Press Release
Fans, critics and creators agree — Roger Langridge’s SNARKED is a bona fide hit. Debuting this past August 3rd for only $1, SNARKED #0 has already found a fan following like no other release in recent memory. With SNARKED #0 flying off store shelves, don’t forget to order SNARKED #1 (AUG110930) from your local comic shop to ensure you get your copy this October.
The Harvey Award winner behind THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK and THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER, Roger Langridge brings comic fans an all-new, side-splitting adventure that can only be explained as — SNARKED! Journey with Langridge as he pulls the carpet out from under such Lewis Carroll classics as ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, and ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, creating an all-new world of humorous grandeur. Join Princess Scarlett as she and her baby brother Rusty outwit the villainous royal advisors and team up with the infamous Walrus and Carpenter to set sail in search of their father, the Red King, who has been lost at sea for six months. It’s a rip-roaring industry event you won’t want to miss, featuring must-have connecting covers by Roger Langridge and a special 1:10 THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER homage variant, by fan-favorite Chris Samnee!
Hailed as one of comic’s singular talents, Roger Langridge recently completed his fan-favorite run with Marvel with THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER in 2010. Previously BOOM! Studios debuted Langridge’s THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK, garnering rave reviews and even a complete sell out of the first issue before hitting store shelves. For his work on THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK Roger Langridge received a 2010 Harvey Award for Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers and a 2010 Eisner Award nomination for Best Humor Publication. Roger was again nominated for a Harvey Award in 2011 for his work on THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK and has also worked on an original weekly webcomic, FRED THE CLOWN, which received both Eisner & Harvey Award nominations. ROGER LANGRIDGE’S SNARKED #1 is the first full issue of the new series drawn by the Eisner Award-nominated and Harvey Award-winning Roger Langridge. This title ships in October with a cover price of $3.99 and carries a Diamond Code of AUG110930.
For more information, desktops, and behind the scenes looks, check out: http://www.snarkisland.com/
About BOOM! Studios
Award-winning “Best Publisher” BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) generates a constellation of bestselling comic books and graphic novels with the industry’s top talent, including Mark Waid’s series IRREDEEMABLE, Stan Lee’s SOLDIER ZERO, THE TRAVELER, and STARBORN (the first new series in print from the industry icon in 20 years), new HELLRAISER comics written by Clive Barker as well as 20th Century Fox’s PLANET OF THE APES, 28 DAYS LATER, and DIE HARD, Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, and The Henson Company’s FARSCAPE. BOOM!’s recently rebranded all-ages imprint, KABOOM! will see publication of PEANUTS, SPACE WARPED, Roger Langridge’s SNARKED, Scholastic’s WORDGIRL, as well as continuing to publish fan-favorite Disney Afternoon series DARKWING DUCK, CHIP ‘N’ DALE RESCUE RANGERS and DUCKTALES along with Disney standards MICKEY MOUSE, DONALD DUCK, UNCLE SCROOGE, and WALT DISNEY’S COMICS AND STORIES.
