We know that Day Men, the new horror series from Boom! studios, has sold as a movie option But why Day Men and not many of the other successful comics of its type?
Well I'm not going into the ins and outs of the people involved, mostly because I'm not sure I've got all the names[...]
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We also have Boom! and a fraction of winners connected to DC and Marvel.
The Shel Dorf awards honor the "best and brightest talent" in the industry, but are based on fan voting So the people have spoken and it's good to see some creator-owned taking the spotlight The breakaway success here is clearly the newcomer[...]
Planned to debut digitally from Archaia, with a graphic novel to follow next summer, the plans for actress/producer Alyssa Milano's comic Hacktivist appear to have changed, after a preview was given away at San Diego Comic Con.
Instead, it is coming out as a monthly series from Archaia Black Label/Boom! Studios Written by Milano, Collin Kelly[...]
Jeremy Konrad writes for Bleeding Cool; Sunday morning at NYCC, Saturday Night Live actor Taran Killam showed off his new IDW comic The Illegitimates to a
It's nearly go time for the floor opening of New York Comic Con 2013, with a little over two hours remaining until the throngs arrive, with panels already
Curse is a new comic from Boom! by and all-star team of Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Riley Rossmo and Colin Lorimer
The first issue ships in January and it is a four issue mini series.
Laney Griffith is a man who will do anything to save his son from leukemia, but the cost of treatment has broken him[...]
Archaia Entertainment (which merged with Boom! in June of 2013) is known for producing books that have that extra aesthetic appeal, and also for ushering a fairly diverse range of licensed properties into comics form This autumn, it seems that they have recognized and accentuated those traits as something that sets their books apart and[...]
The event takes place in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium of the main library, 325 Superior Ave., and is free and open to the public.
CAR TOONISTS
Comics Beat outlines a new kind of Con War, the Boom Vs Valiant Vs Image Vs Dark Horse battle of the cars at NYCC….
COMIC BOOK JANE
Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet[...]
As we get a Doctor Who Christmas special on the TV, we get one in comics as well.
And for those looking for action figures at the bottom of their stocking, there's a Robotech/Voltron comic.
Here are the books:
DC: Forever Evil #4 and tie in comic Justice League #26
IDW: Doctor Who Special #1
Image: Saviors #1
Boom: Deceivers #1[...]
Del Rey, published by Boom! Studios, went on sale in comic stores last week, but has burned through it's 10,000 print run for the first issue, and is going to second print, Hence the second print cover above.
And if you think that the cast look like a familiar nineties TV show, well, X-Files is currently[...]
Another look through a bunch of this week's comics! The Carry On team debut in It Came, as official British Army soldiers to provide some much needed
From the new August figures;
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES
RETAIL MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER
SHARE
MARVEL COMICS
33.70%
DC COMICS
30.16%
IMAGE COMICS
7.86%
IDW PUBLISHING
5.70%
DARK HORSE COMICS
5.47%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
3.01%
BOOM! STUDIOS
2.05%
EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD
1.34%
AVATAR PRESS INC
0.95%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
0.94%
OTHER NON-TOP 10
8.83%
UNIT MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER
SHARE
MARVEL COMICS
36.30%
DC COMICS
33.14%
IMAGE COMICS
8.51%
IDW PUBLISHING
4.98%
DARK HORSE COMICS
4.80%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
2.93%
BOOM! STUDIOS
2.07%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
1.03%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
0.97%
ASPEN MLT INC
0.65%
OTHER NON-TOP 10
So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]
Such as this, for a new… something from Boom! Studios, from Adventure Time comic creators Ryan North, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb.
Raptors In Space or somesuch?
Either way, it's probably out in December Most things are now.
As Baltimore Comic Con showed, it's about now that publishers are starting to begin to eek out their December[...]
Announced at the Goerge Perez Spotlight panel at Baltimore Comic Con today, is the news that Perez' project for Boom! Studios, for whom he had signed an exclusive contract, would be She-Devils Here's some art, exclusively provided to CBR.
Eight women, all with super, or paranormal or heightened abilities, in one comic book You can see[...]
Caleb Monroe: This is it, the final issue we’ve been working toward! As always, SPOILERS AHEAD. From the very beginning, I planned to tackle STEED AND
Clearly they thought there were secrets detrimental to the national interest and held them as long as they could, before finally deciding they were just comic books.
I've talked about writing the parody comic series for Boom! at length, so I won't bore you now, but I thought I might share the back cover quote with[...]
But now it seems that Boom! Studios wants to take that in-house Kinda.
They have launched an Artist Submissions page on Facebook for pencillers, inkers, colourists, letterers… but not writers!
It's just for art samples, not for messages, and Boom will reoply to people's contact information if they wish to.
However, by doing it so openly, it could[...]
A little look at what's happening in the world of cover variants.
Later today, Boom! Studios will announce that the first six issues of the Sons Of Anarchy comic will all have a new 1-in-10 chase variant cover, that combine in a hexatech, a paronamic image based on the Season 6 promo released last month The[...]
kaBoom! is publishing a new Regular Show spinoff, Skips, a new four issue limited series by Mad Rupert, with variant cover guests Kel McDonald, Mia Schwartz and Tessa Stone.
Debuting in November, here's the bumf, and the rest of the covers…
WHY WE LOVE IT: No one is more mysterious in the crazy world of REGULAR SHOW[...]
We followed it up with the news that Boom, Arcana and Titan were in the final running for the coveted prize.
I understand, as of this morning, that British publisher Titan Comics has successfully won the US license, and will begin publication with stories featuring the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi Doctors next year.
Panini currently hold[...]
The final Shadowman #11 variant cover, featuring a perforated, removable Shadowman mask (and Halloween accompaniment) as designed by the great Rian
Time for another run through the week's comic books, in the most most popular weekly column at Bleeding Cool, X Thoughts About X. Every neighbourhood
Thrilling Adventure Hour, the new original graphic novel from Archaia is in stores tomorrow, but it actually sold out at the distributor level almost 3
Superior FOES is a truly unique book on the Marvel racks, Spenser made me care about Boomerang! And Deadpool Kills Deadpool is so out of touch with reality…Pandapool! Either that excites you or it doesn't I love Panda's, my nickname is Panda Baron!
DC didn't disappoint with new writers clicking on three titles[...]
This was a tweet from Mark Waid, presuming regarding the film 2 Guns, based on a screenplay by Steven Grant, and the 2 Guns comic from Boom! drawn by Mateus Santolouco Mark Waid was, until fairly recently, editor-in-chief of Boom! Studios.
Grant declined to comment, but encouraged people to speculate as they wish and invited Waid[...]
Data courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Mark Seifert, based on some serious jigging around with Bleeding Cool page views. With the films and TV, Marvel won San
Ron Richards was there for Image, Filip Sablik and Stephen Christy were there for Boom/Archaia, and Dirk Wood was there for IDW.
The first question asked was whether superheroes made sense for the indy comic book companies Ron gave his personal opinion, not that of Image Comics, and said he thinks Marvel and DC have cornered[...]
At the weekend, Bleeding Cool reported rumours that the US Doctor Who comics licence, to conclude at the end of the year, was likely to go to either Boom! or Titan.
We now have a few more notes and another name to go with that.
Firstly, I'm told that Titan Comics have proposed buying the UK published[...]
Day Men #1 has sold out at the distributor level of its full 12,000 printing after going on sale last week and Boom! are setting up a second printing, cover above.
Thanks for the stats folks, here's the plug;
DAY MEN #1 is the first time Brian Stelfreeze has drawn interiors on a regular series since 2005[...]
From two very separate people in two very separate parts of San Diego Comic Con, I had the exact two names as publishers gunning for the Doctor Who license, now that IDW and the BBC are splitting at the end if the year.
The two publishers are Titan Comics and Boom! Studios Titan Comics are local[...]