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Your First Look at GIANT DAYS: WHERE WOMEN GLOW AND MEN PLUNDER #1

11/6/2018

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Celebrate the holidays Down Under with sun, surf, and spiders in December 2018
LOS ANGELES, CA (November 6, 2018) – BOOM! Studios today revealed a first look at GIANT DAYS: WHERE WOMEN GLOW AND MEN PLUNDER #1, an all new over-sized special from creator John Allison in December 2018. Surprise, Ed Gemmell’s flying to Australia for the holidays! He’ll get to spend a glorious vacation meeting his girlfriend’s family and paying her dad back for the plane tickets with hard, physical labor . . . all while basking in the warm glow of holiday sunshine and cheer.

Launched in 2015 under BOOM! Studios’ YA-focused BOOM! Box imprint, Giant Days was originally a webcomic from 2011 that was written and illustrated by Allison. Since then,Giant Days has featured the art of acclaimed artists including Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin, Liz Fleming, Julia Madrigal, Jenn St-Onge and more. The world of Giant Days has expanded to include young adult novels at Abrams Books and two previous critically-acclaimed holiday specials. 

GIANT DAYS: WHERE WOMEN GLOW AND MEN PLUNDER #1, this year’s holiday special, marks the first time that John Allison has both written and illustrated a full-length issue of Giant Days at BOOM! Studios.

“This has been an incredible year for Giant Days, so we’re celebrating it with an extra-large issue chock full of EXTREMELY Australian Christmas traditions for Ed Gemmell, but I promise there is plenty to love no matter where in the world you are!” said Shannon Watters, Senior Editor, BOOM! Studios.

GIANT DAYS: WHERE WOMEN GLOW AND MEN PLUNDER is the latest release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning BOOM! Box imprint, home to groundbreaking original series such as Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooklyn Allen, and Noelle Stevenson; By Night by John Allison and Christine Larsen; Misfit City by Kiwi Smith, Kurt Lustgarten, and Naomi Franquiz; Fence by C.S. Pacat and Johanna The Mad; and Goldie Vance by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams. 

Print copies of GIANT DAYS: WHERE WOMEN GLOW AND MEN PLUNDER #1 will be available for sale on December 5, 2018 at local comic book shops (usecomicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) and at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and the BOOM! Studios app.

For more on GIANT DAYS and other projects from BOOM! Studios, please visit www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.


About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios was founded by Ross Richie in 2005 with the singular focus of creating world-class comic book and graphic novel storytelling for all audiences. Through the development of four distinct imprints—BOOM! Studios, BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, and Archaia—BOOM! has produced award-winning original work, including Lumberjanes, The Woods, Giant Days, Klaus, and Mouse Guard, while also breaking new ground with established licenses such as WWE, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Cartoon Network, and The Jim Henson Company properties. BOOM! will also bring their original series to life through unique first-look relationships with 20th Century Fox for film and with 20th Television for the small screen. Please visit www.boom-studios.com for more information. 
 
Web: www.boom-studios.com
Twitter: @boomstudios
Facebook: @BOOMStudiosComics
Instagram: @boom_studios
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NICKY WHEELER-NICHOLSON PRESENTS: DC COMICS BEFORE SUPERMAN

11/6/2018

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Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson and Trina Robbins present
Toon Talk: DC Comics Before Superman
NICKY WHEELER-NICHOLSON PRESENTS: DC COMICS BEFORE SUPERMANComic book artist and Historian Trina Robbins (Babes in Arms) will be joining Nicky in presenting on her newest book: DC Comics Before Superman!
Cartoon Art Museum 

TOON TALK: DC COMICS BEFORE SUPERMAN
Sunday, November 11, 2018
2:00pm
781 Beach Street, FL 1, San Francisco, CA 94109
Before Batman and Superman were even a glimmer in Bill Finger and Jerry Siegel’s eyes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson created National Allied Publications, which would then go on to become DC Comics; one of the largest comic publishers in the world. Join Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson (author of DC Comics Before Superman, the Major’s granddaughter and noted comics historian) and friends as they recollect the days of DC Comics before Action Comics #1 and the boom of the super heroes. A signing will follow in the Bil Keane Family Lobby of the museum that will be free and accessible to the public.
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TRIPTYCH COVER WELCOMES NETFLIX’SNEW HIGH-OCTANE ADVENTURE SERIES, PRODIGY, TO MILLARWORLD

11/6/2018

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PORTLAND, OR, 11/06/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to exclusively reveal a triptych cover for the forthcoming PRODIGY comic book by Mark Millar (KINGSMAN, THE MAGIC ORDER, Civil War) and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque (Batman, American Vampire). The series will launch this December from Image Comics and is the latest addition to the Netflix Millarworld franchises shepherded by Mark and his wife Lucy. 

In PRODIGY, Edison Crane’s not content being the world’s smartest man and most successful businessman—his brilliant mind needs to be constantly challenged. He’s a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, genius composer, Olympic athlete, an expert in the occult, and international governments call on him to fix problems they just can’t handle. Interior preview pages were exclusively revealed at Deadline yesterday. 

PRODIGY #1 will be available on Wednesday, December 5th. The final order cutoff deadline for comics retailers is Monday, November 12th. There will be no second printings, and the item will be fully returnable to comic shop retailers. 
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover A Albuquerque - OCT180018
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover B Albuquerque - OCT180019
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover C Albuquerque - OCT180020
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover D Albuquerque - OCT180021
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover E Albuquerque - OCT180022
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover F Quitely - OCT180023
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover G Blank cover - OCT180024
  • PRODIGY #1 Cover H Albuquerque 'We Believe in Comics' - SEP188266
PRODIGY #1 will also be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including the official Image Comics iOS app, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.
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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.
ABOUT NETFLIX
Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with over 130 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

ABOUT MARK MILLAR AND MILLARWORLD
Millarworld, a subsidiary of Netflix, is an entertainment company run by Mark and Lucy Millar. Millarworld’s comic book franchises, like Wanted, Kingsman, Reborn, Empress, Kick-Ass, Jupiter’s Legacy and many others, have achieved huge success as global franchises ranging across publishing, cinema, clothing, video-games and toys over the past fourteen years. In his years at Marvel, Mark wrote some of the biggest-selling books of this generation, massively influencing the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His book, The Ultimates, was named by TIME Magazine as "Comic Book Of The Decade" and his Superman opus, Red Son, remains the bestselling Supermangraphic novel of all time.

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