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AWA Studios will launch American Ronin #1 with variant covers as part of Upshot Studios' Retailer Exclusive Variant Program Ever since launch, the publisher has directly supported retailers worldwide by engaging the comic book retailer community with their ARC (AWA Retail Council) They provide comic shops with advance information, discounts, materials, and marketing support to[...]

That’s what Jason Starr and Will Conrad dived headlong into with their miniseries for AWA Studios, Red Border.[caption id="attachment_1214212" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Red Border cover Credit: AWA Studios[/caption]It’s easier and more gratifying to review the entire story as a whole The story is told in four issues that were released monthly and now collected into[...]

A horror anthology centered around one location, a motel off the beaten track of the highway where people in trouble come to stay.[caption id="attachment_1254283" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Art from "Hotell" #4, AWA Studios[/caption]Writer John Lees and artist Dalibor Talajic lay out each issue as part of a tradition of horror comics that go back to the[...]

She deserves to be better-known, even as she makes headway into comics.[caption id="attachment_1250983" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Page from Bad Mother #1, AWA Studios[/caption]AWA Studios’ imprint Upshot should be applauded for publishing Faust’s first American monthly crime comic Bad Mother It’s also her first comic with a really good artist – Mike Deodato, Jr’s shadowy, semi-photorealistic style[...]

AWA Studios unveiled Grendel, Kentucky, a new supernatural Southern Gothic crime series by writer Jeff McComsey and artist Tommy Lee Edwards.[caption id="attachment_1238678" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Grendel, Kentucky #1 from AWA Studios[/caption]Order Code: Cover A JUL201084 (Tommy Lee Edwards)The official synopsis goes thus:"For two generations, the rural hill town of Grendel, Kentucky has honored its Faustian bargain[...]

AWA Studios/UPSHOT will release The Resistance: Reborns, a new digital mini-series spinoff of the studio’s flagship title The Resistance, exploring the origins of the newly superpowered humans after a global pandemic on Wednesday, June 17th on AWAStudios.net.[caption id="attachment_1222571" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Panel from The Resistance: Reborns from AWA Studios/UPSHOT[/caption]The Resistance: Reborns is a spinoff of critically[...]

AWA Studios announced Devil's Highway, a new 5-part comic by Benjamin Percy and artist Brent Schoonover The series will launch on July 1st The naturalistic thriller follows a troubled policewoman in a wintry small town hunting her father's killer and finding herself on the trail of a serial killer.[caption id="attachment_1209308" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Devil's Highway #1[...]

AWA Studios, the upstart new publisher on the block with an impressive pedigree of editors and creators, launched a new comic series this week ET-ER is a Science Fiction comedy series about a hospital with a secret Emergency department that treats aliens in medical distress The first issue is written by Jeff McComsey, drawn by[...]

AWA Studios announced a free digital version of their comic titles this week The inaugural title is The Resistance, the company’s flagship title by J Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato Jr The comic will be available to read on the publisher’s website and on WEBTOON and Tapas.AWA are converting their comics into a vertical reading[...]

It's interesting to read J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato Jr.'s superhero comic The Resistance in light of the covid-19 crisis in real life. In New York City where I live, the mayor declared a state of emergency and predicts there could be 1,000 cases here in weeks. Broadway theatres declared they were going dark […]

Red Border is one of AWA Studio's launch titles. Crime novelist Jason Starr and artist Will Conrad create a visceral up-to-the-minute thriller about a middle-class Mexican couple on the run from the Cartel. Things do not get better when they reach the US border. In fact, things might be even worse. AWA released a trailer […]

New publish AWA Studios will be launching their first four comic series on March 18th The launch titles will be The Resistance, Archangel 8, Red Border and Hotell It’s one of the strongest opening lineups I’ve seen in years, offering thematically dense stories with strong political and social undertones It’s very reminiscent of the type[...]

Artists, Writers and Artisans, the new publishing company headed by Axel Alonso and Bill Jemas, is preparing for its official launch in 2020. The company wlll start with four inaugural titles in March 2020. In preparation for the launch, the company is launching The AWA Retailer Council, an initiative to give comics retailers incentives to […]

As we wrote before, AWA Studios’ Upshot Now #0 anthology was the giveaway to get at New York Comic Con this year It’s a 140-page black and white paperback comic full of gorgeous writing and artwork.It featured three full first issues of upcoming comics and the opening pages of five other series You get a[...]

AWA Studios, the new comics publisher formed by Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso, came out with a full charm offensive at their booth at NYCC They held a spin-the-wheel lottery for con goers to win one of several ashcan comics promoting their upcoming titles There was a spirit of fun and games at the booth[...]