BILL SIENKIEWICZ & THE LAB PRESS AT WONDERCON 2024

Headed to WonderCon 2024 this weekend"? Well, it turns out that the iconic Bill Sienkiewicz will not only be attending but is scheduled to be featured in a spotlight panel. Writer and producer Chris "Doc" Wyatt will interview the legendary artist’s groundbreaking career as a cartoonist and designer, as well as discuss Sienkiewicz’s involvement with the recently announced LAB PRESS and its debut graphic novel ESSENTIALS.

Bill Sienkiewicz Courtesy of THE LAB PRESS

“THE LAB PRESS is focused on creating a space for writers and artists to be audacious with their wildest ideas, telling subversive stories with mind-blowing art,” said THE LAB PRESS Editor-in-Chief Dagen Walker. “It’s hard to imagine an artist more audacious or in touch with what we want to do than the great Bill Sienkiewicz.”

From the press release:

From his groundbreaking work on such projects as Marvel's Elektra: Assassin, Daredevil: Love & War, and New Mutants to his genre-bending indie works such as Stray Toasters and Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix, Bill Sienkiewicz has spent decades as a trailblazing artist who disrupted and upended the entire comic scene. Channeling abstract and expressionist influences to create edgy, subjective visual storytelling, Bill has won numerous awards as well as the enthusiastic acclaim of his fellow artists. This wide-ranging conversation will cover his early days on Moon Knight and Fantastic Four, through to his Emmy-nominated TV design work and his contributions on-set and doing promotional artwork for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Batman, Dune, Moon Knight series , 2018 Halloween remake , Logan, The Grinch, The Green Mile, and Unforgiven. Conducting the interview is indie film producer and TV animation writer Chris "Doc" Wyatt (Napoleon Dynamite, Marvel's Spider-Man, Transformers: Botbots, Batman Unlimited, Lego Ninjago: Dragons Rising).

The WonderCon 2024 panel comes hot on the heels of the recent announcement of THE LAB PRESS and their first-ever graphic novel, ESSENTIALS. Co-written by Wyatt and Luke Arnold, the novelist and acclaimed Black Sails actor, the debut issue proudly sports a stunning premiere edition cover by Sienkiewicz. Following the adventures of a shotgun-wielding scientist who sets out to save the world, ESSENTIALS boasts an ambitious array of all-star comic artists featuring Glenn Fabry (Preacher), Jason Howard (Transformers), Vince Locke (A History of Violence), Brendan McCarthy (Spider-Man: Fever), Andrea Mutti (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), M.K. Perker (Air), and DaNi (Sandman: The Dreaming). You can check out the pre-launch page for the ESSENTIALS Kickstarter campaign the start-up publisher has launched and select to be the first to be notified when the project launches this spring.

Chris “Doc”Wyatt Courtesy of THE LAB PRESS

The WonderCon 2024 panel, “The Legendary Bill Sienkiewicz: A Career-Spanning Interview” is scheduled to take place this Saturday, March 30, 2024, from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT in Room 300E featuring special giveaways from THE LAB PRESS for fans who attend.