Press Release The second day of the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con featured yet another stunning announcement from IDW Publishing: the company’s second Marvel Artist’s Edition collection, JOHN ROMITA’S THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. This must-have collector’s hardcover is the fourth in IDW’s Artist’s Edition series and will offer one hundred and forty-four pages of original Romita Spider-Man art.
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Press Release North America’s largest pop-culture tour continues as Wizard World Los Angeles Comic Con comes the Los Angeles Convention Center, September 24-25, with standout guests Hayden Panettiere, Rob Van Dam, Betsy Russell, Walter Koenig, Jeremy Bulloch and Doug Jones headlining the list of celebrity attendees, and guest of honor Mike Deodato Jr. leading a blowout list of superstar artists scheduled to attend. The event will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, comics, toys, video gaming, television, sci-fi, gaming, original…
Press Release Extreme Comixxx is pleased to announce its attendance at Comic-Con 2011, in San Diego, CA, July 21 – 24. The leader in adult movie parodies of popular comic books will share exhibit space with Carnal Comics / Hippy Comix in booth 1615 and Super-Con in booth 1300. Popular adult stars Chanel Preston, Lizzy Borden, Evan Stone and Tommy Gunn will appear in costume, reprising roles from Extreme Comixxx Parodies, “The Justice League of Porn Star Heroes”, “Captain America XXX” and “Batgirl XXX”.
Well, we completely didn’t get the Tom Morello connection and the latest Dark Horse announcement, but it is now official – Orchid from the mind of Tom MOrello will arrive from the comic book publisher in October.
Press Release Kicking off the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, IDW Publishing today announced the latest expansion to the company’s revered art book series with WALLY WOOD’S EC STORIES: ARTIST’S EDTION. The third in the Artist’s Edition series, focuses on one of the all-time greatest comic book artists, and at the absolute peak of his creative powers: Wally Wood. What Bill Gaines achieved with EC Comics was quite likely, pound for pound, the finest comics line ever produced, and Wally Wood was one of their mainstays, who set an incredibly high artistic standard.
Press Release With September’s relaunch of 52 titles from DC Comics, the Baltimore Comic-Con is happy to announce the addition of three creators heading up those titles – Scott Snyder, Paul Levitz, and Ron Marz – to the line-up for this year’s show.
Press Release Hermes Press unveils two new vintage releases that honor the legendary Milton Caniff at the San Diego Comic-Con-Steve Canyon: The Complete Series, Volume 1 and Male Call: The Complete Newspaper Strips: 1942-1946. Caniff was one of the newspaper cartoonists who inspired the first generation of comic book artists, his inimitable sense of composition and thick ink line on Terry and the Pirates spanned both The Great Depression and World War II. Caniff later continued to define the adventure strip with Steve Canyon.
Press Release As San Diego Comic-Con kicks off this week, IDW Publishing and Capcom Entertainment, Inc. announced today a new partnership to create a comic book series based on the hugely popular zombie survival game franchise, Dead Rising®. Deeply entrenched in the world of this best-selling game universe, IDW Publishing’s DEAD RISING™: ROAD TO FORTUNE four-issue series will take place between the original Dead Rising and Dead Rising® 2: Case Zero, and feature many well known characters from the franchise.
Press Release It’s official! Remember reading the Left4Dead comic online as soon as the game hit stores!? Remember Team Fortress 2?! And who could forget Portal 2? Well now you can have them all collected into one fantastic hardcover, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics undying effort to bring you the finest quality comics in print!
Press Release Valiant Entertainment, the character-based entertainment company with more than 1,500 characters in its library, including X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot and Shadowman, today announced the appointment of franchise producer and transmedia visionary Jeff Gomez as Transmedia Producer & Creative Consultant. Gomez has consulted extensively on such blockbuster properties as Avatar, Transformers, Halo and Pirates of the Caribbean. The addition of one of transmedia’s originators and leaders confirms Valiant’s commitment to align with itself with quality creative forces in the industry. Gomez’s announcement follows recently announced Valiant Chairman Peter Cuneo, the former Marvel Entertainment CEO and Vice Chairman, Publisher Fred…
If you are going to the San Diego Comic-Con, Top Cow has released its signing schedule so you know where and when to get your comics and memorabilia signed.
Press Release Television’s original reluctant vampire is back! Barnabas Collins is re-adjusting to life under his vampiric curse. Haunted by terrifying dreams of his age-old lover and nemesis, Angelique, and fighting his bloodlust, Barnabas fears that danger lies ahead for all who live at Collinwood. Meanwhile, Barnabas’s ally and trusted friend Dr. Julia Hoffman is harboring secrets of her own. Written by Stuart Manning and drawn by Aaron Campbell, with covers by Campbell and superstar artist Francesco (Black: Panther: Man Without Fear, Swamp Thing) make sure to get the horrifying Dark Shadows #1!
Press Release Marvel Entertainment and Disney Publishing Worldwide are proud to announce John Carter: World of Mars, an all-new comic prequel to the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures feature film, John Carter, which will hit theatres on March 9, 2012. This October, John Carter: World of Mars #1 reveals the shocking events that transpire before the motion-picture story begins by showing fans just how John Carter, Princess Dejah Thoris and Tars Tarkas are set on the path that would bring them all together. Amidst this brutal thousand-year war, find out what decisions were made that let events escalate this far—and why.…
Press Release New York Times best-selling author Robert Kirkman has announced that his Image Comics imprint SKYBOUND will be partnering with Emmy-nominated special make-up effects guru and producer Greg Nicotero’s KNB EFX Group to release a series of exclusive products based on the graphic novel series The Walking Dead, as well as other SKYBOUND books.