Wednesday, January 13, 2016

IMAGE COMICS CELEBRATES DIVERSITY WITH HUMBLE BUNDLE
TO BENEFIT HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION
 
Leading comics publisher begins the new year with digital sale to support diversity

Image Comics is pleased to announce an all-new Humble Bundle digital sale—Humble Comics Bundle: Image Comics featuring Creators Own Worlds—set to bring awareness to equality and to support the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. This Humble Bundle highlights some of the series from Image Comics that are created by or significantly feature LGBT characters. 
With the Humble Comics Bundle: Image Comics featuring Creators Own Worlds digital sale, fans will experience $400-worth of some of Image Comics' bestselling and award-winning series at pay-what-you want pricing.
Fans will be able to pay what they want for the first collected volume of hot new series and original graphic novels like, Matt Fraction and Christian Ward's ODY-C, Steve Orlando and JD Faith's VIRGIL, Sina Grace's SELF-OBSESSED, Alex De Campi and Carla Speed McNeil's NO MERCY, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's PHONOGRAM, VOL. 1, Ales Kot and Matt Taylor's WOLF, VOL. 1, Chip Zdasrky and Kagan McLeod's KAPTARA, VOL. 1, Stjepan Sejic's SUNSTONE, VOL. 1, Scott Snyder and Jock's WYTCHES, VOL. 1, and more.
CREATORS OWN WORLDS customers will get a special bundle of introductory issues of series like Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's PAPER GIRLS, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s MONSTRESS, and Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque’s HUCK.
Fans who commit to purchasing at more than the average price will also snag: OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA, VOL. 1, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's JUST THE TIPS, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' SAGA, VOL. 4, Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey's INJECTION, VOL. 1, Mark Millar and Wilfredo Torres’ JUPITER’S CIRCLE, VOL. 1, as well as the RAT QUEENS SPECIAL: BRAGA #1 by Kurtis Wiebe with art by Tess Fowler.
And for those die-hard fans paying $20 or more for all of the above, they will receive all of the above plus: David Lapham's STRAY BULLETS UBER ALLES EDITION (collects issues #1-41), Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley's INVINCIBLE COMPENDIUM (collects issues #1-47), Jim Zub and Steven Cummings' WAYWARD DELUXE EDITION, VOL. 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine DeLandro's BITCH PLANET, VOL. 1, and Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini's LOW, VOL. 1. 
A digital comic book will be made available every day as a FREE download for fans to sample what kind of comics Image has to offer, beginning this Wednesday, January 13th at 11 a.m. Pacific time with BLACK MAGICK #1 by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott. 
That's just for starters with additional titles to be unveiled mid-promotion. 
As with all Humble Bundles, customers can choose how their purchase dollars are allocated, between the publisher and charity. The Humble Image Comics Creators Own Worlds bundle supports the The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, which works to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. 
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. HRC envisions a world where LGBT people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community. 
Humble Comics Bundle: Image Comics featuring Creators Own Worlds runs from now until Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time.


ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. HRC envisions a world where LGBT people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.

ABOUT HUMBLE BUNDLE
Humble Bundle sells digital content through its pay-what-you-want bundle promotions and the Humble Store. When purchasing a bundle, customers choose how much they want to pay and decide where their money goes -- between the content creators, charity, and Humble Bundle. Since the company's launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has raised more than $69 million through the support of its community for a wide range of charities, providing aid for people across the world. For more information, please visit https://www.humblebundle.com.

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