Oni Press is the latest publisher to announce that they are making their comic books returnable or reducing their product line, joining Image Comics, Boom, Aspen, AfterShock, Dynamite and more, in the light of the coronavirus pandemic. The publisher had already closed its offices and was encouraging working from home. Publisher James Lucas Jones told […]
George Mann and Joe Eisma's hard sci-fi launch comics Engineward headlines Vault Comics' June 2020 solicitations, followed by Hiroshi Koizumi, Eliot Rahal and Dike Ruan's horror comic Bleed Them Dry. Which will end up on Syfy first? Here's a look at all of Vault Comics solicits… ENGINEWARD #1 CVR A EISMA APR202159 (W) George Mann […]
Here's a look at Oni Press' solicits for June 2020, with a new graphic novel (in English at least) by Julie Dachez and Mademoiselle Caroline, the Samnees launching a new series Jonna And The Unpossible Monsters, and of course Rick & Morty and Invader Zim… INVISIBLE DIFFERENCES ASPERGERS LIVING LIFE FULL COLOR HC APR201959 (W) […]
It looks like the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting comics beyond just the cancellation or postponement of comic cons, like WonderCon most recently. Bleeding Cool understands that LA-based comic book publisher Boom Studios announced to employees this week that they will be instituting a work from home policy beginning on Monday, March 16th to keep them […]
Oni Press is adding multiple collections of big-name webcomics to their 2020 publishing slate. Following up on this month's release of Valerie Minelli's Mrs. Follein hardcover collection, and the all-new omnibus editions of Chris Onstad's strip Achewood, Oni Press announces three more print editions of modern webcomics for the summer season. Starting in May, Oni […]
Bleeding Cool readers will best know Chris Samnee for his collaboration with Mark Waid on Daredevil and Captain America. Well, he has a new collaborator now that Waid would find hard to beat, in his wife, Laura Samnee, and together with colourist Matthew Wilson, they are launching a new series of middle-grade graphic novels, beginning […]
JUNIOR BRAVES SURVIVAL GUIDE APOCALYPSE RP GAME MAR201994 Based on the Junior Braves of the Apocalypse graphic novels and the Kids on Bikes role-playing game, this guide allows you to tell your own stories of kids dealing with the end of the world! In Shops: May 20, 2020 SRP: $25.00 ACHEWOOD GREAT OUTDOOR FIGHT ONESHOT […]
April 24th will see the streaming release of Netflix's latest movie based on a comic book, Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth. It is based on the Oni Press graphic novel Ciudad, which was created/developed by the Russo Brothers, Andre Parks, and Fernando Leon Gonzalez, published in 2014 from Oni Press. CIUDAD HC (MR) (W) Ande Parks, Joe […]
Get ready, people of Earth, because the graphic novel Space Battle Lunchtime is being adapted in the form of a new card game! Based on an Oni Press graphic novel of the same name by Natalie Riess, Space Battle Lunchtime follows a similar plot to the graphic novel. Players will compete in an intergalactic television show […]
Bleeding Cool mentioned this may be coming a month ago. But it has now been confirmed that the upcoming Rick And Morty #56 will begin a final storyline , The Rickoning, that will bring the ongoing series, published at Oni Press, to an end, after five years. The series has been Oni Press' best-selling comic […]
Eric Trueheart, Jhonen Vasquez and Warren Wucinich take Invader Zim to its fiftieth issue for a double-sized seven dollar anniversary issue, while Rick & Morty continues its final comic book arc, The Rickoning, with Rick & Morty going to their own Rick & Morty convention SchwiftyCon … I know the feeling. Here are Oni Press; […]
Rick & Morty #56 is to be published in November, the first of a five-part story, The Rickoning, something new for the comic book. And also taking it up to #60, and five years of Rick & Morty comic books at Oni Press. The original contract for the comic book series from Oni Press was […]
One of the great thing about the explosion of comic books on the big screen and on television has been being able to see comics that are not about superheroes being given a chance to have their stories jump out of the comic books and appear elsewhere. Stumptown falls firmly into that category. Based on the Oni […]
One of the biggest crossover events in comic books last year was seeing Rick and Morty take on the world of Dungeons & Dragons in a four-issue arc. Penned by Jim Zub and Patrick Rothfuss with art by Troy Little and colors by Leonardo Ito, it was the pop-culture peanut butter and chocolate combo you […]
Today during D&D Live 2019, IDW Publishing and Oni Press unveiled the Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape comic series. Previously revealed a month ago through a tip-off, the next series will be written by Jim Zub and Sarah Stern, with art by Troy Little as they continue the adventure from the […]
Last week, Bleeding Cool reported on the merger between Oni Press and Lion Forge, under the auspices of Lion Forge parent company Polarity, and the layoffs that immediately followed said merger. Several former Lion Forge and Oni employees spoke about their departure on social media, though details were relatively slim, seemingly due to contractual clauses […]
ABC gave an official series order for Untitled Cobie Smulders (aka Stumptown), a drama series from writer Jason Richman, Ruben Fleischer, and ABC Studios that's based on the Oni Press graphic novel series from writer Greg Rucka and illustrators Matthew Southworth and Justin Greenwood. The series centers on strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran (Cobie Smulders, Avengers: Endgame) who works as a private investigator in Portland, […]
Lion Forge announced earlier today that they have merged with Oni Press, which has recently been acquired by Lion Forge parent company Polarity, a holding company launched last year by Lion Forge co-founder David Steward II. Steward, who serves as CEO of Polarity, addressed potential layoffs in a New York Times interview with one brief […]
In what is possibly the most hipster move in all of comics history, Portland indie comic book publisher Oni Press will reveal their latest Rick and Morty variant covers at an art gallery in Brooklyn, a press release revealed Thursday. Oni teased the variants, showing dissected versions of Rick and Morty creators Dan Harmon and […]
No, Oni Press is not making variant covers out of human flesh. That's definitely more of a Valiant Entertainment kind of thing. Instead, Oni revealed today that Julieta Colás will produce two variant covers for Rick and Morty #50 in the style of the headshot variants Colás has done for the Rick & Morty trade […]
