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Around the Tubes – The Day After

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We broke records for our site yesterday driven by frantic discussion on #comicmarket.  Well, it’s Tuesday which is the official #comicmarket discussion.  Who know what that’ll bring.  I’ve got a lot to say, hopefully people are as open to listening as they were yesterday.  While you head to Twitter to watch the discussion, here’s the news you might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

ICv2 – Top 300 Comics Actual–June 2011 – Good coverage of June’s sales figures.

ICv2 – Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual–June 2011 – Graphic novel sales figures.

ICv2 – Comics’ Slide Continues in June – A breakdown of the overall stats.

The Takeaway – ‘The 99’: Superheroes and Comics in the Islamic World – A good discussion about a comic book series that has had some controversy surrounding it.

ICv2 – Marvel Still Working on ‘Doctor Strange’ Movie – Marvel’s had some luck with their not as known characters, it’ll be interesting to see how this one does.

CBLDF – Defending the Art: CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein Talks to Graphic Novel Reporter – A good discussion and reasons why you should support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Bleeding Cool – Flashpoint #4

The Consortium – The Hunter

The Book Pirate – Level Up

IGN – The Punisher #1

Swamp of Boredom – The Unwritten Volume 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

Cooke and IDW Present Parker: The Martini Edition

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Cooke and IDW Present Parker: The Martini Edition

Hardcover compilation of The Hunter and The Outfit
Plus art gallery and all-new story
Arriving July 2011

San Diego, CA (April 1, 2011) – At WonderCon today, IDW Publishing announced that Darwyn Cooke‘s first two adapted Parker books, THE HUNTER and THE OUTFIT, will be collected in a tremendous, oversized hardcover edition, with an additional 65 pages of Cooke content. Packaged in a beautiful slipcase, The Martini Edition debuts in July and features a brand new Parker short story by Darwyn Cooke.

“The first two Parker graphic novels have been met with such overwhelming praise,” said series editor Scott Dunbier. “It’s almost been an embarrassment of riches. With this Martini Edition we’re really trying to up the bar and give the fans something extra special—I think we’ll succeed!”

Adapted from Richard Stark‘s classic crime noir novel, Darwyn Cooke‘s PARKER: THE HUNTER graphic novel debuted in July 2008 to instantaneous popular and critical acclaim. It made the New York Times best-seller list and won coveted Eisner and Harvey awards. The second graphic novel, THE OUTFIT, was released last year and was met with similar response, and is currently under consideration for nominations in this year’s awards season. Parker: The Martini Edition will be a very special collection in that it will also feature an expansive section of sketches and preliminaries by the artist, with commentary accompanying. Also included is a brand-new 8-page Parker story by Darwyn Cooke, unique to this volume.

The Hunter and The Outfit tell the story of Parker, Richard Stark‘s classic anti-hero, as he returns to New York to settle the score with his wife and partner in crime after they betray him in a heist gone terribly wrong. After evening the field and reclaiming his prize, the Outfit decide to do some score settling of their own… and learn much too late that when you push a man like Parker, it had better be all the way to the grave.

PARKER: THE MARTINI EDITION ($75.00, partial color, 344 pages, 9”x13”) will be available comic and book stores in July 2011. ISB 978-1-60010-980-5.

Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The Transformers and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studios; and is the print publisher for EA Comics.

IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.

Borders Hosts Darwyn Cooke

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Borders Hosts Darwyn Cooke

Celebrate launch of THE OUTFIT,
sequel to award-winning graphic novel, THE HUNTER

Borders, New York City; Thursday, October 7, 7 to 9 pm

[The Outfit signing ad]Who/What: Best-selling creator Darwyn Cooke will sign copies of his new graphic novel, THE OUTFIT, at Borders in New York City. THE OUTFIT, Cooke’s second Parker graphic novel, will be released this week nationwide.

Where/When: Thursday, October 7th from 7 to 9 pm at Borders, 2 Penn Plaza, NYC.

Details: Cooke is the Eisner Award winning writer/artist of the best-selling DC: The New Frontier, and has garnered much critical and popular acclaim as the writer/artist of The Spirit, Selina’s Big Score, and others. The first book in Cooke‘s Parker adaptation series, THE HUNTER, was a New York Times best selling graphic novel and won several awards, including the 2010 Eisner for “Best Adaptation from Another Work.” Cooke’s series adapts Richard Stark’s (aka Donald Westlake) crime noir novels based on the character, Parker.

THE OUTFIT ($24.99, 160 pages, 6” x 9”) will be available in stores on October 5, 2010.

THE HUNTER ($24.99, 144 pages, 6” x 9”) is now available in stores.

Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The Transformers and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s Doctor Who; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studios; and is the print publisher for EA Comics and ComicMix.

IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.

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