Alan Payne leaves IDW
As of Friday, Alan Payne, the key man in IDW's bookstore operations, is leaving the company:
After nine years with the Publisher, IDW VP of Sales Alan Paynewill step down, effective immediately. Alan spearheaded IDW’s...
Interview: Troy Little on Recreating “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” for the Panel
Troy Little is an Eisner-nominated artist who took on the monumental task of adapting the American counterculture classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written by world renowned Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, into...
When DC and Marvel cost less than indie comics
There’s been quite a bit of comment on the price of new comics and it seems to me that newer readers may not quite understand why readers over the age of, say, 35 are...
Kangaroo Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 8/26/15
After restoring our collective brain patterns from last week’s insane Podcorn visitation, the men and women hand selected by the government to write the world’s premiere comic book news website, The Beat, sought a...
New Jem and the Holograms Music Video Trailer is More Pop than Glam…
Today, Universal released a new trailer for the film adaptation of Jem and the Holograms showcasing the song "Youngblood," which debuted in the movie's initial trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXdE3yy7Fdk
I was but an egg when Jem and the Holograms first aired in...
MATT CHATS: Paul Allor on Making TET, An IDW Comic about Love and War
I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Paul Allor, mostly through Comics Experience, a workshop for people who want to create comics. He’s had a meteoric rise in the last few years, and...
IDW’s parent company stock splits 10-for-1 and gets new ticker name
As we've mentioned here a few times, the majority owner of IDW is actually a holding company, formerly known as CTM MEDia Holdings, but now renamed IDW Media Holdings, Inc. because IDW is such...
Truly Outrageous art: Stephanie Hans does Jem and the Holograms
Via Tumblr, the amazing painter Stephanie Hans has gone totally pink for this
variant cover for IDW's Jem comic. Written by Kelly Thompson, with art by Sophie Campbell, this comic is a nice throwback to...
USA Networks making a pilot from Brooklyn Animal Control
Comics on TV! An emerging trend. While The WB and the Walking Dead-iverse seem to have been having the most success on broadcast TV, IDW is getting into the game with Brooklyn Animal Control,...
SDCC ’15: ROM the Space Knight is Coming Back in a New IDW Series
Tonight, IDW announced that they had picked up the rights to perennial 80s characters Micronauts and ROM. Two new series featuring these characters are slated for 2016.
No creators or other news on the series...
SDCC ’15: DC and IDW Team Up to Present Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja...
Whaaaaa????
In an unprecedented cross-company event, DC and IDW announced today that they would make millions of fans' dreams come true by teaming the Dark Knight up with the Heroes in a Half Shell. Batman/Teenage...
SDCC ’15: IDW Publishing & Top Shelf’s Comic-Con International 2015 Schedule
From the PR...
IDW Publishing (Booth #2743) and Top Shelf Productions (Booth #1721) will host an amazing list of talent this year at both their booths. Come by and meet some of the biggest and...
