Best of 2015- Graphic Novels

By Nolan P. Smith The graphic novels released in 2015 have been superb- with so many quality books, it was hard to narrow it down to the great eight. But the honor can only go to a few, so here is Pastrami Nation’s Best of 2015- Graphic Novels, in no particular order. The Private Eye- The Cloudburst Edition- Image Comics/ […]

Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons #1 Review- A Story for All

Review by Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)— Last year, Boom Studios via their Archaia Entertainment imprint brought the world an extension of the popular Storyteller from Jim Henson’s imagination with Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches. The four issue series took on different takes of witches- some good, some evil, and all entertaining. This year, the Storyteller series is back with […]

‘Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons’ Features Fiery Tales from Rising Stars

By Staff Reports From Jim Henson’s classic television show to the comic series, The Storyteller and his faithful dog have delighted and thrilled us with myths, legends, and stories from all over the world. Last year, Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, teamed up with The Jim Henson Company to explore four different stories about powerful witches, both […]

‘Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons’ Features Fiery Tales from Rising Stars

By Staff Reports From Jim Henson’s classic television show to the comic series, The Storyteller and his faithful dog have delighted and thrilled us with myths, legends, and stories from all over the world. Last year, Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, teamed up with The Jim Henson Company to explore four different stories about powerful witches, both […]

True Magic Comes at a Heavy Cost in S.M. Vidaurri’s Archaia Original Graphic Novel, ‘Iscariot’

By Staff Reports If we’ve learned anything from fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, it’s that magic powers usually have a hefty price attached. This October, S.M. Vidaurri (Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches, Iron: Or, the War After) brings us his new Archaia original graphic novel Iscariot, the story of Carson, a young girl living with […]

Celebrate 10 Years of David Petersen’s ‘Mouse Guard’ with ‘The Art of Mouse Guard: 2005-2015’

By Staff Reports Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, is pleased to announce the culmination of 10 years of David Petersen’s beloved Mouse Guard in The Art of Mouse Guard: 2005-2015. Since its debut in 2005, David Petersen’s Mouse Guard has been a New York Times bestseller, won numerous Eisner and Harvey awards, and has become an influential […]

Bruce Boxleitner Headlines BOOM! Studios’ Presence at the First-Ever Atlantic City Boardwalk Con

By Staff Reports Award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios is excited to announce it will be exhibiting at the first-ever Atlantic City Boardwalk Con (ACBC), a new East Coast-based “Comic/Geek/Cosplay convention” that will take place at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the weekend of May 14-17. Bruce Boxleitner (Tron, Babylon 5), co-creator of the new Archaia […]

Archaia and Macrocosm Bring Steampunk to Monthly Comics with ‘Lantern City’

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles, CA) – Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, and Macrocosm Entertainment are excited to announce the May debut of Lantern City, a new ongoing comic series created by Trevor Crafts, Bruce Boxleitner, and Matthew Daley. Written by Daley and Paul Jenkins (Fairy Quest), and illustrated by Carlos Magno (RoboCop), Lantern City combines the […]

Archaia and Macrocosm Bring Steampunk to Monthly Comics with 'Lantern City'

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles, CA) – Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, and Macrocosm Entertainment are excited to announce the May debut of Lantern City, a new ongoing comic series created by Trevor Crafts, Bruce Boxleitner, and Matthew Daley. Written by Daley and Paul Jenkins (Fairy Quest), and illustrated by Carlos Magno (RoboCop), Lantern City combines the […]

Archaia Collects 'The Realist' for the First Time in English

By Staff Reports Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, is pleased to announce the April debut of acclaimed Israeli illustrator Asaf Hanuka’s autobiographical original graphic novel The Realist. Collecting Hanuka’s weekly strips in English for the first time, The Realist is an emotional, deeply personal commentary on his life and raising a family in Tel Aviv, Israel. “Asaf […]

BOOM! Studios and Macrocosm Entertainment to Launch Archaia's First Yearlong Series with the Steampunk 'Lantern City'

By Staff Reports Award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios is pleased to announce they are teaming up with Macrocosm Entertainment to publish Lantern City, a yearlong 12-issue maxi-series from the Archaia imprint that dives headfirst into the Steampunk genre. This will be the first single issue maxi-series published by Archaia since it first started publishing The Secret History in 2007. Lantern City […]

Archaia and David Petersen Announce New Mouse Guard Collection for November

By Staff Reports Archaia, an award-winning imprint of publisher BOOM! Studios, and Eisner Award-winning writer and artist David Petersen are excited to announce MOUSE GUARD: BALDWIN THE BRAVE AND OTHER TALES, a new MOUSE GUARD hardcover collection coming to shops in November. MOUSE GUARD is the much-celebrated series of 8″ x 8″ comics created by Petersen and first published by […]

Archaia Announces Alyssa Milano's 'Hacktivist' Collected in Hardcover

By Staff Reports Coming this July, Archaia, an award-winning imprint of publisher BOOM! Studios, is excited to announce the HACKTIVIST hardcover, a collection of the hit four-issue miniseries created by actress, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Alyssa Milano (Mistresses, Project Runway All Stars). Written by the team of Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, penciled and inked by Marcus To (New Warriors, CYBORG […]

Archaia and the Jim Henson Company Set To Debut ‘Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: The Novelization’

By Staff Reports Award-winning publisher Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is excited to announce the June debut of JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL: THE NOVELIZATION, the second in a planned series of three hardcovers that reprint the prose novel adaptations of fan-favorite Henson properties. The book follows the recent April release of JIM HENSON’S LABYRINTH: THE NOVELIZATION and will […]

Archaia Announces Alyssa Milano’s Cyber Thriller Limited Series Hacktivist

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles)– Award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is excited to announce that Alyssa Milano’s HACKTIVIST will debut as a new, four-issue limited series in January. Set in the world of tech entrepreneurs and social media, HACKTIVIST is the story of two friends who operate one of the largest social media firms by day, […]

Archaia Casts A Spell with An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O’ The Wisp

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles)– Award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is thrilled to announce AN AURORA GRIMEON STORY: WILL O’ THE WISP, an original graphic novel debuting in January. From the creative team of writer Tom Hammock and artist Megan Hutchison (who both work as film production designers) comes an eerie mystery filled with danger, Hoodoo, […]

BOOM! STUDIOS COMES OUT IN FULL FORCE FOR MIKE CAREY’S ONLY US SHOW: BALTIMORE COMIC-CON

(Los Angeles) – BOOM! Studios is thrilled to continue its nationwide, action-packed 2013 convention tour with a return to Baltimore Comic-Con from Saturday, September 7th through Sunday, Sunday 8th. The publisher will be bringing along a pair of exclusive variant covers along with fan-favorite talent. BOOM! Studios is honored to host luminary author Mike Carey (SUICIDE RISK, The Unwritten) at […]

‘The Thrilling Adventure Hour’ Art Exhibit Opens at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco

(San Francisco, CA) – The Cartoon Art Museum, The WorkJuice Corporation, Quixotic Transmedia, and Archaia Entertainment are pleased to present artwork from the much-anticipated The Thrilling Adventure Hour graphic novel at the Cartoon Art Museum from June 29 – October 20, 2013. Featuring artwork from all 10 stories, the Thrilling Adventure Hour graphic novel explores brand-new material from series creators Ben Acker & Ben […]

Boom! Studios Acquires Archaia

(Los Angeles) – BOOM! Studios, the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book and graphic novel publisher and two-time winner of Diamond Comics Distributors’ prestigious “Best Publisher” Gem Award, has merged with Eisner and Harvey Award-winning Archaia Entertainment, the publisher of graphic novels including Mouse Guard, A Tale of Sand, Rust, Spera, Cowboy, and Gunnerkrigg Court. BOOM! Studios will be the […]

Pastrami Comic Review: Cyborg 009 Chapter 000

Review by Nolan P. Smith-Pastrami Nation Fans of anime and manga know all too well what Cyborg 009 is. Created by Shotaro Ishinomori, Cyborg 009 has been a manga, and anime, and a pop culture icon since it’s inception in 1964. This year, the property is becoming a comic book, straight from Archaia Entertainment. Now, when I say comic, I […]

Archaia Entertainment Releases for December 19th

Archaia is at it again. Archaia Entertainment, the company that brought the world Mouse Guard, Tale of Sand and more, has quite the line up for this week’s releases. Cursed Pirate Girl, the Kickstarter sensation, is back with a collected edition and has some great company this week. Check out the covers and listings below, and look for reviews to […]

Archaia Entertainment and Meteor Entetainment Present Exclusive Hawken Preview Digitial Issues on Comixology

Gotta love transmedia! Archaia Entertainment, the publisher of such awesomeness as Okko, Mouse Guard and Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand among tons more, has partnered with Meteor Entertainment to produce some brilliant preview issues based off Meteor’s upcoming PC title, Hawken. The full Original Graphic Novel for Hawken doesn’t hit until March, but the first preview is available now on […]