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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Thirteen Years and Stronger Than Ever!
IDW Publishing rings in its teen years with a string of successes
San Diego, CA
(May 16, 2012) – Buoyed by extraordinary fan response,
explosive material, and a dedicated retail market, IDW is spending
a lot of year thirteen making repeated trips to the printer!
Going back to press on multiple books, including Popeye
#1, Road Rage #1 and #2, TRANSFORMERS: Robots in
Disguise #1, TRANSFORMERS: More Than Meets the Eye
#1, and multiple printings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
#1-5, to name a few, has given IDW a lot of work to do and a lot to
think about. That’s to say nothing of the fact that this week
brought sell-outs of Frankenstein Alive, Alive! #1 and
TRIO #1!
“In all my years in the Direct Market, I’m not sure
I’ve ever seen things blow up quite like this,” said
Publisher and CEO Ted Adams. “We’ve
been overprinting aggressively, and still not meeting demand. The
initial orders we’re seeing are huge, and the increases
we’re seeing at Final Order Cut-off are
substantial.”
It should also be clear to fans and retailers alike that this wave
of comics awesomeness has far from crested. Extremely strong sales
of Mars Attacks, KISS, Godzilla, and the
hotly-anticipated Star Trek: The Next Generation and
Doctor Who crossover, among others, are just a handful of
indicators screaming that IDW does not plan to stop putting out
some of the industry’s most popular and prosperous
titles.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Wednesday's New Books!
New books this week include 30 Days of Night, Complete Dick
Tracy Vol 13, Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games, Last Unicorn Deluxe,
and Locke & Key: Clockworks #6!
30 Days of Night: 10 Bloody Years Treasury Edition
Click here for a preview!
Steve Niles (w) • Ben Templesmith (a) • Ashley Wood
(c)
It’s the 10th anniversary of 30 Days of Night’s
groundbreaking first issue! To properly commemorate this momentous
comic, we’re releasing the entire miniseries by Niles and
Templesmith as an oversize Treasury Edition! See the story that
established IDW and the creators as forces to be reckoned with!
FC • Cardstock • $9.99 • 72 pages •
9.25” x 14.25”
Bullet points:
• Special Treasury Edition collects
30 Days of Night #1-3 in one oversize package
• Features Ashley Wood’s original 30 Days of Night #1
cover art
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
CELEBRATE DEADWEEK THIS AUGUST!
Gary Reed’s DEADWORLD returns in a weekly miniseries!
\San
Diego, CA (May 9, 2012) – This August, IDW Publishing is
proud to announce the return of original co-creator Gary
Reed’s classic zombie series Deadworld!
When vicious masses of undead monsters have taken over the planet,
desperate humans cling to hope while warring factions of uniquely
sinister zombies conspire against each other. Deadworld is
a zombie tale unlike any other and a horrific and thrilling world
that is decades in the making and unique unto itself.
“It seems like everything with Deadworld over the years is
culminating towards this storyline, yet at the same time, it is an
opportunity to introduce new readers to the Deadworld saga.
That’s why I’m so excited about this series, as it
accomplishes both” said co-creator Reed.
Deadworld has seen a number of different formats and
volumes over the years, but Reed’s
collaboration with artist Sami Makkonen,
Deadworld: War of the Dead will be hitting comic shop
shelves in a particularly thrilling fashion this August.
War of the Dead will be released weekly in every one of
August’s five weeks!
Five issues of grim and terrifying zombie action in one month? What
could be better?
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Canadian Comic Creators Cross Channel to Kill Shakespeare in Bard’s Country
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 9, 2012
San Diego, CA
- The creators of IDW Publishing’s Kill Shakespeare
comic book series look to court controversy this month by bringing
their take on Shakespeare and his characters to the birth country
of the Bard himself this month on a two-week signing and convention
tour of England.
“Colonists” Conor McCreery and
Anthony Del Col will be appearing at the Bristol
Comic Expo as well as the Kapow! Comic Convention this month, along
with a number of store signings in London, Manchester, Leeds and
Stratford-upon-Avon. Series artist Andy Belanger
will be joining the duo for the Kapow! Convention and a London
signing. The trip to the U.K. is the final leg of their
spring 2012 convention tour, which has seen them make appearances
all over North America as well as at the Middle East Film &
Comic-Con in Dubai last month.
To prepare for the tour IDW Publishing is proud to announce that
they are releasing a fourth printing of KILL SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME 1: A SEA OF TROUBLES. Originally released in
April, 2010, this is the first half of the series that pits the
Bard’s greatest heroes against his most menacing villains in
a quest to track down and kill – or save – a wizard by
the name of William Shakespeare.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
IDW's New Print & Digital Books This Week!
This week's new books include Servant of the Bones, Archie's
Sunday Finest, Frankenstein Alive, Alive #1, Memorial #5, and
more!
Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones
Click here for a preview!
Anne Rice & Mariah McCourt (w) Renae DeLiz & Ray
Dillon (a & c)
Anne Rice, among the most iconic creators in horror, brings one of
her richest stories to the graphic novel medium. And it’s a
tale of murder, demonic revenge, and the redemptive power of faith.
Faithfully adapted to comics by Rice and McCourt, and ornately
illustrated by the New York Times Best-selling team of Renae DeLiz
and Ray Dillon.
HC FC $24.99 152 pages ISBN
978-1-61377-173-0
Bullet points:
• “IDW’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s Servant
of the Bones is a superbly drawn, well crafted story filled with
magic and dark secrets.”
–NostalgicBooksAndComics.com
