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Viz Media Lays Off 60
San Francisco-based Viz Media has laid off as many as 60 people and it appears to have closed its small New York office.
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A Comics Format Textbook Goes to Business School
Flat World Knowledge, an unusual "open source" textbook publisher that offers its textbooks online for free, has teamed with three professors to produce, Atlas Black: Managing To Succeed, the first book in a comics format textbook series that teaches principles of business management at the college level.
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Big Summer Movies and their Comic Book Tie-Ins
Marvel's iconic Iron Man kicks off the summer movie season with the much anticipated Iron Man 2, setting off another long summer season filled with comic book movies.
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Tokyopop's 'America's Greatest Otaku' Goes on the Road
Tokyopop is launching a new marketing campaign called the Tokyopop Tour, best described as the otaku version of MTV's reality show, Road Rules. In this case a group of six otaku will travel across the country in a bus with Tokyopop founder, CEO and COO Stuart Levy.
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Panel Mania: The Talisman
The Talisman adapts the novel by Stephan King and Peter Straub, and follows Jack Sawyer as he travels between two worlds in search of a magical talisman that will save his mother. Del Rey's collection of the entire adaptation by Robin Furth and Tony Shasteen has just been released this month.
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Comics Reviews 5/11/10
This week's reviews includes works from Joe Kubert, Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Gene Luen Yang.
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Panel Mania: Solomon's Thieves
Renegade Knights Templar returning from the Crusades get together for a gigantic heist in Solomon's Thieves, a sort of "Ocean's 13th Century." Written by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner with art by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, the book is out from First Second this month.
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Life in Comics: Reading the Next Generation
Last Thursday, I loaded the kidling into the car and we went to San Jose's Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, where I was going to read the children's submissions to the San Jose public library's Graphic Novel Contest. I spent a pleasant afternoon reading thirty-three stories by children from the ages of eight to twelve in the lovely children's section of the library, and I learned a few things in the process:
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Berkeley Breathed Sets the Record Straight
Berkeley Breathed is one of two cartoonists to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for a multi-panel daily strip (the other is Garry Trudeau, about whom more in a minute). But unlike Trudeau's Doonesbury, Breathed's three strips--daily Bloom County and later weeklies Outland and Opus - are only just now being reprinted in their entirety, with new introductions, classy binding, and a completist mania that, Breathed says, belongs entirely to IDW publisher Scott Dunbier. The first volume came out last fall and the second volume, collecting strips from 1982-1984 has just been released.. PW spoke with Breathed about the strip's history, its future, and why he wishes he'd punched Pat Oliphant.
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Prequel to a Blockbuster: Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm
Disney Press released author/game developer Jordon Mechner's new graphic novel, Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm in April, six weeks before the release of Disney Picture's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a potential summer blockbuster film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and based on Mechner's popular Prince of Persia videogame series first developed in 1989.
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Big Crowds for Free Comic Book Day In NYC
This year, at comic book stores around Manhattan, morale was generally high, with most retailers seeing their largest Free Comic Book Day attendance ever.
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Comics Reviews: 5/3/2010
Reviews of comics adapted from Jane Austen, Luis Alberto Urrea and the Louvre.
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The Four-Color Time Machine: Dan Nadel's 'Art in Time'
Comics historian Dan Nadel, author of Art Out of Time (2006), once more plumbs the history of classic, albeit obscure and nearly forgotten comics, in Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980, a hardcover collection from Abrams ComicArts.
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Beyond Comic Books: Marvel Inks Kids' Book Deals
Marvel Entertainment, the publisher of such popular superhero characters as Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk, has inked separate deals to launch a children's book publishing program at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and to expand its publishing partnership with Bendon Publishing in Ashland, Ohio. Both programs feature Marvel characters in a variety of trade books aimed at kids that include novels, early readers, and pop-up books as well as story, activity, and board books.
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Eighth Annual Free Comic Book Day Comes May 1
This year marks the eighth year of Free Comic Book Day, held this year on May 1, a comics industry-sponsored promotional event that supplies specially compiled comics from a wide range of publishers to comic book stores across the country to be given out for free, primarily to kids.
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Jeff Smith Responds to Bone School Library Challenge
Jeff Smith's epic fantasy tale, Bone, is widely regarded as one of the best all-ages graphic novels, so it came as something of a surprise when an Apple Valley, Minnesota woman, Ramona DeLay, requested that the fourth volume of the series be removed from her son's elementary school library. Smith was a guest of honor at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) when the news broke, and although his weekend included panel appearances, signings, and the showing of the movie The Cartoonist (a documentary about Smith), he took a few minutes to discuss his reaction to the challenge.
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Libraries Fight Challenges to Graphic Novels
At the recent Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, a librarian from Jessamine County, Kentucky, spoke firsthand about dealing with calls for censorship in his library, and an expert from the American Library Association discussed how to handle challenges to graphic novels at the panel titled "Burn It, Hide It, Misshelve It, Steal It, Ban It! Dealing with Graphic Novel Censorship in Your Library."
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