There should be a Five Steps of New York Comic Con, when you look at the schedule of events and realise that no matter how hard you try, you are not going to be able to get to see every panel you want to see, go round every booth you want to, meet every creator […]
When it comes to Terrific Production LLC’s Twitter feed written by Andrew Rev (and it is he, there is no imitating that style), you have a smorgasbord of delights. His Trumpian style tweets jump from flattery to insult and back within seconds, leaving wiser heads shaking – but everyone reading. Well, between 400 and 500 […]
The New York Comic Con is undergoing a few changes for its 2019 show, running from Thursday, October 3rd to Sunday October 6th. It’s still being held in the Javits Center, it still spreads itself around the city into locations such as the Hudson Mercantile, Madison Square Garden, and the New York Public Library. Changes include […]
Maybe Gabe Yocum isn’t a glutton for punishment after all? Less than one month after leaving his cushy job at ReedPOP to rejoin former boss Bill Jemas at Jemas and Axel Alonso’s Artists, Writers, and Artisans, Inc., Yocum has reversed course and announced he is leaving AWA and returning to ReedPOP. Yocum posted on Facebook: […]
Bleeding Cool gets the nod that one of our favourite comic book artists, Mike Deodato, currently drawing Savage Avengers – where he has just traumatised Punisherbronies the world over – is moving on… and where he is moving on to. He’s spoken about finding a new outlet other than Marvel Comics recently, in favour of […]
Gabe Yocum used to run the direct sales department at Double Take, the comic book line of Take2 Interactive that was run by Bill Jemas. He’ll have been there when Bill Jemas fell out with Ken Levine so the original plan to publish comics in a shared gaming universe of X-Com, Civilisation and Bioshock fell […]
Fight Girls is the new creator-owned series from Frank Cho, being published by AWA Comics, the new New York-based publisher founded by Bill Jemas as publisher and Axel Alonso as Editor-In-Chief. Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of “Queen of the Galaxy.” […]
One final upcoming launch from Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso‘s new New York-based comics publisher, AWA Comics. Red Border by Jason Starr and Will Conrad. Jason Starr is a crime novelist, who has also written comics such as Punisher MAX and Wolverine MAX for Marvel when Alonso was EIC there, as well as writing Doc […]
We have another upcoming launch from Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso‘s new New York-based comics publisher, AWA Comics. Hotell by John Lees and Dalibor Talajić Lees is not the biggest of names, he broke out with indie hit And Then Emily Was Gone, with lots of work for ComixTribe including Oxymoron, Scam and Sink, […]
Benjamin Percy is a novelist-turned-comic book writer, with critically acclaimed runs on Green Arrow, Nightwing, Teen Titans and James Bond to his name. But he’s taking the Bill Jemas and Azel Alonso shilling for two new creator-owned titles being published by AWA Comics as part of their Upshot creator-owned imprint. The first is Devil’s Highway, […]
In 1989, the teenage Mark Millar wrote a comic called Saviour for Trident comics drawn by Daniel Vallely and Nigel Kitching and notable for having TV presenter Jonathan Ross as the anti-Christ. It was his first professionally published work, it was Trident’s best-seller and, years later, Alex Ross tried to revive it at Vertigo. Many of the ideas […]
Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the existence of ex-Marvel publisher Bill Jemas‘ new comics-and-other-media publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans. based in New York with Axel Alonso as their editor-in-chief. Bleeding Cool previously reported on the publisher registering trademarks for the following: Color Angels Animatronically Correct Full House Eyepop Well, they had to abandon […]
Spinning out of Portsmouth Comic Con, we get news of a new comic book series that will be published by Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso‘s new comics publisher based in New York, Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc, known as AWA. Old Haunts is a new comic from Suicide Squad writer Rob Williams, The Kitchen‘s writer […]
Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso are both former leaders of Marvel Comics, Jemas the former Publisher and Alonso the former Editor-in-Chief. So it’s no surprise that the duo would take a few cues from Marvel in launching their latest venture: Artists, Writers, & Artisans. Like Marvel, whose chief shareholder prior to the Disney sale and […]
Bill Jemas, Axel Alonso and Jon F Miller are the folk who head up Artists Writers & Artistans Inc, the new comics publisher Bleeding Cool has been talking about for a year, though it seems most folk were waiting until the press release to say anything. It is abbreviated AWA, which looks like the name […]
Bleeding Cool broke the news of the existence of this publisher. Repeatedly. We told you who was involved, who financed it, what the names of their trademarks were, and a number of the A-list creatives who had been hired to create new, original comic books for the publisher. And now former Marvel EIC Axel Alonso, […]
Bleeding Cool has been covering the upcoming launch of a new comic book/multi-media publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc for a while now, since July. Formed by former Marvel Comics President Bill Jemas, with former Marvel EIC Axel Alonso hired as EIC. With investments from Alexander Taussag of Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Jon Miller of multi-billion investment firm TPG Capital. […]
Bleeding Cool has been covering the existence of ex-Marvel publisher Bill Jemas‘ new comics-and-other-media publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans. based in New York. That it has hired ex-Marvel EIC Axel Alonso as their editor-in-chief. That the money is coming from Alexander Taussag of Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Jon Miller of multi-billion investment firm TPG Capital who recently bought the Fandom websites. […]
Once upon a time, then-Marvel publisher Bill Jemas used to refer to his rival DC Comics as ‘AOL Comics’. Warner Bros and AOL had merged, he used it as an insult, a shot across the bows. This kind of thing. The average Marvel book sells over 50,000 units per month. The average AOL book sells […]
Welcome to AWAAI – or Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc. That’s the name of the new comic book/multi-media company from Bill Jemas, former publisher of Marvel Comics and of Take 2 Interactive’s Double Take Comics. Bleeding Cool reported that it existed. And that they had hired ex-Marvel EIC Axel Alonso. And that last week they […]
