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Joe Books June 2018 Solicits
Joe Books has one-shot comics for Mulan, Elena of Avalor, Incredibles 2, and Coco coming out this June Plus, Riftworld: Legends and the Disney Princess series continue on. Incredibles and Wall-E are receiving graphic novel retellings Details below. APR181611 DISNEY ELENA AVALOR PRINCE TOO CHARMING ONE SHOT (W/A/CA) Disney Princess Elena saved her enchanted kingdom from an evil sorceress and must now rule as crown princess until she is old enough[...]
FCBD Ariel Spotlight Rerelease and Princess and the Frog One-Shot: Joe Books March 2018 Solicits
Joe Books' Disney Princess: Ariel Spotlight by Paul Benjamin, Amy Mebberson, and more is getting a re-release for Free Comic Book Day 2018 Plus, The Princess and the Frog is getting a one-shot, and Riftworld Legends continues with its second issue Check out the details below. JAN180008 FCBD 2018 DISNEY PRINCESS ARIEL SPOTLIGHT (W) Paul Benjamin & Various (A) Amy Mebberson & Various (CA) Amy Mebberson The[...]
Joe Books February 2018
Set in the world of Riftworld Chronicles, Riftworld Legends is launching this February courtesy of Joe Books It will be written by Jonathan Williams with art by Daniel Wong. Plus, Disney Princess #17 is being released and will feature stories about Ariel, Rapunzel, Aurora, Belle, Tiana, Cinderella, and more. DISNEY PRINCESS #17 (W/A/CA) Disney Disney's beloved heroines have returned! Featuring laugh-out-loud stories from the worlds of Ariel,[...]
Martellus Bennett
Green Bay Packers tight end Martellus Bennett and his multimedia agency The Imagination Agency have signed a co-publishing and distribution deal with Joe Books The deal covers Bennett's children's book, Hey A.J., It's Saturday and the upcoming sequel Hey A.J., It's Bedtime as well as debut graphic novel, Towel Boy Joe Books will make the[...]
Who Knew The King From Cinderella Was Lazy? Thoughts On The Disney Princess Comic
There have only been four issues thus far, but I'm hooked on Joe Books, Disney Princess comic Written by Amy Mebberson, Georgia Ball, Geoffrey Golden, Patrick Storck, and Caleb Goellner, this collection of comical tales is a treat for any fan of Disney characters. What I love most about it is the new light it shines on characters that we've[...]
Some Better Late Than Never Thoughts On Disney Princess #1 & #2
I had been looking forward to Joe Books Disney Princess comic for quite some time It wasn't until I was leisurely browsing my local comic book store yesterday that I saw not one, but two issues! Anxious to see what the comic was like, I grabbed both The comic is written and illustrated by Amy Mebberson, who I personally[...]
Aaron Sparrow And James Silvani Return To New Darkwing Duck Comics From Joe Books
When reprinted by Joe Books, the comic was rescripted throughout by Sparrow, with the implication that he had managed to co-write future issues visa conversations with the artist James Silvani who changed the script coming in, and now he was able to rescript it to be closer to his vision. This was denied by the original publisher, and[...]
Joe Books To Publish Thor Novels From Keith R.A. DeCandido, As eBooks And In Print
In March, Joe Books is continuing its partnership with Disney that has seen it translate Disney TV shows and movies into comics, and creating new work for everything from Frozen to Cinderella, including Amy Mebberson's Princess series. Now it is publishing original novels based on Marvel's character The first, Thor: Dueling With Giants is written by[...]
How The Frozen Graphic Novel Does The Songs….
This Christmas saw the release of the Frozen graphic novel from Joe Books, where they took screencaps of the movie and transitioned them into a comic book, adapted by Robert Simpson, Erik Burham and Josh Elder But how would it cope wth the songs? Having songs performed in comic books is not uncommon Alan Moore has made[...]
Big Hero 6 Comes Back To Comics With Joe Books
After their 100,000+ selling Frozen cinecomic, in which the publisher takes screencaps of the movie and creates comic books out of them, Joe Books is doing the same with Big Hero 6, with Jeremy Barlow writing the adaptation. Out at the end of May… If Marvel is unwilling to make comics out of their Oscar-winning property then[...]
New Darkwing Duck Comic As Controversy Kicks Up A Notch
At the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a post detailing the wishes of writer Ian Brill and editor Christopher Burns for their names to be taken off the upcoming Darkwing Duck Collection for Joe Books, as the solicitations stated that the work would be rewritten in accordance with. Joe Books publisher is ex-Boom! editor Adam Fortier[...]
Ian Brill Takes On Joe Books Over Darkwing Duck Collection
Recently, Bleeding Cool reported on new Canadian publisher Joe Books' plans to republish the Boom! Studios Darkwing Duck comics in a cheap collected format as The Definitely Dangerous Edition Lots of people were very very happy. But not everyone. Former Darkwing Duck writer Ian Brill and former Darkwing Duck editor Christopher Burns have posted. Currently a reprint collection[...]
Joe Books Publishes Phineas & Ferb – And 101 Dalmations For February
Joe Books continues to solicit massive Disney collections for minimal prices Such as a 376 page cinestory adaptation of Disney's 101 Dalmations animation, and a 354 page collection of Phineas & Ferb comics, for $15 each, both for February, joining Frozen, Princesses and the like… at that page count , that price and that popular[...]
Joe Books To Collect All Of Boom! Studios' Darkwing Duck
In January, Joe Books is publishing over 400 pages of Darkwing Duck comic books, as originally published by Boom! Studios, in one volume for $19.99. The Disney's Darkwing Duck: Definitely Dangerous Edition is listed as (W) Aaron Sparrow, Pickup (A/CA) James Silvani Mild-mannered Drake Mallard leads a pretty average life, relaxing at home, helping his daughter Goslynn with[...]
Disney's Frozen Graphic Novel Gets Over 100,000 Preorders
We reported that Joe Books had the rights to create a graphic novel based on Disney's blockbuster, Frozen. In fact it's technically known as a Cinebook, panels created directly from the frames of a movie, then lettered and composed like a comic An adaptation couldn't be more direct. It's also over 300 pages long and sells for[...]
Brand New Big Hero 6 Comics To Be Published By Joe Books
Bleeding Cool has been following the rather intricate decisions that led Marvel Comics not to publish any new Big Hero 6 comics or reprint any of their Big Hero 6 comics ahead of the upcoming Disney movie loosely based on their comic. Instead, Yen Press has the rights to republish the Disney-originated manga published in Japan[...]