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Nicholas Aflleje and Sarah Delaine Head out for a Tour to Promote Little Girls

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Little Girls

In celebration of Little Girls hitting shelves, debut creators Nicholas Aflleje and Sarah DeLaine will go on a 12 city national book tour this May—with events featuring live band performances—to promote the release of this haunting new standalone graphic novel. 

Little Girls tour dates and locations:

April 27 – Jacksonville, Florida
Coliseum of Comics – Riverside
featuring Sleepless and Glazed

May, 6 – Orlando, Florida
BAMF! Comics & Collectibles
featuring Vivian K and Body Heat

May, 7 – Charlotte, North Carolina
Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find
featuring Petrov and more

May, 8 – Washington, D.C.
Fantom Comics
featuring BRNDA and more

May, 9 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Brave New Worlds – Old City
[bands TBA]  

May, 11 – Brooklyn, New York
Anyone Comics
[bands TBA]  

May, 12 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
New Dimension Comics – Waterfront
at 3 Rivers Comicon

May, 13 – Chicago, Illinois
Challengers Comics + Conversation
featuring KACHI the BAND and Gentle Heat

May, 14 – St. Louis, Missouri
Apotheosis Comics & Lounge
featuring Jr. Clooney and more

May, 16 – Dallas, Texas
Red Pegasus Games & Comics
featuring Two Knights and more

May, 17 – Austin, Texas
Austin Books & Comics
featuring Luvweb and Mean Girls

May, 18 – New Orleans, Louisiana
Crescent City Comics
[bands TBA]

About the Little Girls graphic novel:

Something hunts people on the outskirts of town…

Sam and Lielet are two new friends living in Ethiopia. They’re dealing with the kind of problems that all kids have: judgmental social cliques, condescending adults, alienation… and a legendary brain-eating monster straight out of folklore. Sure, it’s not going to be easy, but all they have to do is live through it. Showcasing a quietly unsettling plot and building tension similar to Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina and Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying, Aflleje and DeLaine construct a poignant story of otherness and mystery.

Little Girls (ISBN: 9781534310599, Diamond Code: FEB190018) hits comic shops on Wednesday, April 24 and bookstores on Tuesday, April 30. 

Something hunts people on the outskirts of town in… Little Girls

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Image Comics has announced an eerie, hauntingly original graphic novel, Little Girls, by debut creators Nicholas Aflleje and Sarah DeLaine, set to hit shelves in March 2019.

In Little Girls, readers meet Sam, who has been an outsider all her life. That might have been the case even if her father hadn’t dragged her all around the globe, but it sure didn’t help. Every year, another school and another word for foreigner. Why would things be any different in Harar, Ethiopia? Well, for one thing, there’s Lielet—an outspoken and rebellious local girl who has all the makings of a lifelong friend. Then there is the city itself—a crossroad of cultures and traditions woven together through time that make it feel like anything’s possible. Also, there’s something hunting people on the outskirts of town…

As the disappearances start piling up, Sam and Lielet decide they might be the only ones willing to do anything about it. But as these two young friends bravely strike out into the dark on an exciting new adventure, they soon find that the night has teeth.

Little Girls, OGN (ISBN: 978-1-5343-1059-9) hits comics shops on Wednesday, March 26th and bookstores on Tuesday April 2nd. It can be pre-ordered via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Indigo.

AfterShock Announces It First Anthology Collection, Shock

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AfterShock Comics continues to push boundaries by presenting it’s very first anthology collection, Shock, featuring a slew of today’s top writers and artists. Presented in the European Album format (same as the recent Animosity: the Rise hardcover for LCSD), this handsome hardcover features the creative talents of Bill Willingham, Marguerite Bennett, Mike Carey, Jim Starlin, Michael Zulli, Charles Vess, Michael Gaydos, Andy Clarke, Andrew Robinson, Sarah Delaine, Phil Hester, Paul Jenkins, Neil Gaiman, Dalibor Talajic, Travis Moore, Brian Azzarello, Francesco Francavilla, Cullen Bunn, Marc Guggenheim, Frank Tieri, Brian Stelfreeze, and more! Cover art by John Cassaday!

From the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award nominated editor of the classic Negative Burn anthology series.

Shock comes to comic shops March 2018.

Image Continues To Evolve

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Official Press Release

IMAGE CONTINUES TO EVOLVE

Image Comics Introduced New PR & Marketing Coordinator, Sarah DeLaine

January 18, 2011  — Image Comics has announced that Sarah deLaine, a long-time Image staff member and former employee of the visionary comic book store Comic Relief, will replace Betsy Gomez as the company’s PR & Marketing Coordinator.

Since moving to the Bay Area in 2004, deLaine has been a dedicated part of the Berkeley comics community, first at Berkeley’s Comic Relief, where she worked with the preeminent comics retail team of Rory Root and Todd Martinez, then as Image Comics’ administrative assistant. Martinez became Image’s Sales & Licensing Coordinator in May 2010, furthering the working relationship he and deLaine developed during their retail days.

“I’m thrilled to be taking over as Image Comics’ new PR & Marketing Coordinator,” said deLaine. “I couldn’t think of a better situation than the one we’re looking at now at Image: We have a fantastic, dedicated staff here, and some of the new books we’ll be introducing this year are going to blow everyone away. I want nothing more than to help comics be the best they can be, and I believe Image is the place to do that.”

deLaine will be taking over as PR & Marketing Coordinator effective immediately, and while Publisher Eric Stephenson is disappointed to be losing Gomez, he is excited to have deLaine fill her post.

“I’ve known Sarah since she worked for Rory Root at Comic Relief, and she’s a highly personable individual with a lot of ideas that she can’t wait to put to use marketing our titles,” stated Image Publisher Eric Stephenson. “I couldn’t be more happy to have Sarah take on a greater role as part of the Image team and we’re all looking forward to working with her over the months to come as she helps us continue to raise awareness of all the great work creators are doing at Image.”

Sales & Licensing Coordinator Todd Martinez added, “I’m confident that Sarah and I will make an excellent team for the future of Image Comics.”

Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, 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.