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Comics Reviews: 9/13/10

| 09/13/2010 @ 12:00AM
Graphic Novels As Gifts

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 09/13/2010 @ 12:00AM

Whether you're looking for just the right gift for the comic book nerd in your life or you'd like to introduce someone to the world of sequential art, comics and graphic novels can be the perfect gift during the holiday season.
Candlewick Partners with Toon Books

By Publishers Weekly Staff | 09/09/2010 @ 12:00AM

On October 1, Candlewick Press will launch a Toon Books imprint, a partnership with the already existing Toon Books, a press founded by New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly in spring 2008 with the mission of getting kids to read using comics.
OverDrive Offers Single Issue Comic Downloads for Libraries

by Todd Allen | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

While apps for mobile devices have gotten the most attention as the way to download single issues of comics series, other methods are available. Since April 2010, Marvel has made a selection of their periodical comics available as e-books for libraries. In mid-September, Moonstone Books is poised to become the second comics publisher to take this step, with IDW soon to follow. And Tokyopop already has a number of their manga graphic novels available.
Found in Translation: Soccer and Basketball Manga

By Jonathan Bethune | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

This month's column celebrates the return of football with a couple of unlicensed sports-themed manga that we’d love to see a publisher put in the game. For the soccer fans out there, if the World Cup was not enough to satisfy your soccer itch, then have I got a comic for you. Yoichi Takahashi's classic soccer manga Captain Tsubasa gives the beautiful game the stylish comic treatment it deserves.
Comics Briefly: 9/7/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Small Press Expo Coming This Weekend, ICv2 Conference on Comics and Digital, Justin Beiber Cease & Desists Bluewater Comics, Girl Genius Wins the Hugo Award - Again, A Comic Con for the Middle East, This Week @ Good Comics 4 Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Vanessa Davis Keeps It Complicated

By Sasha Watson | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

In her second collection of autobiographical comics, Make Me A Woman, coming in October from Drawn & Quarterly, Davis creates an intimate portrait of a world you totally want to hang out in. Her chatty-charming personality, quirky memories, and oddball thoughts are all telegraphed in drawings that hum with life.
Panel Mania: EmiTown

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Emi Lenox chronicles her everyday life in EmiTown, an online auto-bio comic that is updated nearly daily. Lenox utilizes a variety of styles to transform the mundane into an adventure (take note of her metaphorical superheroes) and to emphasize the meaning in small moments-—like the joy of a beer after work. Image is releasing the first collection of EmiTown on October 27.
Children's Comics: 9/6/10

by PW Staff | 09/06/2010 @ 12:00AM
First Second Graphic Novel with Banned Book Theme Appears First on Web, Later in Stores

By Sally Lodge | 09/02/2010 @ 12:00AM

A book-loving boy from the small Oklahoma town of Americus grapples with the travails of high school and takes a stand when it looks as though his favorite fantasy series, starring a young sorceress who hunts monsters and tyrants, might be banned from the local library. That's the storyline of Americus, written by MK Reed and illustrated by Jonathan Hill, due from Roaring Brook's First Second Books in fall 2011. This graphic novel is making an earlier, serialized appearance on the Web, where new installments have been posted three times a week since early June.
Diamond to Change Weekly Delivery Date

By Heidi MacDonald | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Starting in January 2011, accounts serviced by Diamond Comics Distributors will be able to get comics and graphic novels delivered to stores on Tuesday for a Wednesday on sale date, in line with other industries that have street dates.
Comics Still King at Baltimore Comic-Con

by Heidi MacDonald | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

While mega-shows like the San Diego Comic-Con and the FanExpo Canada—held the same August 27-29 weekend—have morphed into multi-media showcases for everything from entertainment news to horror to anime, the Baltimore Comic-Con purposely stays focused on just comics.
PW Select is for Graphic Novels

By Calvin Reid | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Yes, PW Select, our new quarterly supplement listing self-published titles, is for graphic novels and comics too. Launched by PWxyz president George W. Slowik Jr., the PW Select registration site is now live and accepting submissions for the first PW Select supplement, which will appear in our year-end issue in December.
Comics Briefly: 8/31/10

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Read Comics In Public Day, Wertham's Papers Open to Public, 2010 Harvey Award Winners, Kirkman's Prose Walking Dead Story Previewed, Image Comics Gets iPad App, Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson to be Batman at Once, Shawn Martinborough interviewed by BET, Anti-Comics Political Campaign Ad, the "Crisis" Around Collaboration; Kids Comic con on Kickstarter; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Phoebe Potts Breaks Some Eggs, Makes a Memoir

By Sasha Watson | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

A graphic novel tackling infertility could be grim, especially when it doesn't end with the desired baby. When it's done with the spirit and humor that Potts brings to her story, though, it's nearly impossible to put down. Phoebe Potts' Good Eggs will be published in September by HarperCollins. Overwhelmingly likeable on the page, Potts tells the story of her and her husband's frustrated efforts to have a child with equal parts comedy and pure narrative skill.
Round Table, SmarterComics Offer Comics Versions of Self-help, Business Books

By Calvin Reid | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Book packager Writers of the Round Table has teamed up with nonfiction comics publisher SmarterComics to produce a line of comics works based on bestselling business, motivational and personal self-help titles. The SmarterComics line of adaptations will launch in 2011 with books based on bestsellers by tough-love personal motivator Larry Winget, Latino entrepreneur Robert Renteria; sales and marketing guru Tom Hopkins, performance psychologist John Eliot and internet distribution visionary and Wired magazine editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson.
Panel Mania: Koko Be Good

Compiled by Ada Price | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Koko is a troublemaker, yet spurred by meeting Jon, decides to "be good." Jon, on the other hand, is contemplating whether he should move with his girlfriend to Peru on a humanitarian mission or stay and pursue his own music career. Jen Wang's first graphic novel, Koko Be Good, follows these characters as they attempt to come to terms with others' expectations as well as their expectations of themselves. Koko Be Good will be released by First Second on September 14.
Comics Reviews: 8/30/10

| 08/30/2010 @ 12:00AM
Lerner's Graphic Universe Keeps Growing

By Calvin Reid | 08/30/2010 @ 12:00AM

Despite the economic downturn and declines in some sectors of the graphic novel market, Lerner Graphic Universe, the comics division of Lerner Publishing Group, has continued to grow and continues to expand its list of graphic novels aimed at the trade, school, and library markets.
Comics Briefly: 8/24/2010

compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/24/2010 @ 12:00AM

Islamic Comic The 99 to Crossover with Justice League; Millar's Clint Open for Submissions; Ignatz Award Nominees Announced; Baltimore Comic-Con This Weekend.; Comics at the Brooklyn Book Festival; Comics 4 Comix Cartoon Art Museum Fundraiser; Keith Giffen Returns to Comics Art; Call For Information: PW Feature on Graphic Novels as Gifts; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat

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