AfterShock Comics, the independent publishing company behind such hits as Babyteeth, Animosity, A Walk Through Hell, and Dark Ark, is upping the ante with a new advertising campaign claiming 2019 as The Year of Reading Dangerously.

The publisher is planning an aggressive advertising and marketing campaign, which includes new back cover ads for late January (debuted exclusively on ICv2), digital advertising, sponsoring podcasts, local comic shop initiatives, and prominent placement at major conventions in 2019. Additional plans will be revealed next month to retailers at the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting  in Charlotte on Friday, February 22 (see “ComicsPRO Announces Keynote Speaker”).

“AfterShock was created to push new boundaries by giving the comic world’s most creative writers and artists free reign to blow readers’ minds,” said AfterShock’s Publisher and CCO Joe Pruett. “As a result, we’ve published some of the industry’s edgiest and most compelling content since our launch in 2015 and inked deals over the past year to bring a few of our flagship titles to the big screen with major studio partners. With groundbreaking new titles set for debut this year, there has never been a better time than right now to discover all that AfterShock has to offer.”

Upcoming 2019 titles include Stronghold, Oberon, Dark Red, Out of the Blue and Horde.