Joseph Illidge
@josephpillidge.bsky.social
Writer/DC COMICS, IMAGE COMICS, HARRIET TUBMAN - Harper Collins; THE WINTERFIELDS - FairSquare Graphics; CEO - ILLUMINOUS; Veteran BATMAN Franchise Editor
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Introducing my production company ILLUMINOUS and the company's new division, Illuminous Creative Services.
Dedicated to working for creators, clients, and companies looking to develop their IP into comic books and graphic novels!
Your original ideas.
Without limits.
www.illuminousideas.com/contact
Dedicated to working for creators, clients, and companies looking to develop their IP into comic books and graphic novels!
Your original ideas.
Without limits.
www.illuminousideas.com/contact
Christmas Eve purchase at @anyonecomics.bsky.social Looking forward to diving into these books from so many creators including Ken Lashley, Adam Glass, Stephanie Williams, Jordan Clark, Atagün İlhan, Christopher Priest, and Kieron Gillen.🔥
December 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Christmas Eve purchase at @anyonecomics.bsky.social Looking forward to diving into these books from so many creators including Ken Lashley, Adam Glass, Stephanie Williams, Jordan Clark, Atagün İlhan, Christopher Priest, and Kieron Gillen.🔥
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"The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”"
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”"
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2025 was a great year for my company ILLUMINOUS and our clients, as we look forward to a New Year of working with YOU to debut your Original Ideas into the world in the form of comic books and graphic novels!
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
2025 was a great year for my company ILLUMINOUS and our clients, as we look forward to a New Year of working with YOU to debut your Original Ideas into the world in the form of comic books and graphic novels!
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
2025 was a great year for my company ILLUMINOUS and our clients, as we look forward to a New Year of working with YOU to debut your Original Ideas into the world in the form of comic books and graphic novels!
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
2025 was a great year for my company ILLUMINOUS and our clients, as we look forward to a New Year of working with YOU to debut your Original Ideas into the world in the form of comic books and graphic novels!
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
BATMAN-Level Creative Management.
YOUR IP.
WITHOUT LIMITS.
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A ‘Timeout Box’ in an Elementary School Draws Outrage: ‘This is Not OK’
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Your tribe is comprised of the people who rolled with you when almost everyone thought you were ordinary.
December 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Your tribe is comprised of the people who rolled with you when almost everyone thought you were ordinary.
Always cool to see a book you're editing make it to the top of a list! Thrilled and honored.
Top 10 Comic Book Kickstarters for 2025
Read our newsletter for this and more!
lifelinecomics.substack.com/p/top-10-com...
Read our newsletter for this and more!
lifelinecomics.substack.com/p/top-10-com...
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Always cool to see a book you're editing make it to the top of a list! Thrilled and honored.
Many thanks to @comicbookyeti.com for picking my upcoming @dc.com book NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT as one of its picks for FEBRUARY 2026!
When you see what the team and I have planned for this collision of the Milestone Comics heroes with Superman, Batman, WW and Luthor...😎
When you see what the team and I have planned for this collision of the Milestone Comics heroes with Superman, Batman, WW and Luthor...😎
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Many thanks to @comicbookyeti.com for picking my upcoming @dc.com book NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT as one of its picks for FEBRUARY 2026!
When you see what the team and I have planned for this collision of the Milestone Comics heroes with Superman, Batman, WW and Luthor...😎
When you see what the team and I have planned for this collision of the Milestone Comics heroes with Superman, Batman, WW and Luthor...😎
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In-depth interview alert! 😎
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Latest DRWAS interview is now free. It's a chat with @josephpillidge.bsky.social about his highly accessible, spy-fi, horror, Spawn Universe comic with @hackintimseeley.bsky.social , Bloodletter. If you like what you read, please consider becoming a paid subscriber, www.patreon.com/posts/illidg...
Illidge and Seeley Uncover the Secret History of the Spawn Universe in Bloodletter | Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff
Get more from Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff on Patreon
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December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In-depth interview alert! 😎
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In-depth interview alert! 😎
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Latest DRWAS interview is now free. It's a chat with @josephpillidge.bsky.social about his highly accessible, spy-fi, horror, Spawn Universe comic with @hackintimseeley.bsky.social , Bloodletter. If you like what you read, please consider becoming a paid subscriber, www.patreon.com/posts/illidg...
Illidge and Seeley Uncover the Secret History of the Spawn Universe in Bloodletter | Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff
Get more from Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In-depth interview alert! 😎
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Gotta shout out @gregpak.net, @ethansacks.bsky.social and @attackerman.bsky.social. Not just amazing creators, but amazing people. Their activism and organizing this year has been inspiring and helped keep me sane.
all the news is making me want to explode so instead can you all tell me about your favorite human creators and why you love them???
(you know this is serious bc I am opening up my replies to everyone lol)
(you know this is serious bc I am opening up my replies to everyone lol)
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Gotta shout out @gregpak.net, @ethansacks.bsky.social and @attackerman.bsky.social. Not just amazing creators, but amazing people. Their activism and organizing this year has been inspiring and helped keep me sane.
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My latest DRWAS Patreon is up for paid subscribers. It's a chat with @josephpillidge.bsky.social about his highly accessible, spy-fi, horror, Spawn Universe series with @hackintimseeley.bsky.social & Christian Rosado, Bloodletter www.patreon.com/posts/illidg...
Illidge and Seeley Uncover the Secret History of the Spawn Universe in Bloodletter | Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff
Get more from Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My latest DRWAS Patreon is up for paid subscribers. It's a chat with @josephpillidge.bsky.social about his highly accessible, spy-fi, horror, Spawn Universe series with @hackintimseeley.bsky.social & Christian Rosado, Bloodletter www.patreon.com/posts/illidg...
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It's out today! VOL. 2: THE INSURGENT IRON MAN, the collected edition of the time Tony Stark used the Marvel version of the Nusra Front against Doctor Doom. Featuring labor unrest, finance influencers, extradimensional private equity and great-power competition! The ideal holiday gift, imo
Iron Man Vol. 2: The Insurgent Iron Man
After witnessing firsthand the devastation of war, Tony Stark famously divested his company from the weapons trade. Then Orchis and Feilong came along, and a furious Iron Man watched them dismantle hi...
www.amazon.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Thanks to Everyone Comics x Collectibles for hosting the first ILLUMINOUS Workshop!!
It was great talking with the audience about how to develop an original idea from the nucleus out, citing examples from BLOODLETTER to THE POWER FANTASY to ABSOLUTE BATMAN.
Photography by @maruneboy.bsky.social
It was great talking with the audience about how to develop an original idea from the nucleus out, citing examples from BLOODLETTER to THE POWER FANTASY to ABSOLUTE BATMAN.
Photography by @maruneboy.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thanks to Everyone Comics x Collectibles for hosting the first ILLUMINOUS Workshop!!
It was great talking with the audience about how to develop an original idea from the nucleus out, citing examples from BLOODLETTER to THE POWER FANTASY to ABSOLUTE BATMAN.
Photography by @maruneboy.bsky.social
It was great talking with the audience about how to develop an original idea from the nucleus out, citing examples from BLOODLETTER to THE POWER FANTASY to ABSOLUTE BATMAN.
Photography by @maruneboy.bsky.social
TODAY!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Everyone Comics x Collectibles
41-26 27th St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Ready to upgrade your original ideas? 😎
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Everyone Comics x Collectibles
41-26 27th St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Ready to upgrade your original ideas? 😎
Tonight our good friend @josephpillidge.bsky.social will be at Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza, going over some basics in comics pitching. Free to attend, and feel free to send some questions over on Instagram to be asked on livestream at 6:30pm if you can't make it!
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TODAY!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Everyone Comics x Collectibles
41-26 27th St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Ready to upgrade your original ideas? 😎
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Everyone Comics x Collectibles
41-26 27th St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Ready to upgrade your original ideas? 😎
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾😎
Tonight our good friend @josephpillidge.bsky.social will be at Everyone Comics at Queensboro Plaza, going over some basics in comics pitching. Free to attend, and feel free to send some questions over on Instagram to be asked on livestream at 6:30pm if you can't make it!
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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RIP CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA. I still remember when a small group of us from the Milestone Comics staff went on a Friday night and saw this on the big screen.
You were a man of badass villainy, Shang Tsung.
youtu.be/pt2oWQSgm2A?...
You were a man of badass villainy, Shang Tsung.
youtu.be/pt2oWQSgm2A?...
Liu Kang vs Shang Tsung - Part 1 | Mortal Kombat 1995 (4K HDR)
YouTube video by CinemaFanclub
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
RIP CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA. I still remember when a small group of us from the Milestone Comics staff went on a Friday night and saw this on the big screen.
You were a man of badass villainy, Shang Tsung.
youtu.be/pt2oWQSgm2A?...
You were a man of badass villainy, Shang Tsung.
youtu.be/pt2oWQSgm2A?...
Honored to be providing the Opening Address this Saturday morning for the 1st Annual @blackcomiclords.bsky.social Virtual Comic-Con!
Read more about it at the @comicsbeat.bsky.social article by @gcarmona3.bsky.social
www.comicsbeat.com/black-comic-...
Read more about it at the @comicsbeat.bsky.social article by @gcarmona3.bsky.social
www.comicsbeat.com/black-comic-...
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Honored to be providing the Opening Address this Saturday morning for the 1st Annual @blackcomiclords.bsky.social Virtual Comic-Con!
Read more about it at the @comicsbeat.bsky.social article by @gcarmona3.bsky.social
www.comicsbeat.com/black-comic-...
Read more about it at the @comicsbeat.bsky.social article by @gcarmona3.bsky.social
www.comicsbeat.com/black-comic-...
I just backed The New Mythology Double Feature on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/4-p...
The New Mythology Double Feature
Experience The Horsemen from the beginning and discover the mythology behind The New Mythology!
www.kickstarter.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I just backed The New Mythology Double Feature on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/4-p...
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SATURDAY!!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
SATURDAY!!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
SATURDAY!!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
SATURDAY!!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The ILLUMINOUS Workshop live event at EVERYONE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES in Queens, New York!
We'll discuss how to create longform narrative ideas for introduction in comic books and graphic novels, for self-ownership and popular brands!!
everyonecomics.com/events/f/int...
More love for my next @dc.com & Milestone Comics book
NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT
co-written with @stephwilliams.bsky.social @moellennial.bsky.social @nikolasdraperivey.bsky.social with a stellar artist lineup! Co-produced by @reghud.bsky.social and @denyscowan.bsky.social
NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT
co-written with @stephwilliams.bsky.social @moellennial.bsky.social @nikolasdraperivey.bsky.social with a stellar artist lineup! Co-produced by @reghud.bsky.social and @denyscowan.bsky.social
Milestone Gets New History Of The DC Universe Sequel Ahead Of Relaunch #milestone
Milestone Gets New History Of The DC Universe Sequel Ahead Of Relaunch #milestone
Milestone Gets New History Of The DC Universe Sequel Ahead Of Relaunch
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
More love for my next @dc.com & Milestone Comics book
NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT
co-written with @stephwilliams.bsky.social @moellennial.bsky.social @nikolasdraperivey.bsky.social with a stellar artist lineup! Co-produced by @reghud.bsky.social and @denyscowan.bsky.social
NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE: THE DAKOTA INCIDENT
co-written with @stephwilliams.bsky.social @moellennial.bsky.social @nikolasdraperivey.bsky.social with a stellar artist lineup! Co-produced by @reghud.bsky.social and @denyscowan.bsky.social
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6TH!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The first ILLUMINOUS Workshop will take place at Everyone Comics & Collectibles in Queens, New York!
Get your ticket while they're available!
Thanks to @comiccrusaders.bsky.social for breaking the news!
comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/...
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The first ILLUMINOUS Workshop will take place at Everyone Comics & Collectibles in Queens, New York!
Get your ticket while they're available!
Thanks to @comiccrusaders.bsky.social for breaking the news!
comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/...
A Blueprint for Breakthrough Stories—Illuminous Comes to Queens, NY! - COMIC CRUSADERS
Joseph Illidge’s Illuminous workshop comes to Everyone Comics in Long Island City Breaking into comics
comiccrusaders.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6TH!
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The first ILLUMINOUS Workshop will take place at Everyone Comics & Collectibles in Queens, New York!
Get your ticket while they're available!
Thanks to @comiccrusaders.bsky.social for breaking the news!
comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/...
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
The first ILLUMINOUS Workshop will take place at Everyone Comics & Collectibles in Queens, New York!
Get your ticket while they're available!
Thanks to @comiccrusaders.bsky.social for breaking the news!
comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/...