ARCHIE #4

85 YEARS WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING! Archie Comics, Oni Press, and a nonstop parade of comics' greatest talents proudly present a momentously oversized, 48-page anniversary salute to the one and only Archie Andrews-featuring a pitch-perfect and totally self-contained jumping-on point to the all-new ARCHIE ongoing series . . . and surprise guests and special features galore from across Riverdale's past, present, and future!First: New York Times bestselling writer Ben H. Winters (EC's Cruel Universe, Benjamin) and multiple Eisner Award-winning artist Fábio Moon (Daytripper, Casanova) welcome a milestone new beginning for Riverdale's most popular high-school heartthrob, fastest athlete, and milkshake-slurping redhead. Introducing: Arnie Adams! Wait, what? Discover the Archie you only thought you knew-and the first appearance of his roguish new rival-in an unforgettably elegant and frantically fractured modern-day fairy tale that cuts straight to the heart of comics' most human hero! Then: Archie's 85th anniversary spectacular gets even bigger as a spotlight-grabbing cast of all-star talents join the party with brand-new, must-read stories, including Eisner Award winner Kelly Sue DeConnick (FML, Captain Marvel) & Eisner Award nominated artist Leonardo Romero (Birds of Prey); Eisner Award-winning creators Ryan North (Fantastic Four) & Derek Charm (Toxic Summer); Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Caroline Cash (Adventure Time: Bubbline College Special); Archie Comics living legend Dan Parent (Life with Archie); and Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Jay Stephens (Dwellings)!Plus: Pin-ups, puzzles, and a deluxe re-presentation of Archie's historic first appearance from Pep Comics #22 . . . originally published in December 1941! Ben H. Winters is the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award-winning, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of Big Time, The Quiet Boy, Golden State, Underground Airlines, the Last Policeman trilogy, and the mash-up novel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Winters has also worked extensively in television. He has served as a writer/producer on the FX cult hit Legion as well as Manhunt on Apple TV+, and he is the creator of the hit CBS drama Tracker. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three kids, and one large dog., Caroline Cash is a cartoonist from South Carolina. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, MoMA, The Nib, VICE, and various other publications and institutions. In 2024 she drew the newspaper comic strip NANCY for a month. She is currently working on her Eisner and Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo, as well as an untitled graphic novel for Drawn and Quarterly. She loves Marceline the Vampire Queen., Ryan North's recent work includes the nonfiction books How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series for Marvel. He's a multiple New York Times bestseller whose work has been translated into 16 different languages to date, and as a linguist, he's very happy about that. He lives in Toronto, where he once messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news., Jay Stephens is a three-decade veteran of the Canadian alt-comics scene, starting out in the early 1990s with the influential creator-owned series Sin, The Land of Nod, Atomic City Tales, and Jetcat Clubhouse, while also dabbling in licensed comics work like Aliens, Star Wars, Teen Titans, and The Invisibles. Also known for his kids' comic strips, Chick & Dee, Arrowhead, and the syndicated newspaper strip Oh, Brother!, as well as the underground weekly strips, Oddville! and Nod. Stephens's side career in film includes working in the art department on a few low-budget horror movies, and creating and producing animated television like Jetcat, the Emmy Award-winning Tutenstein, and Cartoon Network's The Secret Saturdays.