Time For Awesome

Bryke is back at Nickelodeon in a big way.

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Mike and I are heading up a new studio dedicated to expanding the Avatarverse. Here’s our quote from EW.com (link for the full article):

“It’s hard to believe it’s been 19 years since we created Avatar: The Last Airbender. But even after all that time, there are still many stories and time periods in Aang’s world that we are eager to bring to life. We are fortunate to have an ever-growing community of passionate fans that enjoys exploring the Avatarverse as much as we do. And with this new Avatar Studios venture we have an unparalleled opportunity to develop our franchise and its storytelling on a vast scale, in myriad exciting ways and mediums. We are exceedingly grateful to Brian Robbins and Ramsey Naito for their enthusiasm and respect for the Avatar property and us as its stewards. From the start, they’ve supported our ambitious plans and created a positive, proactive environment for us. We’re excited to be back at Nickelodeon where Avatar began, doing what we do best in the biggest way possible. We can’t wait to build the great teams and productions to make all of this fantasy a reality.” – Bryan Konietzko & Michael DiMartino

I’m excited to announce I’ll be doing a signing at New York Comic Con on Friday, October 6th, from 10:30–11:30 AM at the First Second Books booth, #2239. We’ll be giving away free copies of this 11x17″ poster for my upcoming graphic novel series Threadworlds during the signing. If you want to bring Avatar/Korra stuff I’ll be happy to sign that too.

TO BE CLEAR: Threadworlds: Volume One is not finished, nor is there is a release date yet. I’m still hard at work on the layouts, which should be finished this year; then I’ll be tackling the final pages and color next year. But I’m excited to share the above artwork with you to give you an updated look at the characters and a glimpse into the world; and to poke my head up out of the ground for a bit to say hi at NYCC!

(I’ll also being doing another signing with Dark Horse at NYCC on Saturday 8/7. I’ll post about that separately soon.)