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 Former
Marvel publisher Bill Jemas and ex-Editor-in-Chief Alex Alonso have teamed up to
start a new comic book publisher named Artists, Writers & Artisans. The first we
heard about AWA was late last year, when Jemas raised $5 million from venture
capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners for the company. And the New York Times
has revealed what the new company will launch with. The launch slate will
feature stories co-existing in a shared universe, but the line will not just
include superhero stories. Jemas will be the chief executive and publisher,
Alonso will be chief creative officer and Jonathan F. Miller (the man who
brokered the deal between Netflix and Millarworld in 2017) will serve as
chairman. The fall launching line will include American Ronin from Peter
Milligan and ACO, which focuses on "highly trained operatives of huge
corporations;" Bad Mother from Christa Faust, which deals with a mother
searching for her missing daughter; Fight Girls, written and drawn by Frank Cho,
which revolves around athletes in a competition for the title of Queen of the
Galaxy; and Archangel 8, written by Michael Moreci, about a "rogue angel" who
uses guns under the tagline "Even God needs plausible deniability." The line
will be creator-owned. AWA will have a creative council, which has on board
screenwriter/director Reginald Hudlin, novelists Margaret Stohl and Gregg
Hurwitz, Garth Ennis and J. Michael Straczynski, who will come up with the
origin for the universe.
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