AWARD-WINNING
WEBCOMIC COMES TO PRINT COMICS THIS MONTH FROM IDW PUBLISHING
The
Dreamer: Adventure,
Romance, War... 1776 is back!
(November
4, 2008) San Diego, CA—Lora
Innes’s webcomic, The Dreamer,
transported the reader back to our nation’s rocky conception at the beginning
of the American Revolution, and now the award-winning series will be released
as printed comic books for the first time from IDW Publishing.
The Dreamer will be released as a six-issue
miniseries starting this month. Issue #1 reaches comics retailers on November
12. Each issue will include Lora Innes’s original cover art, as well as new covers painted by Jenny
Frison.
The Dreamer is equal parts 18th-century
adventure and 21st-century teenage slice-of-life tale. It is the
story of 17-year-old Beatrice Whaley, a wealthy high school senior who lives in
Boston and aspires to a career on Broadway. But her plans for her future are
rudely interrupted by the past when she awakes from a vivid and unforgettable
dream about a soldier in a redcoat. As the dreams continue, always starting
where the last one ended, she attempts to keep the two worlds separate until
they begin to overlap. She has no choice
but to become involved and finds herself fighting for her life next to
Knowlton’s Rangers in the Battle of Long Island. With acclaimed historical
accuracy, The Dreamer
tells the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of a group of
ordinary men turned citizen soldiers--farmers, school teachers and young
boys--and reminds us that the fate of America in 1776 was anything but certain.
Launched as a
webcomic in the summer of 2007, The Dreamer very quickly gained a huge cult following
online. It debuted in the top 50 of Top Web Comics, soared upward and has held
a healthy spot on the listing for a year. Just five months after it began its
weekly update schedule, The Dreamer
was nominated in the Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards as the “Outstanding
Newcomer Comic” of 2008. Later that same year, it won three awards at the Drunk
Duck Awards, the largest community of online comics on the web: “Best Adventure
Story,” “Best Digital Art” and “Best Romance,” and was nominated in three other
categories. The Dreamer
has quickly gained a reputation amongst readers and creators as one of the
highest quality webcomics in terms of both artwork and story—an opinion
reflected by IDW Publishing in their decision to collect and publish The
Dreamer.
The Dreamer counts among its diverse readership teachers,
historical re-enactors, high school and college girls and more. “The web has
made comics accessible to entirely new demographics of people who never would
have dreamed of buying comic books before they added that first webcomic to
their morning RSS feed,” says creator Lora Innes, “So if these people can find
great, compelling stories that capture their heart on the web, I can’t help but
believe that their attitude toward print comics won’t be changed. I see
the webcomics experiment bringing in a whole new readership to print comics,
and frankly, I’m excited to be a part of it.”
The Dreamer #1 (Diamond Order Code SEP08 4131), a 32-page
$3.99 full-color comic, will be in stores on November 12, 2008.
About IDW
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade
paperbacks, based in San Diego, Calif. As a leader in the horror, action, and
sci-fi genres, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in
the industry including: television's #1 prime time series CBS' CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation;
Paramount's Star Trek;
Fox's Angel; Hasbro's
The Transformers, and
the BBC's Doctor Who.
IDW's original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture
in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of
release. In April 2008, IDW released Michael Recycle, the first title from its new children's
book imprint, Worthwhile Books. More information about the company can be found
at http://www.idwpublishing.com. 
