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The Joy Of Dolphins – Crossed: Wish You Were Here Goes Live
The launch date for Avatar's new twice-monthly Crossed series Badlands, but also the second Avatar webcomic, Crossed: Wish You Were Here, for free, one chapter every week, by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Which has just gone live Now, as we know, every new Crossed has to start off with something you may not[...]
Dealing Cool #2: A Retailer Perspective from Third Eye Comics
Scott Snyder's Batman run brings in more and more new fans to the New 52, and continues to rival Justice League as the top book of the relaunch.  Also, Adventure Time and Ralph Wiggum Comics have both shown huge legs as the kind of surprise cross-over hits that many retailers under-estimated, and end up becoming[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Night of the Living Dead Volume 3
But the grandaddy of the genre is still undead and kicking, as Avatar Press continues to contribute horrific glimpses of humanity's demise in its NOTLD comic book series. Today, the zombie plague spreads once again across the globe, as NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD VOLUME 3: DEATH VALLEY hits store shelves everywhere The third volume in[...]
Celebrate C-Day At Your Local Comic Store On 14th March
Consider this the Avatar plug of the year. Yesterday, chatting to William Christensen, he told me he was looking at artwork for Crossed Badlands #28 #28 Issue 1 isn't out yet. On 14th March, Avatar are running C-Day, to promote the launch of Crossed: Badlands #1, a biweekly ongoing Crossed series, the first issue of which[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks
Here's a fun down of all the comics that Diamond are shipping next week… followed by a prelimary look at what's coming from the bigger publishers the week after that. Dark Horse AFRIKA HC CHRONICLES OF KULL TP VOL 05 DEAD MEN O/T DEEP & OTHER STORIES DARK HORSE PRESENTS #9 (Do check for my Miss Cranbourne strip…) KATSUYA[...]
Avatar In April – Crossed And Ferals Cover Gallery
Unveiled for all the world to see, we present to you the cover images for all new Avatar Press items in Diamond Comics' February Previews catalog. Crossed: Badlands #3 Regular Edition (Cover by Jacen Burrows) The dangers of coming down from the Scottish Highlands to get supplies during a Crossed outbreak. Crossed: Badlands #3 Torture Edition (Cover by[...]
Jon Landau Talks Titanic 3D, And After A Preview Of The Footage, So Do I
"It's a creative process." Landau believes that the only reason way to convert a film to 3D is to have the director himself stand up and decide that it's something he wants to do. Landau also reiterated past comments that Cameron might return to convert some of his other films to 3D a few years down[...]
Be Patriotic On C-Day With Crossed
As part of "C-Day" on March 14th, Avatar are reissuing Crossed #0 as Crossed C-Day edition entitled Crossed: Get Infected, to be given away or used in promotions by stores to promote the new twice-monthly Crossed: Badlands series And it's getting the terribly patriotic image above. They are also issuing "survival kits" for stores containing Crossed[...]
Ferals #1 by David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade – Avatar Plug Of The Week
Lapham has been carving out a bloody niche for himself at Avatar Press with his work on three Crossed spin-off projects (Family Values, 3D, and Psychopath) and the Caligula miniseries, and the ongoing FERALS series promises to deliver a healthy dose of crime noir drama to go along with its big helpings of gore and[...]
Do You Dare Vote In The 2011 Horror Comic Awards?
Oh look, a comic book award that Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press has a shot at actually winning. The Third Annual Horror Comic Awards, voting open until the end of the year Here are the nominees Oh look I accidentally listed the Avatar nominees in bold red. Writer of the Year Mike Mignola on Hellboy Joe Hill on Locke[...]
Garth Ennis And Jacen Burrows Bring You Crossed Twice A Month – And Launch C-Day!
The post-not-quite-a-zombie apocalypse story that has taken the very worst things that humans do to each other, and made it the norm. And from the original creators of the Avatar series, Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, comes Crossed: Badlands Telling stories of Crossed all over the world, and starting with the story of a young Englishman,[...]
Lady Death For Free Comic Book Day 2012
Well now (through hush hush sources that you'd never guess) I can tell you that Boundless/Avatar will have their first FCBD offering for May, Lady Death: The Beginning. Written by Brian Pulido and Mike Wolfer, drawn by Marcelo Mueller with a cover (below) by Jason Eden, it's a full colour 40 page comic, for free, collecting[...]
Going Feral: An Interview With Gabriel Andrade
Gabriel Andrade is the artist on the upcoming Ferals series written by David Lapham from Avatar Keith Davidsen talked to Gabril for Bleeding Cool… Keith Davidsen: What were your thoughts on the work you'd be doing for FERALS when you received the script for issue #1? Gabriel Andrade: First I thought: "Finally I will[...]
Ferals – A Very Nasty Comic By David Lapham
So William Christensen, publisher of Avatar Press and Bleeding Cool, asks me if I'd like to look at the first issue of Ferals, coming out in January by David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade He tells me that the comic is his favourite thing he's read of David's work so far And that he's onto the[...]
Frank Miller Vs Alex Cox On OWS… And Robocop
But a few years ago, Avatar Press published a comic book version of the Frank Miller screenplay, adapted by Steven Grant and Juan Jose Ryp, with covers by Frank A work that the Guardian chose not to feature… possibly because it might interfere with the narrative. And indeed, as Cox recalls, Robocop is pitted against homeless[...]
Nine Page Preview Of David Lapham's Ferals, Plus Various Other Entrails
Ferals is the new big book from Avatar Press shipping in January and they are expecting, well, for it to be the next Crossed. Retailer orders close for the first issue next Thursday (a happy lycanthropic Thanksgiving to you all) so they are releasing this nine page preview, pitch by David Lapham and a bunch of[...]
Avatar Plug Of The Week: Warren Ellis' Captain Swing TPB
Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island, out in softcover and hardcover from Avatar Press tomorrow Here's the solicits… From the sparking-mad mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes an electrical romance of a pirate utopia thwarted!  In the London[...]
Talking To Ken Meyer Jr About Warren Ellis' Atmospherics
In January, Avatar will publish a new colour edition of Atmospherics, a graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Ken Meyer Jr about an alien abductee – or a serial killer In addition to the color softcover edition, there's a hardcover edition that's limited to only 1,000 copies – and each of these individual copies[...]
Boundless Plug Of The Week – Lady Death #11
And it looks as if a certain Lady Death will be showing, well, even more than Catwoman gets away with, in her new Avatar comi, issue 11, out today From all good, and some bad, comic stores Have a preview. LADY DEATH #11 by Brian Pulido, Mike Wolfer and Gabriel Andrade. Lady Death's quest for the only[...]
How Avatar Guerilla Markets Crossed At Hallowe'en Parties
This is Keith Davidsen, Avatar's Director of Sales and Marketing And in a series of videos, he shows us the extremes he will go to, to promote the comic book Crossed By dressing up as them, going to Hallowe'en parties, and talking to people about Crossed And taking posters with him too. Next year, he'll do[...]