GOON #4 SKOTTIE YOUNG CARDSTOCK VAR CVR
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For the hardcore collectors out there, Albatross offers a special limited edition gloss card stock cover of THE GOON #4 with art by Skottie Young!

Drops Right Now on Kidrobot.com Kidrobot and South Park is excited to introduce the new 3” vinyl mini series featuring new figures of “the boys” as well as fan favorites like Token, Wendy, Tweak and Craig. After 22 seasons of utterly disgusting jokes tweaked to sitcom perfection, we are still celebrating these Colorado kids in the most PC way we know how – with vinyl collectible toys.  So don’t make us a saaaaaad panda, collect all 16 South Park characters today!
This series marks the second full South Park Mini Series to finish what we started and expand on the original much-loved Kidrobot x South Park mini series that dropped in 2011. Great, now we feel old...

KIDROBOT X SOUTH PARK

 SAN DIEGO, CA (April 26, 2019) – The 2019 Eisner Award judges recognized IDW Publishing and its imprints, Top Shelf, Library of American Comics, Black Crown, and Artist’s Editions, with a combined twelve nods this year (ten nominations and two shared nominations). The prestigious award ceremony, held annually at Comic-Con International, honors exemplary work from the previous year in comics publishing.
 
IDW’s 2019 Eisner Nominees include:

• Best Publication for Early Readers: Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer, by James Kochalka (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Best Publication for Teens: Gumballs, by Erin Nations (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Best Anthology: Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed the World, edited by Shelly Bond (Black Crown/IDW)
• Best Graphic Album — New: Come Again, by Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Best Graphic Album — Reprint: Girl Town, by Carolyn Nowak (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Best Archival Collection/Project — Strips: Star Wars: Classic Newspaper Strips, Vol. 3, by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, edited by Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/IDW)
• Best Archival Collection/Project — Comic Books: Bill Sienkiewicz’s Mutants and Moon Knights Artifact Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
• Best Archival Collection/Project — Comic Books: Madman Quarter Century Shindig, by Mike Allred, edited by Chris Ryall, designed by Shawn Lee (IDW)
• Best Writer/Artist: David Lapham, Lodger (Black Crown/IDW)
• Best Writer/Artist: Nate Powell, Come Again (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Best Academic/Scholarly Work: The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics, by Eddie Campbell (Library of American Comics/IDW/Ohio State University Press)
• Best Lettering: Todd Klein, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest (Top Shelf/IDW)

 
"It's such an honor to see the Eisner judges celebrate the diverse range of graphic novels that Top Shelf has published lately — with James Kochalka celebrating the whimsical anarchy of young boys, Erin Nations introducing teens to a wide spectrum of queer and trans experience, Carolyn Nowak animating millennial womanhood with comedy and pathos, and Nate Powell exploring the dark terrors of parenting. These nominations (and these books) demonstrate the persistent truth that 'weird personal comics' can in fact be universal, because they let us see inside each other's hearts," says Leigh Walton, Top Shelf marketing director and editor.
 
“As we approach the landmark 200th release in the Library of American Comics, we’re proud to help preserve the history of comics one book at a time,” says creative director Dean Mullaney. “The Goat Getters especially breaks new ground in comics scholarship."
 
“On behalf of my Femme Magnifique co-curators, Brian and Kristy Miller, over 100 of your favorite writers and artists, and IDW, I’m honored to be in such magnificent company,” says Black Crown curator/editor Shelly Bond. “Congrats to all the Eisner nominees, especially the Laphams, who continue to crush our expectations of crime noir.”
 
Scott Dunbier, IDW’s Director of Special Projects, says, “Bill Sienkiewicz’s Mutants and Moon Knightscharts Bill's evolution through different stages of his career. Watching him progress from a talented new artist to a true innovator is fascinating to behold — it was an honor to work on this book, and to be nominated for an Eisner Award.”
 
Chris Ryall, IDW’s Publisher & President/CCO and editor on the nominated Madman Quarter Century Shindig book, added, “To directly quote Madman creator Michael Allred when notified about the nomination, this is Super Ginchy! It’s a thrill to see such diverse nominations for IDW’s equally wide-ranging output.”

   


About IDW
IDW Publishing stands proudly at the forefront of printed visual entertainment, cultivating a formidable library of world-renowned licensed brands and creator-owned original IP. Its diverse array of comic books, graphic novels, and art books deliver reading enjoyment to fans of all ages. Its award-winning imprints The Library of American Comics, Yoe! Books, and Artist Editions preserve the valuable cultural history of the sequential art medium, while titles under the critically acclaimed Top Shelf and Black Crown banners celebrate fiercely independent voices. IDW Publishing is a division of IDW Media Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: IDWM), a fully integrated media company with robust offerings in publishing, tabletop gaming, multimedia entertainment, and art exhibition via the San Diego Comic Art Gallery.

ABOUT BETTY’S BOOB, CODA, GIANT DAYS, PETALS Honored By Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Committee

LOS ANGELES, CA (April 26 2019) – BOOM! Studios is proud to announce it has received six total nominations in the 2019 Eisner Awards, honoring the best in the comic book industry. This includes five nominations for BOOM! Studios releases including nominations for each of its diverse imprints – BOOM! Studios, BOOM! Box, KaBOOM! & Archaia – along with one shared nomination for letterer, Jim Campbell.

The full list of nominated comics and talent are below:

• Best Continuing Series: Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal (BOOM! Box)
• Best Publication for Early Readers: Petals, by Gustavo Borges (KaBOOM!)
• Best Humor Publication: Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal (BOOM! Box)
• Best U.S. Edition of International Material: About Betty’s Boob, by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau, translated by Edward Gauvin (Archaia)
• Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Matías Bergara, Coda(BOOM! Studios)
• Best Lettering: Jim Campbell, Breathless, Calexit, Gravetrancers, Snap Flash Hustle, Survival Fetish, The Wilds (Black Mask); Abbott, Alice: Dream to Dream, Black Badge, Clueless, Coda, Fence, Firefly, Giant Days, Grass Kings, Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass, Low Road West, Sparrowhawk(BOOM! Studios); Angelic (Image); Wasted Space (Vault)
  
  

"On behalf of BOOM! Studios and all the incredible creators we work with each day, we'd like to thank the Eisner Awards committee for recognizing such a diverse array of comics from 2018,” said Matt Gagnon, Editor-in-Chief, BOOM! Studios. “It's an honor to see books from each of our imprints nominated in these prestigious categories and further reinforces our commitment to making comics books for anyone, because we believe they're for everyone."

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are presented under the auspices of Comic-Con International, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular artforms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of comics to art and culture. 

The Eisner Awards will be presented at a gala awards ceremony to be held on July 19, 2019 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. A full list of nominees can be found at the Eisner Award website.

For continuing news on BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.

PORTLAND, OR 04/26/2019 — Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce that Die!Die!Die! #6 and Die!Die!Die! #8 by Robert Kirkman (Oblivion Song, The Walking Dead), Scott Gimple (AMC’s The Walking Dead TV show), and Chris Burnham (Nameless) are being rushed back to print in order to keep up with customer demand for this boundary-pushing new series.


Die!Die!Die! #6 and Die!Die!Die! #8 are some of the most in-your-face, violent, and mind-blowing installments of the series that has been ripping the rug out from under the industry with each new punch thrown.

Join the blood-soaked, bullet-riddled, ultraviolent mayhem. 

Die!Die!Die! #6, second printing (Diamond Code MAR198622) and Die!Die!Die! #8, second printing (Diamond Code MAR198623) will hit stores on Wednesday, May 22. The final order cutoff for comic shop retailers is Monday, April 29.

IMAGE MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST PUBLISHER TO SWEEP "BEST NEW SERIES" EISNER NOMS
Image talent honored with 30 nominations total

PORTLAND, OR 04/26/2019 — Image Comics made history today as the first publisher to sweep in the Best New Series category for nominations in the 2019 Eisner Awards. 
 
This year, Image titles have received 19 nominations plus 11 shared nominations for a total of 30 Eisner nominations. 
 
“It’s always exciting to be nominated for anything, but to receive as many nominations as we did this year is a powerful testament to the sheer volume of creativity produced by the amazing writers and artists we work with here at Image,” said Eric Stephenson, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer at Image Comics. “Even more exciting is dominating the Best New Series category, if only because we take so much pride in making ‘new’ our speciality.”
 
Below is the full list of Image nominees. 
 
Best Short Story: 

• “Get Naked in Barcelona,” by Steven T. Seagle and Emei Olivia Burell, in Get Naked (Image)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot: 

• The Terrible Elisabeth Dumn Against the Devils In Suits, by Arabson, translated by James Robinson (Image)

Best Continuing Series: 

• Gasolina, by Sean Mackiewicz and Niko Walter (Skybound/Image)

Best New Series: 

• Bitter Root, by David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene (Image)
• Crowded, by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt (Image)
• Gideon Falls, by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Image)
• Isola, by Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kerschl (Image)
• Man-Eaters, by Chelsea Cain, Lia Miternique, and Kate Niemczyk (Image)
• Skyward, by Joe Henderson and Lee Garbett (Image)

Best Publication for Teens: 

• Middlewest, by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona (Image)
• Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway, by Cat Seaton and Kit Seaton (Image)

Best Humor Publication:

• Get Naked, by Steven T. Seagle et al. (Image)

Best Anthology: 

• Twisted Romance, edited by Alex de Campi (Image)
• Where We Live: A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas, edited by Will Dennis, curated by J. H. Williams III and Wendy Wright-Williams (Image)

Best Graphic Album—New: 

• My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team:

• Karl Kerschl, Isola (Image)
• Sean Phillips, Kill or Be Killed, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies (Image)

Best Cover Artist: 

• Karl Kerschl, Isola (Image)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: 

• Dustin Nguyen, Descender (Image)

SHARED:
Best Writer: 

• Alex De Campi, Bad Girls (Gallery 13); Twisted Romance (Image)
• Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Black Hammer: Quantum Age, Doctor Star & the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows, (Dark Horse); Descender, Gideon Falls, Royal City (Image)

Best Writer/Artist: 

• David Lapham, Lodger (Black Crown/IDW); Stray Bullets (Image)

Best Cover Artist: 

• Jen Bartel, Blackbird (Image); Fantastic Four (Marvel); Submerged (Vault)

Best Coloring: 

• Jordie Bellaire, Batman (DC); The Divided Earth (First Second); Days of Hate, Dead Hand, Head Lopper, Redlands (Image); Shuri, Doctor Strange (Marvel)     
• Nathan Fairbairn, Batman, Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman Earth One, vol. 2 (DC); Die!Die!Die! (Image); Despicable Deadpool (Marvel)
• Matt Hollingsworth, Batman: White Knight (DC): Seven to Eternity, Wytches(Image)
• Matt Wilson, Black Cloud, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); The Mighty Thor, Runaways (Marvel)

Best Lettering: 

• Jim Campbell, Abbott, Alice: Dream to Dream, Black Badge Clueless, Coda, Fence, Firefly, Giant Days, Grass Kings, Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass, Low Road West, Sparrowhawk (BOOM); Angelic (Image)
• Alex De Campi, Bad Girls (Gallery 13), Twisted Romance (Image)
• Jared Fletcher, Batman: Damned (DC); The Gravediggers Union, Moonshine, Paper Girls, Southern Bastards (Image) 

ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

 
NEW VIKINGVERSE GRAPHIC NOVEL, THE JÖTUNN WAR, LAUNCHES ON KICKSTARTER
The first of a four-issue graphic novel brings Norse history to life this March
 TOPEKA, KANSAS (March 22, 2019)— The Jötunn War, a brand-new addition to the Vikingverse universe created by Ian Stuart Sharpe, launches on Kickstarter on March 22, 2019. The first of a four-issue graphic novel series and a follow up of Sharpe‘s debut novel The All Father Paradox, The Jötunn War is an alternate universe where the Norse rule the stars with restless fleets and an iron will. When the thralls rebel, turning to the artifice of Norns to help them escape their bondage, the Natural order is thrown into chaos, causing a war that will rage across the Nine Homeworlds. Will the thrall rebellion change the Norse way of life? Or will the Empire crush them with flame and fury?
 
“When we first acquired The All Father Paradox, I knew the Vikingverse setting had so much potential for trans-media storytelling,” said Outland Entertainment‘s Editor-in-Chief, Alana Joli Abbott. “To see the first comic coming into fruition is truly exciting—and while it stands alone, readers of the novel will get extra insight into some mysterious characters…”
 
“It‘s been a real delight to see the stories we started telling in The All Father Paradox take on a visceral urgency in comic form,” explained Vikingverse creator Ian Stuart Sharpe. “Norse mythology is a fascinating lens through which to take a view of the world. History is full of titanic battles, from David vs. Goliath to the Axis vs. Allies, but The Jötunn War is literally as big as it gets.”
 
The Kickstarter will support the printing and distribution of the graphic novel‘s completed first issue. Other stretch goals include upgrades of printing specs, such as a glossier cover and higher quality paper, and finally the ability to fund the printing and distribution of the second graphic novel set in the Vikingverse.
 

Missoula, MT (04/23/2019): Vault Comics is thrilled to announce SERA AND THE ROYAL STARS, a stunning new fantasy epic comic book series written by Jon Tsuei (Run Love Kill), drawn by Audrey Mok (Archie, Josie & The Pussycats), colored by Raúl Angulo (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), lettered by Jim Campbell (Wasted Space), and designed by Tim Daniel.  

Civil war rages in the Empire of Parsa, and famine has struck. As the seasons refuse to turn, Princess Sera receives a vision from the deity Mitra telling her to find the Royal Stars and restore them to the heavens. Despite her kingdom and her troops’ need of her command, Sera embarks on a quest to find the fallen stars—now trapped on earth—and save her people from dearth and death.

SERA AND THE ROYAL STARS #1 
​hits store shelves in July 2019. 

Burbank, CA –  STARBURNS INDUSTRIES PRESS ADDS “B-SQUAD” TO SUMMER LINEUP

As it heads into its sophomore year of publishing, Starburns Industries Press sets it’s eyes on remastering an independent series, B-Squad, from indie darling author Eben Burgoon and a rotating roster illustrators and artists that change issue to issue. B-Squad shares the ridiculous and dangerous missions of an expendable team of misfit mercenaries ranging from pop-culture riffs to cut from whole cloth oddballs. The bargain-bin commandos tackle leftover assignments of other more respected mercenary groups. ​

SBI Press’ run begins with a remaster of the series debut “Conspiracy in Cambodia”, originally independently published in 2013. Written by Burgoon and illustrated by Lauren Monardo, B-Squad is tasked with protecting a free-range cadre of “mugwai” from a group of radicalized hipsters who poach the furry critters for unknown gain. Series creator, Eben Burgoon, comments “I seriously can’t think of a better home for B-Squad than SBI Press. Bringing this passion project of mine to a creative-focused publisher that has a track record for making undeniably extraordinary work in so many mediums is a pinch-me caliber dream.”

Because you are a Kidrobot insider, you are getting advance notice that the Kidrobot Vault will be opening tomorrow at Kidrobot.com!  THIS IS NOT A DRILL!  The Kidrobot Spring Cleaning Vault Sale begin will start at 10am MST.  The Kidrobot elves finally watched that Marie Kondo show and cleaned the deepest corners of the vault to find some long-forgotten, hidden gems. Oh, and some recent gems too... some customs... some signed by the artist / creators...

Kidrobot.com will drop new batches of vault pieces at the following times throughout the day only: 10am, 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm MST (Mountain Time).

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Due to the limited nature of these items, Kidrobot will be restricting all Vault Sale items to USA orders and limiting the number of each piece to one per customer.  Bot & high risk orders are always cancelled. All sales on Kidrobot.com are final.