IDW Publishing Brings Home Three Eisner Awards At The 2015 Ceremony!
The annual award ceremony held during San Diego Comic-Con International wrapped its 2015 celebration on Friday night honoring IDW with three awards! With 11 nominations, IDW, The Library of American Comics, and Top Shelf Productions would like to thank the judges and the voters of this year’s Awards.
Winning the award for Best Limited Series was the captivating series Little Nemo: Return To Slumberland from Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez. This marks Rodriguez’s first, much-deserved Eisner Award.
For the fifth year in a row IDW’s landmark Artist’s Edition series was awarded the Best Archival Collection/ Project – Comic Books Eisner Award for the Steranko Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Artist’s Edition. Spearheaded by IDW Special Projects Director, Scott Dunbier this groundbreaking format continues to highlight acclaimed creators’ original artwork.
Rounding out the Genius trilogy of in-depth looks into the life and work of Alex Toth, Genius Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth edited by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell, won Best Comics-Related Book!
“We’re once again honored and thrilled by the Eisner Award recognition,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “As with every year, our books are nominated against many other worthy contenders and anything like the Eisner Awards puts so much more attention on the great books being produced across all levels of comics, as well as the inventive, talented creators who make those books, is a great thing.”
The Eisner Awards judges selected six individuals to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2015, one of which was John Byrne. “Just as John Byrne was honored to be admitted to the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, I was similarly honored to accept on his behalf,” said Ryall. “John’s four decades in comics has inspired both storylines of immensely popular movies as well as legions of comic readers and creators, and I look forward to him continuing his creative with IDW.”
Thank you once again, to the judges and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners at this year’s awards.
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - 2015 - Updated #87
There's no "race problem" in America. We all have black friends. I even have more than I need. [I call some of them relatives.] Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare. It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014
From TheDailyBeast: Fear of a dominant black woman, as seen in Serena Williams.
From Truthout: In praise of Bree Newsome.
From TheAtlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag.
From TheWashingtonPost: Baltimore cop talks a horror show.
From TIME via RSN: Baltimore is just the beginning.
From RSN: Outrageous reasons cops gave for killing unarmed citizens.
From Truthout: Swimming while black.
From Truthout: Black and the U.S. military.
From GuardianUK: Banks targeted Black people with bad term loans - I think Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed this over a decade ago.
From Bloomberg: How many indeed.
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From TheAtlantic: Take it down now - Ta'Nehisis Coates preaches!
From Truthout: Two ways racists kill.
From TheDailyBeast: John Oliver says "Kill the Confederate Flag."
From Intercept: Only Muslims can be terrorists and not a white boy who slaughtered 9 Black people.
From GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we need more than prayer in the wake of Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooPolitics: Denmark Vesey, an American hero, finally gets a statue.
From TheNewYorker: Charleston and the age of Obama.
From YahooNews: I wouldn't forgive Dylann Roof, him or his Klanly... err... family.
From SPLC: Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooNews: South Carolina State Senator, pastor Clementa Pinckney, among victims at Emanuel AME Church shooting.
From GuardianUK: More on Pastor Pinckney.
From YahooNews: What Dylann Roof said to his victims in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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From TheDailyBeast: More pool trouble for Black children; this time in Ohio.
From the GuardianUK: Witnesses contradict Tamir Rice's killer, Cleveland PD officer Timothy Loehmann.
From YahooNews: New documents on Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland.
From RSN: Obama remembers what happened to MLK.
From GuardianUK: Don't buy the "Ferguson Effect."
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From TheGuardian: Wal-Mart: where white cops go to shoot black men, and this one is on his second killing.
From AlJazeera: Mexico's brothel state.
From RSN: Relatives of people killed by cops speak out.
From WashPost: Funny: some pro-law and order talking heads insisted that the number of people being shot be cops was falling fast.
From BuzzFlash: 40 reasons our jails are full of Black and poor people.
From TPM: White fragility.
From YahooNews: 30 years on Alabama death row for nothing.
From the WashingtonPost: DEA steals $16,000 from a young black businessman.
From Truthout: Police don't see black children's lives as the future, but as disposable.
From TheGuardian: Cops stop black guys in nice cars - Chris Rock.
From Haaretz: Black is being oppressed anywhere there is white superiority - even in Israel.
From ThePlayersTribune: Go ahead and put a cap in that ass, David Ortiz.
From the GuardianUK: Justice for Arfee... It will make you laugh-cry.
From BuzzFlash: Anti-gay Christian bigots attack Disney/ABC Family about a proposed TV series in which gay rights activist Dan Savage is a writer.
From Truthout: The school voucher rackets begins to serve its intended purpose.
From RSN: FBI convicted a man using hair analysis, but it was a dog's hair.
From SFGate: Cornell West on more shootings.
From GuardianUK: Elton John and Michael Stipe on the danger of the silence around the abuse of transgender prisoners.
From YahooNews: After a black woman wins mayoral election, white cops and politicians flee town. Hilarious.
From GuardianUK: The black guy dies at the end. The white guy knows why.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asks who will lead Black Americans.
From WashPost: In 2004, Texas executed a man for the arson murder of his three young daughters. He may have been innocent. Now, the prosecutor of that case is facing misconduct charges.
From FreeThoughtProject: DEA does not enforce drug laws in rich communities...
From TheGuardian: Yes, White outrage at Walter Scott shooting is not enough.
From Truthout: Hip hop and Palestine.
From BuzzFlash: Accusations of being Jewish, then a suicide - strange goings in Missouri GOP.
From RSN: The roots of American racism run deep. Sho' nuff.
From Quartz: The power of Chris Rock's police-stop selfies.
From AmsterdamNews: Mumia is in a diabetic coma.
From TheNewYorker: Seymour Hersh returns to My Lai.
From Mashable: Banksy in Gaza.
From BuzzFlash: The American terrorism of lynching.
From YahooSports: College baseball player loses his gig for ugly thing he said about Little League World Series heroine, Mo'ne Davis.
From NPR via RSN: A Black Mississippi judge's speech to three white murderers of a black man.
From NPR: The power of Malcolm X as a public speaker.
From YahooNews: ESPN's Steven A. Smith encourages Blacks to vote Republican in an argument that is familiar.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on MLK Day.
From RSN: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King
From RSN: Free speech in France... except for Muslim students.
From the WashingtonPost: I didn't believe this statistic until I started working at LSU Graphic Services, when I discovered how many semi-literate white people held positions for which they were unqualified - as per the official requirements for their jobs. Some made more money than Black employees with college degrees, and more shockingly, and also instructors and professors.
From YahooNews: A Univision personality is fired for comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes.
From BuzzFlash: Black man in Louisiana gets over 13 years for pot.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: We need the Black Panthers.
From TheGuardian: "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' "
From DemocracyNow: Malcolm X remembered 50 years after his assassination.
From RSN: Americans need fair housing free of discrimination, says Richard Trumka
From Truthout: Update on Marissa Alexander who could not stand her ground in Florida as George Zimmerman.
From the NationalPost: In Quebec, a young woman was locked in the back of a police truck with a man who then, raped here.
From NPR: There is also a war on Black girls.
From ConsortiumNews: How Jefferson Davis' name is synonymous with violence against African-Americans, especially in the form of lynching.
From AlJazeera: In Hollywood, black lives don't matter (related to Oscars' snub of "Selma")
From Truthout: Everything is not peach in LGBT equality.
From YahooSports: The story of Brian Banks - falsely accused of rape, his college football and NFL dreams were destroyed. Now, he works for the NFL.
From AlJazeera: 2014 is the year that the myth of equality under the law in America was exposed.
From CrooksandLiars: More on the white man who shot the Black chief of police and got away with it. By the way, a bulletproof vest saved the police chief's life.
From YahooNews: South Florida cops shooting at mug shots of Black men.
From TheGuardian: Yeah, why did they?
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The police aren't under attack...
From BuzzFlash: Yes, the media does seem reluctant to call white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists terrorists when they commit acts of terrorists.
From Truthout: The modern day lynching of Rev. Edward Pickney in Michigan.
From LATimes: Exonerated and broke.
From AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
From TheDailyBeast: Fear of a dominant black woman, as seen in Serena Williams.
From Truthout: In praise of Bree Newsome.
From TheAtlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag.
From TheWashingtonPost: Baltimore cop talks a horror show.
From TIME via RSN: Baltimore is just the beginning.
From RSN: Outrageous reasons cops gave for killing unarmed citizens.
From Truthout: Swimming while black.
From Truthout: Black and the U.S. military.
From GuardianUK: Banks targeted Black people with bad term loans - I think Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed this over a decade ago.
From Bloomberg: How many indeed.
---------------
From TheAtlantic: Take it down now - Ta'Nehisis Coates preaches!
From Truthout: Two ways racists kill.
From TheDailyBeast: John Oliver says "Kill the Confederate Flag."
From Intercept: Only Muslims can be terrorists and not a white boy who slaughtered 9 Black people.
From GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we need more than prayer in the wake of Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooPolitics: Denmark Vesey, an American hero, finally gets a statue.
From TheNewYorker: Charleston and the age of Obama.
From YahooNews: I wouldn't forgive Dylann Roof, him or his Klanly... err... family.
From SPLC: Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooNews: South Carolina State Senator, pastor Clementa Pinckney, among victims at Emanuel AME Church shooting.
From GuardianUK: More on Pastor Pinckney.
From YahooNews: What Dylann Roof said to his victims in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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From TheDailyBeast: More pool trouble for Black children; this time in Ohio.
From the GuardianUK: Witnesses contradict Tamir Rice's killer, Cleveland PD officer Timothy Loehmann.
From YahooNews: New documents on Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland.
From RSN: Obama remembers what happened to MLK.
From GuardianUK: Don't buy the "Ferguson Effect."
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From TheGuardian: Wal-Mart: where white cops go to shoot black men, and this one is on his second killing.
From AlJazeera: Mexico's brothel state.
From RSN: Relatives of people killed by cops speak out.
From WashPost: Funny: some pro-law and order talking heads insisted that the number of people being shot be cops was falling fast.
From BuzzFlash: 40 reasons our jails are full of Black and poor people.
From TPM: White fragility.
From YahooNews: 30 years on Alabama death row for nothing.
From the WashingtonPost: DEA steals $16,000 from a young black businessman.
From Truthout: Police don't see black children's lives as the future, but as disposable.
From TheGuardian: Cops stop black guys in nice cars - Chris Rock.
From Haaretz: Black is being oppressed anywhere there is white superiority - even in Israel.
From ThePlayersTribune: Go ahead and put a cap in that ass, David Ortiz.
From the GuardianUK: Justice for Arfee... It will make you laugh-cry.
From BuzzFlash: Anti-gay Christian bigots attack Disney/ABC Family about a proposed TV series in which gay rights activist Dan Savage is a writer.
From Truthout: The school voucher rackets begins to serve its intended purpose.
From RSN: FBI convicted a man using hair analysis, but it was a dog's hair.
From SFGate: Cornell West on more shootings.
From GuardianUK: Elton John and Michael Stipe on the danger of the silence around the abuse of transgender prisoners.
From YahooNews: After a black woman wins mayoral election, white cops and politicians flee town. Hilarious.
From GuardianUK: The black guy dies at the end. The white guy knows why.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asks who will lead Black Americans.
From WashPost: In 2004, Texas executed a man for the arson murder of his three young daughters. He may have been innocent. Now, the prosecutor of that case is facing misconduct charges.
From FreeThoughtProject: DEA does not enforce drug laws in rich communities...
From TheGuardian: Yes, White outrage at Walter Scott shooting is not enough.
From Truthout: Hip hop and Palestine.
From BuzzFlash: Accusations of being Jewish, then a suicide - strange goings in Missouri GOP.
From RSN: The roots of American racism run deep. Sho' nuff.
From Quartz: The power of Chris Rock's police-stop selfies.
From AmsterdamNews: Mumia is in a diabetic coma.
From TheNewYorker: Seymour Hersh returns to My Lai.
From Mashable: Banksy in Gaza.
From BuzzFlash: The American terrorism of lynching.
From YahooSports: College baseball player loses his gig for ugly thing he said about Little League World Series heroine, Mo'ne Davis.
From NPR via RSN: A Black Mississippi judge's speech to three white murderers of a black man.
From NPR: The power of Malcolm X as a public speaker.
From YahooNews: ESPN's Steven A. Smith encourages Blacks to vote Republican in an argument that is familiar.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on MLK Day.
From RSN: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King
From RSN: Free speech in France... except for Muslim students.
From the WashingtonPost: I didn't believe this statistic until I started working at LSU Graphic Services, when I discovered how many semi-literate white people held positions for which they were unqualified - as per the official requirements for their jobs. Some made more money than Black employees with college degrees, and more shockingly, and also instructors and professors.
From YahooNews: A Univision personality is fired for comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes.
From BuzzFlash: Black man in Louisiana gets over 13 years for pot.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: We need the Black Panthers.
From TheGuardian: "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' "
From DemocracyNow: Malcolm X remembered 50 years after his assassination.
From RSN: Americans need fair housing free of discrimination, says Richard Trumka
From Truthout: Update on Marissa Alexander who could not stand her ground in Florida as George Zimmerman.
From the NationalPost: In Quebec, a young woman was locked in the back of a police truck with a man who then, raped here.
From NPR: There is also a war on Black girls.
From ConsortiumNews: How Jefferson Davis' name is synonymous with violence against African-Americans, especially in the form of lynching.
From AlJazeera: In Hollywood, black lives don't matter (related to Oscars' snub of "Selma")
From Truthout: Everything is not peach in LGBT equality.
From YahooSports: The story of Brian Banks - falsely accused of rape, his college football and NFL dreams were destroyed. Now, he works for the NFL.
From AlJazeera: 2014 is the year that the myth of equality under the law in America was exposed.
From CrooksandLiars: More on the white man who shot the Black chief of police and got away with it. By the way, a bulletproof vest saved the police chief's life.
From YahooNews: South Florida cops shooting at mug shots of Black men.
From TheGuardian: Yeah, why did they?
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The police aren't under attack...
From BuzzFlash: Yes, the media does seem reluctant to call white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists terrorists when they commit acts of terrorists.
From Truthout: The modern day lynching of Rev. Edward Pickney in Michigan.
From LATimes: Exonerated and broke.
From AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
IDW Announces "Back to the Future" the Comic Book
San Diego Comic-Con is Over! But, IDW Publishing Has Traveled Back in Time with This Year’s Biggest Announcement: Back To The Future
All-New Comic Series Arrives This October 21st (That Date Sound Familiar?)
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…”
Great Scott! As the smoke begins to clear on another magnificent San Diego Comic-Con International, IDW Publishing is OFFICIALLY announcing the next great property to come to comics is none other than Back to the Future! Two days ago, the crowd at IDW’s panel sat stunned as Biff himself arrived, grasping a freshly printed copy of the 2016 trade paperback collection and proclaiming it to be the best-selling book of the year. After traveling to the end of the Con, IDW can now confirm it’s true!
IDW is proud to reveal that with the original movie’s creator/screenwriter Bob Gale on board, the untold adventures are headed Back to (and from) the Future!
“We’ve subtitled this ‘Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines’ because for years, fans have asked questions about things that happened before the events of the trilogy, in between the events of the trilogy, or in our alternate realities,” said Gale. “In this series, we’ll finally answer some of those questions, with our focus squarely on the characters everyone loves.”
Joining Gale in these tales through alternate timelines are two familiar IDW writers: John Barber (Transformers) and Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters), who together break down the issue into two separate stories that build upon the iconic characters and time periods from the films. The artistic team will also be split between Brent Schoonover (Batman ’66) and Burnham’s long-time collaborator, Dan Schoening (Ghostbusters). Each subsequent issue will feature rotating artistic teams, who will add more fun stories to this rich universe.
“I can honestly say the enthusiasm surrounding BTTF’s inclusion into our vast library of licensed comics is absolutely palpable here at the IDW offices and amongst the talented creators we’ve recruited to help us bring Bob Gale’s new visions to four-color life—enough excitement to energize a flux-capacitor or two, that’s for sure!” said IDW editor Tom Waltz.
In the first tale of the debut issue, we head back to 1982 and witness the very first meeting between Marty McFly and Doc Brown, before their incredible adventures together began. Then in the second chapter, we head back even farther to 1943 and see how Doc Brown got himself mixed up in the infamous Manhattan Project! This first issue will feature three standard covers, by Schoening, Schoonover, and Amy Mebberson (My Little Pony). Additionally, Back to the Future #1 will join in on the fun of Artist’s Edition Month in October with an original art styled cover by Schoening!
Mark your calendars and set your watches for October when this 4-part series races into comic shops!
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All-New Comic Series Arrives This October 21st (That Date Sound Familiar?)
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…”
Great Scott! As the smoke begins to clear on another magnificent San Diego Comic-Con International, IDW Publishing is OFFICIALLY announcing the next great property to come to comics is none other than Back to the Future! Two days ago, the crowd at IDW’s panel sat stunned as Biff himself arrived, grasping a freshly printed copy of the 2016 trade paperback collection and proclaiming it to be the best-selling book of the year. After traveling to the end of the Con, IDW can now confirm it’s true!
IDW is proud to reveal that with the original movie’s creator/screenwriter Bob Gale on board, the untold adventures are headed Back to (and from) the Future!
“We’ve subtitled this ‘Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines’ because for years, fans have asked questions about things that happened before the events of the trilogy, in between the events of the trilogy, or in our alternate realities,” said Gale. “In this series, we’ll finally answer some of those questions, with our focus squarely on the characters everyone loves.”
Joining Gale in these tales through alternate timelines are two familiar IDW writers: John Barber (Transformers) and Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters), who together break down the issue into two separate stories that build upon the iconic characters and time periods from the films. The artistic team will also be split between Brent Schoonover (Batman ’66) and Burnham’s long-time collaborator, Dan Schoening (Ghostbusters). Each subsequent issue will feature rotating artistic teams, who will add more fun stories to this rich universe.
“I can honestly say the enthusiasm surrounding BTTF’s inclusion into our vast library of licensed comics is absolutely palpable here at the IDW offices and amongst the talented creators we’ve recruited to help us bring Bob Gale’s new visions to four-color life—enough excitement to energize a flux-capacitor or two, that’s for sure!” said IDW editor Tom Waltz.
In the first tale of the debut issue, we head back to 1982 and witness the very first meeting between Marty McFly and Doc Brown, before their incredible adventures together began. Then in the second chapter, we head back even farther to 1943 and see how Doc Brown got himself mixed up in the infamous Manhattan Project! This first issue will feature three standard covers, by Schoening, Schoonover, and Amy Mebberson (My Little Pony). Additionally, Back to the Future #1 will join in on the fun of Artist’s Edition Month in October with an original art styled cover by Schoening!
Mark your calendars and set your watches for October when this 4-part series races into comic shops!
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"The Tithe" Comic Book is Collected in August 2015
THE TITHE answers fans’ prayers with collected trade paperback
"Wait, this comic is about a group that robs from mega-churches and gives the money to charity? That's cool as hell! This comic is really great!" —Robert Kirkman
"The Tithe's aim is true—targeting the hypocrisy born of naivete.
As such it will piss off a lot of people. My only regret is that I didn't write it. Well, done, Mr. Hawkins!" —Jim Valentino
Writer Matt Hawkins (THINK TANK, TALES OF HONOR) and artist Rahsan Ekedal’s (THINK TANK) team up for all-new thriller suspense series in THE TITHE, VOL. 1, hitting stores this September. It collects issues #1-4 of the breakout hit Top Cow series.
THE TITHE, VOL. 1 is a heist story unlike any before. Mega-churches are being robbed for millions of dollars by a crusader hacker group known as Samaritan who is giving the money to causes they deem more worthy. This modern day “Robin Hood” is being pursued by two FBI agents who actually admire their quarry but want to stop the theft before it escalates.
THE TITHE, VOL. 1 (ISBN: 978-1-63215-324-1) hits comic book stores on August 26, 2015 and bookstores on September 8, 2015, and will be available for $14.99. It can be ordered by retailers from Diamond Book Distributors with Diamond Code JUN150588.
Select praise for THE TITHE:
“While the main premise is definitely intriguing, it's with these characters where the series finds both emotional depth and an interesting intellectual debate.” —IGN
“A strong and approachable story with a fresh flavor.” —Comic Book Resources
“Hawkins and Edekel might've just invented a whole new genre of comic-book, 'The Mega-Church Heist'.” —Multiversity Comics
“This is some great writing paired with some excellent art and definitely worth a look.” —Comicosity
“Matt Hawkins is putting together a nice streak of good books lately and this should be added to the list. Rahsan Ekedal did great work on this issue and certainly looks to have a bright future in the business. The Tithe is a book that deserves a read, the good writing and excellent art will keep you coming back.” —All-Comic
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"Wait, this comic is about a group that robs from mega-churches and gives the money to charity? That's cool as hell! This comic is really great!" —Robert Kirkman
"The Tithe's aim is true—targeting the hypocrisy born of naivete.
As such it will piss off a lot of people. My only regret is that I didn't write it. Well, done, Mr. Hawkins!" —Jim Valentino
Writer Matt Hawkins (THINK TANK, TALES OF HONOR) and artist Rahsan Ekedal’s (THINK TANK) team up for all-new thriller suspense series in THE TITHE, VOL. 1, hitting stores this September. It collects issues #1-4 of the breakout hit Top Cow series.
THE TITHE, VOL. 1 is a heist story unlike any before. Mega-churches are being robbed for millions of dollars by a crusader hacker group known as Samaritan who is giving the money to causes they deem more worthy. This modern day “Robin Hood” is being pursued by two FBI agents who actually admire their quarry but want to stop the theft before it escalates.
THE TITHE, VOL. 1 (ISBN: 978-1-63215-324-1) hits comic book stores on August 26, 2015 and bookstores on September 8, 2015, and will be available for $14.99. It can be ordered by retailers from Diamond Book Distributors with Diamond Code JUN150588.
Select praise for THE TITHE:
“While the main premise is definitely intriguing, it's with these characters where the series finds both emotional depth and an interesting intellectual debate.” —IGN
“A strong and approachable story with a fresh flavor.” —Comic Book Resources
“Hawkins and Edekel might've just invented a whole new genre of comic-book, 'The Mega-Church Heist'.” —Multiversity Comics
“This is some great writing paired with some excellent art and definitely worth a look.” —Comicosity
“Matt Hawkins is putting together a nice streak of good books lately and this should be added to the list. Rahsan Ekedal did great work on this issue and certainly looks to have a bright future in the business. The Tithe is a book that deserves a read, the good writing and excellent art will keep you coming back.” —All-Comic
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Friday, July 10, 2015
Fantagraphics Books Announces Joshua Cotter's "Nod Away"
Fantagraphics Spaces Out With Joshua Cotter's Nod Away
Seattle, WA-Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce its acquisition of Joshua Cotter's new sci-fi epic Nod Away, to be released Spring 2016. Nod Away moves back and forth between physical and psychological worlds, utilizing traditional and abstract storytelling styles to explore what consciousness could be, where it's located, and what function or point it serves.
Nod Away is set on a near-future version of Earth. Deep-space transport has been developed to take a small crew to a habitable planet in a nearby system in an attempt to begin colonization/repopulation. The Internet is now telepathic and referred to as the "innernet." When the hub is revealed to be a human child, Melody McCabe is hired to develop the new nexus on the second International Space Station.
Cotter garnered international acclaim in 2008 with his original graphic novel Skyscrapers Of The Midwest, released by AdHouse Books. For the past seven years, comics fans and critics alike have been calling out to Cotter for a new book. Nod Away is shaping up to be the most highly anticipated graphic novels of the year.
"Cotter is pure cartoonist, in the truest sense," explains Fantagraphics Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds. "He has such an intuitive grip on the language of comics that he makes it look easy, creating these fully realized characters in a fully realized world."
"Fantagraphics has published some of the best comics ever created, and for Nod Away to be in the company of books of such tremendous artistic and cultural significance is both humbling and an honor," says cartoonist Joshua Cotter. "Working on a project of this size and scope will be all the easier knowing that it is in such able hands."
Joshua Cotter lives in rural northwest Missouri with his wife, child, cat, and an astute sense of impending mortality. They keep him making comics.
NOD AWAY
By Joshua Cotter
$24.99 * 230 Pages * Black & White * 7 ½" x 10"
ISBN: 978-1606999110
http://fantagraphics.com/flog/nodaway/
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"Wolf" Comic Book Arrives July 2015
WOLF leads the pack this July
An all-new fantasy crime-noir series
Bestselling writer Ales Kot (ZERO, MATERIAL) and artist Matt Taylor (ZERO) team up to launch an all-new fantasy crime-noir series with WOLF #1, coming this July.
In an in-depth interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kot detailed his inspiration for the new epic:
"…if I go to where the inspiration really came from… it could be simply the image of Antoine Wolfe, our main protagonist in #1, a hard-boiled ex-army detective who can see too much for his own peace of mind, living in a glorified shack in Echo Park surrounded by boxes of books, empty bottles of booze, prescription pills and some things we can’t quite figure out until the end of issue one. It’s a cliche, but the biggest cliches are often cliches because they are true: it all starts with a character. And Antoine is real. (…) the Los Angeles we explore is decidedly our Los Angeles, but it has a massive amount of citizens we do not see. And Antoine Wolfe does, which means he’s in demand. Of course, there’s also something strange crawling through the hills, ripping people up…a girl who just lost her parents… a hyper-wealthy racist named Gibson Sterling… vampires… werewolves… and a whole lot of uneasy, oozing atmosphere. But not all is doom and gloom, because we’re in a hyper-sunny LA, the kinda place where it might be Christmas and you won’t even notice."
WOLF incorporates the crime noir thrills and character development of True Detective with the mythical stakes of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman in this original fantasy, horror saga. Antoine Wolfe is a hard-boiled paranormal detective with a death wish and has to cope with sudden responsibility for an orphaned teenage girl who might be the key to the impending apocalypse, California-style.
The road to hell and back begins in a maximum-sized first issue, with fifty-eight pages of story and no ads. WOLF #1 (Diamond Code: MAY150550) will be available on July 22, 2015. The final order cutoff for retailers is Monday, June 29, 2015.
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"John Carpenter's Asylum" Wins Silver Medal from "Forward Magazine"
John Carpenter's Asylum Wins Silver Medal at Foreword Magazine's INDIEFAB Awards
(Hollywood CA) - Foreword Reviews announced the winners of its annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards for the best indie books of 2014 and John Carpenter's Asylum won silver in the graphic novel category. Representing hundreds of independent and university presses of all sizes, the winners were selected after months of editorial deliberation over more than 1,500 entries in 63 categories. This year’s list of winners includes the Dalai Lama, Lev Grossman, Jeet Heer, Chuck Palahniuk, Zack Whedon, Georges Jeanty, Lee & Low Books, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kent State University Press, Rizzoli, Abingdon Press, Quirk Books, Cleis Press, and Six Sisters Stuff, among others. The winners exemplify the best work coming from today’s indie authors and publishers. The book also was included in Village Voice's best of 2014 graphic novel list.
Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention awards were determined by a panel of librarians and booksellers and announced at a special program during the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco on June 26, 2015.
Sandy King Carpenter will be at San Diego Comic Con.
About John Carpenter's Asylum:
There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In tunnels beneath the city, in the dark alleys among the homeless, demons lurk and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows. One man sees. One man walks those dark streets. Father Daniel Beckett's seen demons and he's spoken to the Devil, but he's never seen an angel and he's never spoken to God. Obsessed and driven as much by betrayal as righteousness and anger as redemption, he walks the smoke-filled encampments of lost souls like Dante's nine rings of the Inferno. He is God's warrior at war with God.
With this step into the comic book world, John Carpenter brings it all to the serial world he's loved since childhood. Supernatural horror with that twist of fate that only flawed mankind can provide.
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About Storm King Productions:
Storm King Productions is headed up by writer producer powerhouse Sandy King Carpenter. Storm King focuses on artistic storytelling in all forms. Their flagship comic book title John Carpenter's Asylum has become a global fan favorite. Other comic properties including Randy Queen's DarkChylde, are also currently in production.
About Foreword:
Foreword Magazine, Inc is media company featuring a FOLIO: award winning quarterly print magazine, Foreword Reviews, and a website devoted to independently published books. In the magazine, they feature reviews of the best 170 new titles from independent publishers, university presses, and noteworthy self-published authors. Their website features daily updates: reviews along with in-depth coverage and analysis of independent publishing from a team of more than 100 reviewers, journalists, and bloggers. The print magazine is available at most Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million newsstands or by subscription.
You can also connect with them on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. They are headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
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