If you had asked me a week ago what I thought of the idea of a comic about the ghost of Sid Vicious palling around with a modern-day kid, I’m not sure what my answer would have been. It might have been an eye-roll. The idea in itself seems rich for lame punk nostalgia and […]
SDCC ’18: Your Mother Warned You About Travel Bloggers – Lodger Arrives From Black Crown in October
David and Maria Lapham’s story about a serial killer and the young woman hunting him
WonderCon ’18: Black Crown’s Shelly Bond Talks Assassinistas and the Year Ahead
Shelly Bond talks the first year of Black Crown and what’s up for the year ahead.
IDW’s Black Crown Adds Two New Titles
Black Crown has been thinking about the next wave of titles and has announced two of them: Euthanauts by Tini Howard and Nick Robles; and House Amok by Christopher Sebela and Shaun McManus Official PR follows: The Ruling Class of creator-driven titles continues its reign this summer as Shelly Bond’s band of miscreants continues to grow in numbers and […]
Watch: Shelly Bond and Gerard Way talk about Tini Howard, Gilbert Hernandez and Assassinistas
That is a headline I never thought I would type. But it’s true. IDW has released a series of videsos of Black Crown editor Shelly Bond and comic creator/kibitzer Gerard Way rapping about Assassinistas, which hits stands today. Written by Howard with art by Hernandez, it’s about some kick ass female assassins who […]
Could Young Animal’s Gerard Way soon jam with Shelly Bond’s Black Crown?
A number of years ago, Shelly Bond, then executive editor at Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC Comics, and former My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way were working on a grand project. Way, who was pitching Doom Patrol at the time, soon began working on a whole line of books in close collaboration with Bond. […]
SDCC ’17: Shelly Bond’s Fall Launch of “Black Crown” Has Three Titles Dated
The last remaining remember of DC’s Vertigo imprint before cutting ties in the early part of last year, Shelly Bond has since moved on to a much more personal project. In October of this year, Bond will be launching Black Crown, an imprint with IDW. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Bond along with writer […]
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 […]
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, […]