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Webcomics, Storytelling and Books from 'Smith' Online Magazine
Launched as a website specializing in “personal passionate storytelling,” the online magazine Smith has managed to become a platform for a series of webcomics based on eccentric and personal narratives.
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival Emphasizes the Arts
Cartooning legends from around the world mingled with enthusiastic readers at the fourth Toronto Comics Arts Festival, held May 9-10 at the Toronto Reference Library. The biannual show drew crowds estimated to be in excess of the previous year’s 6,000 attendees, though official numbers will not be available until the end of the week.
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A World of Japanese Pop Culture at Japan Society
An exhiibition transforms the Japan Society gallery halls into something like an impromptu Japanese manga café.
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McNally Jackson Books: Turn, Turn, Turn
Despite its somewhat old-fashioned imagery—quill pens forming the store logo, a manual Olivetti typewriter on the store’s Web site that links to its blog—McNally Jackson Books in the Nolita section of New York City is hip to the latest bookstore trends.
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Comics Briefly
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IDW Hires Webber to Oversee E-publishing
IDW, April's third largest comics publisher, according to Diamond figures, has hired Jeff Webber to the new position of director of e publishing. Webber was formerly vp of product development at uClick, following stints at Hallmark and Shockwave. At IDW he'll help explore the growing opportunities for comics to be sold via various electronic formats.
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PEN World Fest Shows Off Comics Artists
PEN American Center’s impressive international literary festival, PEN World Voices, held a panel discussion, "1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling," featuring a star studded panel of international comics artists.
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Swedish Small Press Expo Spotlights Growing Scene
Sweden’s Small Press Expo is a state-sponsored program which invited members from around the globe to participate.
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Life in Comics: Free Comic Book Day in the Boutiki
The author looks at the lessons of the this years Free Comic Book Day at SLG's Boutiki retail store.
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Panelmania: Noir
Dark Horse's Fall release, the Noir anthology contains short stories in the crime and mystery genres, by a wide mix of comics luminaries.
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Comics Briefly
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Job Moves
Former Scholastic editor Sheila Keenan has been hired by Harry Abrams as a senior editor working on the Abrams ComicsArts imprint.
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May Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney's Last Straw holds steady at #1; followed by Naruto at #2-3; Fruits Basket at #5; more Naruto after that and Marvel's hardcover graphic adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand: Captain Trips is at #12.
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New Look for Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'
Hailed for its bracing portrait of a future media-addled society victimized by the systematic burning of all books, Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect work to highlight issues of censorship and the freedom to read. And in August, Farrar, Straus & Giroux's Hill and Wang imprint will republish the book to do just that.
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Fun Rules the Day at Kids Comic Con
Show director Alex Simmons estimated attendance for the third year of the Kids Comic Con at 750 to 800 people, and he figures about two-thirds of those present were children.
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Brian Azzarello’s 100th Bullet
With the 100th and final issue of the crime comic released less than a week earlier, Azzarello talked to PW Comics week about letting go of the long-running noir series, and the new work he has on the way from the new Vertigo Crime imprint.
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Hill & Wang's Thomas LeBien: Turning History and Fiction into Comics
Hill & Wang publisher Thomas LeBien has now turned his attention to the world of fictional adaptation to create a "graphic translation" of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, one the classics of 20th century literature.
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Comics Briefly - 4/28/2009
Free Comic Book Day May 2; Pushing Daisies Now DC Comic; Disney Comics Take On India; Carousel Comics @ Dixon Place; History of Wolverine with Claremont; Death Note Day in New York; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids; ACT-I-VATE Collective Live at Bergen Street Comics; Tokyopop/Pocky Art Contest; World War 3 Illustrated Release Party; SVA’s Fresh Meat and This Week in The Beat
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Del Rey Gives Wolverine the Manga Treatment
First unveiled during the 2007 New York Anime Festival, Wolverine: Prodigal Son, Del Rey’s manga-style recreation of Marvel’s popular X-Man character, goes on sale this month.
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Stumptown Comics Fest: The Con That Refreshes
Portland, Oregon's sixth annual Stumptown Comics Fest, held April 18 and 19, was a raging success by almost all accounts. Final attendance figures weren't yet available by press time, but around 700 people turned up in the first two hours of Saturday alone.
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