Time to rewrite the history books. League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen editor Scott Dunbier, now Special Projects Editor at IDW, is raising money for local San Diego comics people in need, associated with the current global situation. Which includes his decision to auction off the rarest League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen of all time and, until today, one […]
A few days ago, IDW Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier posted the first page of an unpublished Alan Moore story for a long-forgotten Gen-13 Annual. He came across the document when sorting papers and has been posting a few others since. Including Alan Moore's original proposal for the ABC line, America's Best Comics. Published by […]
Scott Dunbier was the editor of Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line at WildStorm/DC Comics. It wasn't the easiest of tasks. In recent days, Dunbier has been sharing some of its history on social media. Including encouraging people to guess who the three people who turned down drawing Promethea were, before JH Williams III accepted […]
Eight years ago, IDW editor Scott Dunbier talked about coming across an unfinished and unpublished Gen 13 script by Alan Moore. Dunbier was Alan Moore's editor-of-choice when at WildStorm. Gen-13 is the teen superhero team created by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, and J. Scott Campbell for WildStorm. Dunbier shared with us that he was going […]
Scott Dunbier, Special Projects Senior Editor at IDW was happy to show off the beginnings of something very special, for New York Comic Con. What he describes as A work in progress. The start of a jam piece that will be sold at the 2020 CBLDF charity art auction at San Diego Cómic-Con. Currently including […]
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So some of you may have already read a little article that came out about this panel, something about some guy that co-created Spider-Man, and I will talk about that a little/lot more, but before I get into that I want to share with you the rest of the panel. First I want to lay […]
As BC reporter Joshua Stone sat in on the IDW Artist's Editions & More panel Sunday afternoon at San Diego Comic-Con, I was curious to see what news he'd be reporting on regarding their upcoming offerings. I'm a fan of the Artist Edition format, and the the top shelf in the corner of my office […]
I am typically not much of a fan of the convention panels where they just announce the new books for the next 6 to 12 months, but the IDW Artist's Edition Panel is always an exception, and with both Scott Dunbier, Director of Special Projects for IDW and the person behind the concept of Artist's […]
When the original schedule for SDCC 2018 came out, there was nothing scheduled to remember Steve Ditko, who passed away June 29th, 2018, at the age of 90. Ditko, best known for being the co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, spent most of his later life as a recluse at not quite the level of […]
Joshua Stone writes from WonderCon 2018: One of my favorite things that has happened in comics in the last 10 years is the creation of the Artist's Edition books by IDW. Allowing the reader the opportunity to own and look at in person the highest quality scans of some of the most important original comic […]
The Absolute line of comics from DC, pioneered at the publisher by Scott Dunbier, and now replicated by other companies is a format featuring oversized, hardcover comics hitting 15.8 inches in height. The art blown up, the production values and paper quality raised, extras added and maybe even a slipcase. In comparison, reading comic books on […]
Today is DC Comics' last day in New York City as the offices on 1700 Broadway close, the publisher relocating to Burbank/ It is also the last day for 77 DC employees who have declined to make the move west to Burbank. One is Bob Wayne, Senor VP Sales, leaving the company after twenty-eight years. A comic […]
Anyone who knows me, who has every talked to me about Marvelman or Miracleman will know that once two pages of original art by Alan Davis were stolen from me on a tube train, half an hour after buying them from Comics Showcase. I guy grabbed my portfolio and ran off as the doors closed. […]
Joshua Stone reports from Wondercon: IDW has announced their third Artist's Edition featuring art by Walt Simonson, Manhunter and Other Stories, to be released in September. It will include the Manhunter story from the classic 1973 Detective Comics backups, along with Simonson Batman, Dr. Fate, Metal Men, and Captain Fear material. IDW Special Projects Editior Scott Dunbier shared that […]
At ECCC today, Dark Horse Comics announced that Elfquest would be getting a Gallery Edition, the latest format to copy Scott Dunbier's Artists Edition format over at IDW. Effectively this reproduces the look and feel of the original art boards, the comics were originally created on. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Gallery Edition, collects the first five issues […]
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of IDW Publishing, and co-founder and CEO Ted Adams has a few reflections on his youthful obsession with books, working to bring some of his personal heroes to print, and the landmarks he's noted along the way to share with us here at Bleeding Cool. His experiences learning from […]
Scott Dunbier, senior editor at IDW, is on the hunt for original art pages for upcoming IDW Artist Editions, that seeks to reproduce artboard pages as closely as possible. Pages he's after include twelve for the Jim Steranko's Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Artist's Edition. Specifically Strange Tales #154, page 2, Strange Tales #159, pages […]
Scott Dunbier of IDW Publishing posted this to the Jack Kirby Fan Group on Facebook, calling for help on missing art for the Jack Kirby New Gods Artist's Edition. Hello Kirby fans, I'm working on the Kirby New Gods book and I'm looking for four missing pages: New Gods #1, page 8. New Gods #2, […]
It was Scott Dunbier's idea originally, though he had to be fired from DC Comics before he could pursue it. 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 […]
