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Last weekend Bleeding Cool reported on the tragic and sudden death of It's Alive comic book publisher Drew Ford from COVID-19-caused pneumonia, at the age of 48, as well as the plight of his wife, Kiki De Coeur and the GoFundMe appeal which has been set up in her name, and the reaction of the comics industry. Drew Ford[...]

In the last few days, Bleeding Cool covered the hospitalisation and death this week of It's Alive Press comic book publisher Drew Ford, from COVID-19-caused pneumonia, at the age of 48, as well as the plight of his wife, Kiki De Coeur and the GoFundMe appeal which has been set up in her name. Nick Cagnetti,[...]

Drew Ford of It's Alive Press, a graphic novel publisher that specialises in bringing out-of-print indie comic books back into print, as well as continuing and concluding stories where it can, and generating brand new ones, is currently in hospital at the NYU Langone hospital in Brooklyn Drew Ford's wife Kiki De Coeur has been[...]

And, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, It's Alive are bringing it back with a new series forty years later, as part of their October 2022 solicits and solicitations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ ROACHMILL #1 CVR A MCWEENEY IT'S ALIVE AUG221594 AUG221595 –[...]

It's Alive Press has picked up is a Disney comics artist and writer, William Van Horn's own creation, Nervous Rex, as a comic book series being published from September 2022 William Van Horn is best known for Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories, and he has also written and drawn stories based on the TV[...]

Willy Schultz, by Will Franz and Sam Glanzman, was first published more than 60 years ago, but it will once again be printed by It's Alive! and Dark Horse Comics later this year Billed as one of the most controversial comics of all time, the Kickstarter for the revival by It's Alive! last year explained[...]

Michael Cohen, co-creator of Strange Attractors, currently revived by It's Alive as a comic book series, has a new series he is debuting with It's Alive in August as well Tangled River, created with Mark Sherman launches in August 2021, an artist in a sci-fi future where technology just… stops As well as continuing Strange[...]

Strange Attractors was a nineties sci-fi slice-of-life self-published comic book created in the wake of Dave Sim's Cerebus, from creative team Michael Cohen and Mark Sherman, who had already been in bands and created computer games together. They published 15 issue of the series, as well as two parts of a planned four-part sequel series from[...]

It's Alive has provided Bleeding Cool with an EX-X-XCLUSIVE 5-page preview of Holler #2, the new comic by Jeremy Massie available for pre-order on IndieGoGo The comic is about a grunge band in the 1990s, and carries the endorsement of noted grunge rocker Kurt Busiek, who says of the book, "Energetic, fun, and heartfelt –[...]

It's Alive has joined the growing list of independent comic book publishers to split profits with local comic shops Many stores are closed due to an industry-wide shutdown A cessation in the publication of new comics has put the industry in peril In a void of action by the industry's largest publishers, independent publishers and[...]

Drew Ford's It's Alive is offering a deal conducive to this: until the end of April, It's Alive is offering PDF downloads of seven comic books for a price of your own choosing The titles available: PINK LEMONADE #1 by Nick Cagnetti ($3.99) BREATHERS #1 by Justin Madson ($7.99) HOLLER #1 by Jeremy Massie ($5.99) DOSE! #1 by Sean[...]

It's Alive! has launched a new crowdfunding campaign to publish the first issue of its next series, Breathers by Justin Madson The comic, the first of ten issues, features several short stories set in a dystopian world where the air is dangerous thanks to a virus, forcing everyone who inhabits it to wear breathing masks[...]

It's Alive!has announced its next publication, an omnibus collection of Eisner award nominee Jeff Nicholson's Father & Son Father & Son Omnibus: Reality Soldiers will hit stores on September 25th and is available for preorder now A press release contains more details: New York City, New York (June 24, 2019) – IT'S ALIVE! is proud to[...]

It's Alive has sent Bleeding Cool an EX-X-XCLUSIVE first look at the two covers to Pink Lemonade #1, the new comic by Nick Cagnetti debuting this weekend at HeroesCon In addition to a regular cover by Cagnetti, there's also a variant by Jim Rugg (Street Angel) If you're at the show at the Charlotte Convention[...]

It's Alive!, the former IDW imprint, now standalone comic book publisher, has announced another new series to be published this October, but debuting with a Con EX-X-XCLUSIVE in June at HeroesCon Called Pink Lemonade, the new comic by Nick Cagnetti is described as "full of both run and mystery." Check out the press release below for[...]

It's Alive!, the former IDW imprint turned standalone independent publisher founded and run by Drew Ford will publish its first new comic books series in 2019, Red Range: Pirates of Fireworld. Keith Lansdale, son of Red Range writer Joe R Lansdale, will write the new series, now on Kickstarter, which picks up right where the original left off twenty years ago[...]

It's Alive!, the former IDW imprint turned standalone independent publisher founded and run by Drew Ford will publish its first new comic books series in 2019, Red Range: Pirates of Fireworld Keith Lansdale, son of Red Range writer Joe R Lansdale, will write the new series, which will hit Kickstarter soon Artist Jok, who colored[...]

IDW's It's Alive! imprint is planning to collect Aztec Ace, the 1980s cult hit indy comic created and written by Doug Moench Drew Ford has launched a Kickstarter for Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection, which will collect every issue of the comic in a 500-page book. Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection will be a 500+ page,[...]