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Continuing this week's Image teaser campaign.

Continuing this week's Image teaser campaign.

Image is rolling out a series of teaser images for...something. And for now we're going to play along. Call it an eye-opening session. This time out we have a Kandinsky-colored she-male. Nice.

By Torsten Adair The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in November 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 350 books scheduled. Instead, I have selected...

So, does The Walking Dead (premiering this Sunday, Halloween, on AMC at 10:00/9 PM C) live up to the hype? One Word Answer:  Ewwwwwwwwww!

Sunday is not only Halloween, it's the debut of the Walking Dead TV show, and it looks like we're going to have tons of Walking Dead-related announcements and content this week. To kick things off, comiXology has announced a standalone WALKING DEAD app. And now Image has announced a series of weekly reprints of the monthly comics starting in January and running ALL YEAR. These Walking dead stories are available in multiple formats, and the original releases have been among the best selling non-Top Two comics for a while now. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. PR below.

Image publisher Eric Stephenson doesn't get quoted too much, but maybe he should. Rich Johnston has a very in-depth interview with Stephenson up and its about time. Image is consistently the #3 or 4 comics publishers and in recent months Image has absolutely stolen the mantle of "buzz book" publisher, starting with Chew, but continuing on with Turf, Skullkickers, Morning Glorys and so on. And of course, with the Walking Dead TV show debuting in a few days, they are set to sell even MORE copies of a book that already has 3 million copies in print. As Stephenson mentions, he doesn't often go around tooting his horn, so the inetrview touches on a lot of point seldom publicly spoken of. Kudos to Johnston and Stephenson for putting something substantive up on the internet for a change. Anyone interested in the state of comics publishing and creators rights should read the whole thing, but a few selected tidbits:

No, that’s not a reference to what I felt like the Sunday after fighting my way across last weekend's uber-crowded, nerd sweat fueled NYCC convention floor.  Of course, you know that already.  You know what I’m talking...

As you might expect, Image has a huge presence at this year's show with Todd McFarlane, Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen and Jim Valentino -- just to name partners at the show.

As usual, Top Cow has some cool variant editions, including one of their best-selling ARTIFACTS mini series.

Retailer Atom! Freeman, recently hired as Direct Market Liaison at Top Cow, has already been promoted to Director of Sales and Marketing. Congrats to Freeman!