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From Shaky Kane, a new image every week… this time a cover from an upcoming issue of Mars Attacks from IDW… From Shaky Kane, a new image every week… this time a cover from an upcoming issue of Mars Attacks from IDW… From Shaky Kane, a new image every week… this time a cover from[...]

Frankenstein Alive, Alive!, the new comic from Steve Niles and Bernie Wightson has sold through its print run of 17,000 and IDW are going back to a second print That should appear on retailer's Final Order Cut Off list next week, and printed for July the 4th. Frankenstein Alive, Alive!, the new comic from Steve[...]

Not only is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 from IDW the first monthly comic to be sold singly in Apple's iBooks on the same day it's out in print, but it's also at the top spot! Though, you know, those Walking Dead volumes are probably better value. In other availability news, IDW's Ghostbusters line[...]

Or PVX as the modern vernacular would have it. A variant cover by John Byrne for the four issue of the ongoing Popeye comic from IDW. Or PVX as the modern vernacular would have it. A variant cover by John Byrne for the four issue of the ongoing Popeye comic from IDW. Or PVX as the modern[...]

 So, when he announced in February that he would be joining Roger Langridge on IDW's new Popeye series, it was an exciting prospect  Neely has long drawn influence from E.C Segar's work, and even paid homage to him in his mini-comic, Doppelgänger. I spoke to him earlier this week to find out more about his work on Popeye,[...]

Next week, IDW are to publish the first ever Doctor Who crossover, mixing continuities with those of Star Trek: The Next Generation And the first issue just turned up in the post And, appropriately for a crossover, it's a mixed bag. We have Cyberman and Borg teamed up, fighting Starfleet in an even more aggressive fashion[...]

Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland collects these stories in oversized format, featuring meticulous modern coloring by Charlie Kirchoff. ISBN-13: 978-1-61377-488-5 Price: $49.99 ($62.50 CAN) Publisher: IDW Publishing Writer: John Wagner Artist: Brian Bolland Size: 9.25 x 12 Page Count: 248 Format: Hardcover, Full Color Recommended Age: Mature Readers (ages 16 and up) Genre: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure Ship Date: 10/24/2012 [...]

All hail Scott Dunbier, IDW editor, for this most mighty of artistic formats On the hundredth anniversary of Tarzan, we get a real treat. Joe Kubert is one of the most lauded artists in the history of comics, a true living legend He has been a vital creative force since the 1940s and remains so to[...]

We believe the price of our comics is justified by the content and that we deliver an exceptional value for the price. IDW's Ted Adams over at ICV2 seems to agree about the print vs digital playoff. There's just no question at this point that selling comics digitally is definitively not impacting [print] comic book sales[...]

Mars Attacks #1 from IDW will come in 58 cover varieties… 56 normal and 2 special variants Bleeding Cool is happy to present them all… do enjoy. Here's the relevant info. "#1-54: All original art from the 1962 card set by Wally Wood, Bob Powell, and Norman Saunders. #55: The synopsis in lieu of checklist card. #56: John McCrea's[...]

Recent, IDW published a new Popeye comic book The first in quite a while. And it sold Sold well And kept on selling. And I've got the numbers The full, actual, honest numbers that count sales to the direct market in the US, Canada and the UK These are never released by publishers, for fear of exposing[...]

And Amy Pond? Tip top. This is the Forbidden Planet variant cover to Star Trek Next Generation: Doctor Who: Assimilation Squared. Advising writer Tony Lee will be signing copies at the London Shaftesbury Avenue branch on the 30th of May. Intriguingly, because Star Trek Next Generation comes first in the title, it can be legally distributed by IDW in the UK[...]

Taylor Ramsey sat down for Bleeding Cool this weekend at C2E2 to speak with Menton3 and Kasra Ghanbari of IDW's MONOCYTE to discuss the series, the creative and religious influences, and the upcoming hardcover collection. Taylor:  I'm loving the stuff that you guys are doing right now at IDW with MONOCYTE, it is wonderfully creepy looking,[...]

Admittedly it's just a cover for now. Zach Howard and Nelson Daniel are best known together for their work on The Cape for the same publisher, IDW Say, could that mean that Joe Hill may be temped to come aboard as well?   Yes, I know, I know Letting an American draw Judge Dredd And a Chilean[...]

At the Diamond Chicago Retailer Summit, taking place right now, IDW announced to the retailers present a new project, teaming up Danger Girl and GI Joe. They've also been telling the assembled retailers that while their digital sales are up by ten prcent, so are their print sales. And given a list of upcoming attractions from The[...]

So what looks good? Resident Alien from Dark Horse is a must, as is Boba Fett Is Dead, there's the long awaited Shooters from DC, a little Next Men, a pinch of Manhattan Projects, some Amazing Spider-Man, a modicum of Stitched, Pocket God, Castle Waiting and Harvey Pekar... DARK HORSE COMICS 3 STORY SECRET FILES O/T GIANT MAN[...]

Now, with IDW announcing a six issue adaptation of Infected that's changed and Sigler is all set to take a new medium by storm He took a few minutes out from the promo tour for his latest book, Nocturnal, to talk to me about Infected and how he got into comics. What inspired Infected? The study of[...]

Gotta admit I'm one of those people who finds April Fools the most annoying internet day of the year, but there were a few good ones this time around — notably IDW's Mars Attacks Broadway Musical written by John Layman  And Scott Dunbier got me for about 5 minutes with this tweet. What can I say? I'm[...]

Yesterday, the Horror Writers Association held its 25th annual Bram Stoker Awards, recognizing superior achievements in horror writing.  The 2011 awards consideration marked the first-ever inclusion of the category "Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel."  The contenders included: Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (First Second) Locke & Key Volume 4 by Joe Hill (IDW Publishing) Green River Killer[...]

Two days ago, I got the Mars Attacks To Be A Broadway Play press release from IDW I didn't run it for three reasons First, I was going to bed at the time Secondly, I forgot to run it when I woke up, life got in the way And then thirdly when I had time[...]

Marvel have most titles, but IDW have a fair number too Fill your boots, folks… Amazing Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth HC $10.41 Full price $29.99 65% off August. Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 2: Devil in the Details $5.25 Full price $12.99 60% off July. Avengers: X-Sanction $10.51 Full price $24.99 55% off May. Iron Man: Revenge of[...]

More Doctor Who/Star Trek, new KISS comics, Groo The Wanderer as an Artist's Edition, there's plenty to choose from, from IDW's offerings in June And then of course there are those 55 covers for Mars Attacks… and the box set if you're a glutton for punishment. MARS ATTACKS #1 (W) John Layman (A) John McCrea (CA) Wally[...]

IDW agreed to publish Womanthology: Heroic as a result (at that point it had transformerd from a publishing impossibility to a no brainer) and it was finally published through comic stores this week (as a funder, I'll have one in the post…) At WonderCon, IDW announced an ongoing Womanthology series-of-mini-series headed by be De Liz, the[...]

He gave some headlines the other day, today, he talks about yesterday's IDW Panel at WonderCon in full. The IDW Panel at WonderCon 2012 announced their gaining the rights to Judge Dredd, Mark Waid writing the Rocketeer with Chris Samnee, and fifty-five variant covers to Mars Attacks #1. The panel got off to a start with the[...]

Peter S Svensson, reporting from WonderCon for Bleeding Cool, emails to let us know that IDW will be publishing a four issue sequel to Joe Hill and Ciarmella's The Cape series, entitled The Cape: 1969. Is a trip to the moon in order? He also lets us know that John Shirley, who wrote the first draft of[...]

To date, IDW's Artist's Edition format has reprinted the original artwork of the likes of Will Eisner, Dave Stevens, Wally Wood, David Mazzuchelli, Walter Simonson and John Romita Sr Big mainstream names in serious action comics. But I understand that at Wondercon, IDW are to announce a major diversion from that And it's one that's surprising[...]

The cover story features the return of Valiant Entertainment, and its regular features will provide ample coverage of all the top publishers, including Dark Horse, DC Comics, Marvel, Image, IDW, Boom, Avatar Press, Top Cow, and more The full-length regular magazine launch will take place in October, featuring over one hundred pages of insightful features,[...]

The one major element kept out of all of these reviews by "hardcore fans" was the connection the plot has to the IDW comic book series. These videogame reviewers, who say they love Silent Hill and all things about it, didn't even bother to mention little things like Ryall State Penitentiary being a nod to Chris[...]

The oversize collection of a specific comic book run in a fashion more suited to French albums has been a mainstay of a number of publisher's plans since, bumping up revenue significantly at Christmas time. Then Scott Dunbier innovated The Artist's Edition format at IDW, reprinting a comic by going to the original art and reproducing[...]

I met JK Woodward at the London Super Comic Convention last weekend. And once I established that he hadn't done the Fallen Angel cover that featured in