Oni Press announces CBLDF Welcome Party, con signings, & more

By Christopher Baggett

Oni Press has introduced particulars for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s (CBLDF) Welcome Party & Art Auction forward of San Diego Comic-Con.

This yr’s fundraiser is known as Fight Censorship, Read Comics!, and can function new thematic paintings commissioned for the occasion.

Oni Press Presents The Annual CBLDF Welcome Party & Art Auction 2023

Annual Fundraising Event to Begin FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! Initiative, Featuring New Works by Maia Kobabe, Matt Kindt, and Gabriel Bá & Fábio Moon

In partnership with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), Oni Press – the a number of Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comedian e-book writer – is proud to announce its sponsorship of this yr’s annual CBLDF Welcome Party & Art Auction on Thursday, July twentieth at The Westgate Hotel in San Diego, CA.

In tandem with the annual fundraising occasion that pulls a whole lot of comics business creators, publishers, educators, and advocates every year, Oni Press can be utilizing the event to debut a brand new initiative in assist of the CBLDF entitled FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! and unveil a number of new items of paintings commissioned particularly for the brand new initiative from an array of outstanding artists and that includes the graphic design of award-winning, London-based designer Tom Muller (House of X), together with:

Alex Award Winner

MAIA KOBABE

(Gender Queer)

Eisner & Harvey Award Nominee

MATT KINDT

(Mind MGMT, BRZRKR)

Eisner Award Winners

GABRIEL BÁ & FÁBIO MOON

(Daytripper)

Free for CBLDF members and most of the people with a advised voluntary donation on the door to assist the CBLDF’s ongoing work in supporting the reason for free speech and inventive expression, the annual occasion can be hosted at The Westgate Hotel’s Terrace Under the Stars from 8 pm to 12 midnight PT. (An SDCC badge is NOT required to attend.) On behalf of Oni Press, the primary 50 attendees will obtain a free “Secret Edition” variant cowl of the newest concern of the writer’s science-fiction anthology, XINO #2, that includes paintings by rising star Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade); whereas the primary 200 will obtain a free FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! two-piece button set:

XINO #2 “Secret Edition” Variant

Cover Art by Nick Cagnetti

Free for the First 50 Attendees!

FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! Button Set

Logo Design by Tom Muller

Free for the First 200 Attendees!

The night’s festivities will even function the return of the CBLDF’s annual San Diego Comic-Con Silent Art Auction, that includes comedian artwork and different collectibles donated by a big selection of supporting contributors from the worlds of comics, video video games, and leisure:

During the night’s occasions, Oni Press will even offer 50 signed copies of the GENDER QUEER: DELUXE EDITION hardcover with a bookplate signature by creator Maia Kobabe with all funds benefiting the CBLDF. High-quality, 11×17″ prints of Kobabe’s FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! illustration will even be obtainable on the Oni sales space (#1829) by the week with a portion of all proceeds benefiting the CBLDF.

“Each day brings another reminder that we’re in the midst of a generational surge in challenges to comics nationwide, but thanks to the support of the entire comics community, we know we’re going to win,” mentioned Jeff Trexler, Interim Director of the CBLDF. “All of us here at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund are grateful to Oni Press for its generous sponsorship of this year’s CLBDF Welcome Party and Art Auction – and for its unwavering commitment to protecting freedom of expression through the comic arts!”

“Yet again, the comics industry finds itself battling an incessant wave of censorship dedicated to stifling creativity, marginalizing creators, and diminishing the impact of comics and graphic novels with the power to change minds and lives,” mentioned Hunter Gorinson, Oni Press Publisher & President. “In 1954, in 1986, and again in our present moment, our medium has faced this same reckless compulsion many times – but now, more than ever, it’s vital that all corners of the global comics community come together to reject the impulse toward censorship that has risen up to target important works like GENDER QUEER and many dozens more. Thanks to the ardent support and unrelenting work of the CBLDF, we know it will not succeed.”

Oni Press‘s support of the CBLDF‘s signature San Diego event follows months of unprecedented legal challenges to graphic novels and other forms of comic art that have now spread through more than a dozen states. Maia Kobabe’s award-winning graphic memoir, Gender Queer, has been positioned on the epicenter of many of those challenges on the state and native stage and was beforehand the topic of a Virginia obscenity lawsuit, which was efficiently defended by the CBLDF and dominated to be unconstitutional in 2022. Oni Press is proud to reciprocate the CBLDF‘s assist at this essential time within the historical past of free speech for the comics medium.

In addition to the fundraiser, Oni has introduced a brand new collection, Invasive, from Cullen Bunn and Jesús Hervás. Invasive is a four-issue mini-series that goals to be the “ultimate statement on what a horror comic should be.”

SDCC 2023: Oni Press Presents INVASIVE #1 – A Radical New Experiment in Horror from Cullen Bunn & Jesús Hervás in December!

In an underground hospital secretly working deep beneath the streets of a serious metropolis, a radical new dependancy has taken maintain.

Once inside its grip, there are not any guidelines, no oaths, and no taboos too deep to to not be damaged.

The scalpel is their device, and the alleys are their working theater…and, collectively, a brand new class of surgeon is bent on piercing the ultimate threshold of accepted medical orthodoxy one incision at a time.

Beyond extra, past ethics, past science…a fragile and excruciating new self-discipline is about to be born: the artwork of flesh.

Help us uncover it, received’t you?

PORTLAND, OR (July 12, 2023) – Oni Press, is proud to announce INVASIVE #1 (of 4) – a terrifying new experiment in ache from Eisner Award nominee Cullen Bunn (THE SIXTH GUN, BASILISK) and acclaimed illustrator Jesús Hervás (THE EMPTY MAN), starting in December 2023!

“INVASIVE might very well go down as Cullen Bunn’s ultimate statement on what the horror comic can and should be. As both a mystery and meditation on the addictive nature of power, INVASIVE is one of the most compelling, thought-provoking, and genuinely rattling projects that I have ever had the privilege to shepherd forward,” mentioned Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. “We can’t share too much for fear of spoiling what Cullen and Jesús have planned, except to say this: No matter what you think…you are not ready.”

“INVASIVE is a thing of nightmare. For me, literally,” mentioned Cullen Bunn. “The initial seed of the idea sprang from a terrifying nightmare that startled me awake in the dark. While developing the idea, I was beset by even more nightmares. And while writing it? You guessed it. Nightmares. It’s a book that worries and haunts me, and I think it represents a bit of a signpost in the road of my approach to horror in general. I believe that in the years to come, it will be thought of as one of my most disturbing stories.”

Look for more particulars about INVASIVE to be revealed within the months forward…and, within the meantime, Oni Press is providing backers of the at present ongoing SIXTH GUN DELUXE OMNIBUS LIBRARY marketing campaign on Kickstarter a particular look forward on the upcoming collection! In tandem with this announcement, Oni Press is revealing a secret Stretch Goal for the continuing marketing campaign gathering the whole lot of Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt‘s action-adventure masterwork with the INVASIVE #1 ASHCAN – a top-secret, limited-edition bonus merchandise that can be robotically awarded to all bodily backers on the Tier 3 stage or larger!

Visit THE SIXTH DELUXE OMNIBUS LIBRARY right here and search for INVASIVE #1 (of 4) – coming in December, solely from Oni Press!

INVASIVE #1 (of 4)

Written by Cullen Bunn

Art & Cover by Jesús Hervás

$4.99 | 32 pgs. | COMING IN DECEMBER!

Oni has additionally announces its SDCC signing and merchandise choices, together with sales space occasions and panels for its greatest properties.

SDCC 2023: Oni Press Unveils Exclusives & Signing Schedule for Comic-Con International in San Diego

Featuring Exclusive, Limited-Edition Variants and More from Charlie Adlard, Nick Cagnetti, David Aja, Maia Kobabe, Maria Wolf Lopez, LySandra Vuong, and More!

Oni Press – the a number of Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comedian e-book and graphic novel writer – is proud to announce its upcoming slate of company, signings, and exclusives for Comic Con International 2023 in San Diego, CA!

From Wednesday, July 19 by Sunday, July 23, go to Oni Press at Booth #1829 for every day signings from a forged of particular company signing every day, together with Nick Cagnetti (PINK LEMONADE), Matt Lesniewski (XINO), LySandra Vuong (COVENANT), and the staff behind this yr’s Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel sensation CHEF’S KISS: Jarrett Melendezand Danica Brine!

In tandem with the present, Oni is unveiling more than a dozen limited-edition San Diego exclusives for present and upcoming titles together with COVENANT, LAMENTATION, PINK LEMONADE, RICK AND MORTY VS. CTHULHU, SEASON OF THE BRUJA, XINO, and more from an beautiful forged of all-star abilities, akin to Charlie Adlard (THE WALKING DEAD), Nick Cagnetti (PINK LEMONADE), David Aja (HAWKEYE), Maia Kobabe (GENDER QUEER), Maria Wolf Lopez (SABRETOOTH), LySandra Vuong (COVENANT), and more!

Plus: Limited-edition objects from the “FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS!” Initiative, benefitting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF)!

Looking without spending a dime giveaways? Oni has you lined there, too – debuting first at Comic Con International 2023, get your palms on the RICK AND MORTY: THE MANGA SUPER SNEAK PREVIEW, spotlighting 10+ pages of Rick and Mory’s new manga-inspired journey coming this fall!

Plus: Get the bounce on Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Jay Stephen’s long-awaited return to Oni Press with DWELLINGS – coming to shops this August – with three collectible, “cut and fold” character masks debuting on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday whereas provides final!

Ready to see what’s subsequent for Oni Press? Make positive to not miss the Oni Press: Counterculture for Comics Culture panel on Thursday, July twentieth at 11:00am in Room 28DE the place writer Hunter Gorinson and editor-in-chief Sierra Hahn can be joined by an all-star forged of creators together with Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade), Zander Cannon (Kaijumax), Melissa Flores (XINO), LySandra Vuong (Covenant), and 2023 Eisner award-nominees Jarrett Melendez & Danica Brine (Chef’s Kiss) as they talk about constructing on Oni’s 25-year legacy of publishing provocative comics and reveal a ton of all-new bulletins!