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From IDW Publishing, comes Imaginary Drugs, an anthology of sci-fi short stories compiled and edited by Michael McDermott I had the pleasure of meeting Michael McDermott in person and luckily grabbed a signed copy of the graphic novel, in which he wrote eight of the thirty-six stories There are a multitude of writers and artists[...]

From IDW Publishing, Legends of Baldur's Gate #4 written by Jim Zub with art by Max Dunbar, has been my only Dungeons and Dragons fix lately (If you can even call it that.) I fell behind an issue, but was kind of happy I was able to read issue #3 and #4 back to back[...]

This Week's Reviews: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2 Burning Fields #1 Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues #1 Lazarus #14 Powers #1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2 (IDW Publishing) By Bart Bishop It's weird realizing you can let go of your childhood fandom It's not that I don't still enjoy superheroes and science fiction, fantasy and the just plain weird, but these[...]

That's what being bought out by a Diamond Premier Publisher does for you. IDW's acquisition of Top Shelf Comix means that they will be printing their Free Comic Book Day titles together,and will lower the cost price for retailers for each issue given away in comic book stores. Which means Top Shelf's Motorcycle Samurai book will be dropping[...]

Here is the YouTube trailer from 2012… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfAIV4cLLow[/youtube] Drones was a five issue series, with three issues self published from Epicgamics and a successful 2013 Kickstarter appeal saw the whole comic collected. But from April 2015, IDW will be serialising it again in five issues. Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING (W) Chris Lewis (A) Bruno Oliveira (CA) Ramon Villalobos Two former predator drone operators face[...]

In April, IDW are publishing a five issue mini-series, My Little Pony: Fiendship Is Magic, featuring the bad guys and gals of the My Little Ponyverse… and how they came to be such ne'er-do-wells… And a series of Amy Mebberson covers based on famous fine art based on or associated with the Borgia family[...]

When IDW became a Premier Publisher, it was a big move And now just to the front of Previews, it gave IDW a better deal distributing their comics through Diamond Comic Distributors and changed the relatinship ot only between IDW and Diamond but between IDW and the rest of the comics industry The first addition[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! Before I tackle this week's New Comics Now, I make a personal and business related

From Boom… to Marvel… to IDW… launching Uncle Scrooge #1 in April is kicking off a bunch of new and old Disney comics at IDW, including new Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse titles. Here's a look at that Uncle Scrooge #1 solicitation… Uncle Scrooge #1—GEM OF THE MONTH Jonathan Gray, Rodolfo Cimino (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) •[...]

This is your first look at the upcoming new League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, Nemo: River Of Ghosts, published by Knockabout and Top Shelf/IDW. With princess Jenny, daughter of Captain Nemo, and set in 1975, concluding the Nemo trilogy, and published on 2nd March. Hmm Looking at that opening splash-page… have[...]

Zombies vs Robots, the strange brain-child of Chris Ryall (Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief/Writer at IDW) and Ashley Wood, is back today from IDW with the all-new double storyline "Inherit the Earth" and "Orphan", set to be the first ongoing series for the title Zombies vs Robots, or ZvR as it's widely known, has been around long[...]

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran an article (and a follow-up) detailing charges made by an anonymous website FansAgainstFraud.com against Connor

Top Cow, Desperado, and a large number of indie creators have already announced that they're working with Farrago to host digital comics, and IDW has now joined up as well. Farrago Comics is a free app that specializes in modern and Golden Age comics, with an ethos of allowing an environment for readers to "try out"[...]

The digital comic Headspace, originally published by Monkeybrain Inc, is now going to print thanks to IDW Publishing The story of a small town and its Sheriff that discovers that they exist in someone's mind is from the creative team of Ryan K Lindsay (CMKY) and Eric Zawadski (Last Born). "Headspace is a personal tale Eric[...]

Calling all Empire fans! The out-of-print Empire storyline will be released in a new trade paperback edition this coming April from IDW Publishing Created by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson, the story focuses on Golgoth, a villain whose plans for world domination were a success, and now he must deal with being the target of[...]

IDW Publishing has started a fun art contest that will center around Zombies vs Robots (ZvR), which IDW has put out since 2006, from writer Chris Ryall (The Great and Secret Show) and artist Ashley Wood (Popbot). The creative team has been producing the comic for years, and now they want to see fans' versions[...]

This is how Barry Kitson's covers for Empire: Uprising #1, previously published on Thrillbent are put together, from rough sketches to logos… and coming out from IDW in print in April. (Though you can read the first chapter right here for free) This is how you build an Empire… This is how Barry[...]

The IDW Artist's Editions are legendary now, especially amongst shelving experts Recreations of original artboards as close as possible, including the size, in May IDW will add Jack Kirby's DC Comics series Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth to its line. Long after the age of super heroes, Kamandi triumphed as humanity's last beacon in a[...]

The IDW/Top Shelf acquisition could have all sorts of contractual side-effects So I asked a few people who might be affected. Tony Bennett is the publisher of Knockabout in the UK, who co-publishes a number of titles with Top Shelf in the US, including From Hell and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen I asked Tony what the[...]

I'd heard that Bill Schanes was working for IDW, but not in what capacity The West Coast is not even awake yet but… All single issues of comics sold by Top Shelf mysteriously had their cover prices raised to $3.99 this morning… (I kid because I love.) — Augie De Blieck Jr (@augiedb) January 6, 2015 Mixed feelings[...]

We haven't had a big comic book company acquisition for a while, not since Boom! and Archaia. But we understand that IDW has just acquired Top Shelf Comix. Started in 1997 by Chris Staros, Top Shelf Productions, to give it its official name, has published creator-owned graphic novels, such as League Of Extrardinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Surrogates, Blankets, Essex[...]

Well, if you need a palate cleansing, here's an alternative. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEbXBRNR4I8[/youtube] From Sulfur, City's Falling based on IDW's TMNT comic book Cityfall, with art from Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, Mateus Santolouco, Ronda Pattison, Dan Duncan, and Ben Bates. If you like it, you can download "Enter the 36th Chamber" free right here – http://sulfurmusic.com/   [...]

Yoe Books are the publisher of all manner of envelope-pushing classic comics and comics that should be archived and remembered via a team-up with IDW They brough us Alice in Comicland in 2014, a collection of beautiful Alice in Wonderland themed comics from a wide spectrum of classic creators, and also many a volume of[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: The Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. Not alot of books came out this week, but we[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! A turnaround for this week's chart, as IDW and Dark Horse take the to four spots between them, GI Joe taking the top spot and[...]

In the 1968 film, Planet of the Apes, astronaut George Taylor crashlands on the planet Earth (spoilers) in the year 3978. The date is shown on the clock

We also pop by Image, IDW, and Dark Horse to see how they stack up against the Big Two. DC COMICS I had very high hopes for October based on DC's solicits, but they didn't pan out overall despite decent numbers by category In October 2014, DC Comics released 93 comics featuring 930 credited creators, 849 men[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: The Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. This week is another shorty – didn't have much to[...]

It was with great happiness I signed up for 'An Evening with Dave Gibbons', put together by IDW Publishing to promote their Artifact Edition of Watchmen Even at $500 a pop, I drooled at the thought of having dinner and conversation with one of my all-time favourite comicbook creators, a bona fide industry master to[...]

IDW recently released a new installment in their Library of American Comics series, featuring Superman in the The Golden Age Sundays, 1946-1949 Seeing it brought to mind my first encounter with early Superman comics through DC Comics collections, and what I found then, not having previously been a historian of early Supe comics, was quite[...]