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IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American comic book company owned by IDT Corp.. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic Distributors.[1] IDW is regularly recognized as the fourth largest publisher of American comic books by Diamond Comic Distributors.[2] The company was initially known for horror comics such as 30 Days of Night, Dark Days and numerous others. Some of the most well-known writers and artists of horror comics, including Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith and Steve Niles, have done work for IDW. The company now also specializes in licensed properties, acquiring the rights to 24, Angel, CSI, Transformers, Star Trek, Dick Tracy, Doctor Who and G.I. Joe.
[edit] History[edit] IDWIdea + Design Works (IDW) was formed in 1999 by four entertainment executives and artists. They decided to create a company that would allow them to work with a variety of clients on the things they liked: video games, movies, TV, collectible card games, comic books, and trading cards. The company's services include character design, concept design, logo design, computer color, custom comic books, custom trading cards, trading card games, DVD menu design, online and print style guides, text stories, and more. The company has built a client base that includes: Activision, the BBC, Artisan Entertainment, Bandai America, Brady Games, Cartoon Network, Dimension Films, Electronic Arts, Fox Family, Golden Books, LEGO, Lion's Gate, The Man Show, Microsoft, Pepsi, Pioneer, Revolution Films, Square, Simon & Schuster, Trimark Pictures, Upper Deck, and many more. [edit] IDW PublishingIDW Publishing's second title, Popbot, was acknowledged with two Spectrum Gold Awards.[3] The company's first comic series, 30 Days of Night, started a seven-figure bidding war between Dreamworks, MGM, and Senator International with Senator winning and Sam Raimi attached to produce. [4][5] IDW also publishes the comic based on the hit CBS TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The company's other licensed comics include Sony's Underworld, FX's The Shield, Fox's 24[6] and Angel; Hasbro’s The Transformers and G.I. Joe, Universal’s Land of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead; and Konami’s Silent Hill,[7] Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, and Speed Racer. Beginning in 2008, the company licensed the Doctor Who series from the BBC, launching two concurrent titles: Doctor Who Classics, which reprints colorized comic strips featuring the Fourth Doctor originally published in the late 1970s-early 1980s by Doctor Who Magazine, and Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur, an original six-part limited series featuring the Tenth Doctor and overseen and written by TV series script editor Gary Russell. An additional six-part limited series titled Doctor Who: The Forgotten started in mid-2008 by Tony Lee and Pia Guerra[8][9], as well as a series of monthly one-shot, self-contained stories. July 2009 saw the beginning of Doctor Who, an ongoing series featuring the Tenth Doctor, written by Tony Lee and illustrated by a rotating art team.[10] IDW formed an imprint with EA Games in late 2009, called EA Comics, to focus on adaptations of the latters video games, with initial titles including Army of Two and Dragon Age.[11] [edit] ImprintsAn imprint of the company is Dean Mullaney’s Library of American Comics. It includes The Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, The Complete Little Orphan Annie, The Complete Terry and the Pirates and Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles. In 2008, the first volume of The Complete Terry and the Pirates received an Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection. They also launched two new imprints in 2008: Worthwhile Books, part of their children's books division,[12] and Scott Christian Sava's Blue Dream Studios, previously a separate self-publishing venture.[13][14] IDW acquired the G.I. Joe comics license in May 2008 (previously held by Devil's Due Publishing) and released three new series under editor Andy Schmidt,[15] from writers like Chuck Dixon, Larry Hama and Christos Gage. Other comics were released in time to tie-in with the Summer 2009 G.I. Joe film.[16][17] In 2004, 2005 and 2006 IDW was named Publisher of the Year by Diamond Comic Distributors.[1] [edit] PublicationsMain article: List of IDW Publishing publications [edit] Adaptations in other mediaKonami acquired the video game rights, and minority ownership, in IDW’s CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations [18]. 30 Days of Night has been adapted into a film of the same name in 2007, starring Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, directed by David Slade and produced by Spider-Man director, Sam Raimi, distributed by Columbia Pictures. Dimension Films has an option on two Steve Niles/IDW properties: Wake the Dead, with X-2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty attached to write, and Hyde, with Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) attached to produce. [19][20] IDW Publishing is also supposed to release a comic based on the Hollywood Zombies Topps Card Set at some point in the future. Paramount has an option on the Steve Niles/IDW property Aleister Arcane. [21] The motion comic version of Transformers: Movie Prequel titled Transformers: Beginnings (albeit excluding characters not present in the movie) is included in the Transformers DVD. [edit] References
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