Synopsis
- IDW celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2009 and we want to include you in the party! This comprehensive look at IDW Publishing is a two-volume hardcover set with slipcase.
- Volume One includes an oral history of the company written by co-founders Ted Adams and Kris Oprisko, and IDW's Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall that includes interviews with every major creator who has worked at IDW including Clive Barker, John Byrne, Max Allan Collins, Peter David, Chuck Dixon, Cory Doctorow, Don Figueroa, Simon Furman, Joe Hill, Scott Lobdell, Brian Lynch, Dean Mullaney, Steve Niles, Gabriel Rodriguez, Gene Simmons, Ben Templesmith, Ashley Wood, JK Woodward, and more. Also featured are all-new comic book stories, including: Fallen Angel by Peter David and JK Woodward; Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez; Zombies vs. Robots meet Popbot by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood; and Wormwood by Ben Templesmith.
- Volume Two features every single cover published by IDW — that's over 2,000 covers by some of the biggest names in comics including Clive Barker, Tim Bradstreet, John Byrne, J. Scott Campbell, John Cassaday, Richard Corben, Kieron Dwyer, Tommy Lee Edwards, Don Figueroa, Alex Garner, Mike Grell, Tony Harris, Dave Johnson, Sam Kieth, Igor Kordey, Ted McKeever, David Messina, Alex Milne, Scott Morse, Paul Pope, Gabriel Rodriguez, Richard Sala, Eric Shanower, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ken Steacy, Ben Templesmith, Billy Tucci, Ashley Wood, JK Woodward, Bernie Wrightson, and more.
About the Author
Ted Adams is the CEO of IDW Media Holdings, which includes IDW's publishing, games, and entertainment divisions -- all founded by Adams -- as well as CTM Media, a digital print and advertising firm. He is also the Chairman of Traveling Stories, a San Diego-based non-profit that helps children in underserved communities fall in love with reading. In addition to the graphic-novel adaptation of Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man, he's written the original miniseries Diablo House and stories in Doomed.
Chris Ryall is the Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing and the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots with Ashley Wood. Ryall has also co-created and written Groom Lake, The Colonized, The Hollows, and Onyx, and has also written adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. He is also the co-author of a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and has written comics based on the Transformers, the band Kiss, Mars Attacks, Weekly World News, and, currently, Hasbro’s Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for “Best Short Story.”
Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Television, film, books (fiction, non-fiction and audio), short stories, and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them. Peter has had multiple New York Times Bestsellers, and has written legendary runs of The Incredible Hulk, Aquaman, Supergirl, Spider-Man 2099, Star Trek, and X-Factor.
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