Watchmen, Peanuts, Jack Kirby’s New Gods Come to IDW’s Artist’s Editions

At New York Comic Con this weekend, IDW Publishing announced deals to release Artist’s Editions of some of the most significant works in comics history.In addition to Jim Steranko’s Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., perfectly timed to tie into the ABC series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a pair of DC Comics’s most enduring and creatively key books are on the slate for 2014 at IDW: Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen and Jack Kirby’s New Gods.At the same time, the most celebrated comic strip in history, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, will also get an Artist’s Edition, using some of the original art that ol’ Sparky and his family have to recreate the strips in what promises to be a unique collection even by IDW’s standards.”Having grown up with Charlie Brown, Linus and his blanket, Snoopy and the Red Baron…I could not be happier about bringing them into the IDW family,” said Ted Adams, CEO and Publisher of IDW Publishing, “In the world of comic art, it does not get any bigger than Peanuts.”