Dirk Wood Archives

"While other publishers may promote themselves as good partners or questionably tout themselves as creator-owned—as I've learned first-hand over the last five years—there is truly no publisher in the industry who champions the best interests of the retailers, creators, and the entire comic book industry alike as Image Comics does." Reporting to Boison are: Alex Cox,[...]

Humanoids' Mark Waid couldn't make it but Fantagraphics' Gary Groth, Boom Studios' Ross Richie, Dark Horse's Mike Richardson and IDW's Dirk Wood did The stream just wrapped. Along the way, Steve Geppi talked about the importance of communication from retailers, publishers and distributors, recommending that everyone needed to stay in their lane, publisher, retailers, distributors, that[...]

He will be joined by a number of publishers, including Gary Groth of Fantagraphics with whom Geppi had quite the turbulent relationship with back in the days that The Comic Journal rolled the roost, He is joined by Ross Richie of Boom Studios, Dirk Wood of IDW and former Fantagraphics and Boom editorial employee Mark[...]

I am typically not much of a fan of the convention panels where they just announce the new books for the next 6 to 12 months, but the IDW Artist's Edition Panel is always an exception, and with both Scott Dunbier, Director of Special Projects for IDW and the person behind the concept of Artist's[...]

PDX is the airport code for Portland's airport, which Dirk Wood, then IDW VP of Marketing, would regularly fly through as he was commuting from his home in Portland to IDW's offices in San Diego Adams wanted to do a magazine and Wood stepped up, which led to PDX and Full Bleed. They decided that Full[...]

To show just how serious IDW is taking this, the 200 page magazine, which mixes comics and prose, will be printed in hardcover, serving both as a vehicle to explore important topics such as comics, music, fine art, design, and more, and also as a heavy, blunt object suitable for bludgeoning someone to death, not[...]

Featuring Walter Simonson, Dirk Wood, James Tynion IV, and Greg Goldstein, IDW's Big Panel panel kicked off with a discussion of the 15 year history of Simonson's book Raganarok Simonson explained the ways in which his series was similar and differed from the traditional myth of Ragnarok, since different creatures survive, such as the Midgard[...]

 "No other fingers have ever touched the series", Goldman said, since he creates all aspects of the comic himself,  and 300 pages of the book are already in existence, which may well lead to several collected editions from IDW all told. IDW's Dirk Wood made a "big announcement" that they will be collecting Artful Daggers early[...]

IDW presented a spotlight on Joe Hill at Baltimore Comic Con to a packed room and Hill had plenty to say in conversation with IDW's Dirk Wood about his influences, upcoming projects, and the processes that have gone into creating, and completing the elaborate mythology of Locke & Key, though we may not have seen[...]