KISS 4K and the KISS Comics Group

[drice6900]

Billboard.com

January 30, 2007, 10:30 AM ET

 

Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter

Kiss has partnered with comic book production company Platinum Studios to create a new comic-book entertainment company called the Kiss Comics Group.

 

This is not the first time there have been comics featuring the members of the band, but it will be the first time that Kiss -- under the banner of Kiss Catalog Ltd., run by original members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley -- will produce its own comic-book-based characters.

 

The co-venture aims to be more than a publisher; it plans to expand the comic-book characters' images onto multimedia platforms including print, mobile, online, film, television and licensed merchandise.

 

First up from the KCG will be "Kiss 4K," the story of Simmons, Stanley and other band members' transformation from rock stars to world-protecting warrior spirits. "4K" will be released in March as a 3-foot comic priced at $50, with an intent to make it the largest comic book ever published. It will be followed by merchandise including apparel, video games and comic strips for cell phones.

 

Platinum, which has projects such as "Cowboys and Aliens" set up at Sony Pictures, is counting on Kiss' multigenerational, international fan base as well as more than 4,000 fan sites from around the globe and will launch simultaneously in the U.S., France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

 

 

The band members said they will be involved in all day-to-day decisions. "The Kiss comics that have come out were licenses; they weren't truly part of the mythology," Platinum chairman Scott Mitchell Rosenberg said. "This is all of us working together. (Simmons and Stanley) care about every panel of every comic and how an image looks on a shirt."

[drice6900]

Oh, and here is a variant for ya. Kiss 4K will have a Destroyer variant that is near 2x3 feet is size and costs $50!!!

 

linky

 

Good luck finding a mylite for it

[grider67]

Simmons and his licencing. Just when you thought that they had pretty much had there hand in everything... now "World's Largest Comic Book" .

[Rich_Henn]

This is going to be interesting...from a printers standpoint.

 

I've been in the print industry for 15 years now.

I'd love to be the fly on the wall in that meeting when the printer is trying to figure out just how in the H ELL they're going to fold and stitch that mother effer.

 

That's going to be damn near impossible.

 

In fact, I'll be money they don't have a printer even lined up let that can handle something that size.

[thomasdacat]

It would be interesting to see how the comic turns out. I hope It's better than the Mcfarlane version . Anyways, on a side note,I saw an interview with Simmons showing off Kiss merchandise. Along with the many posters ,t-shirts,he also had a Kiss coffin for sale.