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Your First Look at LUMBERJANES: SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN #1 from BOOM! Studios
The Lumberjanes series from BOOM has continued to allow different writers and artists to use the franchise to tell interesting and compelling stories about his group of girls and their magical world. Pop-Culture Spectrum is excited to see it expand more and more.
Discover a New Tale in the The New York Times Best-Selling Series About Adventure and the Power of Friendship
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 1, 2018) – BOOM! Studios today revealed an exclusive first look at LUMBERJANES: SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN #1, a special oversized one-shot comic book about the power of friendship, from New York Times best-selling author Seanan McGuire (Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider) and artist Alexa Bosy, that includes an additional story by cartoonist Mariana Costa (Peritale), available in stores May 29, 2019.
It’s a rainy day at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types, and cabin fever has Ripley literally climbing the walls… and ceiling.. and Jo, while April is hard at work earning indoor badges and the rest of the ‘Janes try to fight the rainy day blues. Everyone’s ready to call it a day when they hear something outside and set out into the storm on an epic quest to reunite what look like lost kittens with their mother, and instead stumble upon a mysterious and fiercely guarded secret garden in the middle of the forest. Discover a new corner of the Lumberjanes universe you’ve never seen before, a green haven full of magical and wondrous plants that would be the perfect place for the Lumberjanes to earn their Cryptobotany badges…but only if the creatures they find there will let them leave.
In Mariana Costas’ short story, the Yetis are back! Only this time, they need help from Jo and the rest of the Lumberjanes when a storm knocks out the power to their treehouse and plunges the entire Camp into darkness. It’ll take brains, guts, and the power of teamwork to fix this problem, but the Lumberjanes have yet to meet a challenge they can’t handle when they work together.
Launched in 2014 under BOOM! Studios’ YA-focused BOOM! Box imprint by series co-creators Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooklyn Allen, and Noelle Stevenson,Lumberjanes was originally solicited as a limited series, but the overwhelming response from fans transformed it into an ongoing series that has become a New York Times best-seller, earned numerous nominations for prestigious awards including the GLAAD Media Award and the Eisner Award (which it has won twice), and has even crossed over with heroes from the DC Comics Universe (inLumberjanes/Gotham Academy). The Lumberjanes have expanded to middle-grade novels at Abrams Books, a diverse array of merchandise from pins to patches, and a feature film in development at 20th Century Fox.
LUMBERJANES: SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN #1 features a main cover by artist Alexa Bosy and a variant cover by artist Veronica Fish (Sabrina the Teenage Witch).
“The Lumberjanes are on a mission to reunite several lost and mysteriously verdant kittens with their mother somewhere in the vast, unknown reaches of the forest, without getting lost in the green forever.” said Jeanine Schaefer, Executive Editor, BOOM! Studios. “The ‘Janes have gotten into quite a few scrapes before and encountered a lot of supernatural creatures and magical beings, but each time they’ve managed to find surprisingly creative ways of resolving their problems using patience, kindness, understanding, and the power of friendship. All of those qualities will come in very handy when exploring SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN in this issue!”
LUMBERJANES: SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN #1 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; Giant Days by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin; The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes, Smooth Criminals by Kiwi Smith, Kurt Lustgarten, and Leisha Riddell, Fence by C.S. Pacat and Johanna The Mad, and Goldie Vance by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams.
Print copies of LUMBERJANES: SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN #1 will be available May 29, 2019 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and the BOOM! Studios app.
For continuing news on LUMBERJANES: SOMEWHERE THAT’S GREEN #1 and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow@boomstudios on Twitter.
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IDW Publishing Honored with Twelve Eisner Award Nominations in 2019
A congrats to IDW and their various imprints as well from PCS
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.”
IMAGE MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST PUBLISHER TO SWEEP “BEST NEW SERIES” EISNER NOMS
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Boom! Studios Celebrates Prestigious 2019 Eisner Award Nominations
Congrats to BOOM on their nominations – PCS
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.
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An Early Look at upcoming game, LUNA: The Shadow Dust
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Your First Look at ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON #5 by Olivia Olson and Slimm Fabert
This comic is cooler and cooler with each issue. BOOM!’s AT continuance is so good.
Discover The Future of Your Favorite Vampire Queen & Former Ice King in May 2019
LOS ANGELES, CA (April 23, 2019) – BOOM! Studios and Cartoon Network today revealed a first look at ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON #5 (of 6). Writer Olivia Olson (voice of Marceline, Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time™) and artist Slimm Fabert (Adventure Time™ comic series) bring fans the exciting official comic book continuation by revealing what’s next for the once immortal Simon and the still immortal Vampire Queen Marceline in comic book form.
Marcy and Simon’s friendship has endured over 900 years and through bouts of insanity and amnesia so there’s no way that friendship ends now, right? Not if Marcy, Jake, and Finn have got anything to say about it! Looks like saving Betty from the Golb is the key to saving Simon’s memories and his sanity but they’ll have to search the centers of chaos in each dimension to find her. It’s time to travel to the farthest outer reaches of space and the deepest recesses of the universe to save Betty and Simon once more.
A modern-day fable, the critically-acclaimed Adventure Time became a global success, attracting adult and kid viewers alike over the course of 10 seasons. It follows unlikely heroes Finn and Jake, buddies who traverse the mystical Land of Ooo and encounter its colorful inhabitants. The best of friends, our heroes always find themselves in the middle of heart-pounding escapades. Finn, a silly kid with an awesome hat and Jake, a brassy dog with a big kind heart, depend on each other through thick and thin. Adventure Time™ was created by Pendleton Ward and produced at Cartoon Network Studios.
BOOM! Studios has been publishing the New York Times bestselling Adventure Time comic books and graphic novels through their KaBOOM! imprint for middle grade readers since 2012 and been honored with Eisner, Harvey, and Diamond Gem Awards for the series.
ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON is Olson’s third writing contribution to the expanded literary world of the eponymous franchise, previously collaborating with her father Martin Olson (the voice of “Hunson Abadeer”) on The Adventure Time™ Encyclopedia. The two also co-authored Adventure Time™: The Enchiridion & Marcy’s Super Secret Scrapbook, written from a first-person perspective through Marceline’s diary entries about when she and Simon first met. Both Adventure Timebooks, published in partnership between Abrams and Cartoon Network, are available now everywhere books are sold.
“Simon’s life has been tragic in many ways but the brightest spots have always been the love he has for his chosen family of Marceline and Betty, and hopefully that’ll be what saves him in the end.” said Matthew Levine, Editor, BOOM! Studios. “Olivia and Slimm raise the stakes impossibly high in this penultimate issue by taking us all the way across time and space to confront Simon’s final regret: losing the love of his life to the Golb.”
ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON #5 features a main cover by Brittney Williams (Goldie Vance), along with variant covers by artists Danielle Chuatico and Jamie Loughran.
ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON is the latest release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning KaBOOM! imprint, home to comics for middle grade and younger readers including licensed series such as Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Regular Show, Ben 10, and Over The Garden Wall, along with original series like Just Beyond: The Scare School by R.L. Stine and Kelly & Nichole Matthews, Hex Vet by Sam Davies, RuinWorld by Derek Laufman, Hotel Dare by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre, and Pandora’s Legacy by Kara Leopard, Kelly & Nichole Matthews.
Print copies of ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON #5 will be available on May 15, 2019 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) , or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers like comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and the BOOM! Studios app.
For continuing news on ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.
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Shakespeare POP! from Quirk Books Begins
Today (April 23) is the day according to records that Shakespeare passed away, it is also St. George’s Day, opening day of Wrigley Field, the debut of New Coke, the birthdate of Shirley Temple Black, Lee Majors, Sandra Dee, Roy Orbison, John Cena, John Olliver, Kal Penn (the last three the same year). It is also recognized as World Book Day.
To that, it is also the date that Quirk Books has chosen in 2019 to release its new Shakespeare Pop! Series by the noted author of the publisher’s previous William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series, Ian Doescher.
To start this series, Ian tackled two of this writer’s most beloved films. One a perfect comedy from modern comedy legend Tina Fey, the other a very flawed yet brilliant comedic drama from the combined minds of directors and screenwriters Bob Gale and Robert Zemekis. In both adaptations Doescher worked very hard to maintain the language and style of Shakespeare while not losing the pivotal moments, lines, and references of the modern films.
Much Ado About Mean Girls doesn’t forget that on Wednesdays we wear pink. Nor does it forget that Cady narrates much of the film and that transitions in it are mid scene at times. Ian finds his ways around that using the same tricks Shakespeare would have had to use himself and does this masterfully. Mean Girls came out originally at a time where I was at a period shortly out of college, but close to true adulthood to truly relate to both Cady’s story of finding herself and Mrs. Norbury’s travails as being a newly single adult still young and trying to enjoy life.
My favorite scene in Mean Girls is truly the trust falls and Ian staying true to style still captures this many layered character scene perfectly evoking the fantastic film while also dutifully educating a reader on Shakespeare’s style.
Get Thee…Back to the Future tackles a much more deft subject and has to rely on much more adaptation to translate the complicated film into something that would work as a Shakespeare stage play. Luckily Ian is a truly capable writer. While some purists on the all ends would find flaws with this, they are no worse than the flaws one finds in the original film. There are certain flourishes Mr. Doescher does that really make me smile. Such as translating Einstein’s woofs, or a couple of Marty’s monologues being exactly 88 lines long.
One of my personal biggest issues with Back to the Future has always been the consequences of time travel and how if one changed something in the past that changed the future, then possibly they never went back in time to begin with because the future changed in such a way to not have them go back, and therefore… what? Ian Doescher doesn’t go AS FAR into the complication as I always will, but a short bit of dialogue between two policemen never in the film questions a portent of this in a meta way that I think would satisfy any viewer of a play of this ilk had it existed in Shakepeare’s time.
Be a fan of Shakespeare, either of these films, Ian’s previous Star Wars books or completely unfamiliar to all of it and seeking something new an interesting I highly recommend both these QUIRK productions. They are also both wonderfully designed by Doogie Howser and have illustrations by Kent Barton throughout.
They are available NOW, (April 23, 2019) in paperbook and e-book in all the places you get books.
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A “Deep” look into the Doom Patrol TV series
As I have seen nothing of the like online for DC Universe’s DOOM PATROL I tried to create a timeline of sorts based on what we know after S01E10. I have adored every episode of this show, although 8 with Matt Bomer singing and 9 with so much on screen Brendan Fraser will be big ones. Although 10 did have a ton of Dalton, even though this Chief “origin” is confusing.
TIMELINE:
1913: Caulder is somewhere in the Yukon working for what would become the Bureau of Normalcy
1917: After 4 years, Caulder returns to the Bureau, supposdley as a double agent.. which despite no one questioning how he never ages ends up at Doom Manor, probably meets Danny the Street before 1948.
1930: Rita Farr is around 7-10 years old
1935: Larry is approx 10-12
1948: Niles Caulder accidentally creates Mr. Nobody killing Nazi Doctor
1950: Jane (Kaye) is months old
1951 or 2: Niles somehow finds and assembles original Doom Patrol
1955: Rita suffers her affliction
1956: Rita has not yet met Niles
1958: Rita somehow ends up at Doom Manor (no explanation). Meets Mento.
1959?: Doom Patrol get destroyed by Nobody
1961: Larry’s timeline of love and “accident”
1963?: Niles somehow rescues Larry
1961: Cliff is approx 10
1983: Cliff’s career begins
1976: Jane gets powers?
1977: Jane in and out of insane asylums is 25-35. Niles somehow hears about Jane and saves her… why the fuck any word of her is out I can’t fathom.
1978: Jane comes to DOOM MANOR first time.
1988: Cliff “dies”
1995: Cliff becomes cognizant of how long he’s been “dead” and that he killed his wife.
2001: The Eye Portal is born
2002: Victor is approx 7-10
2011 0r 12: Vic becomes Cyborg.
2014: Niles replaces Vic’s eyes. Established they knew each other for some time already. How Niles knows Cyborg or his dad is unestablished.
1996-2004: Cliff stays locked in his head. (hence how Jane and Cliff never met)
2019: Crazy Jane returns
(Questions: The Bureau knew about Danny still, they know about Larry, they probably know about Rita…. they know Niles has been around since 1913 at least. Yet they don’t seem to seeking them out. Something doesn’t add up, unless all answers relate to Doom Manor itself. Will it? I don’t know.)
Anyways… everyone in DOOM MANOR other than Victor is at least 70 (which is fine for Rita and Larry as we know nothing of their entities [Yes, Rita also has an entity in her] and Cliff is a brain in a bot and Niles is at least 150 and has super powers too. Victor is actually at least 25 which is just effed up really especially if he ends up with the Titans.
ADDITIONAL:
These are the plot details of the specific comic Danny gave Victor. Red herring? Ignoring it or will it mean something?
We Unleashed the Demon of the Dungeon, art by Bill Ely; Two hunters visit the legendary village of Loessburg, once under the control of a powerful sorcerer.
I Made a Deal with Doom, art by Lee Elias; Explorer Wally Peters is given two pills that give him amazing powers that he can use to find a hidden cave and some ancient scrolls, but the pills have a potentially deadly side effect.
Ominous Clocks half-pager by Mort Drucker.
They Made Me a Space Outlaw text story by Jack Miller.
We Defied the Beasts of the Witch Doctor, art by Nick Cardy; Two hunters encounter several fantastic monsters in the jungle which were supposedly created by a powerful witch doctor.
They sound like stories of The Bureau of Normalcy… but what do they have to do with finding Niles?
We have 5 more episodes to find out. I am hoping we have all this answered before heading into the next series with Swamp Thing and then season two of Titans. I also wish DC Universe had more than one new episode on a weekly basis of one show, but maybe that’ll happen eventually.
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