This just in! New magazine announced!
We’re proud to announce that iHero Entertainment will be returning to the stage with a brand new magazine this October. Brought to you by all the original partners, our new magazine will deliver all the power and pathos you’ve come to expect from us. We’re funding this six-issue limited series through Kickstarter, a great grass roots way for the micro-investor to get involved. If we get the funding we need, we’re hoping to make our new magazine an ongoing series! Click below for more details and thank you for your support!
Greetings and salutations! Welcome to iHero Entertainment!
iHero is a superhero entertainment company that has traditionally gone beyond the comic book to deliver our unique brand of hero. We’ve consistently trekked outside the traditional routes to deliver this message, but what you really need to know about us is this:
Superheroes predate comic books by decades. They existed on radio, in pulp novels, in movie serials, and they were not originally intended for children. Our award-winning magazine, Cyber Age Adventures, took a giant leap forward in that fine tradition and gave you the most ground-breaking, thought-provoking fiction you’ve ever read in a superhero setting. Because the single most important thing you need to realize about superheroes is that they’re not a “genre.” They’re a setting, like deep space, or underwater. As long as you obey the rules of that setting you can tell any kind of story you want. Action, adventure, mystery, romance, tragedy, comedy… anything.
We do it all. Judging by our accolades, we do it well.
We went live on January 1, 1999 and over the years we’ve taken superheroes to new heights. New places. We’ve stretched the boundaries on what people thought superheroes could do. We’ve been lucky enough to find partners in the right fields to help us share our unique vision with the public.
The Fradella Adventure Tarot deck, for example, is the world’s first complete superhero tarot deck. This amazing journey in the mystical world of the tarot features the heroes and villains of the ihero Universe and is brought to you by U.S. Games Systems, Inc., the world’s largest publisher of tarot decks. This great deck by Frank Fradella and JP Dupras is available wherever tarot decks are sold.
With our partnership with New Babel Books we’re offering the first full-length novel set in the iHero Universe: SWAN SONG. Whether you’re new to our characters or you’ve been with us all along, this is a book that will not disappoint you. In fact, listen to what Jim Salicrup, former Marvel editor and current Editor-in-Chief at Papercutz had to say about it:
“Frank Fradella gets superheroes — in the same sense that Hollywood finally got it right with the Spider-Man and X-Men films. Swan Song is a compelling murder mystery, involving two superheroes falling in love. Fradella’s characters are not the least bit campy — they’re believable, and that’s the key to Swan Song’s success!”
- Jim Salicrup, Editor-in-Chief, Papercutz
But don’t think we’ve forsaken comics altogether. In fact, a few of our staff writers have done great things in the medium, bringing such amazing stories as Fishnet Angel by Sean Taylor and Children of the Grave by Tom Waltz. Both of these fine titles are available through your local comic book store and other fine outlets.
But always, first and foremost, the jewel in our crown has always been Cyber Age Adventures, the magazine of superhero fiction.
CAA ran online for more than six years before we took that great and final leap into print. Our first issue boasted pre-order numbers that made us the envy of other indie publishers, but there were pitfalls to publishing print we couldn’t foresee and had to shelve our plans for the second issue, though it was already in the can (seen above, at right).
After that, the other creators and I continued on with other projects, but we all had our fingers in the iHero pie in one way or another. Comics still got created featuring those characters, screenplays were in development, deals were being struck, and now, five years since that last issue went to press… we’re excited to deliver an all-new magazine in 2010.
Details on our new magazine will appear here soon, so check back often. Thanks for coming by!
Frank Fradella
Founder & President
iHero Entertainment