AWA Studios
AWA Studios (AWA standing for Artists, Writers & Artisans) is an American independent comic book publisher founded in November 2018 by Axel Alonso, Bill Jemas and Jonathan Perkins Miller.[2]
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | November 2018 |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Key people | |
| Publication types | Comics |
| Fiction genres | |
| Imprints | Upshot |
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| Official website | Official website |
History
AWA Studios was founded in November 2018 by Axel Alonso and Bill Jemas from Marvel Comics, with the addition of Jonathan Perkins Miller from Fandom. While Alonso and Jemas are Chief Creative Officers, Miller is a Senior Council member. The initials in the company's name stand for "Artists, Writers & Artisans".[2] Initial funders included Lightspeed Venture Partners and James Murdoch's Lupa Systems. Sister media investment firm also contributed funding in March 2020.[1] Over time, a Creative Council was joined by J. Michael Straczynski, Reginald Hudlin, Garth Ennis, Gregg Hurwitz, Margaret Stohl and Frank Cho.[3] In September 2019, AWA announced a Retail Council to be assembled.[4]
American Ronin was presented as a potential book from AWA in June 2019.[5] In August 2019, Straczynski announced a new shared universe for AWA, debuting on 2020 with The Resistance.[6] During New York Comic Con 2019, AWA released Upshot Now #0.[7] AWA Studios that four titles, to released in March 2020 under its Upshot imprint.[8]
Key people
Upshot imprint logo
Leadership team
- Axel Alonso, Chief creative officer[2]
- Bill Jemas, Chief executive officer and publisher[2]
- Jonathan Perkins Miller, chairman of the board[2]
List of publications
2019
| Title | Issue(s) | Written by | Drawn by | Colored by | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upshot Now[7] | #0— | Various | October 3–6, 2019 (New York Comic Con) |
Present | ||
| The official magazine of AWA's Upshot imprint, featuring previews of its comic books and graphic novels. | ||||||
2020
| Title | Issue(s) | Written by | Drawn by | Colored by | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Resistance[6] | #1—6 | J. Michael Straczynski | Mike Deodato | Frank Martin | March 18, 2020 | TBA |
| The first series in the Resistance saga. A pandemic kills hundreds of millions, but leaves some of its survivors with superhuman powers. | ||||||
| Archangel 8[9] | #1—5 | Michael Moreci | C. P. Smith | Snakebite Cortez | March 18, 2020 | TBA |
| In a world beyond the sight of mortals, Heaven and Hell wage an eternal war for the soul of mankind. Principal among God's legion are seven archangels written about in religious texts for millennia. But there is an eighth archangel, known only from passing allusions in Apocrypha, who operates under a different code. Fighting without God's sanction, he faces the enemy on his own terms, and shows just how bad good can be. | ||||||
| Hotell[10] | #1—4 | John Lees | Dalabor Talijic | Lee Loughridge | March 18, 2020 | August 19, 2020 |
| The Pierrot Courts Hotel, hidden around Route 66, gains the attention of a journalist on the trail of a serial killer, and discovers a terrible secret about the hotel. | ||||||
| Red Border[11] | #1—4 | Jason Starr | Will Conrad | Ivan Nunes | March 18, 2020 | August 26, 2020 |
| After escaping to Texas from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple comes across a mysterious house, where the hosts prove to be more sinister than the cartel itself. | ||||||
| Year Zero[12] | #1—5 | Benjamin Percy | Ramon Rosanas | Lee Loughridge | April 4, 2020 | TBA |
| Five survivors of a global epidemic must draw upon their unique skills and deepest instincts to navigate a world of shambling zombies. | ||||||
| Old Haunts[13] | #1—5 | Ollie Masters & Rob Williams | Laurence Campbell | Lee Loughridge | May 20, 2020 | TBA |
| Three Made Men, standing at the brink of retirement, find their unbreakable bond put to the ultimate test when they are suddenly assaulted by the ghosts of their past. Confronted by decades of buried secrets – resentments, affairs, double-crosses, and murders – the three friends have no choice but to unearth the deepest, darkest sin from their past and pray they don't find an empty grave. | ||||||
| Devil's Highway[12] | #1—5 | Benjamin Percy | Brent Schoonover | Nick Filardi | June 3, 2020 | TBA |
| A young woman with a dark family secret searches for the serial killer who murdered her father, but then discovers a hidden national network of evil. | ||||||
Upcoming
| Title | Issue(s) | Written by | Drawn by | Colored by | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad Mother[14] | #1—5 | Christa Faust | Mike Deodato | TBA | August, 2020 | TBA |
| April Walters is a hit-and-run victim of life – a soccer mom whose inner fire has been snuffed out by her dreary suburban existence. When her teenaged daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances, April embarks on a harrowing journey through the underbelly of her suburban community that sets her on a collision course with a massive crime syndicate and its lethal matriarch. Tested to her limits and beyond, April discovers that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned. | ||||||
| The Amazing Ordinary[15] | TBA | Margaret Stohl | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| American Ronin[5] | TBA | Peter Milligan | ACO | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| In a dystopian future where corporations rule the world, operatives are trained since childhood to pledge their allegiance. But one of them will be considered a "Ronin" after he decided to fight back. | ||||||
| Byte-Sized[16] | TBA | Cullen Bunn | Nelson Blake II | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| The Cong: Gorilla Warfare[17] | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| E-Ratic[18] | TBA | Karee Andrews | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| ET-ER[19] | TBA | Jeff McComsey | Javier Pulido | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Intergalactic virus liquefy one of your heads? Feeling a bit “off” ever since you drove through that black hole? Rush to Roswell General, the galaxy's leading medical facility. This interplanetary crew of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and technicians is uniquely qualified to cure what ails you. There's no planet too far, no asteroid too small, no patient too, well alien – and they accept most forms of insurance. | ||||||
| Grendel, Kentucky[20] | TBA | Jeff McComsey | Tommy Lee Edwards | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| For two generations, the rural hill town of Grendel, Kentucky has honored its Faustian bargain with the monster living in its abandoned coal mine: a human sacrifice every season in return for agrarian prosperity the likes of which this rocky region had never before seen (including its greatest cash crop: the dankest weed in the land). When one town elder breaks this pact, Grendel's only hope is that its prodigal daughter will return home to face down the creature of her nightmares—and bring her all-female biker gang with her. | ||||||
| Fight Girls[21] | TBA | Frank Cho | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of “Queen of the Galaxy.” To win the challenge each contestant must survive the hazards of the planet's harsh landscape, the ferocious predators on and below its surface, and their fellow contestants. This edition of the contest has a twist: one of the contestants is an infiltrator who has her eye on something bigger than the prize. Who is she and what does she really want? | ||||||
| Lil' Freakin Maniacs[18] | TBA | Karee Andrews | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Marjorie Finnigan, Temporal Criminal[22] | TBA | Garth Ennis | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Moths[23] | TBA | J. Michael Straczynski | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| The second series in the Resistance saga. | ||||||
| Primos[24] | TBA | Al Madrigal | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| YT Savior[25] | TBA | Ales Kot | Robert Sammelin | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| The Savior is special. Possessing godlike powers, he's been raised his whole life in a carefully controlled bubble of his mother and father's creation. When his parents pass away, he falls into the clutches of a secret society that has been waiting for someone like him to carve a future of their design. His parents anticipated this moment and prepared their son for it, but for him to truly rise to the occasion he must first pull back the curtain on his family legacy and uncover who he really is. | ||||||
References
- Destito, Deanna (March 10, 2020). "PREVIEW: Take a peek at AWA's ARCHANGEL 8 ahead of its debut". comicsbeat.com. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- Old Haunts
- Johnston, Rich (May 31, 2020). "Mike Deodato Launches Bad Mother #1 in AWA August 2020 Solicits". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- AWA Studios - Fight Girls
- AWA Studios - YT Savior
External links
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