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 […]
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 […]
AWA or Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc is a new comic book publisher from former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas and former EIC Axel Alonso that Bleeding Cool has been reporting on since long before anyone would officially admit that it existed. You can catch up on all our AWA coverage with this handy tag. It […]
AWA or Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc is a new comic book publisher from former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas and former EIC Axel Alonso that Bleeding Cool has been reporting on since long before anyone would officially admit that it existed. You can catch up on all our AWA coverage with this handy tag. It […]
AWA or Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc is a new comic book publisher from former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas and former EIC Axel Alonso that Bleeding Cool has been reporting on since long before anyone would officially admit that it existed. You can catch up on all our AWA coverage with this handy tag. It […]
There should be a Five Steps of New York Comic Con, when you look at the schedule of events and realise that no matter how hard you try, you are not going to be able to get to see every panel you want to see, go round every booth you want to, meet every creator […]
Frank Cho posted a couple of days ago, a new page from his upcoming series for Artists, Writers & Artians, Inc, Fight Girls. Also in this case, he;s been fighting against the clock, and showed off the results of three hours worth of crosshatching on the background to one particular page… After which he went […]
When it comes to Terrific Production LLC's Twitter feed written by Andrew Rev (and it is he, there is no imitating that style), you have a smorgasbord of delights. His Trumpian style tweets jump from flattery to insult and back within seconds, leaving wiser heads shaking – but everyone reading. Well, between 400 and 500 […]
The New York Comic Con is undergoing a few changes for its 2019 show, running from Thursday, October 3rd to Sunday October 6th. It's still being held in the Javits Center, it still spreads itself around the city into locations such as the Hudson Mercantile, Madison Square Garden, and the New York Public Library. Changes include […]
Maybe Gabe Yocum isn't a glutton for punishment after all? Less than one month after leaving his cushy job at ReedPOP to rejoin former boss Bill Jemas at Jemas and Axel Alonso's Artists, Writers, and Artisans, Inc., Yocum has reversed course and announced he is leaving AWA and returning to ReedPOP. Yocum posted on Facebook: […]
Bleeding Cool gets the nod that one of our favourite comic book artists, Mike Deodato, currently drawing Savage Avengers – where he has just traumatised Punisherbronies the world over – is moving on… and where he is moving on to. He's spoken about finding a new outlet other than Marvel Comics recently, in favour of […]
Gabe Yocum used to run the direct sales department at Double Take, the comic book line of Take2 Interactive that was run by Bill Jemas. He'll have been there when Bill Jemas fell out with Ken Levine so the original plan to publish comics in a shared gaming universe of X-Com, Civilisation and Bioshock fell […]
Fight Girls is the new creator-owned series from Frank Cho, being published by AWA Comics, the new New York-based publisher founded by Bill Jemas as publisher and Axel Alonso as Editor-In-Chief. Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of "Queen of the Galaxy." […]
One final upcoming launch from Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso's new New York-based comics publisher, AWA Comics. Red Border by Jason Starr and Will Conrad. Jason Starr is a crime novelist, who has also written comics such as Punisher MAX and Wolverine MAX for Marvel when Alonso was EIC there, as well as writing Doc […]
We have another upcoming launch from Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso's new New York-based comics publisher, AWA Comics. Hotell by John Lees and Dalibor Talajić Lees is not the biggest of names, he broke out with indie hit And Then Emily Was Gone, with lots of work for ComixTribe including Oxymoron, Scam and Sink, […]
Benjamin Percy is a novelist-turned-comic book writer, with critically acclaimed runs on Green Arrow, Nightwing, Teen Titans and James Bond to his name. But he's taking the Bill Jemas and Azel Alonso shilling for two new creator-owned titles being published by AWA Comics as part of their Upshot creator-owned imprint. The first is Devil's Highway, […]
In 1989, the teenage Mark Millar wrote a comic called Saviour for Trident comics drawn by Daniel Vallely and Nigel Kitching and notable for having TV presenter Jonathan Ross as the anti-Christ. It was his first professionally published work, it was Trident's best-seller and, years later, Alex Ross tried to revive it at Vertigo. Many of the ideas […]
Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the existence of ex-Marvel publisher Bill Jemas' new comics-and-other-media publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans. based in New York with Axel Alonso as their editor-in-chief. Bleeding Cool previously reported on the publisher registering trademarks for the following: Color Angels Animatronically Correct Full House Eyepop Well, they had to abandon […]
