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Comics Reviews: 7/19/10
The latest comic by surrealist master Jim Woodring, a non-fiction graphic novel about child crime, a politically charged space opera and a stylish sci-fi yarn from artist Inaki Miranda highlight this week's comics.
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Life in Comics: See you in San Diego!
As the comic book industry prepares for Comic-Con International in San Diego, I find myself in a strange situation: I won't be in the SLG booth this year. Instead, I'll be one of the people I would watch from the other side of the table--a woman with her husband and baby, pressed in with the rest of the crowd.
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Digital Comics Are Coming
he last major comics publisher to launch its digital program, DC Entertainment made hundreds of its titles available last month through the iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP. Despite concerns about the viability of digital comics, publishers are gearing up. DC Comics plans to use its digital initiative to also support traditional retailers, and both Marvel and DC plan to release digital and print comics simultaneously.
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More Monster-Classics Mashups from IDW
With an eye on the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, comics publisher IDW Publishing is trying its hand at prose and plans to release an anthology of genre mashups called Classics Mutilated, featuring novella-length stories by a host of prominent horror and fantasy writers. To highlight the volume at Comic-Con, IDW is also making one of the book's novellas, Dread Island by Joe Lansdale available as a standalone preview show special, and also has plans to release it in multiple print formats.
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Comics Briefly: 7/13/10
Tributes to the Late Harvey Pekar; Webcomics Art Auction for Gulf ; Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos MoCCA Talk; Vietnamese Comics iTunes Scam; Wally Wood's 22 Frames That Always Work--the Movie; Kirby Krackle's Wolverine Tribute Music Video; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Off the Streets of Cleveland: 'American Splendor's' Harvey Pekar, Dead at 70
No doubt there have been worse Mondays than July 12, 2010, but it's hard to imagine it right now. On that day, Harvey Pekar, iconic American comic book writer, creator of the groundbreaking autobiographical comics series, American Splendor, and one of the most influential and delightfully eccentric creative figures in American literature, died of unknown causes at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Digital Comics: Now What?
With DC Entertainment's entry last month into the digital comics realm, the first phase of the Digital Era of comics is complete. DC was the last major player to get into the game, but their launch of a line of hundreds of comics for iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP has brought them quickly to the forefront of the digital comics evolution. But with the players all in the game, the usual questions have come back to the forefront: Will digital sales kill paper sales? How do you set prices and release dates? Is the digital reader a new kind of comics consumer? And how will it affect the creative end of things?
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Panel Mania: The Marvelous Land of Oz #8
In this exclusive preview of the final issue of The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Witch, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and Jack Pumpkinhead search for Ozma, rightful ruler of Oz who has been disguised by the evil witch Mombi. Adapted from the L. Frank Baum original by Eric Shanower, Skottie Young and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, this issue goes on sale on July 22nd. Published by Marvel.
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Fantagraphics To Publish New Editions of Tardi's Adele Blanc-Sec
Currently playing in theaters across Europe and Asia, Luc Besson's new movie The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is based upon a series of graphic novels by French creator Jacques Tardi. Although the film does not as yet have U.S. distribution, the graphic novels will be coming out in the U.S. market in a new translation this September from Fantagraphics.
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Comics Reviews: 7/12/10
The long awaited alt-manga anthology Ax, the European comics classic Blacksad and Drew Weing's poetic webcomic Set to Sea are reviewed this week.
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Comics Briefly: 7/6/10
Alan Moore Live in Concert; Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 Midnight Party Craze; Catwoman Strikes in Real Life; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Denis Kitchen Looks Back at a Life in Cartooning
Denis Kitchen is that most rare of comic book industry creatures--a chameleon. Kitchen has worn many hats over time, including cartoonist, publisher and now, literary agent. In his new book from Dark Horse, The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen, Kitchen’s earliest days as an cartoonist are revealed to those who might not be familiar with his first incarnation--and even he admits that amounts to a lot of people.
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Comics Reviews: 7/5/10
This week, the eargerly awaited new graphic novel from Charles Burns, Seymour Chwast's take on Dante, mini-comics star Will Dinski's new book and a manga that mocks historical figures.
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Panel Mania: Flight 7
In the final volume of the acclaimed Flight anthology, editor Kazu Kibuishi once again assembles a diverse collection of fantasy stories by various artists including Kean Soo, Leland Myrick, Dave Roman and Michel Gangé. The anthology will be released on July 28th by Random House.
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Found in Translation: Kyosuke Usuta's 'Sexy Commmando Gaiden' and Kenta Tsuchida's 'Lock On!'
It is time yet again for a look across the ocean at a few Japanese comic gems that have yet to make their western debut in English. This month we look to Weekly Shonen Jump for Kyosuke Usuta's absurdist comedy, Sexy Commmando Gaiden: Sugoi Yo! Masaru-San, and Kenta Tsuchida's, Lock On!, a classic blend of shonen action and risque comedy--a couple of comedy serials just begging for a creative localization team.
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Will Comic-Con Leave San Diego?
In cartoonist circles, the parting words "See you in San Diego," have been a tradition, as friends plan yearly reunions at the graphic novel world's biggest meeting. However, this year's headline about the annual Comic-Con International is that, after 2012, you might be seeing old colleagues not in San Diego, but somewhere else.
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DC Comics Shuts Down the Zuda Web Comics Site
Hot on the heels of launching its iPhone/iPad app, DC Comics is shutting down Zuda.com, a Web site originally started to solicit and launch original Web Comics, some of which were turned into print editions. DC v-p of creative services Ron Perazza announced the closing on the Zuda.com blog.
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Comics Briefly: 6/29/10
DC Comics Takes Digital Comics By Storm; Marvel Says Goodbye to Wizard World; Tokyopop Brings Full Graphic Novels Online; Kids Comic Con Goes To Africa On Kickstarter; David Hine's Bulletproof Coffin #1 Free Online; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Graphic Novels Find a Place at ALA Annual Meeting
"Graphic Novels Come of Age" was the title of the Booklist forum on the first evening of the American Library Association's annual meeting, held this past weekend in Wash. DC, and graphic novels were on the agenda for many of the librarians in attendance.
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Panel Mania: Troublemaker
Co-written by the best-selling prose author, Janet Evanovich and her daughter Alex Evanovich, Troublemaker is a continuation of the Alex Barnaby novels, which follow the NASCAR mechanic and crime fighter, Alex Barnaby. In Troublemaker, Alex and racecar driver Sam Hooker are drawn into trouble, when Alex's friends Rosa and Felicia ask for help finding a missing man. Published by Dark Horse, Troublemaker will be released on July 20th.
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