Tag: IDW
WonderCon’16: Friday Morning Preview and visit from Mayor Eric Garcetti
By Nicholas Eskey
During the tail end of last year’s Wonder Con, it was announced that the convention which had spent the last three years...
Exclusive Preview: D.J. Kirkbride Unleashes a “cosmic stench of death” in THE BIGGEST BANG
Author D.J. Kirkbride (Amelia Cole) had a chance to explore subversive cosmic humor in the pages of The Bigger Bang from IDW in 2014....
March Book 3 cover and pub date revealed
The third volume of the March Trilogy, Rep. John Lewis's personal story of the Civil Righs movement, will be out this August it was...
IDW hires Joel Elad as Direct Market Sales Manager
Comics are hiring! At least in the sales departments. IDW has announced Joel Elad has been hired as their Direct Market Sales Manager to work drectly with comics shops and manage their retailer variants programs. Elad was formerly at his own NewComix.Com, and Top Cow.
US publisher goes on shopping spree at Angoulême
I promised I would have only ONE MORE post on Angoulême and here it is! Calvin Reid went to this year fest and has...
MATT CHATS: IDW Editor Bobby Curnow on the Balance Between Licenses and Original Concepts
IDW is mainly known for its publication of licensed work, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers and My Little Pony. But the publisher has been transitioning lately...
Comings and goings: Robertson, Atkins, Scott
A number of comics coming and goings of late:
§ Dark Horse has promoted Sarah Robertson to director of sales.
Robertson will be responsible for business...
IDW announces new international licensing program, kicking things off with Archie
About a year ago, IDW made headlines by buying Top Shelf. They haven't topped that yet, but they do have a new business division:...
IDW to publish Artist’s Edition of Jack Kirby’s Thor
Hold on to your shelves. IDW's Artists Edition series has made jaws drop with its stunning series of oversized editions of various comics masterworks, reproduced from the original art. But now for the first time they're collecting the King of Comics, Jack Kirby Marvel work with Jack Kirby’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition. The book will include classic complete stories from Journey Into Mystery #111, #117, #118, along with other stories and a Kirby Gallery.
The Aliens already Won in MARS ATTACKS: OCCUPATION
Sometimes in corporate comics, men in suits strive for creators to produce material that is more in line with other works in order to create...
THE LAST UNICORN Author Peter S. Beagle Sues Business Manager for Elder Abuse
Genre-defining fantasy author Peter S. Beagle, whose seminal novel The Last Unicorn was adapted as a comic book series by IDW in 2004, has charged long-time business manager Connor Cochran with fraud and elder abuse.
Gender and Feminism in the Jem and th Holograms comic
We've been writing quite a bit in the last year about the slow death of comics media, and one of the reasons is that...
