IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW) and is regularly recognized as the fourth-largest comic book publisher in the United States. It has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic Distributors. In addition to their printed comics and graphic novels, IDW has more than 650 books in digital distribution across multiple partners and platforms.

On October 8, 2014, it was announced that IDW had picked up the license to the "classic" Disney comic book titles - Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Uncle Scrooge - and was going to begin publishing them in 2015. It was also announced that the line would include Artist's Edition books of stories by Carl Barks and Don Rosa, along with Disney entries in the IDW Limited editions and Micro Comic Fun Packs.

IDW's first Disney publication, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Artist's Edition, is set to be published in March 2015. Their monthly line of regular Disney comic books is slated to begin the following month with Uncle Scrooge #405. Their first issues of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories will follow in May, June, and July, respectively. The first issues of each title will be 48 pages long, with subsequent issues being 40 pages in length, and like previous licensee Boom! Studios, each issue will feature at least two covers, including special variant covers themed around sections of the Disney theme parks.