Black Crow

IDW Publishing’s Friday evening panel last week at New York Comic Con 2017 focused on two projects led by comics veterans: Shelly Bond’s Black Crown, imprint and Dirk Wood’s quarterly comics magazine, Full Bleed. In addition to Bond, the former Vertigo editor, and Wood, who is IDW’s vice president of marketing, the panel featured a quartet of creators. Repping the Black Crown books were Tini Howard, writer of Assassinistas, and Peter Milligan, writer of Kid Lobotomy; on the Full Bleed side were artists Bob Fingerman and Cassey Kuo. Bond kicked things off with a short course on Black Crown, which she said is the first of its kind: “The title stands for a creator-owned line of books that share a landscape, which makes it unprecedented and different, anchored by a pub called the Black Crown Pub, on a street where all the characters can commingle and corrupt,” she said. “My idea for the imprint was basically to bring together hardcore veterans l

Everything you always wanted once a season is packed within these 48 pages including a two-sided pullout poster and a wraparound cover! Delight in regular continuing features like legit publications with literary pedigrees! It all begins with the 10-page regular lead feature, Tales From the Black Crown Pub starring Stacey the barmaid by Award-winner Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven). Recurring short features include Canonball Comics: an exquisite corpse that will not stay dead kicked off by Jamie Coe (Artschooled) and Swell Maps by respectably divine music journalist/novelist Cathi Unsworth. Plus: Space CUDets rejoice: Live from a posh retirement village for wannabee 4-hit wonders we have co-writers/bandmates Will Potter and Carl Puttnam and occasional artist Philip Bond. Plus Plus: Special previews, creator interviews and behind the panel border secrets from Kid Lobotomy, Assassinistas, Punks Not Dead and much, much more! Featuring a pull-out poster! One side is a street map, the oth

IDW Publishing’s Black Crown imprint has officially arrived, as of last week’s release of Kid Lobotomy #1, which was declared “as weird and wonderful as you might expect” in CBR’s review. Black Crown looks to keep the momentum going this week with the release of the first Black Crown Quarterly, an anthology featuring contributions from the likes of Rob Davis, Cathi Unsworth, Philip Bond and Frank Quitely, interviews with creators and previews of Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler’s Kid Lobotomy and Tini Howard and Gilbert Hernandez’s Assassinistas. PREVIEW: Black Crown Quarterly #1: Fall 2017 To commemorate the first issue of the quarterly, Black Crown editor Shelly Bond caught up with DC Comics’ Young Animal curator Gerard Way for an interview filmed by IDW, and CBR has the first look. Bond worked with Way on the formative days of Young Animal, before her departure from DC Comics. Based on this video, it looks like they’ll be worki

IDW Publishing’s Black Crown imprint has officially arrived, as of last week’s release of Kid Lobotomy #1, which was declared “as weird and wonderful as you might expect” in CBR’s review. Black Crown looks to keep the momentum going this week with the release of the first Black Crown Quarterly, an anthology featuring contributions from the likes of Rob Davis, Cathi Unsworth, Philip Bond and Frank Quitely, interviews with creators and previews of Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler’s Kid Lobotomy and Tini Howard and Gilbert Hernandez’s Assassinistas. PREVIEW: Black Crown Quarterly #1: Fall 2017 To commemorate the first issue of the quarterly, Black Crown editor Shelly Bond caught up with DC Comics’ Young Animal curator Gerard Way for an interview filmed by IDW, and CBR has the first look. Bond worked with Way on the formative days of Young Animal, before her departure from DC Comics. Based on this video, it looks like they&rsqu