work: He has produced illustrations for Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories; scripted four years of Superman and currently scripts Prince Valiant; composed a science guide to genetics and DNA; created the Stormforce 10 adventure SubHuman with paleontologist Michael J. Ryan; and written the novella Storms at Sea, which he also illustrated. Currently, in his free moments, Schultz continues to work on a new Xenozoic graphic novel as well as a sequel to Storms at Sea. Flesk has been the artist’s publisher since 2005 and continues to regularly release collections of his sketches, commissions and personal works.
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