Broken Frontier

Komikwerks LLC, a leader in online comics publishing, and their partner ibooks, Inc. have created an alliance with America Online, Inc., the world’s leading interactive services company. The alliance creates a collaboration that will give teens on the RED™ service, AOL’s service for teens, access to a host of exclusive content and features from the following sources: Komikwerks’ and ibooks’ online and print comics publications, their exclusive online subscription service, Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics™, and other online editorial features, such as a 'matching' service for would-be comics writers and illustrators.

Readers of the RED Comics & Anime department and at AOL Keyword: Komikwerks will have exclusive early access to Komikwerks’ online comics, interviews, editorial columns, book previews, and the premiere subscription service Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics™ prior to their premiere on the regular Komikwerks.com site. In addition, RED will have exclusive sneak previews of upcoming graphic novels and unpublished artwork from Komikwerks and ibooks projects, like the upcoming anthology ROCKETS & ROBOTS, Keith Giffen’s and Shannon Denton’s GRUNTS, Jason Kruse’s THE WORLD OF QUEST, and Aron Lusen’s DEAD SAMURAI and such ibooks' forthcoming graphic novels, STAN LEE’S ALEXA and THE BLOODLINE CHRONICLES.

“This is a fantastic opportunity for Komikwerks and ibooks,” says Komikwerks co-founder Patrick Coyle, “We’ve built a huge library of content over the past four years, with over 80 comic titles by professional comics and animation creators from around the world, plus tons of interviews and editorial columns. In an industry where it’s easy to get lost in the shadow of the big publishers, this is a great way to get our contributors’ creator-owned work a lot of visibility, and to offer RED readers a great variety of content that they can’t get anywhere else.”

“This is a great way to get fantastic comics out to readers all over the world. Komikwerks is doing a bang-up job, and AOL will let everyone know it!” exclaimed Stan Lee, Chief Creative Officer of Pow! Entertainment, Inc., a publicly traded Company under the ticker symbol: “POWN”. Stan, as the host of Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics™, authors his trademark column “Stan’s Soapbox” exclusively on the Sunday Comics page, and has a new series, STAN LEE’S ALEXA, debuting in graphic novel and on-line form through ibooks and Komikwerks.

"ibooks was founded as the first simultaneous publisher of books on-line and in print. Our partnership with Komikwerks and AOL RED brings brand name graphic novel authors like Stan Lee available to the wide range of teens using AOL."

Komikwerks content will begin appearing on AOL RED starting Friday, January 28th.