Alien Books continues its growth with the addition of the legendary Zorro comic book license. Alien Books will give the iconic swordsman the spotlight he deserves across a variety of crowdfunding, retail projects, direct market releases, and book store titles. This expands Alien’s library which includes the home of Valiant Comics and a recently announced sub-distribution agreement with IDW Publishing.
Originally created in 1919 by author Johnston McCulley, the masked avenger Zorro is one of the most iconic and enduring fictional characters of all time with dozens of multi-generational books, tv series, films and comic books released worldwide. Zorro’s rich comic book history includes stints with publishers Dell Comics, Gold Key, Marvel, and Dynamite, among others. Over the years, talents to have provided their own unique takes on Zorro include Alex Toth, Warren Tufts, Don MacGregor, Matt Wagner, Jesse Marsh, Mel Keefer, Ruben Procopio, Paul S. Newman, Frank Miller, Russ Manning, Thomas Yeates, Dan Spiegle, Alex Ross, Francesco Francavilla, Howard Chaykin, Sean Gordon Murphy, Quentin Tarantino and many more.
One of the first projects to be released from Alien Books under this new licensing agreement will be a Kickstarter campaign for a deluxe hardcover edition of Alex Toth’s Zorro series from 1958 featuring remastered colors and lettering along with a story by Howard Chaykin and Eduardo Risso, premiering for the first time in English.
The crowdfunding campaign will offer deluxe add-ons including limited edition Zorro busts, trading cards and prints. The project will launch on April 23rd and interested backers can sign up now to get notified when it goes live.
Additional Zorro projects will be announced in the months to come and will be available to order for comic shops and bookstores through IDW Publishing’s solicitations.
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