IDW

IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American comic book company owned by IDT Corp. The company was founded in 1999 by four entertainment executives and artists. The names of these individuals are Ted Adams, Alex Garner, Kris Oprisko, and Robbie Robbins. They decided to construct a business that would allow them to work with a multitude of clients on subjects that interested them: video games, movies, TV, collectible card games, comic books, and trading cards. In 2007, IDT purchased a majority interest in IDW. The original founders of the company continue to be minority owners and Adams and Robbins still actively manage the company.

A few of the company's many services include custom comic books, character design, logo design, concept design, computer color, custom trading cards, trading card games, DVD menu design, text stories, and more.

The company has assembled a very extensive client base that includes some very profitable names. This list includes: Activision, Artisan Entertainment, Bandai America, the BBC, Brady Games, Cartoon Network, Dimension Films, Electronic Arts, Fox Family, Golden Books, LEGO, Lion's Gate, The Man Show, Microsoft, Pepsi, Pioneer, Revolution Films, Simon & Schuster, Square, Trimark Pictures, Upper Deck, and many more. Beginning in 2008, the company licensed the Doctor Who series from the BBC, launching two simultaneous titles: Doctor Who Classics, which reprints colorized versions of the original comic strips and Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur a new six-part limited series.

IDW has published comic books under a number of different imprints and corporate names.

Dean Mullaney’s Library of American Comics is an imprint of the company and includes the titles The Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, The Complete Little Orphan Annie, The Complete Terry and the Pirates, and Scorchy Smith and the Art of  Noel Sickles.

Scott Christian Sava’s Blue Dream Studios is also an imprint of the company and titles in the line include Dreamland Chronicles, Ed’s Terrestrials, Gary the Pirate, Hyperactive, My Grandparents are Secret Agents, and Pet Robots.

Another imprint of IDW, Worthwhile Books, focuses more on children’s books that are character-driven. Michael Recycle is a story about a super-hero who teaches a town how to recycle and is one of the company’s best-selling titles. Other titles in the line include David Sacks and Brian Ross’ Vigfus the Vikings, Dava Savel’s The Town of Zack, Rob Kurtz’s Seamus McNamus, and David Weiss’ Carl the Frog, who also wrote Shrek 2.