Club Jade

Namesake corner. Artist Grant Gould did a Thrawn trilogy/Tron: Legacy mashup for the cover of his 2011 sketchbook. I LOL’ed.

I gotta see how they managed that. Apparently there’s a full-color excerpt from the Knight Errant comic in the Knight Errant novel. The paperback. It’s on glossy paper, but is it readable at that size? I guess we’ll find out. Maybe we should ask author John Jackson Miller, since he’s taking questions and all.

Map love. Entertainment Weekly dug up the galaxy map from The Essential Atlas, so it’s been making the rounds. Again! Oh, internets.

Comics. Dark Horse has posted a preview for Legacy: War #2.

Review. Book Legion says Year by Year is the “best Star Wars book to date.”

Artist Grant Gould announced on his blog yesterday evening that he’ll be working on Draw The Clone Wars Characters with Lucasfilm’s Bonnie Burton.

Now appearing is ‘Procedure,’ written by Pablo Hidalgo and illustrated by Grant Gould. (Oh, and interface complaints should apparently be directed to these folks. Often.)

Grant Gould broke the news last night (at least online) that he, Tom Hodges, Katie Cook, and Jeff Carlisle will be working on a The Clone Wars web comic for StarWars.com to accompany the tv series. Hodges revealed more this morning on the TFN boards:

The quick version is each week, we’ll be given a story leading into that weeks episode. Now it could be a direct tie-in or peripherally connected from a distance because some episodes have story arcs not connected to each and every episode. Keep in mind, the series will not always be about Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. It will flesh out characters we’ve only seen bits and pieces of.

This will also NOT be “web-strip” format. It will be full color, comic format and each story will be 5 pages in length.

More as we get it!

With blackjack! And hookers!

• Hot rumor mill action! Jim Hill wonders if Lucasfilm and Disney are plotting something. Oh, oh! A land war in Asia!

Elsewhere in the media…

• David Lynch (briefly) talks about George’s offer to direct ROTJ. Sadly lacking in wacky Lynch-ness. (via)

• Star Wars-inspired shoes much less Star Wars-looking than expected. I am underwhelmed. Really, you could throw a SW logo on pretty much anything made of shiny black leather and call it Vader-inspired.
• Video of George Lucas at the D5 conference.
• I bet Phil knows this guy. Also every time I see the headline I think it says Mary Franklin.
• Star Wars namechecked in column on movie soundtracks, surprisingly absolutely no one.
• Artist re-envisions critic as a Hutt. Naturally. (via)

On StarWars.com

• A brief history of Star Wars lunchboxes

• Back To School with Star Wars Shop; download free Katie Cook & Grant Gould book covers to match.
• Know A Legion: New England Garrison
• Hyperspace: Lots of new stuff in the Source Archive

Get a preview of the artists attending the Celebration Art Show and some of the limited edition prints they’ll be offering.

Also be sure to check out Randy Martinez’s Making of the Star Wars Celebration IV Program Cover.