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BOOM! Studios and WeLoveFine Announce First-Look Licensing Deal

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Brett

What the junk?! New and unique apparel featuring your BOOM! Studios favorites are on the way! The comics and graphic novel publisher, and online pop culture apparel retailer WeLoveFine have announced a first-look licensing deal for original titles from BOOM!’s roster of critically acclaimed comics. Continuing their effort to create unique and appealing styles that speak to the fan audience’s favorite brands and characters, WeLoveFine will create original apparel and accessories featuring BOOM!’s fan-favorite titles and characters.

Launching at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, BOOM! and WeLoveFine will debut a series of t-shirts for Lumberjanes, the hugely popular ongoing title written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis, co-created by BOOM! Studios editor Shannon Watters, with art from Brooke Allen. Additionally, a limited-edition t-shirt inspired by James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas’ serialized science-fiction mystery The Woods will also be available from BOOM!

A unique selection of designs will be available at both BOOM! Studios’ Booth #2229; as well as WeLoveFine’s Booth #1235 in the Comic-Con exhibit hall. Plus, somebody tell Ripley: A Comic-Con EXCLUSIVE design, featuring the one and only Holy Kitten (as depicted in Lumberjanes #3) will be among the designs available at the BOOM! Studios booth.

Available from BOOM! Studios’ booth will be the Lumberjanes SDCC Exclusive “Holy Kitten” t-shirt; the Lumberjanes “Inside Me” t-shirt, and the BOOM! Studios Exclusive The Woods “Property of Bay Point Prep Athletic Dept.” t-shirt. Available from WeLoveFine’s booth will be the Lumberjanes “Lumberjanes Group Shot” t-shirt and the Lumberjanes “Camp Logo” t-shirt. Each shirt is available in unisex sizing and priced at $25 each.

The initial offering of Lumberjanes designs launching at Comic-Con plus additional styles (“Camp For Hardcore Lady Types” t-shirt for men and women; and “Lumberjanes Group Shot” messenger bag) will also be available online at WeLoveFine.com, beginning Thursday, July 24. The Lumberjanes “Holy Kitten” convention exclusive shirt will be available online for a limited time only, while supplies last.

VIZ Media Announces First-Ever Bleach Design Contest With We-Love-Fine

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Brett

VIZ Media has announced a special first-ever Bleach design contest with WeLoveFine. Artwork submissions will be accepted through midnight on Tuesday April 8^th, 2014.

Artistic fans across the U.S. are invited to tap their Bankai and create original and innovative designs that will have a chance to become officially licensed Bleach t-shirts / merchandise. In addition to cash and other valuable premiums, one lucky winner will be awarded a Grand Prize package that includes airfare to Los Angeles, CA and a full show pass to attend Anime Expo 2014, July 3^rd-6^th, where they will meet the VIZ Media and WeLoveFine teams, and enjoy a fun weekend jam-packed with all things anime/manga.

The contest’s judging panel includes Bleach manga creator Tite Kubo and his series editor, Shueisha’s Yujiro Hattori, and representatives WeLoveFine, hip apparel retailer Hot Topic, and anime/manga/media site, Crunchyroll.com.

Full contest rules and a downloadable submission kit are available online.

All designs MUST incorporate characters and themes from the Bleach anime and/or manga series. Art pieces should be scanned and submitted to WeLoveFine. Submittals must be 100% original and exact copies or tracing of Bleach manga or anime will not be accepted.

One (1) Grand Prize winner will receive an all expense paid, 3-day 2-night trip to attend Anime Expo 2014, the nation’s biggest annual anime convention to be held in Los Angeles, CA, July 3^rd-6^th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Prize package includes an Anime Expo membership badge, 1 round trip airfare ticket (limited to U.S. domestic flights only) and lodging near the convention center.

Other valuable prizes will also be awarded. Three (3) runner-up Guest Judge’s pick winners will each win a $300.00 Cash Prize. One (1) Hot Topic Pickwinner will receive a $300.00 Cash Prize and have their design carried exclusively by Hot Topic; One (1) Crunchyroll.com Pickwinner will receive a $300.00 Cash Prize and have their design carried exclusively by Crunchyroll.com; and One (1) WeLoveFine Pick winner will also receive a $150.00 gift certificate from WeLoveFine.com.

BLEACH is a tremendously successful multimedia property internationally. The manga has been licensed to more than a dozen countries and has sold over 50 million copies in Japan alone. In North America, the manga has been a sales hit and the popular animated series (both rated ‘T’ for Teens) is viewed weekly by millions in the United States and Canada. This success has further spawned an array of related video games, apparel, action figures, trading cards and other merchandise.

For more information on BLEACH please visit www.viz.com/Bleach.