Jim Zub talks up ‘Skullkickers’ for Toronto Comicon

Here’s my chat with Jim Zub about Skullkickers, Conan and more leading up to his exhibit at Toronto Comicon.

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Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Ontario. Over the past twenty years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. As a comic writer, Jim has written for many titles including: Glitterbomb, Stone Star, Wayward, Avengers, Champions, Dungeons & Dragons, Moon Knight, Pathfinder, Red Sonja, Samurai Jack, Thunderbolts, and many more. His current comic projects include acting as the flagship writer for Conan the Barbarian, the monthly adventures of Robert E. Howard’s legendary sword & sorcery hero. One of Jim’s latest projects is a new printing of his Skullkickers series.

Skullkickers is an action-comedy sword & sorcery comic series that ran for 34 issues from 2010-2015, building a loyal audience for its uproarious take on the genre and comics as a whole. Skullkickers is Deadpool by way of Dungeons & Dragons – irreverent, ridiculous, and frantically fourth wall breaking. Over the past 9 years, the six trade paperbacks and three hardcover collections of Skullkickers have become harder to track down while, at the same time, writer Jim Zub’s fantasy bonafides have grown with work on seminal fantasy titles that include Dungeons & Dragons, Conan the Barbarian, Pathfinder, Samurai Jack, and Red Sonja. Thousands of fantasy fans have enjoyed Jim’s writing on commercial titles, but haven’t dug into the original sword & sorcery series that put him on the map. 

You can discover more about Jim online at https://www.jimzub.com/ and on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/jimzub.bsky.social

You can check out Skullkickers; The Digest Edition online at https://zoop.gg/c/skullkickers

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