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Read AWA Studios’ Year Zero #1 for FREE!

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Writer Ben Percy and artist Ramon Rosanas team up to present an epic tale that offers a global look at the Zombie Apocalypse. A Japanese hitman, a Mexican street urchin, an Afghan military aide, a Polar research scientist, a midwestern American survivalist – five survivors of a horrific global epidemic who must draw upon their unique skills and deepest instincts to navigate a world of shambling dead. Year Zero wrestles with the weighty moral and theological questions posed by the pandemic and investigates its cause and possible cure.

Year Zero #1 features colors from Lee Loughridge and lettering by Sal Cipriano. You can read the first issue below for free!

Artists, Writers & Artisans Inks an Exclusive Distribution Deal with Diamond

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Diamond Comic Distributors has signed a distribution agreement with Artists, Writers & Artisans to exclusively distribute their products to comic book specialty markets worldwide. Diamond was also awarded the rights to exclusively distribute Artists, Writers & Artisans’s new releases to the North American book market under the banner of Diamond Book Distributors.

Artists, Writers & Artisans, also known as AWA Studios, is an independent publisher crafting new characters, stories, and worlds for a 21st century audience. The company approaches the comic book industry with a new business model, one that focuses on creators and gives them ownership of their work, the company, or even both. Founded by Marvel alumni Axel Alonso and Bill Jemas, along with former CEO of AOL and of Digital Media at News Corp, Jon Miller, AWA Studios aims to give power back to the creators with a genre-blending, sky’s-the-limit approach to storytelling.

AWA Studios boasts a continuously expanding library of standalone stories and ongoing series that span genres and audiences, offering diverse tales for a broad range of readers. Upcoming trade paperback releases include The Resistance, Year Zero, Archangel 8, Red Border, and Hotell. 

NYCC 2019: Artists Writers & Artisans’ Upshot Studio Announces their plans including an exclusive Upshot Now #0

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Artists Writers & Artisans’ Upshot Studio is excited to announce their upcoming plans for New York Comic Con 2019. Throughout the weekend AWA will be giving away exclusive previews and prizes, along with copies of Upshot Now #0.

Upshot Now will be a monthly release containing full issues and previews of upcoming Upshot titles, printed in black and white. Retailers will have the opportunity to read these volumes the same month they order the full-color single issues. Then, a month after the release of those single issues, the volume containing them will be available to the public for purchase at an affordable price. Be the first to get your hands on Upshot Now by visiting the Upshot booth throughout NYCC, or visit the Midtown Comics booth to purchase a NYCC Special Edition of Upshot Now #0.

Inside Upshot Now #0 you’ll see new stories from a wide range of writers and artists – some of whom you may already know, others whose names you may be seeing for the first time. In this volume you’ll see J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato Jr.’s The Resistance launch a new shared universe in grand scale; Michael Moreci and C.P. Smith’s supernatural espionage thriller Archangel 8; and Jason Starr and Will Conrad’s gritty tale of border paranoia taken to the limit Red Border. You’ll also be treated to sneak previews of Frank Cho’s high-stakes sci-fi adventure Fight Girls; John Lees and Dalibor Talajic’s chilling horror anthology Hotell; Ben Percy and Ramon Rosanas’s globe-spanning zombie epic Year Zero; Ollie Masters and Rob Williams and Laurence Campbell’s paranormal crime story Old Haunts; and Ben Percy and Brent Schoonover’s harrowing vengeance saga Devil’s Highway.

Throughout NYCC weekend, Upshot will also be hosting signings with many of our creators, where you can get a free copy of Upshot Now #0 signed by John Lees, Dalibor Talajic, Michael Moreci, Jason Starr, Will Conrad, Frank Cho, Benjamin Percy and Brent Schoonover. See the full signing schedule for details.

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