Just in time for San Diego Comic-Con, Dark Horse Comics has launched their new Instagram account. Follow @DarkHorseComics on Instagram and Twitter during SDCC for the chance to win prizes! See the full press release for more information. #SDCC: DARK HORSE LAUNCHES ON INSTAGRAM FOLLOW @DARKHORSECOMICS FOR CHANCES TO WIN EXCLUSIVES! JULY 11, Milwaukie, OR—Dark Horse Comics is hitting San Diego Comic-Con in style this year, with a jam-packed schedule featuring some of the industry’s best and most notable talent. #NotAtComicCon this year? Now you can follow @DarkHorseComics on Instagram as we take you backstage with creators like Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf
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SDCC 2013: Dark Horse Announces Guest of Honor – KAZUO KOIKE
San Diego, JULY 9—Dark Horse is proudly celebrating twenty-five years of manga publishing in 2013 by bringing legendary Japanese creator and Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub) to San Diego Comic-Con! Last week, Dark Horse announced New Lone Wolf and Cub during Anime Expo in Los Angeles, in which series creator Kazuo Koike continues the greatest samurai manga epic ever! New Lone Wolf and Cub is an eleven-volume series that picks up right at the end of Lone Wolf and Cub—which left Itto Ogami’s son Daigoro on a blood-strewn battlefield. What will happen now to the young child with the
Continue readingDark Horse Announces San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Schedule!
Dark Horse has released their entire San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Schedule. It’s a doozy, so it’s all posted after the jump. I’ve broken it into two pages — page 1 will be the signings, page 2 will be the panel descriptions.
Continue readingAVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER DIGITAL COMICS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL DARK HORSE PLATFORMS!
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER DIGITAL COMICS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL DARK HORSE PLATFORMS! MILWAUKIE, OR – JULY 5, 2013– Earlier this year, Dark Horse released Avatar: The Last Airbender comics through its standalone comic-reader app and digital store. Beginning today, the hit series of comics are available across all reader platforms, inlcuding Amazon Kindle, Google Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo & Apple’s iBooks! The New York Times Best-Selling Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Promise and The Search, which pick up at the end of the hit animated series, have been read by thousands of digital-comics fans. The expanded digital release
Continue readingDark Horse Announces All-New KITCHEN SINK BOOKS Imprint
DARK HORSE ANNOUNCES ALL-NEW KITCHEN SINK BOOKS IMPRINT Publishing maverick and alternative-publishing pioneer join forces on a line of books, launching in late 2013 NEW YORK, NY, JULY 2nd – Dark Horse Comics announced today that they have entered into a joint venture to add the newly formed Kitchen Sink Books as an exclusive and independent publishing imprint. Kitchen Sink Books will begin a publishing program in late 2013, focusing on large-format, heavily illustrated art books, archival reprint collections, and original graphic novels. The new imprint will be headed by alternative publishing pioneer Denis Kitchen and book designer/editor John Lind, who
Continue readingAclin & Selma Deliver Atheists and Action in S.H.O.O.T. FIRST!
S.H.O.O.T. FIRST, READ OTHER COMICS LATER! ACLIN & SELMA DELIVER ATHEISTS AND ACTION IN ORIGINAL NEW ADVENTURE! Milwaukie, OR, JULY 3 – Justin Aclin (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Twisted ToyFare Theatre) and Nicolas Daniel Selma (Tomb Raider: The Beginning) take aim at the supernatural inS.H.O.O.T. First, an all-new big-action, big-ideas creator-owned mini-series from Dark Horse Comics! The Secular Humanist Occult Obliteration Taskforce uses the power of their own disbelief (as filtered through sci-fi weaponry) to protect humanity from supernatural creatures that seek to do us harm…but for S.H.O.O.T., that means demons, angels and everything in between. Original, irreverent and sure-to-be controversial – S.H.O.O.T. First promises sci-fi action
Continue readingComic Book Legal Defense Fund Releases Authoritative Manga Guide for Librarians and Educators with Dark Horse!
JUNE 26 (New York, NY)—This summer, Dark Horse is proud to publish CBLDF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices, an authoritative yet accessible handbook designed to help librarians, educators, and parents navigate the vast and popular field of manga. Prepared by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the freedom to read, CBLDF Presents Manga provides what you really need to know about manga from those who really know it! The book will premiere at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, June 27–July 2, and at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, July 4–7. Made
Continue readingDark Horse Launches On Apple’s iBookstore
MILWAUKIE, OR, JUNE 25—With today’s announcement that Dark Horse graphic novels are available on the iBookstore (iTunes.com/DarkHorseComics), Dark Horse is now one of the most widely distributed comics publishers digitally. Dark Horse digital graphic novels are now available for purchase on the iBookstore, featuring over two hundred top titles, including Mass Effect, Hellboy, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Serenity, Sin City, and more. Plus, iBooks users can put Star Wars comics on their bookshelf next to all of their favorite Star Wars novels. Through Apple’s iOS devices, readers are guaranteed a comics-reading experience unlike any other. “I’m thrilled that Dark Horse graphic novels are going to be available on the iBookstore,”
Continue readingJolley Resurrects “Bloodhound” With “Crowbar Medicine”
JOLLEY RESURRECTS BLOODHOUND AT DARK HORSE WITH CROWBAR MEDICINE! Milwaukie, OR, JUNE 19—Dark Horse Comics is thrilled to announce the long-awaited return of the beloved series Bloodhound, from writer Dan Jolley (Prototype 2) and artist Leonard Kirk (X-Factor)! Previously published by DC, Bloodhound begins a new five-issue series, Crowbar Medicine, that will take our hero, Travis Clevenger, to new intensities the Big Two would have never allowed—establishing Clev as the next Dark Horse superhero. Travis Clevenger may not have superpowers, but he can put a beatdown on anyone who does! Consulting with the FBI in exchange for release from prison, Clev is getting his life together when an out-of-control
Continue readingSDCC: Dark Horse Announces SDCC Exclusives Store!
Dark Horse sent over a press release regarding their 2013 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives. Because of the huge graphic, I’m going to post it after the jump. After reading what they’ve got, I’m most jazzed about the Game of Thrones Stark Replica Shield, but that exclusive cover for Star Wars #7 is pretty darn cool, too. Be sure to hit up booth #2615 to get your favorite exclusives from Dark Horse!
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