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Del Rey To Publish ‘The Talisman’ as Comic Book Series

by Ada Price | 11/10/2009 @ 09:28PM

In what may be a first at a major trade book publisher, Del Rey Books is releasing its first serialized periodical comic, an adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman. The series will be released under a new imprint called Del Rey Comics.
Maid in the U.S.A: Kaoru Mori’s ‘Emma’

By Kai-Ming cha | 11/10/2009 @ 09:27PM

In 2006, when CMX, DC Comics’ manga imprint, released volume one of Kaoru Mori’s Victorian Era manga series, Emma, American manga readers had their first taste of Japan’s fascination with both maids and romance. Three years later, Emma will come to a close in December when CMX releases the final volume in this series.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 11/10/2009 @ 05:05PM

Alien Legion Comes to Movies, Returns to Comics; Brian Bendis to Teach Comics Course; James Kolchalka Exhibits "Little Paintings"; This Week @ The Beat; and This Week @ Good Comics for Kids
Panel Mania: Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus)

Compiled by Ada Price | 11/10/2009 @ 05:05AM

Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) is a collection of Eddie Campbell's autobiographical comics told from the perspective of his alter-ego, Alec MacGarry. The book is indeed life-sized in its scope, depicting the progression of his life from youthfull pub-crawls to the responsibilites of adulthood. Alec will be released by Top Shelf in December.
Comic Book Reviews: 11/9/09

| 11/09/2009 @ 10:18AM
Back To The Future: Tor.com Buys Book-Size Webcomics to Serialize

By Calvin Reid | 11/03/2009 @ 10:45PM

In an unusual acquisition deal, Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture focused on launching original science fiction, fantasy and comics, has acquired web-only publishing rights to two full-length 192 page graphic novels and will serialize them over 6 months through the Tor.com website.
Marvel Makes Theirs iPhone

by Heidi MacDonald | 11/03/2009 @ 10:44PM

The growing array of comics available for iPhones got a Hulk-sized addition last week when Marvel Comics, the leading US comics publisher, announced deals with four iPhone applications. Comics both recent and classic are now available for download from Comixology, iVerse and Panelfly. Scrollmotion, another leading app for iPhones that distributes books, will also have Marvel Comics available.
Boom! Studios’ Mark Waid is Unstoppable!

By Brigid Alverson | 11/03/2009 @ 10:43PM

Mark Waid started out in the superhero camp, as an editor at DC and then as a freelance writer, shaping such iconic series as The Flash and Captain Marvel. Now, as editor-in-chief of independent comics publisher Boom! Studios, Waid is transforming the paradigm of monthly comics publishing.
Life in Comics: The End of Adolescence?

by Jennifer de Guzman | 11/03/2009 @ 08:42PM

In 2004, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Michael Chabon gave the keynote speech at the Eisner Awards. Speaking about the maturation of the industry, he referred to some of the excesses of the 1990s as comics "adolescence": "An excess of desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence. But these follies were the inevitable missteps and overreachings in the course of a campaign that was, in the end, successful."
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 11/03/2009 @ 06:16PM
November Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 11/02/2009 @ 11:16PM

The fourth book in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series, Dog Days, takes the top slot from, Last Straw, the third book in the Wimpy Kid series. It's followed by Naruto vol. 46; Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey and Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Panel Mania: Casper and the Spectrals

Compiled by Ada Price | 11/02/2009 @ 07:08PM

For the 60th anniversary of Casper the Friendly Ghost , Ardden Entertainment is releasing a new version of the classic Harvey comic. Casper and the Spectrals will feature Casper's friends Wendy the Witch and a devil, Hot Stuff and is set in Spooky Town, a part of New York City that normal people can't see. This preview features five pages of the first issue, due out on November 11th, as well as the variant covers.
Editing R. Crumb’s ‘Genesis Illustrated’

By Calvin Reid | 10/27/2009 @ 09:30PM

W. W. Norton executive editor Robert Weil has overseen the publication of R. Crumb’s new work, 'The Book of Genesis Illustrated', a dazzling effort by Crumb to transform the words of Genesis into comics.
Geek-Speak Japanese Style: ‘The Otaku Encyclopedia’

Kai Ming Cha | 10/27/2009 @ 09:29PM

An American journalist based in Tokyo, Patrick Galbraith combines a scholarly devotion to studying Japanese popular culture with a, well, otaku-like enthusiasm and love of cosplay. This month Kodansha International published Galbraith’s The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider’s Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan with a foreword by renowned Japan expert and translator Frederik L. Schodt.
Kanye West, Bill Plympton Create Book of Illustrated Lyrics

By Calvin Reid | 10/27/2009 @ 09:28PM

Superstar singer, rapper and producer Kanye West has reunited with animator/cartoonist Bill Plympton to create Through the Wire: The Words and Lyrics of Kanye West, a hardcover book collection of West’s hit lyrics, illustrated by Plympton, that will be released in November by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 10/27/2009 @ 03:52PM

Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Tops Bestseller Lists; Logicomix Creator Christos Appears in New York; 2010 MoCCA Festival Open for Business; Spiegelman and Mouly's Toon Treasury on NPR; Domo Creator Comes to USA; This Week @ The Beat; and This Week @ Good Comics For Kids
Comics Reviews: 10/26/2009

| 10/27/2009 @ 03:33PM
Panel Mania: Graylight

Compiled by Ada Price | 10/26/2009 @ 07:35PM

Graylight is by Naomi Nowak, the creator of Unholy Kinship and House of Clay. In this preview, a young woman divulges to her friends a surreal occurance from her childhood. Graylight is due out from NBM in December.
Com.x is Back with a Bang

by Ben McCool | 10/20/2009 @ 09:29PM

Com.x, an independent comic publisher operating out of London, England and Venice, California, launched in England in 2002 with the beautifully designed and drawn comics Cla$$War and Razorjack. But then a long operational hiatus set in. Now armed with new investors and new projects, they’ve had an extremely busy 2009.
A Talk with Guy Delisle: Looking for the Details

By Ada Price | 10/20/2009 @ 09:28PM

Cartoonist and animator Guy Delisle has lived and worked in both Shenzhen, China and Pyongyang, North Korea. He recorded his experiences living in these cities (and in their respective national cultures) in two well-received book-length comics works, Shenzhen (Drawn &Quarterly 2006) and Pyongyang (D&Q 2005), utilizing his unique dry humor, conversational tone, and focus on the everyday to capture the contradictions of the place and the experience of a foreigner encountering them for the first time.

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