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Can you guess which publisher it is? Of course you can! It's TidalWave Comics, the publisher formerly known as StormFront Comics (for serious), formerly known as BlueWater Comics before that And this isn't the first Donald Trump comic they've published In fact, they released one back in early November, before Trump's shocking victory in the election[...]

Tidal Wave Comics, the publisher formerly known as Storm Comics, even more formerly (unfortunately) known as Storm Front Comics, and most formerly of all known as Bluewater Comics, may be the first comic book company to cash in on Donald Trump's… excuse me… *gulp*… President Trump's victory in last night's election by featuring him prominently in a comic[...]

In July, Bleeding Cool pointed out that controversial comic book publisher Bluewater Comics had changed its name to StormFront Publishing. I pointed out that Stormfront is a word normally associated with fascism and fascist sympathiser organisations At the time, Bluewater's Darren G Davis told me "Stormfront has been around for about 15 years when I started comic[...]

  Bluewater Productions, founded by Darren G Davis, are a comic book publisher that roared to prominence on the back of a series of political figure biographies, diversified into entertainment and other famous names, as they continued to publish a number of fantasy and sci-fi series. Bluewater Comics logo. As much as they received mass publicity for many[...]

  PETA and Bluewater have released this image by Michael Dorman to highlight the campaign to remove horse drawn carriage rides in New York City, and urge NYCC attendees to boycott the service. Not sure if it's exactly representative of a real and present danger, but, Mayor Bill de Blasio will soon officially announce his long-debated plans to unveil a[...]

Darren G Davis is the publisher of Bluewater Comics, who have come in for considerable criticism of late, whether for not paying creators, asking creators to sign work-for-hire-back-end contracts, and much more, there have certainly been some disgruntled folk involved with Bluewater, who specialise in biographical comic books that, once upon a time, sold large[...]

You can see it on Overdrive, iTunes, Amazon and Wowio. Space Women Beyond The Stratosphere written by Scott Amundson. But by issue 4, there was a new

  Getting press all over the place after we first reported the story, including Time, Breitbart and Philly.com, here's a preview of the upcoming Edward Snowden biographcial comic book by comic industry legend Valerie D'Orazio and Lauer Oliveira from Bluewater Press     Getting press all over the place after we first reported the story, including Time, Breitbart and Philly.com,[...]

But now, things seem to be going her way a little more. There's the free release of Occasional Superheroine. From Bluewater, there's Beyond: Edward Snowden   There's another on the curse of the Joker, and clown history in Beyond: The Joker, Man Who Laughs .   Which handily comes out a week before the Batman: Death of the Family Book and Joker[...]

Around ten years ago, Valerie D'Orazio was at the centre of controversy, after her essay Goodbye To Comics, in which she analysed an industry and culture that seemed to be on the brink of killing her, as well as alleging serious sexual assault by a senior editor at DC comics! where she worked. Over the last[...]

Mario Gully of Ant fame has drawn a cover for a new Bluewater comic, Drake He posts the art on his Facebook, stating specifically that it's a commissioned homage by Bluewater publisher Darren Davis of a Batman piece by David Finch.  Here they are together – clicky for biggy. It's not the only inspiration Bluewater is[...]

A few days ago, we reported how Jaymes Reed had pulled his creator owned Comics COMICS biography line from Bluewater, amidst allegations and delays of non payment. In reply, Bluewater publisher Darren G Davis stated that he was only publishing the line as a favour and the books were only selling less than 200 copies each[...]

"It's the Bleeding Cool stuff that drives me the battiest" – Darren G Davis, in a rather Bleeding Cool obsessed interview with Hideous Energy. In that interview Darren G Davis, publisher and owner of Bluewater makes some entertaining comments about me and Bleeding Cool some true, some verifiably false, but the overall impression is that Bleeding Cool[...]

I've been running a number of articles recently on comic creators who have been unpaid on certain comic projects – and in some cases actually getting them paid. But I had one complaint recently from a creator who had not been paid for their work for Bluewater They sent me the contract and then told me[...]

Arcana Comics have announced they are buying up a large chunk of Bluewater's publishing library Basically, everything except the biography and most of the licenced titles, to be published in trade paperback form. So that means 10th Muse, Legend of Isis, Judo Girl, Styx and Stone, Deathsport Games, Orion the Hunter, Blackbeard Legacy, Paparazzi, Warlock, Leprechaun[...]

A number of publishers have moved to day-and-date digital comic books, releasing comics digitally on the same day that they are available in the major markets of the US, Canada and the UK. Bluewater, famed publishers of lightboxed slimline biography comic books of politicians and pop stars, is taking advantage of the current furore over the[...]

One of the central criticisms of biographical and licensed comics publisher Bluewater, is that it deals in back-end work-for-hire contracts The people sign all their rights away but only get paid from profits, if any, if the book sells over a certain number Which has seen people not receive a penny and not own anything[...]

Bleeding Cool pointed out how Conan O'Brien had been trying to make a comic book character, The Flaming C. Well, now it seems Bluewater are making this American talk show host and comedian into a comic book. Part of their Fame series, this will likely be the rather bland, lightboxed photos with narrative captions taken from non-controversial[...]

Bluewater Producstion are best known for two things Their biographical comic line, and their work-for-hire back end contracts… Well, next year they seem to be upping their fiction comics considerably. Including the headline friendly Mis-Adventures Of Adam West drawn by Lipe, the headline baiting Jailbait by Mary Jo Pehl and Adrian Rodriguez, about a team of young[...]

He has yet to find a publisher. Calling Bluewater? Female Force One Hundred Years On maybe? Next year, Peter Bagge is to teach a course at Seattle University on the art of writing graphic novels Creator of Neat Stuff, Hate, his Hulk strip finally seeing print in Marvel's Strange Tales and an upcoming graphic novel for[...]

Bluewater Productions are rush soliciting a Michael Jackson Tribute biographical comic book for October Here are a couple of wrap covers. Bluewater came to prominence initially with their Female Force biographical comics in the wake… and basically ripping off the production style of IDW's very successful Barack Obama and John McCain biographical comics Seriously, look… IDW's[...]