idw Archives

Here are your IDW solicitations for June 2014… and we start with Angry Birds, as well as all the Angry Birds subscription covers that are being dropped onto other IDW books this month… Angry Birds Comics #1—SPOTLIGHT Jeff Parker (w) • David Baldeon (a) • Paco Rodriques (c) Angry Birds, the world's most popular mobile game franchise, makes[...]

He is editor-in-chief of IDW Publishing And while marketing guy Dirk Wood is currently struggling with technology in the Diamond Retailer Day, and literally taking his laptop round the room to show images to retailers That's what happens when you bring a Mac it seems. But sadly Chris Ryall is not yet with them He is[...]

Chuck Dixon and Jorge Zaffino's Winterworld series, originally published by Marvel, is being revived from June by IDW, joined by artist Butch Guice. They'd previously republished the original Winterworld and its new sequel Wintersea, about a frozen planet, but there was still the third part of the series, previously referred to as Winterwar This could be[...]

It's quite a full line-up, so dig into this week's comic releases. Books featured in this episode include: DC Comics: Justice League Of America #13 Marvel Comics: All-New X-Men #24 IDW Publishing: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #32 Image Comics: Stray Bullets: Killers #1 Vertigo: Royals: Masters Of War #2 Image Comics: Mercenary Sea #2 Image Comics: Manifest Destiny #5 Marvel Comics: Captain Marvel #1 DC[...]

This year marks the 15th Anniversary of IDW Publishing, and co-founder and CEO Ted Adams has a few reflections on his youthful obsession with books, working to bring some of his personal heroes to print, and the landmarks he's noted along the way to share with us here at Bleeding Cool His experiences learning from[...]

By Chris Thompson Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: This week, we get hysterical with

Here are three paintings by J.K. Woodward. They represent an exclusive card expansion  as part of the Kill Shakespeare board game Kickstarter. The set is

He started out writing for Marvel UK in the 80's, and saw the Transformers comic through a legendary period, penning the most memorable TF comics in the franchise's history. Recently IDW gave Furman a chance to pick up his twenty-year-old story lines in an epic what-if series called ReGeneration One (think X-Men Forever, with giant robots)[...]

Scott Dunbier, senior editor at IDW, is on the hunt for original art pages for upcoming IDW Artist Editions, that seeks to reproduce artboard pages as closely as possible. Pages he's after include twelve for the Jim Steranko's Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D Artist's Edition. Specifically Strange Tales #154, page 2, Strange Tales #159, pages 1 and[...]

So Bleeding Cool asked Mike Richardson, Publisher of Dark Horse Comics and Ted Adams, publisher of IDW to respond While Bleeding Cool's David Dissanayake also added his thoughts. Mike Richardson writes, Thanks for inviting me in on this Of course, Eric Stephenson's Comic's Pro speech reflects his opinion and you know what they say about opinions[...]

Expect IDW to announce this during their presentation at the ComcisPRO event in Atlanta, Georgia today. But they are releasing a Cartoon Network crossover event this summer, starring Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Ben 10, Ed, Edd, & Eddy and more. And all their foes of course. It's called Super Secret Crisis War. Of course it is. And it's[...]

Vertigo are lucky to have this book. Wraith is back from IDW, written by the great Joe Hill, and illustrated by the under-your-skin stylist CP Wilson, with colors always apt by Jay Fotos It's another fully-constructed book like The Wake where attention to detail and a serious focus on quality deliver in spades for the reader[...]

And the thin dressing room walls play perfectly with the panels of the comics and the thin gutters between them… I'd like to think that this hallucinatory issue of Chew looks odder than usual, but it's just not true is it? Chew always looks this insane. In Artefacts #31, Hannibal Tabu explores the reaches of the[...]

The first big creator owned comic book blockbuster would eventually fund the Xeric Award, Tundra, Heavy Metal Magazine and so much more. And now they'll be working together for the first time in decades on a cover to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 30th anniversary issue from IDW. The issue in question will also see work from[...]

It got itself a TV series in 1994. The toy line was  revived by Hasbro, in 2005, and games for Nintendo and Sony platform, with a new TV series in 2012. And now its the latest Hasbro franchsie to find itself at IDW and being turned into a comic book. So, yes, I'm already looking forward to the[...]

This week new comic releases for the week of February 19, 2014 are reviewed, plus a special guest! Books reviewed in this episode are: DC Comics: Justice League #28 Image Comics: Undertow #1 Marvel Comics: Amazing X-Men #4 DC Comics: Wonder Woman #28 Image Comics: Alex + Ada #4 IDW: Godzilla Rulers Of Earth #9 IDW: X-Files Conspiracy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 DC[...]

The Transformers Wiki page has a listing for Rom for, as they say, What he's doing here is anyone's guess. With details of leaks for a Transformers character called Rom The Space Knight from Hasbro. And IDW continue to tease the possibility of Romness in their future. Why am I mentioning this all now? Because I've been told by[...]

  Here's a look at the IDW Games cover for the Kill Shakespeare board game, painted by Glenn Fabry Apparently they were going to use Dave Dorman but he wasn't available I think they didn't do too badly… And this is how it looks when it's been treated for the cover A Shakespeare filter or something. We haven't[...]

From the much-beloved for the strange and off the wall retrospective content imprint Yoe Books! via IDW, we will be receiving new bi-monthly comic Weird Love in May 2014 If you're thinking, "Aw, how sweet", think again. This series collects all the "sexy, bizarre, sick, twisted, politically incorrect, kinky 'romance' comics of the 1950s and beyond"[...]

Welcome to another week of comic book thinking. The London underground tube strike was called off, and I was able to get into town without any trouble.

Bleeding Cool told you a while back that IDW was planning the expand the Dark Judges of the Judge Dredd universe from four to thirteen Well now it's official And they are spreading across the net Joining Judge Dead, Judge Fear, Judge Mortis and Judge Fire are… Judge Fistula on Forbidden Planet Judge Choke on CBR And here,[...]

from Monkeybrain Comics) which is still going strong, coming back with issue 13 on ComiXology and the start of a new arc soon, as well as the release of the second arc from IDW this May Magic, adventure and all sorts of fun, Amelia is tons of fun Also digital from Monkeybrain I am co-writing[...]

Until now. British retailers have been informed that, as of now, they will not received any of their orders for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Animated), Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10 or Dexters Laboratory from IDW, and none of Regular Show from Boom. This doesn't mean the chops can't sell them, just that Diamond is no longer[...]

It's not meant to offend, it's meant to promote a speed dating night." But what there is, most definitely, is a swipe! From Chamber Of Chills #19, cover by Warren Kramer and Lee Elias, recently reused by IDW on Haunted Horror #1. Feminist, sexist or swiper? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each[...]

Eileen Montgomery writes, Michael Morones, an 11 year old boy in North Carolina, recently attempted to take his own life due to bullying received on

The center, founded by cartoonist James Sturm (The Revival, Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules), also offers one and two year certificates in cartooning as well as summer workshops. WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE Comics Alliance looks at the Star Trek gender-flipping story coming from IDW. In the case of "Parallel Lives", the gender-switching story that starts in issue[...]

Comics artist Ulises Farinas keeps popping up in work from a variety of publishers (Dark Horse, Vertigo, Boom! Image, IDW), and chances are you've seen the strange, intricate worlds he's created with what he acknowledges is a very distinctive style His detailed inkwork has an inexplicably light touch and his fantasy-driven imagination often conveys a[...]

13thDimension gets a first look at the Watchmen Artifact Edition from IDW And a page from Neil Gaiman Did we know that Neil took part in the creation of the comic? We do now… In fact, I was talking to Neil Gaiman a couple of weeks ago — managed to have a catch-up with him over[...]

The variant cover from The Other Dead #5...

Was this an accident or some nefarious plan? And what is this about giant bugs? "This series is a multi-tiered love letter," said series writer and IDW Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall "Every page shows not only the love Sam and I have for Mars Attacks, but also wild science-fiction tales from the past, the sorts of things Wally[...]