By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—This August, Dark Horse remembers an animation legend and his works with The Art of Satoshi Kon. A director who blazed a brilliant animation career before his tragic passing in 2010, Kon is immortalized in this special hardcover volume that covers the whole of his incredible career. Encompassing everything from illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Creators and critics agree: Rafael Albuquerque and Mike Johnson’s EI8HT #1 is one of the must-read comics of the year! Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can’t count on anything but his […]
By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics has secured its place in video-game-art history with The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia™, which charted as the number-one best-selling book at Diamond Comic Distributors for 2014! Additionally, Dark Horse Comics’ The Sakai Project, which celebrates thirty years of Stan Sakai’s marvelous samurai-rabbit saga Usagi Yojimbo, charted as the sixth-best-selling book of 2014. In […]
By Staff Reports This week, Diamond Comic Distributors announced the recipients of the prestigious Diamond Gem Awards, the pinnacle of sales achievement for publishers, vendors, industry executives, creators, and more, with Dark Horse Comics receiving several accolades for its 2014 projects. Dark Horse dominated among independent publishers for the second year running, with the new launch of Dark Horse Presents […]
By Staff Reports In August, award-winning graphic novelist Ethan Young (Tails) brings bravery in the face of an overwhelming enemy to the forefront of one of the biggest mass murders of World War II. Exploring the horrors of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, Nanjing: The Burning City focuses on two abandoned Chinese soldiers trapped in the city as they desperately […]
By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics is sending its Star Wars comics off with a very exclusive limited offer for its digital-comics readers . . . For the final five days of 2014, Dark Horse is offering all digital Star Wars comics at 50% off. Or pick up the Farewell MegaBundle that includes every single Star Wars comic published for […]
By Staff Reports Just in time for fans’ holiday wish lists, Dark Horse and Mattel announce that the biggest art book of 2015 – The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – will receive a limited edition release. Restricted to 4,000 copies, The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Limited Edition comes packaged in […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Debuting in print for the first time, High Crimes, a murder mystery written by Dead Letters scribe Christopher Sebela, is the premiere graphic novel illustrated by rising star Ibrahim Moustafa! Dark Horse will publish a stunning hardcover that collects all twelve issues of the critically acclaimed, multiple Eisner Award–nominated, and Stumptown Comics Art Award–winning Monkeybrain digital […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—After an amazing six-issue run, the graphic novel collection of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind has soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller list! In the film Serenity, outlaw Malcolm Reynolds and his crew revealed to the entire ’verse the crimes against humanity undertaken by the sinister Alliance government. This official follow-up from […]
By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics is rocking Black Friday madness with a very exclusive limited offer for its digital-comics readers . . . Feast your eyes on this year’s Black Friday MegaBundles. For one weekend only, you can load up on comics from your favorite creative universes for the crazy-low price of $99.99 each only on Digital.Darkhorse.com! Star Wars […]
By Staff Reports The Pander Brothers are back and bloodthirsty with Girlfiend, their new vampire crime thriller. The brothers’ first major work in comics in a decade, this meaty graphic novel finds them going back to what they do best: Taking comics to the edge. Known for their groundbreaking art in Grendel: Devil’s Legacy, their terrifying Exquisite Corpse series, and […]
By Staff Reports Following the critically acclaimed first series, The Witcher House of Glass, Dark Horse Comics and CD PROJEKT RED are set to bring fans a new adventure of Geralt of Rivia, the legendary monster hunter from the hit video game franchise The Witcher. From Eisner-winning writer Paul Tobin (Bandette, Colder) with art by Joe Querio (Lobster Johnson, B.P.R.D.), […]
By Staff Reports Created by Eisner Award winner Eric Powell (Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities, Chimichanga), The Goon is set to take 2015 by storm! Once upon a Hard Time is a climactic miniseries that has major consequences for the Goon and his supporting cast. If you’re a Goon fan, you can’t miss this. After the tragic events of […]
By Staff Reports It’s Uncle Creepy’s golden anniversary, and his loathsome legacy lives on in this milestone of macabre monstrosity! Prepare for putrid productions from Fred Van Lente (Conan the Avenger), Corinna Bechko (Star Wars: Legacy), Peter Bagge (Bat Boy), Art Baltazar (Itty Bitty Hellboy), and a horrible host of sinister surprises! Don’t miss out! * New stories from fan-favorite […]
By Staff Reports Coming this fall from Dark Horse Comics is a brand-new, action-packed crime thriller written by Dark Horse publisher and Eisner Award nominee Mike Richardson (47 Ronin, The Secret, Cut, The Atomic Legion). Illustrated by Gabriel Guzmán (Star Wars, Cable, Kull), Father’s Day takes family matters to a whole new level. As a mob enforcer, he was called […]
By Staff Reports CD PROJEKT RED and Dark Horse Comics are proud to announce The World of The Witcher–an essential companion to The Witcher video game series! Containing breathtaking, never before published original art from each Witcher game, The World of the Witcher is an ideal way to start your journey with the series, or expand your existing knowledge with […]
By Staff Reports July means the most anticipated event of the year in pop culture is just weeks away! As we rapidly approach the doors opening to the world on July 23, Dark Horse announces the first wave of 2014 SDCC exclusives, available in the expanded Exclusives Store at booth #2615! Dark Horse has produced more items than EVER for […]
By Staff Reports The masters of two mediums come together with an all-new, limited-edition vinyl figure of Sin City’s beloved brute, Marv! This unique interpretation of Marv was created by Eric So, a master of modern design and a leader in the Hong Kong designer-toy movement. With the guidance of Frank Miller, So has sculpted a thirteen-inch vinyl figure that […]
By Staff Reports With more than two hundred issues and counting, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is among comics’ most monumental achievements. In celebration of thirty years of the marvelous samurai rabbit saga, Usagi Yojimbo is set to return in an all-new six-issue miniseries, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso, followed by the debut of the Usagi Yojimbo Saga collection! Twenty years in his […]
By Staff Reports Hot on the heels of its most successful anniversary sale to date, Dark Horse Digital announces a very special limited offer for Star Wars Day! Starting today, get blasted into a galaxy far, far away with two amazing May the 4th MegaBundles! One MegaBundle is for devout comics readers, and the other is for the younger Star […]
By Staff Reports While many comics fans are headed to their local comic shop to get their free goodies this weekend, Dark Horse launches the hottest web comic of the year at ProjectBlackSky.net! Intrigued by the investigations of the conspiracy blog IWatchTheSky.com, Dark Horse Comics has done some digging and uncovered some of the mysterious Project Black Sky’s secret files. […]
By Staff Reports Hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed miniseries Buzzkill, Donny Cates is set to release a twelve-issue series blending big rigs and conspiracies in Ghost Fleet! Written by Cates, with art by Daniel Warren Johnson (Space-Mullet) and colors by Lauren Affe, Ghost Fleet is sure to be one hell of a wild ride! For the world’s […]
By Staff Reports (Anaheim)—Dark Horse Comics is pleased to debut Dark Ages, another cosmic thrill ride from Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dan Abnett! The creators of Vertigo’s The New Deadwardians, Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard, deliver medieval sci-fi action in Dark Ages! The medieval world is locked in war. As a godless mercenary company slogs across Europe in search of […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Anaheim)- WonderCon day one is now just a memory, and what a memory it is! WonderCon, one of the premiere comic book conventions in the United States, took over the Anaheim Convention Center Friday, and will continue to all the way through Sunday. Everything from comic books, video games, movies, cosplay, anime, manga, art […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Comic-Con International has announced the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2014! Dark Horse Comics has twelve category nominations and one shared nomination. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from children’s stories and World War II […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR) – Dark Horse, a premier publisher of creator-owned and licensed content, today announces a partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products: an upcoming project based on this year’s highly anticipated film from Fox Animation Studios, The Book of Life. In September 2014, Dark Horse will release The Art of The Book of Life, a behind-the-scenes look […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR) —As the pop culture world gears up for this year’s WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, Dark Horse announces two special variant covers for this year’s show! First up, Dark Horse brings an all-new variant cover for a critical hit and fan favorite, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with an exclusive Season Ten first-issue cover by Tomb Raider art director Brian […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR) —As the world gears up for the premiere of the new FX television program adapting the original novel trilogy The Strain, Dark Horse announces The Night Eternal, the third comics chapter of this ongoing vampire epic, adapted by David Lapham and Mike Huddleston. Following the first two comics series, The Strain and the recently wrapped […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)– March 22 marks the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola’s career-defining release of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1. After the character’s somewhat humble beginnings in an eight-page feature in Dark Horse’s San Diego Comic-Con Comics special, Seed of Destruction would begin the long life of the beloved “beast of the apocalypse.” In December, Dark Horse announced […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Genres collide in an adventure where steam-powered tanks clash with katanas in the new graphic novel Toshiro from writer Jai Nitz (Dream Thief) and artist Janusz Pawlak! “Toshiro bends and blends genres to make something altogether new. Janusz and I wanted to play with Victorian steampunk, alternate history, Lovecraftian monsters, and the magic of Tezuka’s Astro […]