Rue Morgue on Ace Kilroy

Last Friday night the estimable horror magazine Rue Morgue posted an interview with me all about Ace Kilroy, conducted by the equally estimable April Snellings. Head on over to the RM site and check it out!

Praise for Ace Kilroy

"If you're enthusiasms tap into ANY media formats or sub-genres that concern melodramatic comic art, steel-jawed heroes spitting in the faces of Nazis, shuddersome cliffhangers, blasting guns, vampire-infested villages, the ongoing legacy of Dracula---Hell, this is the strip for you.

And where else---except for TORA! TORA! TORA!---can you encounter the crusty Cordell Hull?"
--Ted Rypel, author of the "Gonji" series

More Ace Kilroy on Geekadelphia!

I am "The Geek of the Week" over on Geekadelphia today, where writer David Goodman and I talk Ace Kilroy!

Mephisto's Castle on Ace Kilroy!

The horror blog Mephisto's Castle did a wonderful write-up on us today, you should head on over there and check it out! While you're at it, leave a comment and tell 'em Ace sent you!

Sample quote: "I mean, yikes! Does this project not just ooze excitement? Square-jawed heroes facing down creatures of the night in all the bare-knuckled, bloody, Nazi-tastic brutality that any comic loving boy and girl in kid shorts could possibly crave for?"

We love it, thanks to Mephisto's Castle for the kind words!

Ace Kilroy on The Onion A.V. Club!

The Onion A.V. Club's Noel Murray was kind enough to mention Ace Kilroy in his 12/5/2011 Comics Panel column, saying this about the strip:

"And for those looking for an online comic more indebted to Roy Krane[sic] than Chris Ware, Rob Kelly and Dan O’Connor have just launched Ace Kilroy, a daily adventure strip that combines two-fisted action with shadings of horror, noir, romance, and whatever else its creators find cool about classic comics. Kudos to people like Kelly and O’Connor for keeping our pop-culture heritage alive."


We here at Kilroy Central could not be more flattered by Noel's kind words, and we hope that this means many more people will start checking out Ace's adventures!

Ace on Geekadelphia!

Many thanks to David Goodman for his awesome write-up of Ace Kilroy on the site Geekadelphia!

Praise for Ace Kilroy

"Rob Kelly has an extensive background studying both comics and film, giving his sequential storytelling flow and cinematic flair. Dan O'Connor has an artistic style that perfectly matches the era and feeling needed for the strip. Together, they make the noir adventure breathe and jump off the page. Their Ace Kilroy really is a 1940s adventure movie and/or comic (take your pick, it's both) come to life. Less than two weeks in, I am hooked."
--Glenn Walker, All Things Fun

Early Praise for Ace Kilroy

"If Indiana Jones stumbled into an old Universal monster flick by way of the first season of TV’s WONDER WOMAN (you know, the awesome one), the result would be something like ACE KILROY. I love this strip! It harkens back to a time of decoder rings and Saturday morning serials without getting bogged down in nostalgia. The storytelling is brisk and clean, the jokes work, and Rob and Dan have a clever knack for revisionist history. Very good stuff."
--April Snellings, "Rue Morgue"

Early Praise for Ace Kilroy

"ACE KILROY is smart, evocative fun that hits the right spot! Full of fast-paced action and wistful nostalgia, this online daily serial -- courtesy of Rob Kelly and Dan O'Connor -- is intelligent, fresh comic-making in its own right. Think Alex Raymond's SECRET AGENT X-9 meets Dashiell Hammett's SAM SPADE meets Lucas/Spielberg's INDIANA JONES. Toss in Bram Stoker's bloodsucking vampire DRACULA and a dash of Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD for good measure, and you'll have an idea of what ACE KILROY has to offer. C'mon. With a mix like THAT, how could they possibly go wrong?

(Oh, and did we mention Nazis feature in it, too?)."
--The Terror Trap

Early Praise for Ace Kilroy

"Rob Kelly and Dan O'Connor's ACE KILROY reads like the aftermath of a tornado in a comics shop, an insane shuffling of STEVE CANYON and THE TOMB OF DRACULA. Nazis, spies, femme fatales, traitors, tentacles, adventure, horror! Chronicling the adventures of the eponymous US op (who looks intriguingly like Warren William, in the role he never got to play), the daily black-and-white online just-like-in-the-olden-days strip will be capped each week with a color Sunday supplement. You don't need a decoder ring to know that this is going to be GOOD."
--Richard Harland Smith, Movie Morlocks.com

Early Praise for Ace Kilroy

"What a great idea! A daily online comic strip (with a Sunday color installment!), 'Ace Kilroy' is about a hard-boiled special agent who battles the supernatural in a noir landscape of the 30s and 40s. Think of the daily adventure strips that we used to cut out of the newspapers and paste into scrapbooks when we were kids… now put in your favorite monsters!

It’s not just the novelty of the daily strip that makes 'Ace Kilroy' special; Dan O’Connor’s artwork is fluid and pleasing, always setting the right tone while Rob Kelly’s story moves briskly in unexpected ways. The two obviously share a great deal of knowledge and love for the genres in which they’re working!

If this one were being printed in the papers back when I was a kid, I would definitely have a scrapbook filled with yellowed clippings of Ace Kilroy’s exploits. This could be the ultimate adventure serial for the Monster Lover."
--Mike Howlett, author of "The Weird World of Eerie Publications"

News Reports

"I really like Ace Kilroy. It truly takes me back to some of the Sunday comics I used to read when I went to my grandparents' house. The illustration style, the presentation, the retro charm - I liked the hell out of it."
--Erika Peterman, Girls Gone Geek



"Just when I thought there wasn't any comics for me to read, 'Ace Kilroy' shows up! Rob Kelly and Dan O'Connor have created something that we all want most from our comics; fun!

By going back to the golden age of comic and movie serial adventure, they are not creating a pastiche, but a new hero, with classic sensibilities interpreted for an age sorely in need of him. If you like Indiana Jones and high adventure, crisp illustration and inspired storytelling, 'Ace Kilroy' is a must. Kilroy is here!!!!"
--Jay Piscopo, "The Undersea Adventures of Capt'N Eli"



"'Ace Kilroy' is a good old fashioned adventure strip- that may not seem like much of a compliment in this day and age, but for old fogies like me it's a breath of fresh air--Dan and Rob have done a lovely job of evoking the kind of comic strip I used to read in the newspapers as a kid--you know,back when kids read the newspapers...you know...'newspapers'?

Anyway, I was quite enjoying the style of the story when it added a classic horror twist that made me even more excited to see what happens next (if you're at all familiar with the books I've been doing in the last seven years than you'll understand why).

All in all, Rob and Dan are doing a wonderful job with Ace and the fun they seem to be having with it is infectious. I hope they get to share even more adventures with us."

--Neil D. Vokes

"I've been aching for an adventure daily like 'Ace Kilroy' since Indiana Jones found the grail. And what a score, landing Clark Gable in the lead role!"

--Chris Wisnia, "Doris Danger"