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Redneck Vol. 1 Comes to Paperback this October

Summer is winding down which means it’s almost one of our favorite times of year, Halloween! Yeah, we’re gonna skip past the fall stuff and go straight to the spooky stuff cause that’s just how we roll here at Skybound.

Speaking of spooky stuff, this October, we’re bringing you the first collected volume of our hit-series REDNECK! REDNECK, VOL. 1: DEEP IN THE HEART collects the first 6 issues of Donny Cates & Lisandro Estherren’s southern fried vampire tale (with colors by & Dee Cunniffe). This volume is the perfect way to catch up with Barrlett, Perry and the whole Bowman clan. If you’re already a die-hard, this trade will be a great addition to your growing REDNECK collection!

REDNECK trade paperback (ISBN: 978-1-5343-0331-7, Diamond Code AUG170579) will hit stores on Wednesday, October 25th. The final order cutoff deadline for retailers is Monday, September 4th.

It will be available in bookstores on Halloween, Tuesday, October 31st, and can be pre-ordered now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and Indigo.

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This Week’s Comics: Manifest Destiny #30

Hey all you Skybounds out there. This week we’ve got some MANIFEST DESTINY coming your way! Issue #30 is the end of our 5th story arch and brings with it some huge events. It’s all been leading up to this! Sacagawea’s baby is finally coming but this is MANIFEST DESTINY, so of course it’s not going to be easy. We’ve got a preview of the issue for you below. Pick up MANIFEST DESTINY #30 this Wednesday at your local comic shop, on Comixology or wherever you get your comics! And while you’re at you local shop, don’t forget to tell your retailer to order you the September Lorenzo De Felici variants. Have a great week, folks!

MANIFEST DESTINY #30

STORY: CHRIS DINGESS

ART/COVER: MATTHEW ROBERTS & OWEN GIENI

AUGUST 9

32 PAGES | Full Color | Mature | $2.99

END OF STORY ARC

Sacagawea the warrior. Sacagawea the mother.

    

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Announcing September Skybound De Felici Variants

We want to introduce you to an amazing Italian comic artist, Lorenzo De Felici! We love his artwork so much that as part of Image Comic’s 25th anniversary variant initiative we had Lorenzo do all of our variants for the month of September. Check out his amazing art from BIRTHRIGHT to THE WALKING DEAD and everything in between. Lorenzo will be working on a soon-to-be-announced Skybound ongoing series so keep an eye out. For now, take a look at the covers below along with info on release dates. Let your retailer know TODAY to order these amazing covers for you and don’t forget to get your copies this September!

THE WALKING DEAD #171 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUN178584) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 6th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, August 14th.

BIRTHRIGHT #26 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178585) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 13th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, August 21st.

GASOLINA #1 by Sean Mackiewicz, Niko Walter & Mat Lopes, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178586) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 20th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, August 28th.

INVINCIBLE #140 by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley & Nathan Fairbairn, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178587) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 20th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, August 28th.

MANIFEST DESTINY #31 by Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts, Tony Akins & Owen Gieni Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178588) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 27th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, September 4th.

KILL THE MINOTAUR #4 by Chris Pasetto, Christian Cantamessa, Lukas Ketner & Jean-Francois Beaulieu & Lukas Ketner, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178589) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 20th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, August 28th.

HORIZON #14 by Brandon Thomas, Juan Gedeon & Mike Spicer, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178590) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 20th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, August 28th.

REDNECK #6 by Donny Cates, Lisandro Estherren & Dee Cunniffe, Cover B by De Felici (Diamond Code JUL178591) will hit stores on Wednesday, September 27th and the final order cutoff for retailers will be Monday, September 4th.

Also check out Out This Week below to see what Robert Kirkman has to say about this awesome collab!

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The Cast of the Tick Plays Superfight at SDCC!

We were super excited to have cast members from Amazon’s The Tick come through our livestream in San Diego to play Superfight with Mike Falzone! Watch as Peter Serafinowicz, Griffin Newman, Jackie Earle Haley, Valorie Curry, and Ben Edlund have absurd arguments and talk about the revamped show!

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This Week’s Comics: Extremity #6 & The Walking Dead #170

Who’s ready for some new comics! We’ve got two amazing ones coming your way this Wednesday. EXTREMITY #6 is the last issue in the arc and you know it’s gonna be a doozy. I mean, the splash pages alone are gonna break your brain! We’ve also got THE WALKING DEAD #170. The team is out in search of new allies as Rick continues to try to fix Alexandria’s woes.

Check out previews of both books below. Make sure to stop by your local comic shop this Wednesday to pick up these bad boys and any other Skybound books you might not be caught up on. Have a great week, everyone!

EXTREMITY #6

STORY / ART / COVER: DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON

COLOR: MIKE SPICER

AUGUST 2

32 PAGES | Full Color | Teen+ | $3.99

The Roto and Paznina clans meet on the battlefield, to ensure that only one remains when all the blood is shed.

  

THE WALKING DEAD #170

STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN

ART: CHARLIE ADLARD, STEFANO GAUDIANO & CLIFF RATHBURN

COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD & DAVE STEWART

AUGUST 2

32 PAGES | Black & White | Mature | $2.99

ON THE ROAD

Eugene’s journey begins on a hopeful note, but he could be leading his friends to a slaughter.

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Robert Kirkman & Todd McFarlane In Conversation – SDCC 2017

This year fans at San Diego Comic Con 2017 were treated to a full panel with comic juggernauts Robert Kirkman and Todd McFarlane. Now we’re treating YOU to the same panel in the video below. Watch as they discuss their origins, collaborations, upcoming projects, AND catch the Q&A they did with the fans.

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FULL Skybound Comics Panel from SDCC!

Did you miss our Skybound Comics panel at SDCC? Never fear because we’ve got our full panel from July 22st, 2017 at San Diego Comic-Con. We’ll let Skybound Comics Editor Jon Moisan take it away!

Featured panelists: Brandon Thomas, Chris Passetto, Christian Cantamessa, Donny Cates, Sean Mackiewicz, and Lukas Ketner

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This Week’s Comics: Outcast #29 & Redneck #4

It’s that time of the week: time for NEW COMICS! This week we’ve got the newest issue of OUTCAST and REDNECK in stores for you. Below we’ve got a preview of the latter so go read it! REDNECK #4 also has an awesome “Images of Tomorrow” cover. And, in case you missed it, the 2nd print of REDNECK #3 will also be in stores Wednesday Head down to your local comic shop or head over to Comixology Wednesday to get your copies. Have a great week!

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #29



STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN

ART / COVER: PAUL AZACETA & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER

JUNE 28

32 PAGES | Full Color | Mature | $2.99

“Unwelcomed”

There are certain places Outcasts just should not go. Kyle and his father have taken a huge risk.

REDNECK #4

  

STORY: DONNY CATES

ART/COVER: LISANDRO ESTHERREN & DEE CUNNIFFE

JULY 26

32 PAGES | Full Color | Mature | $3.99

In an attempt to stop the chaos engulfing their family, Perry and Bartlett revisit Bartlett’s past… but digging up old wounds sometimes opens new ones. What exactly is Bartlett’s big secret?

  

  

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Announcing Skybound Books!

You may have heard whispers of this over the (long) SDCC weekend and today we are very proud to officially launch SKYBOUND BOOKS with Simon & Schuster and their Atria Books imprint! We’ve been looking for some really great partners that would help us bring a book division in-house for a while and we’re delighted to be partnering with Atria Books to co-publish our endeavors. Fans can look forward to books that span genres and still have that classic Skybound feel. We’ll be exploring worlds that already exist in the Skybound line-up and also discovering new properties and new stories.

Of course, a book division is a big project and it’s not going to manage itself. We’ve brought Mike Braff on board as Senior Editor of Skybound Books. He’s already hard at work meeting with authors and developing our opening slate of books.

And as our Editorial department grows, Sean Mackiewicz, formerly Editorial Director, is now SVP, Editor-in-Chief of Skybound Entertainment and will oversee Skybound Books and our comic lineup.

So welcome, Mike and congrats, Sean! This is very exciting stuff!

Below is the full press release from Atria:

ATRIA BOOKS AND SKYBOUND ENTERTAINMENT TO LAUNCH NEW IMPRINT

(NEW YORK) –July 21, 2017. Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Skybound Entertainment, the multi-platform entertainment company responsible for such television hits as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and Outcast have announced a new co-publishing imprint, Skybound Books, which will focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror properties.

Skybound Books will initially publish four to six titles per year and will include original works of fiction and nonfiction as well as books derived from existing and forthcoming Skybound Entertainment properties.

Skybound Entertainment has hired Michael Braff as Senior Editor of the imprint, based in Los Angeles. He comes to Skybound after ten years at Penguin Random House, where he acquired and edited numerous best-selling and award-winning science fiction and fantasy titles for Del Rey Books. Sean Mackiewicz will oversee Braff and all strategic functions of the imprint in his new role as Senior Vice President, Editor-In-Chief at Skybound Entertainment. Sean previously served as Editorial Director at Skybound since 2012.

Judith Curr, President and Publisher of Atria Books, negotiated the world rights deal alongside Atria’s Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Peter Borland, and Borland and Senior Editor Jhanteigh Kupihea will be the editorial liaisons. Judith Curr said, “This dynamic co-publishing partnership with Skybound—one of the most innovative companies in Hollywood- provides an opportunity to build a publishing home within Atria for writers with bold, new voices and creative visions.”

“This co-publishing partnership between Skybound Entertainment and Atria Books comes at a really exciting time for the company,” said Skybound Entertainment Chairman and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. “We are on a relentless search to find different ways to tell the stories from some the most creative minds out there, and Skybound Books imprint is a very important component of that endeavor.”

Founded in 2010, Skybound Entertainment is a multiplatform entertainment company that houses projects ranging from television, film, digital content, comics, interactive gaming, and live events. Moving into the digital content space, Skybound produced the first-ever narrative VR series, Gone, for Samsung’s Milk VR platform and in 2017 will produce VR horror series Lies Within, which is the first project out of Skybound’s partnership with interactive theatrical company Delusion. Skybound recently announced the film adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s second-longest running comic series Invincible, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg attached to direct, write, and produce the movie for Universal. Additional newly announced Skybound projects include Five Year, Mastermind and Heroes and Villains: The History of Comics.

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Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation, a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Touchstone, Adams Media, Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information about Atria, visit our website at http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/atria.

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FULL Skybound Entertainment Panel from SDCC!

Just gonna get out of your way and let you watch our full panel from July 21st, 2017 at San Diego Comic-Con. Thanks to Steve Zaragoza for hosting!

Featured panelists: Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Catherine Winder, Sean Furst, and TQ Jefferson

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