SD10: Sunday in a nutshell
DC Peter David will be writing episodes of the upcoming cartoon Young Justice, which is based on the comic of the same name that he wrote for an almost five year run.
Continue ReadingSD10: Indie Comics Saturday
Dark Horse Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.
Continue ReadingIDW announces more Alex Raymond
IDW’s Library of American Comics expands with more Alex Raymond as Jungle Jim and Flash Gordon, two stylish, definitive strips will be reprinted in a deluxe volume in 2011. PR below: IDW Publishing, a premier publisher of graphic novels and books, today announced the Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection: The Definitive Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, offering [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: IDW #2643
You can see all of IDW's convention exclusives, panels and signings here but the short version is Michael Chiklis (Pantheon), Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County), Joe R. Lansdale, Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Scott Morse, Steve Niles, and the creative teams for True Blood, STAR TREK, TRANSFORMERS, and G.I. JOE at the booth and lots o' news on panels.
Continue ReadingWood joins IDW; White promoted
Dirk White, formerly of Dark Horse, has joined IDW as Director, Retail Marketing, a new position. AnnaMaria White has been promoted to Director, Marketing and Public Relations. Together the moves suggest that IDW is serious about increasing their market share through renewed retail efforts.
Continue ReadingDino: The Early years
Alarming but true: IDW and Desperado are teaming to publish this account of Dean Haspiel’s early comics and life story. The tale will be penned by Graphic NYC’s Chris Irving and includes these thrilling chapters: * Buttons: Threat or Menace? * This Man, This Shirt * This Man, No Shirt * Naked Lambada the Kirby WayThe book comes out [...]
Continue ReadingIDW becomes Diamond premier publisher
And then there were…five. Diamond has just announced that IDW will join Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse as a “premier publisher,” the first company to rise to that rank since the whole system was set up in 1996. Diamond will continue to act as IDW’s exclusive distributor to comics shops, and also to the [...]
Continue ReadingIDW’s Ted Adams talking comics and digital at ICv2
Innovative IDW head Ted Adams is interviewed at ICv2:Part 1 -Part 2, Part 3 On the comic book front, we’ve got in development literary projects with beloved, best-selling writers like James Patterson, Peter S. Beagle, Robert Bloch, and Mario Acevedo, as well as a second Richard Stark project by Darwyn Cooke. We’re working on a [...]
Continue ReadingPut your face on WIRE HANGERS
The music-comics connection continues with WIRE HANGERS, a miniseries written by Alan Robert, bass player for Life of Agony and front man for Spoiler NYC. In true auteur fashion, Robert writes and illustrates the four-issue miniseries, due from IDW in April. (Covers are by Nelson DeCastro.) To get things going, the creators have announced a [...]
Continue ReadingJames Patterson to write for IDW
Mega bestselling author James Patterson will be writing comics for IDW, USA Today reports. Patterson, creator of the Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club series of novels, is entering a partnership to create comic books and graphic novels with IDW Publishing. The first titles will appear in May. The stories will include brand-new material, adaptations of [...]
Continue ReadingCooke tackles PARKER
Our con kicked off with a press conference for Darwyn Cooke where he announced a series of four graphic novels adapting the first four PARKER novels by Richard Stark, aka Donald Westlake. Publisher IDW gave out a series of sweet duo-tone promo cards by Cooke that look as hard-boiled and crime-tastic as you would like. [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: IDW — #1705
IDW has panels, announcements, cool free things and appearances by Joe Hill, Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith, and Darwyn Cooke. All the info is in the jump.
Continue ReadingSchmidt Joins IDW
Former Marvel editor Andy Schmidt has joined the ranks at IDW. PR: IDW Publishing is pleased to announce the addition of the newest member to the IDW team. Andy Schmidt has come onboard as the new Senior Editor. Andy will serve as a leader helming several licensed properties but also developing new projects. Andy started his comics [...]
Continue ReadingScott Dunbier back as IDW Special Projects Editor
Former Wildstorm Executive Editor Scott Dunbier has reemerged at IDW as Special Projects Editor. CBR has the first interview: Let’s compare what you’ll be doing at IDW to your previous job with WildStorm. How different will your job really be? It will actually be very different. I’ll be able to focus more on the nuts and bolts [...]
Continue ReadingSnaked goes to Hollywood
SNAKED, a mini series by Clifford Meth and Rufus Dayglo, published by IDW, is the latest comic to get an option, with producer Richard Saperstein (1408, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, The Mist, John Q, The Punisher, Frequency, and Se7en) developing the property. Ted Adams and Meth will exec produce, and Meth will pen the screenplay. Based on [...]
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