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Following the hirings of  John Cassaday and Mark Waid as executives, Humanoids has revealed what their H1 initiative is all about: a brand new shared superhero universe by an impressive lineup of creators, all listed at the top of their press release: John Cassaday * Mark Waid * Kwanza Osajyefo * Carla Speed McNeil * Yanick Paquette *[...]

Meyer, one of the few people in comics less sympathetic than Waid himself, Waid has now been named the new Director of Creative Development by publisher Humanoids Waid's hiring follows the addition of John Cassaday as Chief Creative Officer, all part of Humanoids' new H1 initiative, as first revealed at The Hollywood Reporter. "This opportunity excites[...]

Humanoids has announced a new wave of graphic novels for Life Drawn, the literary imprint launched by the publisher earlier this year to publish more serious artsy comics alongside Humanoids' artsy genre comics The imprint is designed to spotlight "personal stories and provocative, political narratives," and the new lineup of titles seems to fit the bill[...]

Humanoids has announced a new literary imprint in 2018, timed to the company's 20th anniversary of publishing books in the United States Best known for genre works including The Incal (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mœbius) and The Metabarons (Jodorowsky, Gimenez) and internationally renowned creators, including Milo Manara and Jose Ladronn, Humanoids will launching on April 4th, the[...]

Almost a month ago, we reported that Humanoids was looking for a sales & marketing director in Los Angeles Word is that they've found their person Humanoids, Inc has hired Jud Meyers to be their new Director of Sales & Marketing. Jud began his career in comics behind the scenes working for Titan Publishing in London[...]

Humanoids has announced today that Fabrice Sapolsky has joined the publisher as a Senior Editor His job will be to cover the current and upcoming Humanoids universe and a soon-to-be announced new imprint Sapolsky has over 20 years experience in the publishing industry including creating France's premiere magazine about American comics books, Comic Box He[...]

Fans of the Humanoids series The Metabaron… or fans of watching talented artists work… should tune into Facebook tomorrow as Valentin Sécher will be working on Book 3 of the Metabaron live on the Humanoids Facebook page. The Metabaron is a spin-off of the Incal series created by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Juan Gimenez. Sécher, age 29, is currently[...]

 So when Humanoids puts out a press release talking about it, I pay attention. The publisher has released a new logo today:   We're told that the new logo, done by Humanoids' senior art director Jerry Frissen, will be used in connection of some new projects to be announced later in the year involving both publishing and entertainment[...]

Humanoids has sent us a new trailer and some preview pages for their new book, Brüssli: Way of the Dragon Boy That is pronounced "Bruce Lee"… The new graphic novel hits book stores tomorrow and comics shops on Wednesday and to go with the release, the publisher is doing a contest… details below. Here is the synopsis for[...]

I understand that the Paris branch of Humanoids will be at Paris Comic Con this weekend with a big announcement. It's all very hush hush, but word is that it will be Esad Ribić and Mukesh Singh working on Metabaron the new comic in the Metabarons series. This will be Esad's first confirmed work to follow up the yet-to-be-concluded million-selling[...]

The graphic novel publisher Humanoids are looking to make a substantial hire out of their Hollywood offices, that of a Sales & Marketing Director, overseeing sales and marketing in the USA You may know them as the publisher whose books you drool over at conventions, thereby overcrowding their booth with loitering Now's your chance to[...]

The Tipping Point is a new comic book volume by Humanoids, featuring thirteen stories from comics creators from the USA, Japan and Europe over a hundred pages. The thirteen are John Cassaday, Paul Pope, Bob Fingerman, Frederik Peeters, Katsuya Terada, Naoki Urasawa, Bastien Vives, Taiyo Matsumoto, Emmanuel Lepage, Eddie Campbell, Atsushi Kaneko and Enki Bilal[...]

Ten years after it was originally published, Humanoids are republishing Geoff Johns, Kris Grimminger and Butch Guice's graphic novel Olympus This was before Johns was CCO of DC Comics. In this high-octane adventure, chaos is unleashed when a group of brash archaeology graduate students and a team of ruthless mercenaries are shipwrecked together on the legendary[...]

Deviant Virtues is a trilogy of short stories written by Rose Le Guirec and drawn by Regis Loisel, a husband and wife team and published by Humanoids that "explores sensuality, offering unique insights into rituals, festivals and erotica." Basically it' a little on the naughty side. In The Offering a curvaceous young nymph is offered as a sacrifice to a[...]

The folks at Eurocomics bumped into Humanoids at San Diego Comic Con As well as getting a from-the-horse's-mouth explanation of the current state of Moebius licences, they got some clarification on the English publication plans for titles already being published by them in French. Here's what we know First about Moebius Humanoids controls the worldwide publication rights to[...]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it. Semi-recently: Humanoids Inc.  (Les Humanoïdes Associés if you're nasty), brought their current output of English translations of European comics to Comixoloxy Cue me freaking out with delight, but still managing to[...]

Well now the director of Green Lantern, Martin Campbell, is getting another got at a comic adaptation but this one sounds like it will be far more ground like the directors time with MI6 on Casino Royale than the deep space adventures of the GL Corps. Campbell has teamed up with Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking[...]

Humanoids Publishing has announced that The Metabaron will return in 2016 in a four book series, based on a story by series co-creator Alejandro Jodorowsky, written by Jerry Frissen and drawn by four different artist Each book will be 108 pages long and published every eight months. The Metabaron was introduced as part of The Incal, first created[...]

After the Grant Morrison/Warren Ellis discussion about superheroes at the British Library the other night, I decamped with Tim Pilcher, Alex Fitch and

Want to get some of the Humanoids graphic novels but they're too big to fit in your pocket? They've got an app for that Humanoids has entered the digital arena by launching the catalog of titles through their own app – Humanoids Comics – as well as via Google Play and the iBookStore. The move starter[...]

When Humanoids was first founded over 40 Years ago in Paris, Jean "Moebius" Giraud  hand drew the logo for the company The original piece of art has been missing ever since It showed up in a Manhattan auction last week where Humanoids bought it back. It's not known what the purchase price was or how it[...]

Kurt Busiek's next published comics project, in English, will be Redhand, published by Humanoids, and now coming to the English language And he'll also be writing the third volume Nope, though the new writer is a mystery. The first two volumes of the book were drawn by Italian artist Mario Alberti while the third is by[...]

It's one of the most unique comics you'll read all year, and afterwards you'll want to assemble your own tadpole gangster squad. District 14 – Season 1 (Humanoids) Written by Pierre Gabus Illustrated by Romuald Reutimann 304 Pages, Black & White $39.95 Cameron Hatheway is the host of Cammy's Comic Corner and Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Sonoma State STAR[...]

His backgrounds are just as dazzling as the characters that are front and center, and the facial expressions were extremely well done throughout. While I haven't read the comic in the original language it was translated from, I thought Humanoids did a superb job adapting it for Western audiences When I finally got to the last[...]

You may know him from drawing the first third of Chase Variant: One Shot Is All I Need from Image. But in Fenruary, Humanoids are publishing a full English translation of his graphic novel Legend Of The Scarlet Blades, 192 pages thick in full colour for $29.95 Seriously that's something worth salivating over The twisted tale of[...]