Highburn Studios

02/23/2024

See you all this weekend!!

01/31/2024

Meet Lyle this weekend at the Charlotte Mini-Con.

Meet Lyle Pollard this weekend at the one an only Charlotte Mini-Con brought to you by Heroes Aren't Hard to Find. Don't forget to pick up a copy of Tribulations #1 and ask about Tribulations #2 shipping in February from Highburn Studios. See the show details below. Grady Cole Center 310 North Kings...

01/31/2024

Meet Lyle Pollard this weekend at the one and only Charlotte Mini Con brought to you by Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Tribulations Issue #1 and ask about Tribulations #2 shipping in February from Highburn Studios.

01/07/2024

24 years this year. Super excited to be bringing this series back.

12/13/2023

Lineart by for the upcoming No More variant. This will be exclusive to and

09/09/2023

Something new in progress for This is the last variant cover for No More issue 1 and is exclusive to Highburn Studios and Longshot Comics. Pencils will be by .

08/19/2023

Enjoy the first 5 pages of Tribulations issue 2. See the full pages on highburn.com. Link in bio.

06/15/2023

Highburn Studios is pleased to announce the return of Guardians with Jim Shooter as writer

Jim Shooter, renowned Marvel Comics Editor in Chief, founder of VALIANT Comics, DEFIANT Comics, Broadway Comics, and co-founder of Illustrated Media, Inc. is teaming up with EIC and artist Michael Watkins on an exciting second generation of the Higburn Studios flagship series Guardians. Shooter and Watkins are collaborating on the development of the epic storyline, to be scripted by Shooter and illustrated by Watkins.

Watkins created the series in 1989 while still in high school and self-published the first issue under the Highburn Studios imprint in 2000. His work quickly garnered industry attention and the series earned a substantial and loyal following. Watkins continued publishing Guardians in its inaugural run until 2004.

Since 2004, Watkins has done creative work for a number of different publishers, including Marvel, DC, Image, Archie, IDW, and Dynamite; with work on Sonic The Hedgehog, Avengers Assemble, Transformers, and Star Wars.

Shooter and Watkins met at Big Lick Comic Con in Roanoke, Virginia, where they first discussed the vast potential of Guardians. Their mutual belief in the importance of compelling characters, powerful stories, and excellent storytelling, has led to this enthusiastic collaboration on a new and extraordinary Guardians saga.

Guardians reveals the story of men and women—artificially empowered super-humans—gifted with great power... or afflicted by it. Some work secretly for the top-secret military hegemony that created them to protect its interests. They serve, they fight, they sacrifice for what they hope is the greater good. The rest are renegades who despise what the hegemony has done to them, who strive to destroy the Guardians and all they stand for. In an intricate web of secrets, lies, and subterfuge, who are the oppressors? And who are the oppressed?

06/14/2023

This weekend June 16th - 18th we are thrilled to be returning to the one and only Heroes Con.

04/23/2023

Meet Highburn Studios CEO/EIC for FCBD May 6th

02/14/2023

What a fantastic weekend Big Lick Comic Con. Thank you to JD Sutphin, Adam Sutphin for an amazing show, and the wonderful Big Lick Staff: Wayne Puckett, Justin Davison, Amy Himmel, Chris Himmel, Alexis Van Dyne, and the “pearl” Brittany Byram, you are all amazing.

Also, thank you to an amazing team of creators, Jim Shooter, Dave Pendleton, Keith Williams, Matt Slay for great time and some wonderful memories!!

And finally to all of my friends and fans who made this such an great weekend!!! See you again at Big Lick Comic Con - NOVA , FCBD at Big Lick Comics, and again at Big Lick Comic Con August.

02/14/2023

What a fantastic weekend Big Lick Comic Con. Thank you to JD Sutphin, Adam Sutphin for an amazing show, and the wonderful Big Lick Staff: Wayne Puckett, Justin Davison, Amy Himmel, Chris Himmel, Alexis Van Dyne, and the “pearl” Brittany Byram, you are all amazing.

Also, thank you to an amazing team of creators, Jim Shooter, Dave Pendleton, Keith Williams, Matt Slay for great time and some wonderful memories!!

And finally to all of my friends and fans who made this such an great weekend!!! See you again at Big Lick Comic Con - NOVA , FCBD at Big Lick Comics, and again at Big Lick Comic Con August.

02/05/2023

Tribulations issue 2 cover
Pencils inks colors

01/26/2023

added some amazing inks over to the cover of Tribulations issue 2. This is going to be another heart wrenching issue coming soon.

01/02/2023

First Appearance of 2023

Happy New Year everyone. We've started listing our confirmed bookings of 2023, so feel free to head over to the link and see where you can meet us throughout the coming year. Stay tuned as we add more shows and live events throughout the year. That being said, let's announce our first appearance of....

08/10/2022

08/10/2022

At this time, we at Highburn Studios would like to remind you all that we maintain a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any kind.

We find prioritizing profits, reputation, entertainment, or personal convenience over the safety of others to be simply unacceptable.

Therefore, we continue to actively evaluate our professional associations and engagements to ensure we are supporting businesses and individuals who are as committed as we are to the protection fans, customers, and guests.

- Michael and Apryl Watkins

08/03/2022

Grab an all new EXCLUSIVE cover for Tribulations #1 by and only from and this weekend August 6th and 7th.

04/05/2022

You know when you’ve been signing things a lot if there seems to be a in reach just about everywhere ✍️🤣

03/29/2022

Such a busy weekend! Huge thanks to everyone who came out to yesterday. We had a blast talking to so many of you and meeting several first-time con-goers! Our table sold out entirely of the and was on hand to witness four creators adding their signatures to the signature database ✍️

03/17/2022

It was great to meet some new faces this weekend at Toledo’s and do the very first Highburn Studios on a first printing of

03/17/2022

Last weekend’s saw both books AND prints completely sold out within the first hour! Congrats to Dave Pendleton and John Anderson

03/16/2022

We simply couldn’t wait to show you those !!!
Artists Michael Watkins and Mez Phillips, along with writer Dave Pendleton and editor Apryl Watkins will all be at the one day convention March 27th ready to sign your copy of this very limited edition variant. BUT if you can’t make it, pre-order is available on the website. (Link in bio)
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🎨 by John Anderson

03/10/2022

***Variant Edition***
This one is a for are available, link in bio…. Guys there are only 100 of these!!
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01/24/2022

01/24/2022

10/08/2020

Building a few new things with some awesome people.