"HEADS UP all you stalwart Sonja fans, Volume 2 of the SCARLET SIREN'S adventure's is about to launch," says Frank Thorne of his upcoming second art book! "Volume 2 is JAM-PACKED with action and intrigue that YOU CAN'T ARRORD to miss! So she's cleared for takeoff and destined to be a VITAL ADDITION to your collection!"

Frank Thorne began his comic career in 1948, penciling romance comics for Standard Comics. He drew the Perry Mason newspaper strip for King Features, plus a multitude of stories for Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, The Green Hornet, and many more. Thorne's name would become synonymous with Red Sonja, the iconic swordswoman from the Robert E. Howard's Conan mythos, when his stint illustrating her adventures in the Marvel Feature comic book series led to a successful ongoing Red Sonja solo series, a celebrated run of comics from 1976 through 1979. He established her characteristic image as a ferocious and beautiful female barbarian wearing a chainmail bikini, which later became a popular fantasy literature archetype.
The process of creating the oversized Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Art Edition involves high-resolution color scanning of original storyboard artwork, capturing the look of the artwork as originally illustrated, with all blue lines, corrections, editorial notes, and other distinctive creative elements intact. Each scan is then printed on heavy stock paper to give readers a more realistic experience of what it would be like to hold actual storyboard pages. To ensure the unique nature of this art collectible, Dynamite will limit Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Art Edition to a single first printing, restricted to initial orders and not to exceed a "mintage" of 1,973 units to commemorate the character's first year of appearance.
Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Art Edition Volume 2 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' June Previews catalog, the premiere source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release in August 2014. Comic book fans are encouraged to reserve copies of Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Art Edition Volume 2 with their local comic book retailers. Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Art Edition Volume 2 will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital.