Though it’s tempting to pronounce the atmosphere in James Albon’s Her Bark And Her Bite as retro or even nostalgic, timeless might be the better word. It pulls from a fantasy version of an older era, but manages to do so in a way that is neither entrenched in the era it evokes or lodged […]
WonderCon ’17: IDW and Shelly Bond Gleefully Talk About Black Crown Imprint and New Books
It seems that at every major comic convention, IDW is afresh with announcements of new comic releases, media growth, and more. This year is no different, as the publisher and media company is eager to share all manner of information regarding a number of upcoming titles, as well as their mysterious collaborative imprint with Shelly […]
First Black Crown title announced: Kid Lobotomy by Milligan and Fowler
The first title from Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint has been announced at WonderCon this afternoon and it’s by veteran Peter Milligan and artist Tess Fowler. So you can see this pub is going to have some star studded customers standing at the bar. Deets to come. It here’s the PR: Earlier this month, Shelly […]
WonderCon ’17: News of Comic-Con Expansion Looking Unsure and Sales Floor Preview
Returning to Anaheim this is year is the “fan-loved” WonderCon. For those who attended WonderCon last year, the highly-adored comic convention brought to us by none other than Comic-Con International was temporarily held in Los Angeles last year due to scheduling conflicts with the Anaheim Convention Center. To my joy, it has returned to Anaheim […]
Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint not accepting submissions right now
As explained by editor Shelly Bond on Twitter, her new Black Crown imprint, coming from IDW later this year, is not taking submissions. pic.twitter.com/XCUX6lUMsp — Shelly Bond (@sxbond) March 29, 2017 To be fair, it’s not exactly clear that they ever were, but once the scent of “editor with new imprint” chum gets in the waters, […]
Why Hiring Ex-Vertigo Editors Makes So Much Sense
Unless you were on a particularly good vacation, you probably heard the news a few weeks back that Vertigo editors were in high demand. Karen Berger, who founded and ran the Vertigo imprint, was hired by Dark Horse and will be having her own imprint. Then Shelly Bond, who took over after Berger’s departure, was […]
Michael Martens joins IDW as Director of Trade Sales
Some big changes at IDW’s book trade department as Michael Martens has been hired as Director of Trade Sales, effective immediately. The move comes just as IDW is moving to distribution via Penguin Random House in April, and Martens’ experience with this from his time at Dark Horse will certainly come in handy. It also follows former IDW […]
DC Imprints Vs. Indies Sales Band Report For February 2017
Periodically (pun intended), it’s useful to take a look at where the sales of a publisher’s titles are clustered. It helps widen the picture of how things are going. The idea is to break the sales chart into 10K slices. While it’s not particularly insightful to compare DC and Marvel to most of the independent […]
Comics Sales Band Report For February 2017: IDW, Dynamite, Boom, Dark Horse and Archie
Periodically (pun intended), it’s useful to take a look at where the sales of a publisher’s titles are clustered. It helps widen the picture of how things are going. Things get a little different when you get into the independent comics world. The sales tend to be clustered in a subset of shops, with high […]
IDW launches Diablo House, an exclusive creator-owned comic through Humble Bundle
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 […]
