IDW Publishing is launching a new imprint for the White Ash Universe and has announced the first three titles to be co-branded as IDW and White Ash Comics. White Ash Comics, by Charles Stickney, artist Conor Hughes, and colorist Fin Cramb, has raised over a million dollars with 28 projects on Kickstarter, mostly in the mid-five figures recently. The comics and collections have not previously been available in stores.
The comics will be remastered from their Kickstarter versions and new material added for the trade release.
Hughes will serve as Chief Creative Officer for the imprint, which will be led by Stickney. Nicole D’Andria will head up editorial, Tango will be head of design, and Travis Escarfullery will lead production.
The story, set in the struggling coal mining town of White Ash, Pennsylvania, brings together romance and an epic fantasy world.
The first three titles are an ongoing White Ash series, launching in April, and The Game, launching in June. New limited series in the universe will be launched beginning in September with Glarien: Short and Deadly.
“The White Ash Universe will feel right at home under the IDW umbrella, and we’re looking forward to having readers enter this universe for the first time while the current fans get to experience the stories in a whole new way and witness it expand and reach new heights,” IDW CEO Davidi Jonas said of the new line.
IDW has added two other imprints recently, IDW Dark (see “IDW Dark“) and IDW Crime (see “Crime Imprint“).
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Source: ICV2
