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And is going to a fourth printing of its new X-Files #1 comic from IDW, after selling out of its 2,500 print run for the third print. Hit #1, the new comic from Bryce Carlson and Vanesa R Del Rey, published by Boom! Studios, went on sale in comic stores last week, but has burned[...]

IDW hosted a grand total of 9 comic creators to talk about upcoming work on their "big panel" at Baltimore Comic Con, and the atmosphere suggested that a turn toward the creator owned was part of the proliferation of quite diverse titles in the coming months It turned out that a remarkable number of those[...]

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[...]

Maybe he'd do better if he tried being a rightie. The comic will be out before the end of the month, along with other IDW comics also delayed without Obama's face on them And then Obama will come around to your house to take them away anyway. The Other Dead, a new zombie comic featuring zombie[...]

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[...]

The beginning of the end, The final story of this epic series of series from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW. And here are all the individual retailer variant editions… will your store be getting one? [...]

The Artist's Edition format for IDW, in which the original art of a comic book is reproduced as accurately as possibly, down to the very boards they were printed on, allowing a collector to have as close to the same experience of owning the original art, and then published as a high end volume IDW[...]

As well as his upcoming Spider-Man: Family Business project with Mark Waid and Gabriel Dell'Otto, James Robinson told fans at Fan Expo Canada that he will be writing two Marvel monthly books he said. Could that be two launches for the Marvel Now Two project coming at the end of the year/beginning of 2014? He also let[...]

Something we managed to miss a whole month ago. TV, comic and novel writer Paul Cornell wrote a blog post about his upcoming final Doctor Who comic book story The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, the last such licenced comic from IDW (before Titan get the deal). And it includes a preview of the first two pages,[...]

It's Wednesday! Lots of comics came out today! Here are a few thoughts about a few of them. Mostly (but not totally) ones I haven't talked about already

Which, conveniently, is also an excellent horror comic from Rachel Deering, who worked on Amelia Cole and the Unknown World which arrives in print from IDW this week. Segues They're not just for guided tours around Santa Cruz. Amelia Cole and the Unknown World follows Amelia, a female magician in her early '20s Amelia's smart, talented and,[...]

Or not. And in the new Doctor Who comic from IDW, issue #12, written by Andy Diggle, and approved by all sorts of BBC people Showing the last day of the Time War on Gallifrey And it's very destruction… Rejected that name? The renegade? HURT: "What I did, I did without choice… in the name of peace and[...]

I am a big fan of Sam Kieth's The Maxx and I am so happy that it's coming back from IDW But it's not just old stuff made anew that's caught me eye this month in IDW's solicitations, Joe Hill and Charles P Wilson's The Wraith is set to be a standout now that Locke[...]

But in November, IDW are promoting the Artist's Edition format that reproduces original artwork as closely as possible, with Artist's Edition variant covers for a line of books, so as look as if the original artwork for a page is being reproduced on the cover. They will also run some blank versions to encourage people to[...]

This is the rejected Godzilla pitch that let Joshia Dysart write Harbinger...  

He writes; So I read that this was being made into a toy? wow, and I thought only 3rd party companies take stuff without giving any notice, acknowledgement or compensation.. FYI: hasbro nor idw solicited me to do this design, I did it on my own I originally came up with a different design seen here: www.deviantart.com/art/ATB-Meg… it[...]

Over San Diego Comic Con, Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that IDW and BBC were coming to the end of their Doctor Who US licence at the end of the year and were not renewing Odds are it had become a lot more expensive We followed it up with the news that[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon IDW Treasury Editions are doing well by Joe Hill First they released his Terrifyingly Tragic Treasury Edition and now Locke & Key has been given a more direct spotlight in its own volume (priced at $9.99 in 8 ½ by 13 inches) IDW's choice of story for the edition was spot-on and the[...]

But credit where credit's due: my friend Nand suggested the Pinterest idea. Let me back up a bit. My name is Dara Naraghi, and I'm a writer with a whole bunch of comics and graphic novels to my credit, including works for DC, Image, IDW, and Dark Horse A couple of my books have even made it[...]

You can catch up with Swierczynski's work if you're as fast as a squirrel on crack by reading Judge Dredd from IDW, Bloodshot from Valiant, and X from Darkhorse. Hannah Means-Shannon writes and blogs about comics for TRIP CITY and Sequart.org and is currently working on books about Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore for Sequart[...]

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[...]

Based in London, they would also be relatively local and on the same time zone. Boom! however have shown enormous success with recent licences such as Adventure Time and Regular Show, and it would make the publication of a rumoured planned-at-IDW Doctor Who series written by Mark Waid very easy They also have a greater US[...]

Devin T. Quin, writing for Bleeding Cool San Diego is home to a variety of impressive flora and fauna. I have seen a plethora of snails, marveled at the

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[...]

I've yet to see the film, but the clips I was shown were quite amusing, in a "let's parody the worst of the 70s and have fun in the process!" manner. IDW announced that they would be doing a comic of it at Wonder Con earlier this year No creative team was announced, but that's not[...]

Darby Pop Publishing, the year old company founded by Jeff Kline and David Wohl has joined into a publishing/distribution partnership with IDW Publishing.   Darby Pop Publishing is pleased to announce it has entered into a publishing and distribution partnership with premier comic book publisher IDW.  The announcement was made during Comic-Con International: San Diego. Darby Pop Publishing[...]

Here's some more detail spinning out of that IDW Judge Dredd/2000 AD panel Remember reading the US reprint versions of the 2000 AD-related material in the late 80s / early 90s and being blown away by the creative greatness and wonderful weirdness of it all?  I'm betting a lot of you do  2000 AD might[...]

Hannah Means-Shannon writes for Bleeding Cool: Hosted by Douglas Wolk, the Judge Dredd/2000AD IDW panel brought out a fleet of artists, editors, and writers included Ulises Farinas, Duane Swierczynski, Chris Ryall, Ben Smith, Keith Richardson, John Higgins, Michael Molcher and Henry Flint to a crowded room with plenty of impromptu applause from fired up readers. Swierczynski introduced[...]

Best known for his creator-owned work Cerebus, Dave Sim has brought his latest project The Strange Death Of Alex Raymond to IDW Publishing. Prolific creator Dave Sim's meta-adventure through the history of photo-realistic artwork, the career and death of Alex Raymond, and much more, will be published by IDW! Sim's originally self-published work is being completely[...]

Their titles are diverse and interesting from titles such as "Mono" and "Testement." Recently Madefire has partnered with IDW, and it was announced early Thursday that they will be bringing popular titles like Star Trek, Transformers, and many other IDW titles to life with their innovative app Amongst this news was the announcement of their partnership[...]