IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing is an American comic-book publisher, best known for its licensed comic adaptations and tie-in work for various movies and cartoons, such as Star Trek, My Little Pony, Ghostbusters, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
==History==
Idea and Design Works was formed in 1999 by a group of entertainment executives and artists that included Ted Adams, Robbie Robbins, Alex Garner, and Kris Oprisko to develop products related to video games, movies, TV, collectible card games, comic books, and trading cards. The IDW Publishing division was formed in the year 2000.
After developing multiple other Disney titles, including Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, their first venture into the world of Star Wars began with the release of the Star Wars edition of the Micro Comic Fun Pack in 2015, a series of bling bags containing comics, stickers, and posters, of which editions relating to other series had already been released at that point.
They have since started reprinting the Los Angeles Times Syndicate comic strips in hardcover compilations, the first of which was Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 1 on May 9, 2017.
They are former holders of the Star Wars juvenile comics license, with which they started publishing original comics, beginning with Star Wars Adventures Ashcan on July 20, 2017 at San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel Adaptation on August 29.
==Published series==
===Star Wars Micro Comic Fun Pack===
====A New Hope====
*Star Wars (1977) 1
*Star Wars (1977) 2
*Star Wars (1977) 3
*Star Wars (1977) 4
*Star Wars (1977) 5
*Star Wars (1977) 6
====The Empire Strikes Back====
*Star Wars (1977) 39
*Star Wars (1977) 40
*Star Wars (1977) 41
*Star Wars (1977) 42
*Star Wars (1977) 43
*Star Wars (1977) 44
====Icons====
*Star Wars (2015) 1
*Star Wars (2015) 7
*Chewbacca (2015) 1
*Lando 1
*Princess Leia 1
*Darth Vader (2015) 1
===Series===
*Star Wars Adventures (2017) (July 2017 – July 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures (2020) (October 2020 – February 2022)
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures (2021) (February 2021 – February 2022)
===Miniseries===
*Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (January 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle (October 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down (November 2018 – January 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle (October 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars – Battle Tales (May 2020 – September 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures: Smuggler's Run (December 2020 – January 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon of a Jedi (May 2021 – June 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle (September 2021 – October 2021)
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak (August 2021 – November 2021)
===One-shots===
*Star Wars Adventures Annual 2018 (April 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures Free Comic Book Day 2018 (May 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures: Flight of the Falcon (May 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures Free Comic Book Day 2019 (May 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures Annual 2019 (August 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures: Shadow of Vader's Castle (October 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures Annual 2020 (November 2020)
*The High Republic Adventures Free Comic Book Day 2021 (August 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures Annual 2021 (November 2021)
*The High Republic Adventures Annual 2021 (December 2021)
*The High Republic Adventures: Galactic Bake-Off Spectacular (January 2022)
===Graphic novels===
*Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel Adaptation (August 2017)
*Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Graphic Novel Adaptation (December 2017)
*Star Wars: A New Hope Graphic Novel Adaptation (September 2018)
*Star Wars: The Last Jedi Graphic Novel Adaptation (September 2018)
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Graphic Novel Adaptation (March 2019)
*Solo: A Star Wars Story Graphic Novel Adaptation (March 2019)
*Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Graphic Novel Adaptation (October 2019)
*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Graphic Novel Adaptation (March 2021)
*Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Graphic Novel Adaptation (July 2021)
*Star Wars Graphic Novel Adaptation Box Set (November 2021)
*Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Graphic Novel Adaptation (December 2021)
==Published collections==
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 1: Heroes of the Galaxy (October 2017)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 2: Unexpected Detour (February 2018)
*Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (April 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 3: Endangered (July 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 4: Smuggler's Blues (December 2018)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 5: Mechanical Mayhem (March 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle (May 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down (June 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 6: Flight of the Falcon (July 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 7: Pomp and Circumstance (November 2019)
*Star Wars Adventures Omnibus, Volume 1 (January 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 8: Defend the Republic! (February 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle TPB (March 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 9: Fight The Empire! (June 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 10: Driving Force (September 2020)
*Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars – Battle Tales (January 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures: Beware Vader's Castle (January 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures, Volume 11: Rise of the Wookiees (January 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures: Smuggler's Run (October 2021)
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Volume One (November 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures: The Light and the Dark (December 2021)
*Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon of a Jedi (January 2022)
*Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle (January 2022)
*Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Volume Two (February 2022)
===Star Wars Newspaper Comics===
*Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 1 (May 2017)
*Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 2 (March 2018)
*Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 3 (September 2018)
==Indefinitely postponed titles==
*Star Wars Adventures: The Mandalorian
*Star Wars Adventures: Order and Chaos
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*The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic (Phase One)
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==Notes and references==
==External links==
*IDW Publishing's website
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