Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal is one of the most beloved of Jim Henson’s creations. Ever since it became a cult hit on home video, there’s been talk of a sequel – a script was even written. Now, for the film’s 35th anniversary, BOOM! Studios’ imprint Archaia, in partnership with The Jim Henson Company, is publishing […]
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Archaia To Launch Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants At NYCC 2016!
Archaia, an imprint under the BOOM! Studios umbrella, is continuing its Jim Henson’s Storyteller series of limited series with the four-issue Jim Henson’s Storyteller: Giants – and will introduce it at New York Comic-Con 2016. The first issue will be in stores on December 7th. BOOM! Studios will have four NYCC 2016 Exclusives available for sale […]
The UK’s Channel 4 Picks Up American Graphic Novel, Butterfly, For TV Adaptation!
The UK’s Channel 4 has picked up the rights to Butterfly, an American graphic novel with an eye to adapting it for television with an American co-producer. The graphic novel, written by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett and published by BOOM Studios’ Archaia imprint, follows a deep cover agent for Project Delta when her cover […]
Espionage + Steampunk = Archaia’s Lantern City!
Numbering Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5) among its creators, Lantern City is a new, ongoing series from Archaia and Macrocosm – a steampunk/espionage series that looks at what one might do to save loved ones. Intriguingly, Lantern city is part of ‘a larger transmedia Universe’ in which an illustrated novel, Rise, has already been published and […]
Archaia To Release The Art of Mouse Guard 2005-2015 In June!
During Emerald City ComicCon, Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced the release of The Art of Mouse Guard 2005-2015 in July. Follow the jump for more details.
More Mouse Guard! Archaia Releases Baldwin the Brave!
Archaia and creator David Petersen have collected the four Mouse Guard short stories from Archaia’s last four Free Comic Book Day samplers – plus two new stories – in a new hardcover titled Mouse Guard: Baldwin the Brave and Other Stories. Mouse Guard: Baldwin the Brave and Other Stories will be available November 5th. Follow the jump for […]
Hardcover Edition for Alyssa Milano’s Hacktivist!
Alyssa Milano may be best known for frothy TV shows like Charmed and Mistresses, but her hit four-issue miniswries, Hacktivist, showcased a much different part of her creativity. Based on the premise, ‘What if the founders of the largest social media network in the world were also hackers who used their skills and resources to […]
The Dark Crystal Novelization Is Coming!
Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal has become an enduring classic – the film that established that Henson could do much more than just Muppets. Between an epic quest fantasy story, Brian Froud’s exquisite designs and Henson’s impressive ability to put everything together in a world that felt incredibly real, The Dark Crystal has become a […]
Archaia Publishes 3D Graphic Novel The Joyners In 3D!
Even though Archaia is now an imprint of BOOM! Studios, it continues to display the adventurous spirit that it one of best indie comics publishers around. The Joyners in 3D is the first graphic novel to be published in red-blue anaglyph 3D – the 3D is not a gimmick, for all that it requires those […]
Book Trailer: Archaia’s OGN An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O’The Wisp
Since the Archaia/BOOM merger, Archaia has continued to follow its unique sensiblity. With the January release of An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O’ The Wisp, the publisher has a darkly whimsical tale about a young girl who goes to live with her estranged grandfather and his pet raccoon on a cemetery island after her parents’ […]
BOOM! Studios Acquires Archaia!
BOOM! Studios, one of the top publishers of comics and graphic novels – and two-time winner of Diamond Comics Distributors’ Best Publisher Award – has acquired niche comics publisher Archaia Entertainment. The deal gives BOOM! the largest independent company-controlled comic book and graphic novel library, behind only industry titans DC Entertainment (Warner Bros.) and […]