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Avatar Press Goes Digitally Exclusive With ComiXology
Avatar Press, publisher of Garth Ennis' groundbreaking horror series, Crossed, announced an exclusive digital distribution agreement with comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform with more than 40,000 comics and graphic novels that have seen over 200 million downloads to date The multi-year exclusive agreement covers Avatar Press' English Language single-issue catalog. To mark the release,[...]
Avatar Press Wants To Know If You're Ready For The New York Comic Con
Do you have your list of exclusives you want to get? If the answer to that is yes… great, we'll see you there. If the answer is no… well, then lets see if we can help you out. If you don't have your badges but still want to go, check out the Avatar Press NYCC 2013 Platinum Customer[...]
Ennis, Gage, Hickman, Hine And More – Avatar Press December Solicitations
Its yours new Avatar Press solicitations: AVATAR PRESS- OCT13 PRODUCTS SHIPPING: December 2013 ROVER RED CHARLIE #1 Retail Price: $3.99 US Writer: Garth Ennis Cover & Art: Michael Dipascale MR, Color, 32 pages, 1 of 6 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: When a worldwide epidemic suddenly rids the Earth of all humans, what happens to man's best friend? GARTH ENNIS – the master wordsmith of[...]
Avatar Press New York Comic Con Exclusives
With the New York Comic Con less than a month away, Avatar Press announced their show exclusives and we've got them here for you Get these quick as they will go fast Avatar Press will be located at booth 1920. Uber #1 New York VIP – Limited to 350  $50.00 NYCC is the home to one of[...]
Want To Get Published? Bleeding Cool Magazine Is Looking For You
Editor-in-Chief Jim Kuhoric will be at the Avatar Press booth at the Baltimore Comic Con this weekend and encourages writers, artists and photographers to come by and talk with him about becoming part of the BCM family. That's Jim on the right hand side there. Writers, bring your ideas for comic/film/television articles Artist bring your portfolios[...]
Live From The Comic Shop: God is Dead, Baltimore: Infernal Train, 12 Reasons to Die
September is looking good for comics so far… God is Dead, by Jonathan Hickman, Mike Costa, and Di Amorim, is one of the biggest launches from Avatar Press lately (who own Bleeding Cool if you weren't aware) in a season of big releases, and is definitively ambitious In the wake of massive elemental catastrophes, leaving millions[...]
Avatar Press Invades Fan Expo Canada
Avatar Press will be set up at the show and bringing in a great list of creators to meet the fans: writer Max Brooks (World War Z and Extinction Parade), writer Garth Ennis (Crossed and Punisher) and artist Jacen Burrows (Crossed and Neonomicon). On Friday at 4:15 pm in room #719 will be the Avatar Press[...]
Avatar Press Solicitations – Crossed: Badlands 41 & 42
In the month of November Avatar Press will bring not one us, but two issues of the most bizarre and brutal horror comic on the shelf; Crossed: Badlands First we take a trip back to the beginning of the outbreak as a group of college kids try to survive at ground zero Then we find[...]
George R. R. Martin Blames Comics for his Success in TV/Film at SDCC
Martin, introduced by William Christensen of Avatar Press on behalf of his upcoming series The Skin Trade, quickly jumped into discussing his own history as a comic book fan, first appearing in print in a fan letter to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the Fantastic Four He also had plenty to say about the[...]
Max Brooks, George RR Martin, and Christos Gage San Diego Signing Schedule
 Avatar Press just released the schedule for Max Brooks, George RR Martin, and Christos Gage signings and panels  Pencil them into your planner now! Avatar Press Booth #2701 Wednesday July 17 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Max Brooks signing Thursday July 18 10:00 am – 11:00am – Max Brooks Signing 11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Avatar Press panel (Room[...]
The Extinction Parade Goes Platinum
To celebrate their new hit series, Avatar Press has decided to do something extra When the sold-out 1000 limited edition leather-bound covers of Max Brooks' The Extinction Parade #1 hit the stores on July 17th, there will be 100 chase variants in the form of Platinum Leather Editions sent out to retailers as well. The Extinction[...]
Jonathan Hickman's God Is Dead For Avatar
East Of West is a massive hit from Image and Secret is back, Avengers and New Avengers at Marvel are leading nicely into his big Infinity event… And now Bleeding Cool's owners Avatar Press are to announce at Phoenix Comic Con the news of a big new book from Jonathan Hickman and Di Amorim, with the[...]
Crossing Absolution Rubicon
And probably will. Absolution Rubicon #1 is published in full color by Avatar Press in June.   I love conflicts of interest I love the sound they make as you run up towards them and they smack you in the face. So anyway, William Christensen of Avatar, Bleeding Cool's owners, sent me the first three issues of inks[...]
All Star Über
I was chatting with Über writer Kieron Gillen, and it he let it slip that when originally writing Über, he saw it as the anti-All Star Superman. I don't
Beginning Uber #1 With A Bang
Uber #1 is a relatively slow book, at least to begin with. People stand around, talking a lot. Some of them talk a lot on a motorbike. Some behind a desk.
How Uber #1 Will Expode Off The Shelf Tomorrow
Avatar Press are publishing Uber #1 by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White tomorrow Sold out from the distributor before going on sale at shops, this is what it's going to be like when those shop doors open… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78WsyCzcT0[/youtube] Okay, it;s actually a motion comic test created for Avatar[...]
Uber #1 Sells Out Already. Nazis Are Hot This Year.
This is despite the book having what publishers Avatar Press describe as an "aggressive overprint" Which I take to mean, they took the printers outside behind the bushes and beat them up until they printed some more. It's not alone, I also hear that Mike Carey's Suicide Risk #1 from last week is also a sellout[...]