Archie Celebration Book Debuts at MoCCA Fest
Wednesday, Apr 6th, 2011
First look at deluxe hardcover commemorating 70 years of
America’s favorite teenagers
San Diego, CA
(April 6, 2011)—IDW Publishing and its imprint, YOE Books,
are proud to announce the debut of the deluxe full-color hardcover
coffee table history book, ARCHIE: A CELEBRATION OF
AMERICA’S FAVORITE TEENAGERS, edited and designed by
Eisner award-winner Craig Yoe, at New York
City’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art annual festival this
weekend. MoCCA Fest attendees will get a first look at this
impressive and lovingly crafted tome, which will be available
nation wide by April 30th. ARCHIE: A CELEBRATION OF
AMERIC’A FAVORITE TEENAGERS features more than 200
pages of fascinating history, exciting biographies and rare or
unpublished art, all offering a behind-the-scenes look at one of
the most iconic comics of all time.
“We’re excited and honored to have our history
presented so expertly by Craig and our friends at IDW,” said
Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater. “This is the kind of book
that fans everywhere will cherish for some time. It’s an
essential volume for longtime and new fans of Archie and the
Riverdale gang.”
Archie and his pals are some of the most beloved and enduring characters in the comics medium, and have a long history stretching back to their origins in 1941. Yoe's exhaustive research turned up a plethora of rare and unpublished art by Bob Montana, Dan DeCarlo, and Harry Lucey, vintage photographs, unknown ephemera, and a previously unpublished autobiography of John Goldwater, co-founder of MLJ/Archie Comics. All this rich material serves as the basis for the book, which celebrates both the characters and the immensely talented artists behind them. ARCHIE: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE TEENAGERS also shines a spotlight on writers Frank Doyle, George Gladir, and Craig Boldman, and contemporary Archie artists Fernando Ruiz and Dan Parent, creator of the new kid in Riverdale, Kevin Keller. The beautiful 224-page, large-format volume sports a lengthy and revealing interview with Editor-in-Chief Victor Gorelick, who has worked at Archie over a half a century!
Yoe exclaims, “Working on this book was a
real thrill, to find so much unpublished art by masters like
DeCarlo, and Lucey, a photo of Elvis on his first tour reading a
Betty and Veronica comic, John Goldwater's unpublished
autobiography, Bob Montana's profusely illustrated high school
diary, and be able to share all this with the world had my head
spinning at every turn. I felt like a teenager again!”
IDW Publishing and Yoe are excited to debut
ARCHIE: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE
TEENAGERS at the MoCCA Fest, held only a few short blocks
from where the Archie comics were conceived. Continuing the
connection between the book and the museum, ARCHIE features a full
reprint of a story where the Archie Gang visits the MoCCA museum
and meets Chairman Ellen Abramowitz.
Expected to be an immediate sellout after the official launch later
this month, only a small number of the sought-after ARCHIE:
A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE TEENAGERS will
be available to MoCCA attendees. Also debuting at MoCCA Fest from
IDW and YOE Books will be the sea-and-see worthy POPEYE:
THE GREAT COMIC BOOK TALES BY BUD SAGENDORF.
MoCCA Fest will take place this weekend, April 9th and 10th at the
Lexington Avenue Armory, at 68 Lexington Avenue in New York City.
For more details, visit www.moccany.org
[http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival]
ARCHIE: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE TEENAGERS
($49.99, 220 pages, hard cover, full color) will be available
in comic and books stores on April 20, 2011. ISBN
978-160010-7542.
For more information about Yoe! Books, visit www.yoebooks.com.
Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its
top-selling books.
About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels
and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for
its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW
publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the
industry, including: Hasbro's The
Transformers and G.I. JOE, Paramount's Star
Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC's Doctor Who;
Toho’s Godzilla and comics and trade collections based on
novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is
also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which
publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with
Yoe! Studio; and is the print publisher for EA Comics.
IDW's original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched
as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was
the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about
the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.
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