KILL SHAKESPEARE PART OF CANADIAN COMICS INVASION HEADING FOR SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON!

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Toronto, Canada: Hot on the heels of the success of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, another Canadian comic book series is beginning to make waves in the comic and media world. Kill Shakespeare Entertainment and IDW Publishing will officially announce at the next week’s San Diego Comic-Con that the first two issues of the 12-issue series Kill Shakespeare have sold out. “We are excited to see that fans are reacting to our unique take on the Bard, and we’re very happy that retailers across North America are already reporting that they’ve sold out of our third issue as well” says co-creator Anthony Del Col.



Issue #3 of the IDW series that mashes up Shakespeare’s characters was released in stores across North America and the U.K. on July 8, 2010 on a wave of great reviews, and the fourth issue is slated to be released the first week of August. Co-created and co-written by Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, the artwork is overseen by fellow Canadian Andy Belanger.



Kill Shakespeare is the latest in an onslaught of Canadian-creator series that have become comic book hits and attracted the interest of Hollywood production companies. It’s a list that includes Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody and fellow IDW creator Darwyn Cooke’s heavily praised re-imagination of classic noir character Parker in The Hunter.



“We’re happy to be part of this Canadian comic renaissance,” said McCreery “It’s a fantastically supportive community, and we’re looking forward to spreading the word in San Diego about what a hotbed for comics the frozen North truly is.”



About the series:



Kill Shakespeare is an adventure story that pits all of Shakespeare’s greatest heroes (including Hamlet, Juliet, Falstaff, Othello, Puck) against the Bard’s most menacing villains (including Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in a quest to track down and kill – or save – a reclusive wizard by the name of William Shakespeare. Called by Aint it Cool News as, “A great read”, the series has been profiled by NPR, CBC Radio 3, Wired.com, The Globe and Mail and Publisher’s Weekly. It also created controversy in April when Shakespearean scholar (and girlfriend of comics legend Frank Miller) Kimberly Cox railed against the title on popular U.K. comic blog BleedingCool.com, while other scholars raced to defend it.



Both Del Col and McCreery will be available for interviews during the San Diego Comic-Con and also in Los Angeles the week of July 26th – 30th.



More information about the series can be found at www.killshakespeare.com.