Next Games and IDW launch new Compass Point: West comic
Finland—home of saunas, heavy metal, fish pies...and mobile games. Next Games is one of Finland's newest game studios and they've recently launched Compass Point: West, a 3D game set in the Wild West which ties together mobile game play, card collecting, and now a comic book from IDW. Yee haw!
IDW Announces a Miracleman Artifact Edition: Buy Responsibly
Miracleman, a character with one of the most fascinating back stories in comics chronicled in our own Poisoned Chalice pieces is getting an Artifact Edition from IDW. The collection was announced this morning from...
Orphan Black #1 Review: Preserve Your Deoxyribonucleic Acid!
Writers: Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, and Jody Houser
Artist: Szymon Kudranski
Colors: Mat Lopes
Letters: Neil Uyetake
Orphan Black #1 is one of the strangest comics to hit store shelves in years. Each issue of this series focuses...
Curb Stompage, Tiger Law and More with Ryan Ferrier [Interview]
By Matt O'Keefe
Ryan Ferrier jumpstarted his comic book writing career with the self-published Tiger Lawyer in 2010. In it he playfully poked at the wide breadth of interpretations of licensed characters, both story-wise and artistically, by splitting...
IDW moves to historic location, opens comic art gallery
DC isn't the only comics company moving office—IDW just announced a move to a former Navy barracks within the historic NTC in Liberty Station in Point Loma. And they're adding the San Diego Comic...
Templesmith Does Lovecraft
by Pamela Auditore
Anyone familiar with Spike TV Scream Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling Artist/Writer Ben Templesmith's work knows he is profoundly influenced by HP Lovecraft. Even a cursorary glance at his art...
Scribd aims to become to become THE streaming app for comics with Marvel, IDW,...
WHO will be the Netflix/Spotify of comics? Several companies have been trying to offer all you can eat comcis buffets, but a lack of top content has been holding them back. But Scribd just made a major play announcing a $8.99 a month plan that allows you access to 10,000 comics, including top titles from Marvel, IDW/Top Shelf, Archie, Dynamite and Valiant. Scribd has been around for a while as en embeddable pdf reader, and already offers over a million ebooks and audiobooks on a subscription basis, so this makes a lot of sense.
IDW and Hasbro renew pact
When I first got this email, I read it as "Ended their relationship, and I was like WHA--???!?!? But no no, the correct title is "IDW And Hasbro Celebrate 10 Years By Extending Their Relationship " which makes a ton of sense. Books like Transformers, GI Joe and My Little Pony have become mainstays for IDW and often damn good comics, like the epic TRANSFORMERS VS GI JOE that Tom Scioli and John Barber turned into a critical hit.
IDW starts publishing Disney Comics
IDW sort of hinted at this back at NYCC, when they announced an Artists Editions of the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa. At the retailer meeting, Dirk Wood said, in that special way of his, something along the lines of "There will be more coming from IDW and Disney." which at the time was a pretty clear indication there would be...more.
And so there is, and they mentioned it again in the fall but no one noticed. And now they just slyly let it out in the April Solicitations.
Simon Pegg to co-write Star Trek 3
It has only been over a month since Roberto Orci walked away from the director's chair on the upcoming Star Trek threequel, with Fast & Furious series director Justin Lin taking over the job...
Marvel and Image on the Newsstand: More Details Emerging About Diamond and Books A...
When last we discussed what was going on with Diamond and Books A Million (BAM), it wasn’t entirely clear what was going on, other than there were comics on sale and they were coming...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Charlie Hebdo and Satire
Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week's podcast, the...