Last week IDW launched a “Creator Showcase” Humble Bundle including 30 Days of Night, The Maxx, Wynonna Earp, Infinite Loop,Locke and Key, Darwyn Cooke’s Parker books, A Comics Book History of Comics and many more. IN other words, the good stuff. Humble Bundle, you’ll recall, offers a pay what you want digital download system, with higher […]
IDW Reinvents Missile Command and Asteroids as Board Games
You remember how IDW’s been diversifying their business over the last few years? It’s not just branching out into TV. One of their units is IDW Games and they’re announcing a partnership with Atari for tabletop games ahead of next week’s Game Manufacturer’s Association trade show in Vegas. Yes, that right. Board game versions of […]
Interview – Shelly Bond Returns with Black Crown imprint from IDW: “This is the best time for comics”
As announced this afternoon at ECCC, editor Shelly Bond is back big time with Black Crown, her own creator-owned line from IDW.
ONE OR DONE REVIEWS: The Old Guard is out and 2017 can just end now.
With last week being light on debuts and convention obligations to prepare for, ONE OR DONE took a bye week. What a comeback though! Greg Rucka debuts THE early contender for book of the year, alongside The Visitor from Dark Horse, IDW drops another Angry Birds, and more. As always check out our thoughts on […]
IDW: Publishing sales down 2.3%, but revenue is up in 2016
IDW is the only publicly held comics publishing company whose financials can be directly read. (DC and Marvel are buried deep in their corporate owners’ filings.) And while it can’t stand in as a symbol of every comics publisher, its wide diversification into merchandise and production do give a good overview of how well that’s […]
Help Wanted: IDW is hiring an editor
ONE OR DONE: Slayer, Deloreans, and the ladies of Ladycastle!
Hello all you Hogwarts loving Hogwarts. This is another edition of ONE OR DONE where we look at maybe not all, but a lot, of debuting comics this week. We’ve got Deloreans, demons, women in castles, and more this Royal Rumble week. As always if you want the word on DC/Marvel #1’s check out the […]
Review: You’ll want to visit ‘The Obscure Cities’
The second English language volume in French/Belgian team Benoit Peeters and François Schuiten‘s The Obscure Cities series, this was recently revived through a Kickstarter campaign by Alaxis Press, but IDW has partnered with them to complete the entire series, only a few titles of which have ever been translated. The Theory Of The Grain Of Sand works as […]
March Trilogy is the best selling book in America following disparaging Trump tweets about Rep. John Lewis
It’s Martin Luther King Day, and the March Trilogy by Rep John Lewis, the last surviving leader of the civil rights movement of the 60s, is the #1 best selling book on Amazon. Isn’t that nice and fitting? Oh what’s that you say? It’s because president elect Donald Trump called Lewis “all talk, talk, talk” […]
Month-to-Month Sales November 2016: IDW hits with Batman/TMNT
by Duke Harrington [originally posted at Shangalla.com] I’m a big fan of the monthly sales chart found over on The Beat. But while I seem to remember them covering smaller companies at one time, for a long time now they’ve only tracked to top three American comic book companies: Marvel, DC, and Image. Those three […]
