{"id":2312,"date":"2018-02-12T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2018-02-12T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:10:27","slug":"devils-due-entertainment-becomes-devils-due-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/12\/devils-due-entertainment-becomes-devils-due-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil’s Due Entertainment Becomes Devil’s Due Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pat Shand, Olivia Pelaez, Brian Atkins, Scott Schmidt Join New Publishing Platform<\/h1>\n

New Platform Launches with Horror Series\u00a0Little Girl<\/em>\u00a0and Video Game Homage\u00a0Final Street<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/center>This Summer Devil\u2019s Due Entertainment\u2019s titles will be getting a facelift as the brand changes its name to\u00a0Devil\u2019s Due Comics.<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0shift happening to reflect its new Publishing Platform for creator-owned titles.<\/p>\n

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The first two titles to be released under\u00a0Devil\u2019s Due Comics\u00a0<\/strong>are horror title\u00a0Little Girl\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(a 4-issue miniseries debuting in July) by writer Pat Shand and artist Olivia Pelaez, and video game homage\u00a0Final Street<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(special launch issue dropping in June) by writer\u00a0Scott Schmidt and artist Brian Atkins.<\/p>\n

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Final Street #1 Cover by Robert Atkins<\/em><\/p>\n

While most of the changes will remain invisible to the general public, other than a new logo, the company is focusing on alternative deal structures that appeal to what it sees as a growing culture of self-sufficient creators controlling their own properties through social media engagement and comicon weekend \u201croad warrior\u201d promotion. The new platform offers simpler royalty structures for store sales and even flexible\u00a0one-year contracts<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0Creators will be allowed a more hands-on, DIY approach to their books, using a web interface developed by Devil\u2019s Due founder Josh Blaylock, which is all part of what he sees as a need in the indie market.<\/p>\n

As for its previously existing titles, everything remains as it has been, with creators possibly shifting their publishing arrangements over to the new platform on a case by case basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently the comic industry has a high class problem of too much quality,\u201d said Blaylock. \u201cEvery week we\u2019re overloaded with fantastic submissions, more than we could ever publish, let alone give the full attention we offer to all of our current titles. It\u2019s a glut of goodness, and all one needs to do is view the\u00a0PREVIEWS<\/em>\u00a0catalog to see it.\u201dBlaylock continues \u201cWhile we\u2019re structured to handle national distribution and\u00a0even the highest volume of sales, there\u2019s a whole\u00a0world of new indie artists with small-but-growing\u00a0voracious followings. These are creators\u00a0hustling every weekend at comicons, on Kickstarter, and social media, who already have a lot of the aspects of comic production figured out. They do fairly well by nurturing a cult\u00a0fanbase, but just need an infrastructure to rely on, an opportunity to get onto store shelves, and a brand behind them. That\u2019s easy for us and hard for them. What takes up all of our time and resources are the granular aspects of marketing, the nurturing of the fans and constant engagement, which readers really want directly from the creators now anyway. What I\u2019ve strived to create here is an arrangement that allows us to say \u201cyes\u201d to smaller titles while still being primed for the bigger hits in a way that is win-win for everyone. Part of that is by using new technology I developed, and some is just old fashioned contract tweaking. If someone needs their hand held at every step, or wants to turn in their pages and let the publisher do everything else the traditional way, this will probably not appeal to them. But for many rising stars with a \u201cDIY\u201d mentality, I believe this new deal structure is something that will appeal to many of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devil\u2019s Due Comics will continue to be released through comic shops via Diamond under the umbrella label\u00a0Devil\u2019s Due \/ 1First Comics<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company is not accepting open solicitations from the public at this time, and is prepping more titles to be announced later in 2018.<\/p>\n

More about\u00a0Little Girl<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“When a cursed stuffed animal is given to an unknowing victim, the spirit of Abby May, a vengeful little dead girl, lashes out blindly at the living. However, as Abby\u2019s bloodlust leads her back to those responsible for her death, she begins to piece together the truth about how she died and how she lived.”<\/p>\n

More about\u00a0Final Street<\/em><\/strong>
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\nFinal Street\u00a0<\/em>is an over the top gender reversal comic book tribute to retro beat’em-up video games.\u00a0<\/em>When Sullivan \u201cSullie\u201d Rhodes\u2019 boyfriend Franklin is kidnapped by the vicious Bare Knucklers gang, she and her best friend Kumi Kogara hit the deadly streets of Transit City to rescue him. Little do they know they\u2019re about to stumble into a much bigger fight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat Shand, Olivia Pelaez, Brian Atkins, Scott Schmidt Join New Publishing Platform New Platform Launches with Horror Series\u00a0Little Girl\u00a0and Video Game Homage\u00a0Final Street…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[148],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-1.png?fit=550%2C549","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5314,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/23\/devils-due-comics-announces-their-biggest-c2e2-ever-comic-throne-photo-opp-new-exclusives-announced\/","url_meta":{"origin":2312,"position":0},"title":"Devil’s Due Comics Announces Their Biggest C2E2 EVER! 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