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The Shel Dorf Awards Winners This Year Shift Toward The Creator-Owned – The Complete List
Vaughan (DC, Marvel, Vertigo) Continuing Series of the Year: The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and  Cliff Rathburn (Skybound, Image) Spirit Award for Independent Comics: Jeff Smith (Creator-Owned) Jerry Bails Award: Craig Yoe (Creator-Owned Studio with clients) Shel Dorf Legacy Award: Steve Geppi   The Shel Dorf Awards were bestowed on October 25th at Detroit's Fanfare Convention, and[...]
Robert Kirkman Announces Outcast, A New Horror Series With Paul Azaceta
Jeremy Konrad is reporting to us from the Skybound panel that Robert Kirkman has announced a new horror series called Outcast It will have Paul Azaceta on art. Kirkman says the new series will treat exorcism the same way they treat zombies in The Walking Dead He says it expands and goes in new directions for[...]
Robert Kirkman And Paul Azaceta Teasing Something Horrific For NYCC (UPDATE x2)
Something Horrific from Robert Kirkman's Skybound, part of Image Comics Written by Kirkman, drawn by Paul Azaceta of Grounded and Daredevil… Expect so many more of these to come from all sorts of people… I'm glad these are digital Otherwise, massive waste of black ink.   Something for NYCC Something New Something Horrific from Robert Kirkman's Skybound, part[...]
Skybound Keeps Busy and Kirkman "Will Die" Working on Walking Dead at SDCC
Things are going to escalate into "wars" and "huge conflicts on a large scale", releasing 12 issues in 7 months, Robert Kirkman says, with Dave Stewart coming onboard to color the covers on this run. Updates from Kirkman included that starting in September, Skybound will be doing something uncommon in the US, releasing the Walking Dead[...]
Dead Body Road – Is This Justin Jordan's San Diego?
But with Bleeding Cool reports that he's walked off DC's Superboy title, news that he's going to be writing Crossed at Avatar and now that he has a new Skybound book that's been teased all week long, this seems to be Justin Jordan's year at San Diego I wonder if he's hiding in some quite[...]
Following Dead… Here Comes Body
From Robert Kirkman's Skybound and Image Comics We find out what it's all about tomorrow… From Robert Kirkman's Skybound and Image Comics We find out what it's all about tomorrow… From Robert Kirkman's Skybound and Image Comics We find out what it's all about tomorrow… From Robert Kirkman's Skybound and Image Comics[...]
What, Exactly, Is Dead From Robert Kirkman's Skybound? (UPDATE)
Anyway, Schmidt says that Robert Kirkman says; "It's a teaser! I can't tell you." He said there will be another tomorrow, then Saturday, then an announcement at the Skybound panel. Also, no Daryl in the comic Ever. So… Yes Dead Hopefully not on arrival. Oh wait the X is for the Walking Dead's tenth anniversary panel, starting at San[...]
Image Launches The Invincible Universe By Phil Hester And Todd Nauck In April
And that's what Phil Hester and Todd Nauck will be investigating in April with a new comic from Skybound/Image. Here's the solicitation; INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #1 (W) Phil Hester (A/CA) Todd Nauck, John Rauch In the aftermath of INVINCIBLE 100 and "The Death of Everyone," Dinosaurus has left his mark on the world Can heroes from across the universe –[...]
The Walking Dead's 383,612 Sales In Perspective: 13 Covers In 2012 Vs The Darkness #11's 11 Covers In 1997 Vs Obama Vs Justice League
I'm providing those to give us some context regarding what the best-selling comics during the Diamond-centric-distribution era have been. In any case, with Marvel NOW and the Uncanny Avengers now in the on deck circle, it'll be interesting to see if we're having this conversation again in October. Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead comic series[...]
Walking Dead #100 Covers By McFarlane, Phillips And Ottley Sell Out
But Image Comics and Skybound didn't plan for this quite so soon. There are still amounts of the other covers, by Charlie Adlard, Marc Silvestri, Frank Quitely and Bryan Hitch available for reorders. For now. Man, this thing is a monster. Bleeding Cool understands that three of the eight traditionally distributed covers for The Walking Dead #100[...]
The Walking Dead Bible Hits ECCC (UPDATE)
Kelly Davis writes from ECCC for Bleeding Cool. And gives us a first look at The Walking Dead Compendium One in the wild, no longer just in its standard form but now in its limited-to-1000 Bible style edition, hardcover, gold trim, the lot. Skybound is selling a very limited amount each day, with the remaining stock destined[...]
The Walking Dead Alien Invasion That Never Was – Robert Kirkman At Image Comics Expo
Someone, quick, call him a doctor. A new Witch Doctor: Mal Practice miniseries was the big announcement of the Skybound panel at Image Comics Expo, followed by the stealth announcement of a second Walking Dead novel in the follow-up Kirkman solo panel Both panels effectively blended into one continuous whole as Kirkman held court first with[...]
Watch Out When Opening Your Walking Dead Watches
Well, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard have created a special "golden ticket", original sketches by each of them, sized to fit in one of the watches They go on sale at midnight PST tomorrow, are $85 each, will have signed and numbered packaging by the pair, lmited to 250, and on sale only at Vannenwatches.com, Skybound.com[...]
Rob Liefeld And Robert Kirkman Kill The Infinite Over Creative Differences
I loved em but split decision at Skybound re-inking them now. I'll show all of the rejected pages in the hard cover Want everyone happy with final product. Rob Liefeld just tweeted; Unfortunately creative differences have sunk the Infinite It's over. because of my desire that my work looking the way I intended…it's over. Artistically, I'll continue to seek out[...]
Get A Free Signed Walking Dead When You Spend $5 On Robert Kirkman's Stuff
On Monday, Robert Kirkman's company Skybound is launching their own Cyber Monday promotion, giving away a free signed copy of The Walking Dead comic by its writer and creator. All you have to do is spend over $5 Which isn't hard And then use this code, exclusive to Bleeding Cool readers Or, at least, to the[...]
Image/Skybound Announces Album by Charlie Adlard And Robert Kirkman
At the Skybound panel, Robert Kirkman announced series of self contained one shots by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Kirkman called Album, once a year, as self contained hardcover albums The first, The Passenger next year, published in the US and France simultaneously The comic tells the story of a fuel cargo ship trapped a year[...]
A New Witchdoctor Series For 2012
From the Skybound panel at San Diego Comic Con, we get the news that the Witch Doctor gang will have a new series next year, with a man who believes one of his organs has been taken and has the scar to prove it, only that nothing is missing… and the first issue begins[...]
Image Comics Dream Team: Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer On Thief Of Thieves
The project will be published through Kirkman's Image/Skybound imprint, and the first arc of the new series will be written by Nick Spencer and drawn by Shawn Martinbrough (Batman: No Man's Land). Kirkman is bringing some of his television experience back to comics with him on this project He told USA Today: The creator is taking a[...]
Kirkman & Liefeld Team Up On The Infinite
It's been a busy March weekend for comics news and it's not quite over yet — USA Today has word that Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman are teaming up for The Infinite, a time-travel sf comic coming in August from Image/Skybound. In the future, the world has fallen to a villain who has discovered time travel[...]