Category: Comics

VIZ Media Launches Nationwide Naruto Shippuden Promotional Campaign

Media Release -- San Francisco, CA, April 22, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has launched a special NARUTO Shippuden promotional campaign with Trans World Entertainment, a leading specialty retailer of entertainment software, including music, video and video games and...

Preview Chris Claremont's X-Men Forever Alpha

Comics icon and New York Times bestselling writer Chris Claremont makes his highly anticipated return to the X-Men mythos with the release of X-Men Forever Alpha #1. Collecting his landmark X-Men #1-3 with superstar artist Jim Lee, this extra-sized issue also includes an...

IDW to Publish Official Bringing Up Father Collection

Media Release -- San Diego, CA (April 22, 2009) – This fall, IDW's Library of American Comics serves up laughs for all ages with George McManus's classic Art Deco comedy, Bringing Up Father. Featuring the famous storyline "From Sea to Shining Sea," the 272-page hardcover book...

Mark Waid Headlines Free Comic Book Day At Collector's Paradise

Media Release -- Los Angeles - April 21, 2009 - BOOM! Studios is proud to announce that Mark Waid will be joining the Hero Initiative Benefit Party during Free Comic Book Day 2009 at Collector's Paradise in Winnetka, California. Joining him will...

Archie Comics At The Kid's Comic Con

Media Release -- Archie Comics will be at the Kid’s Comic Con April 25th. The Archie Booth Stop by the Archie Comics booth and meet Dan Parent, Paul Kaminski, Joe Morciglio, Paul Castiglia, Jamal Peppers and Alex Simmons. They'll be on hand signing autographs and giving away FREE comics, and...

Buy Dark Tower Treachery Premiere HC Today

Media Release -- Marvel is proud to announce that Dark Tower: Treachery HC, collecting the acclaimed limited series from the chart topping team of writers Robin Furth & Peter David and artists Jae Lee & Richard Isanove, hits stores...

From the Stacks: Executive Assistant

by Josh@TFAW I had no idea that the life of an executive assistant is so fraught with peril. This June, Aspen brings us a real-life account* of the life of Iris, an Executive Assistant who also serves as a bodyguard and assassin–plus, she brews a mean cup of coffee**. She’s...

Boom Brothers Announce Sgt. Fury Comic Book Sweepstakes

Media Release -- Kokomo, IN (PRWEB) April 22, 2009 -- Starting May 1, 2009, BoomBrothers.net, an online action and adventure web site, will conduct a sweepstakes to give away six sets of Sgt. Fury and his...

Graphic Novel 'Sequel' To Dracula Out In October From AAM/Markosia

Media Release -- It’s been widely regarded that 2009 is the year of the Vampire, with new books by such luminaries as Guillermo del Toro and Justin Cronin releasing epic trilogies, as well as shows like True Blood and films like Twilight keeping the Vampire myth alive. And in October,...

Geek Chick: Stumptown Comics Fest Wrap-Up!

by Elisabeth@TFAW By any measure, the sixth annual Stumptown Comics Fest was a huge success this weekend! Rumor has it that the number of attendees on Saturday alone of the two-day convention beat the total attendance in 2008, and I believe it.