Oni Press' 2024 COMIC SHOP STARTER KIT will feature the INVASIVE #1 ASHCAN, exclusive swag, "cheat" cards, and more.
The press release follows:
Media Release -- Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book and graphic novel publisher, is giving top retail accounts an unexpected surprise this week with the ONI 2024 COMIC SHOP STARTER KIT – a special retailer delivery stock with a multitude of surprises in service of the upcoming ONI 2024 wave of titles, beginning with INVASIVE #1 by Cullen Bunn and Jesús Hervás that is headed to FOC this coming weekend:
INVASIVE #1—an adrenaline-racing excursion into surgical horror from Eisner Award nominee Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Basilisk) and blockbuster artist Jesús Hervás (The Empty Man)—in December;
JILL AND THE KILLERS #1—a razor-sharp teenage thriller from Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (Mary Shelley Monster Hunter) and Roberta Ingranata (Witchblade) in January;
CEMETERY KIDS DON'T DIE #1—a near-future descent into a virtual world with killer consequences from Zac Thompson (Hunt for the Skinwalker) and Daniel Irizarri (XINO) in February;
NIGHT PEOPLE #1—an uneasy odyssey into the provocative and surreal periphery of the American underworld from award-winning novelist and screenwriter Barry Gifford (Lost Highway, Wild at Heart) and writer Chris Condon (That Texas Blood) with artists Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Alexandre Tefenkgi (The Good Asian), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place), and more in March;
AK?GUN, BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1—a fearlessly unrelenting reinvention of the barbarian mythos from creative powerhouses Murewa Ayodele (I Am Iron Man) and Dotun Akande (Moon Knight: Black, White & Red) in April.
Packed with retailer-exclusive offerings and looks ahead at ONI 2024's five propulsive new monthly comic series that fully embrace the potential of the comics medium to invert, collide, and reinvent the foundational genres of horror, science fiction, crime, fantasy, and beyond, the ONI 2024 COMIC SHOP STARTER KIT is the first of many tools Oni Press will be offering retailers in the weeks and months to come to get fans and readers engaged about the must-read titles that lay ahead:
INVASIVE #1 ASHCAN
Preview the year's most unsettling horror hit with this "black, white, and bled" preview edition of the upcoming series – plus character designs, covers, and more!
INVASIVE #1 BOX CUTTER
Perform your own special kind of surgery on this week's inbound shipments with this retailer-exclusive INVASIVE #1 promo box cutter!
ONI 2024 RETAILER "CHEAT" CARDS
From the surgical horror of INVASIVE #1 in December to the sword-wielding barbarian fantasy of AKOGUN, BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1 in April, get the inside track on all five upcoming ONI 2024 titles with these specialty "cheat" cards, giving retailers everything they need to know about the titles!
ONI 2024 DOUBLE-SIDED PROMO POSTER
Promote ONI 2024's upcoming titles in your store with this double-sized promo poster showcasing all five books on one side...and, on the other, Oni's slate of great graphic novels for the New Year with titles like Laura Pickle's I FEEL AWFUL THANKS, Jay Stephens' DWELLINGS, LySandra Vuong's COVENANT, and more!
For any questions related to the ONI 2024 STARTER KIT or what Oni Press can do to help your store, please contact Sr. Sales Manager Michael Torma directly at torma@onipress.com.
About the Company
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry's most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O'Neill's Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Claytan Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler's Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward's diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.
