Media Releases
Friday, Nov 20th, 2009
Desperado Joins IDW Publishing
Award-winning publishing house becomes new IDWimprint
IDW Publishing and Desperado today announced a publishing agreement,which will bring Desperado's impressive roster of talented creatorsand expansive catalog of books to IDW under a new imprint.
Founded in January 2005 by Eisner Award-winning comics veteranJoe Pruett, Desperado quickly established itselfas a high-end publisher of art books, graphic novels, and comics.Desperado titles have been nominated for five Eisner Awards and wontwo since 2007, and repeatedly feature the comic industry's topcreative talent.
Read MoreThursday, Nov 19th, 2009
The TRANSFORMERS #1 Sells Out
Second printing of new ongoing TRANSFORMERS comic availableDecember 2nd
Check your local store for first printingcopies
The new TRANSFORMERS comics era has begun! After just one day instores, The TRANSFORMERS #1 is alreadysold out through Diamond, and IDW Publishing will rush itsinaugural ongoing comic to a second printing. Under license fromHasbro, Inc., the second printing of TheTRANSFORMERS #1 will be available in comic stores onDecember2nd, featuring a new cover by series artistDon Figueroa.
Read MoreWednesday, Nov 18th, 2009
OPTIMUS PRIME Resigns In New Comic Series
First ongoing comic series in five years begins new era forTRANSFORMERS
TheTRANSFORMERS enter a new and incredible era as IDW launches itsinaugural ongoing comic series, expanding the company's alreadyimpressive collection of TRANSFORMERS comics. Underlicense from Hasbro, The TRANSFORMERSstarts off with two huge events - the death of IRONHIDE andsubsequent resignation of OPTIMUS PRIME, the heroic leader of theAUTOBOTS.
"It's simple and awesome at the same time. If you've never reada TRANSFORMERS comic, now's the time," said IDW's TRANSFORMERSeditor, Andy Schmidt. "TheTRANSFORMERS takes your favorite characters and caststhem in new and different ways that every fan can follow and willenjoy."
Read MoreTuesday, Nov 17th, 2009
IDW Launches iPhone and iPod Touch Storefronts
First comicspublisher to offer in-app purchase on the App Store
IDW Publishing today announced the launch of its new digitalstorefronts, available exclusively through the Apple App Store.This free application hosts every IDW comic currently available onthe iPhone and iPod Touch, all in one convenient app. IDWComics offers viewers a great way to enjoy theircomics, with new full page and panel-by-panel options, plusfamiliar display and download functions. The IDWComics app features ten free comics, currently boastsover 200 comics, and will be updated regularly with newreleases.
In addition to the overall IDW Comicsstorefront, fans can also download specialized storefrontscollecting their favorite IDW TRANSFORMERS, Star Trek, and G.I. JOEcomics. Each free specialty storefront offers the same features asthe IDW Comics store, plus more free comics.
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Monday, Nov 16th, 2009
The Last Unicorn Transforms into Comics
Comic adaptation of Peter S. Beagle'sacclaimed novel coming in spring, 2010 
Enchanting, dark, and whimsically magical, Peter S.Beagle's The Last Unicorn has delighted fans formore than forty years. Now this enduring tale will be lushlytransformed into a six-issue comic mini-series by IDW Publishing,launching in April 2010. Adapted from Beagle'soriginal novel by writer Peter B. Gillis, andlovingly illustrated by Renae De Liz with colorsby her husband Ray Dillon, IDWPublishing's The Last Unicorn capturesthe depth and richness of this classic story.
Both darkly humorous and deeply moving, The LastUnicorn follows the journey of what may be the verylast unicorn as she searches for what happened to the rest of herkind. Along the way she encounters a magical cast of good and evilcharacters, in a world transformed by the lack of unicorns - and bythe callous, selfish disillusionment of the king who has stolenthem away.
Read MoreTuesday, Nov 10th, 2009
TRANSFORMERS in Space
New comics miniseries launches in January 
Rounds out trifecta of new TRANSFORMERS comics
The TRANSFORMERS action just keeps coming, as IDW introduces athird new series in January - TRANSFORMERS: Last Standof the WRECKERS. Under license from Hasbro, Inc., IDWexplores yet another action-packed storyline, following theAUTOBOTS special operations crew on a mission to space to confronta new foe.
Fan-favorite writer and artist Nick Roche helmsthis five-issue series, which spins out of IDW's new ongoingTRANSFORMERS series. This storyline gives fans a taste of what's been happening off of Earth asthe WRECKERS investigate a prison planet that fell to the evilDECEPTICONS three years ago.
Read MoreMonday, Nov 9th, 2009
G.I. JOE: Cobra II Coming in January
Followsacclaimed G.I. JOE: Cobra I series
Starting in January, G.I. JOE: CobraII continues the momentum of danger and intrigue inthe aftermath of the wildly successful G.I. JOE:Cobra series. Under license by HASBRO,G.I. JOE: Cobra II #1 is the first of anew four-part story that reveals the fate awaiting Chuckles, thenew fan-favorite JOE sent to infiltrate COBRA.
"G.I. JOE: Cobra was our riskiest launch-straying furthest fromthe kinds of stories people are used to reading in G.I. JOE comics.The creators made bold choices and every one of them paid off,"said IDW editor, Andy Schmidt. "These are such great charactersthat we always wanted to do more with them and once again Mike,Chris, and Antonio have delivered. The first series was great, butthis one will blow you away."
Read MoreWednesday, Nov 4th, 2009
IDW Announces Ghostbusters Holiday Special
Special one-shot pits fan-favorite charactersagainst the ghosts of Christmas 
Leave it to the Ghostbusters to take a classic holiday story andturn it on its head. In Ghostbusters Holiday Special:Past, Present, and Future, everyone's favorite spirithunters are hired by the grumpiest man in New York City to capturethree ghosts that haunt him every Christmas Eve. Written byRob Williams, with art by DiegoJourdan, Ghostbusters Holiday Special: Past,Present, and Future will top every fan's holidaymust-have list.
Read MoreMonday, Nov 2nd, 2009
Bat Boy and the Weekly World News come to Comics in January
First-ever comic series for fan-favoritetabloid characters 
For years, Bat Boy and the other bizarre denizens of theWeekly World News universe have delighted millions in thelong-running tabloid newspaper. Now, those same colorful charactersare headed to full-color comic books for the first time with IDWPublishing's Weekly World News, a newfour-issue miniseries starting in January.
Written by IDW's Publisher/Editor-in-Chief and WWN fanaticChris Ryall, with art by AlanRobinson, Weekly World Newsrevives the tabloid's best and sees them band together to take on,among other things, the world-destroying threat of Chaos Cloud.Each issue will also feature original articles from the originalWeekly World News, and a variant cover that pays insane"tribute" to a classic image.
Read MoreFriday, Oct 30th, 2009
IDW Announces New Polly and her Pals Series
Oversized, "Champagne Edition" hardcoveredition coming in August, 2010 
Coming this August, IDW Publishing and its imprint, the Libraryof American Comics, will launch a new oversized hardcover serieswith what historians and critics consider one of the essentialmasterpieces of comics strip art, Cliff Sterrett'sPolly and Her Pals. Polly and Her Pals:Complete Sunday Comics, 1925-1927, a 176 page hardcover "Champagne edition" reproduces present every one ofSterrett's dynamic full-color Sunday pages from1925 to 1927, in an extra large 12" x 16" format so that each canbe fully appreciated.
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