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10 Years and Counting At AiT/Planet Lar

By Ada Price | 03/31/2009 @ 08:43PM

San Francisco indie comics publisher AiT/Planet Lar celebrated it’s 10th anniversary in March.
Carol Tyler Recalls “A Good and Decent Man”

by Sasha Watson | 03/31/2009 @ 08:42PM

Cartoonist Carol Tyler’s father, Chuck, is a regular guy. He’s gruff and he’s loyal and he builds things. In her new graphic novel, You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man, Tyler begins to tell Chuck’s story, which is also, of course, her story.
Stan Mack Revisits the American Revolution

by Calvin Reid | 03/31/2009 @ 06:44PM

Cartoonist, children’s book author and pioneering graphic novel creator Stan Mack has teamed with writer/editor Susan Champlin to create a four book series of fictional graphic novels for Bloomsbury that are aimed at 10-14 year-old readers and set during important American historical periods.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/30/2009 @ 10:22PM

Book Review Comic by Bechdel; New Runaways Creators Revealed; S. Clay Wilson Needs Help; Hernandez and Sakai Signing; Bleach, Naruto Movies on iTunes; Secret Identity Launch Party; War of Kings #1 Free Online and Princess Diana in Female Force
Panelmania: Remake

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 03/30/2009 @ 05:39PM

A robot boy named Max Guy battles bookstore shoppers in this exclusive 6-page preview of Remake, a collection of comics by Lamar Abrams that mixes manga-style action with pure absurdity. Remake will be released by Adhouse Books in May.
Upbeat ComicsPro Confab Generates Optimism

By Heidi MacDonald | 03/24/2009 @ 06:45PM

The four day annual ComicsPRO convention brings together about 100 retailers dedicated to uniting the comics retail segment to address issues and solve problems.
First New England Webcomics Weekend a Big Success

by David Gallaher | 03/24/2009 @ 06:44PM

Creators, hobbyists, and the intellectually curious came from across the country to participate in Webcomics Weekend, which was held on March 20 - 22 in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Chmakova’s Nightschool is First In Its Class

By Brigid Alverson | 03/24/2009 @ 06:43PM

One of a handful of non-Japanese original manga creators who have achieved both critical and commercial success, Svetlana Chmakova is now releasing the first volume of Nightschool, a new original manga series that will be published by Yen Press in April.
Guibert Revisits War in The Photographer

By Kate Culkin | 03/24/2009 @ 06:42PM

First Second Books and artist Emmanuel Guibert have again teamed up to bring to the U.S. graphic novel market The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, another tale of a life shaped by war.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/23/2009 @ 10:08PM

DC Launches Wednesday Comics Weekly; New Leadership at CBLDF; Viz Takes Entire NYT List; US, Japan Synch Anime Release; Morning Manga Winners; Spider-Girl Returns Online; Star Trek Movie Comic Goes Mobile; Humbug Comes to The Strand and First Cosplay Party At Japan Society
Panelmania: Planet of Beer

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 03/23/2009 @ 10:07PM
Bringing Comics to the Amazon Kindle

By Ada Price | 03/17/2009 @ 09:30PM

Since the release of the Kindle, Amazon’s popular digital reading device, a few publishers have started to experiment with converting their comics to Kindle editions.
Sava Fills Shelves With Kids' Graphic Novels

By Brigid Alverson | 03/17/2009 @ 09:28PM

Scott Christian Sava is best known for his web and print comic The Dreamland Chronicles, but this year he is branching out in a new direction: He has just published four new children’s graphic novels, and he expects to have four more out by midyear and still more after that.
One of the World’s Best: Secret Headquarters

By Judith Rosen | 03/17/2009 @ 09:27PM

In 2005 when Dave Pifer and David Ritchie were casting about for a retail venture in Los Angeles, they initially settled on a skateboard shop. But at the last minute they switched the store’s focus to incorporate a different childhood passion: comics.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/17/2009 @ 09:20PM
Panelmania: Adventures in Cartooning

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 03/17/2009 @ 09:19PM

A cartooning elf helps a princess learn the secrets of good cartooning, in this 5 page previews of the instruction book/story book for younger readers by James Sturm, Alexis Frederick-Frost and Andrew Arnold. Adventures in Cartooning is due in April from First Second.
Norton’s Mandela Comics Bio Offers New Info

By Calvin Reid | 03/17/2009 @ 07:29PM

In celebration of the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela on July 18, W. W. Norton is publishing Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book, a book collection of a series of biographical comics on the life and accomplishments of the former South African president.
The New York Times Debuts Comics Bestseller List

By Calvin Reid | 03/10/2009 @ 06:42PM

The New York Times has launched a weekly Graphic Books bestseller list that tracks the bestselling comics and graphic novels.
Beacon Plans Graphic Adapt of Kindred; Nonfiction Comics Line

By Calvin Reid | 03/10/2009 @ 04:45PM

Beacon Press, a 155 year-old Boston-based nonprofit publisher with a mission driven by social justice, will publish a graphic adaptation of the late Hugo-award winning science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler’s much-praised novel Kindred, the latest comics work to be acquired by Beacon.
Fantagraphics Brings Tardi to the US

By Heidi MacDonald | 03/10/2009 @ 04:44PM

Legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi is finally coming to the US with two grphic novels due this summer from Fantagraphics.

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