Currently, AWA already has Murdoch money, courtesy of James Murdoch's Lupa Systems, as well as SISTER, and Lightspeed Venture Partners Zach Studin is president of AWA Studios, Axel Alonso is co-founder and CCO over editorial, Matthew Anderson is co-chair and president, and Jon Miller, co-founder and co-chair, is the lead of AWA's executive team No[...]
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Fully funded by James Murdoch's Lupa Systems, Sister Group, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, AWA has some of the biggest names in comics and film, such as J Michael Straczynski, Reggie Hudlin, Garth Ennis, and Frank Cho working to craft new worlds, characters, and stories for a 21st Century audience Find out more about our work[...]
The company is fully funded by James Murdoch and Lightspeed Venture Partners They clearly have the long game in mind AWA has at least sixteen more titles in the pipeline from creators like Reginald Hudlin, Christa Faust, Frank Cho and Garth Ennis.
We've read the first issues and they're a strong lineup with a lot of[...]
According to a paywalled report by the Wall Street Journal, James Murdoch, the 46-year-old large adult son of conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch, has taken his share of the money from the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney and will invest part of it in Jemas and Alonso's AWA.
"The value of storytelling is only[...]