Browsing: Oni Press

Press Release After reports of lower than average comic sales last August and reading of the blame being placed on the $3.99 price point, THE SIXTH GUN series creators Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt came to a decision: twelve extra pages at no additional cost.  For the sixth issue of their new ongoing series THE SIXTH GUN, Bunn & Hurtt are adding twelve full pages of gun-slinging goodness, and they’re enlisting the help of comic superstar colorist Bill Crabtree (INVINCIBLE, JACK STAFF). “Having a colorist as accomplished as Bill [Crabtree] join the book was a no-brainer,” commented series writer and…

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According to Oni Press, there are over one million copies of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series in print throughout North America. “A million copies in print is a stunning achievement,” said Kuo-Yu Liang, head of Diamond Book Distributors. “It’s great watching Scott Pilgrim and Oni Press grow over the years.” The Scott Pilgrim series first hit shelves in 2004 and has since gone from an indie sensation to a New York Times bestseller and most recently adapted by Universal Studios into a major motion picture, directed by Edgar Wright and starring Michael Cera. “All this for a little black…

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Oni Press sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of The Sixth Gun #3 that arrives in stores this week.  It’s a pretty interesting story as we pointed out in the first issue review, so take the jump for a look at what’s headed to your comic book store this week.

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Oni Press has to be on cloud 9 this week at the San Diego Comic-Con.  Scott Pilgrim is taking the show by storm, and now there’s word that the publisher has landed a first look deal with CBS Television. With Warner Bros. developing properties left and right, it’s a good sign that the networks are coming around to see what else is out there in the comic world that might make for interesting television. via Deadline

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My near superhero free week of comic reviews continues with a book that has been around before, and is coming around again. If working in video production for the last 15 years has taught me anything, is that it takes more than once for someone to pay attention to the message. I’m paying attention now.

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Oni Press has a brand new series premiering at C2E2 (and arriving in stores on April 14, 2010) called Spell Checkers.  The company sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of the first volume by Jamie S. Rich, Nicolas Hitori de and Joelle Jones.

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If you haven’t read the complete Scott Pilgrim series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, and available from Oni Press, then you only have a few more months to get through it all, as Universal Pictures has started the countdown clock to the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie. The movie studio announced last week that the Edgar Wright film will be released on August 13, 2010.  The film stars Michael Cere, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Chris Evans, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead to name a few. Sadly, my copies have long since disappeared since there’s one member of the Major Spoilers…

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Oni Press is set to release Crogan’s March, the second volume of the Crogan Adventure Series, this week. The company sent us a sneak peek of the series over the weekend, but weekends being weekends we only just got around to posting this sneak today.

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