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Avatar Plug of the Week: Ferals #10
Ferals #10 arrives in stores today, offering sex, violence and crime in a supernatural way only David Lapham can deliver! Dale Chesnutt is playing a
Comic Shops To Host Halloween Night of the Living Dead Parties
Avatar Press feels there is no better time to launch their new on-going series, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: AFTERMATH to help celebrate with some ghoulish fun! Set 12 years after the initial outbreak in the cult-classic first movie, this series is written by long-time horror writer, David Hine (Crossed: Badlands, The Darkness, Spawn) and promises to be faithful to[...]
Judah Friedlander Meets Man Who Zombified Him, Mike Wolfer
World Champion Judah Friedlander, stand-up comedian and star of 30 Rock and American Splendor, visited the Avatar Press booth at the New York Comic Con this past weekend He met Mike Wolfer, the artist who created a zombie version of Friedlander in the 2008 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD ANNUAL. Friedlander posed for a picture with Wolfer[...]
Slipknot's Corey Taylor Meets Garth Ennis at NYCC
Attending the New York Comic Con on Saturday to promote his own new comic, House of Gold and Bones, he took time to make his way to the Avatar Press booth to meet one of his favorite creators, Garth Ennis "I love Crossed," Taylor said while shaking the hand of Ennis The metal rock star[...]
Got Talent? Avatar Press Portfolio Review at NYCC
Think you have what it takes to create for Avatar Press? Prospective creators who would like to work with Avatar are welcome to come by the Avatar Press booth (#812) at New York Comic Con Sunday, 10/14, between 10:00 – 11:00am Jim Kuhoric, Vice President of Publishing for Avatar Press, will be reviewing pitches and samples in[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Alan Moore
comic book convention yesterday, Alan Moore announced his new comic book for Avatar Press, Providence, a follow-up to Neonomicon where he explores the inspiration behind the Lovecraftian mythos. And much more from his N.I.C.E appearance. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Stan Lee Pulls Out Of Future Appearances Due To "A Very Serious Circumstance" Yesterday, Wizard World sent round the following[...]
Advance Look: Covers December 2012
In this post of Advance Look, we take a sneak peek at Avatar Press covers for December 2012 – shown here before anywhere else! Covered here: CALIGULA: HEART OF ROME #1 (Regular, Wrap and Gore covers) – The sequel to David Lapham's smash reimagining of the classic story of lust and power starts here FERALS VOLUME 1 (Tarde[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – Crossed: Wish You Were Here Graphic Novel
Avatar Press heard your requests for a printed collected edition, to add to your bookshelf of spine-chilling graphic novels; Crossed Volume One, Crossed Volume Two: Family Values and Crossed Volume Three: Psychopath. Crossed: Wish You Were Here is available in Trade Paperback and Hard Cover, featuring covers by Jacen Burrows! FC, 160pg., TRADE PAPERBACK Price: $19.99 Diamond: JUN120842 ISBN: 9781592911707 FC, 160pg., HARD COVER Price: $27.99 Diamond: JUN120843 ISBN: 9781592911714                   [...]
Why Retailers Should Invite Zombies Into Stores on Halloween
As previously mentioned on Bleeding Cool, Avatar Press will deliver the gore and violence that zombie fans have been craving, courtesy of writer David Hine (Civil War: X-Men, The Darkness). But that's not all! Following on the footsteps of its very successful Crossed C-Day promotion earlier this year, Avatar Press is launching the new NOTLD: Aftermath[...]
Antony Johnston Provides Insight Into Long-Lost Alan Moore Project, Fashion Beast
Earlier this month, Avatar Press announced its upcoming publication of Fashion Beast, the long-lost collaboration between Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren (founder of the Sex Pistols) The debut issue of this 10-issue series hits stores in September. Fashion Beast was written in 1985, during one of the most celebrated periods of Moore's career He'd just begun[...]