To enter for a chance to win, send an email to blogsweepstakes@book.com after 10 am (eastern time) on January 14, 2011 and before 12 pm (eastern time) on January 21, 2011 with subject line “Green Hornet.” One Grand Prize and One First Prize will be awarded. We’ll randomly select a winner for each prize and announce the results on the Explorations blog as soon as we’ve confirmed. Click here for the official rules.
The Grand Prize is a copy of Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet Volume One: Sins of the Father with an original sketch of Green Hornet by contributing artist Alex Ross on the book’s endpapers and a copy of Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet Volume Two: Wearing O’ the Green with an original sketch by Alex Ross of Kato on the book’s endpapers.
[Approximate retail value $400.00]
First Prize is a copy of Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet Volume One: Sins of the Father with an original sketch of Kato by contributing artist Phil Hester on the book’s endpapers. [Approximate retail value $100.00]
Whether you’re a fan of the original Green Hornet—from radio, TV, film, and comics—or a new devotee of Kevin Smith’s incarnation, you’ll want to enter for a chance to win these fantastic prizes.
Before you see the movie, check out our full Green Hornet Collection—including comics and DVDs—here, and watch the movie trailer here.
About the Artists
Alex Ross Looking back, it makes perfect sense that Alex Ross would become one of the world’s most pre-eminent and well-respected comic book artists. Acclaimed for the photorealism of his work, Ross is by far the most prominent comic book painter in the industry and is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superheroes.
In the past ten years, Ross has done much work for the industry’s two largest and most historically important publishing houses Marvel and DC Comics, but Ross is also the co-creator of Project Superpowers, an original series with publisher Dynamite Entertainment that explores superhero mythology.
Phillip Hester has been writing and drawing comics for over two decades, beginning while still a student at the University of Iowa. After establishing himself in the world of indie comics with the Eisner Award nominated series The Wretch, Phil broke into the mainstream with a long run as penciller on DC’s Swamp Thing. He also drew Kevin Smith’s revival of Green Arrow with long time inker Ande Parks, also for DC. He wrote The Coffin with artist Mike Huddleston, and Firebreather with artist Andy Kuhn, now a television feature for Cartoon Network. Phil lives in rural Iowa with his wife and two children.
