Official Press Release

Get Ready for Fantastic Felix Friday

Celebrate Felix the Cat with this one-of-a-kind online event

San Diego, CA (September 23, 2010) – IDW Publishing and Yoe! Books are proud to announce “Fantastic Felix Friday,” a groundbreaking, one-of-a -kind event full of laffs and guffaws, and featuring eight bloggers of historical comic material! The bloggers are joining forces to support of FELIX: THE GREAT COMICS BOOKE TAILS, a beautiful hardback, full color, art book that lovingly collects the best of brilliant Felix the Cat comic book stories from the 1940s and 50s. In an enthusiastic, united effort, classic Felix comic stories will be posted on each popular blog tomorrow, Friday September 24th. Some of the “tails” seen on the blogs are from the new book, and some are from the bloggers personal collections of comics featuring Felix, that wonderful, wonderful cat. Each blogger is linking to the other participating blogs, creating a Felix Maelstrom of Mirth throughout the blog-o-sphere!

Award-wining creator Craig Yoe edited FELIX: THE GREAT COMICS BOOKE TAILS, which is packed with rare Felix art, ephemera, animation insights, and, of course, a plethora of comic book stories by Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo, and Jim Tyer. Said Yoe, “I am jumping out of my skin with excitement that this bodacious blogging event will turn thousands of people onto the great Felix art and stories that those genius cat cartoonists drew.” Don Oriolo, the son of Joe Oriolo, and head of Felix the Cat Productions, wrote the heartfelt introduction to FELIX: THE GREAT COMICS BOOKE TAILS. About “Fantastic Felix Friday,” Oriolo shouted a joyful “Righty-O!”

The participating blogs re as follows:

http://CartoonSnap.com
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/
http://ramapithblog.blogspot.com/
http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com
http://www.comicbookbin.com/Beth_Davies-Stofka.html
http://comicrazys.com/
http://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/
http://theITCHblog.com

Craig Yoe is an Eisner-winning, Harvey-nominated writer, cartoonist that Vice magazine called “The Indiana Jones of comics historians.” Yoe can be reached for comments or interviews at yoecomix(at)hotmail(dot)com.

Review copies of Yoe! Books can be requested from AnnaMaria White at IDW Publishing, annamaria(at)idwpublishing.com. A confidential preview of the entire Felix book can be seen at http://yoebooks.com/felix/.

Other Yoe! Books include: DICK BRIEFER’S FRANKENSTEIN, BARNEY GOOGLE: GAMBLING, HORSE RACING, AND HIGH-TONED WOMEN, DAN DECARLO’S JETTA, THE ART OF DITKO, THE GOLDEN COLLECTION OF KLASSIC KRAZY COOL KIDS KOMICS, THE COMPLETE MILT GROSS COMIC BOOKS AND LIFE STORY, GEORGE HERRIMAN’S KRAZY & IGNATZ IN “TIGER TEA,” POPEYE: THE GREAT COMIC BOOK TALES BY BUD SAGENDORF, and THE GREAT TREASURY OF CHRISTMAS COMIC BOOK STORIES.

FELIX: THE GREAT COMICS BOOKE TAILS ($34.99, 224 pages, hardcover) is now available in stores. ISBN 978-1600107054.