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Matt Thorn Returns to Translation
After a multifaceted career as a manga translator and scholar, Matt Thorn recently he returned to translation with Seduce Me After the Show and Red Blinds the Foolish, two yaoi works by his former student est em.
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A New Age Of Marvels
Fourteen years after first publishing the classic comics series, Marvels, writer Kurt Busiek, along with new collaborators, has written the long-awaited sequel, Marvels: Eye of the Camera.
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Comics Briefly
Weidenbaum to Leave Viz Media; Glyph Award Nominees Announced; Stumptown Awards Call for Nominations; Static Returns to Comics; Marvel Offers Lincoln, Obama Digital Comics; SLG Publishing Seminar; Bluewater Comics Go Green; and This Week @ The Beat
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Comics Briefly
NYCC09: Read Will Eisner on iPhone; Marvel Sets X-Men Stage; Focus on the DC Universe; Marvel at 70; Business of Webcomics; Women In Comics. Plus O'Neil NYU Comics Course and Death Note II on DVD
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Marvel Makes Motion Comics, DC Teases New Format
Marvel annaounced as new "motion comics" format and DC teased other new formats at yhe recent New York Comic-Con.
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Life in Comics: Can Creativity Save Comics from Troubled Times?
The writer muses on what revolution this economic crisis will bring to the comics medium.
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Children’s Comics Poised for Growth
Properties aimed at readers 13 years old and under were prominent both on the floor and in the panels and the booths for publishers such as First Second, Top Shelf, Oni Press and Archie Comics were bustling.
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New York Manga-Con 2009
Despite fewer manga publishers exhibiting this year, those on hand put there best manga forward.
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What Recession? Strong Fan Turnout for NYCC 2009
Despite the recession, tens of thousands of fans streamed into the Javits Center for the New York Comic-con.
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Scott Pilgrim Wins the Convention!
The oddest thing about the alternative graphic-novel publishers exhibiting at this year's New York Comic-Con was that, even though almost none of them had major new releases, they mostly reported decent-to-excellent sales.
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Despite Economy, Fan Turnout Big for New York Comic-Con 2009
The country may be reeling from the worst economy in years, but you couldn’t tell it from the tens of thousands of fans pouring into the Jacob Javits Center for the fourth annual New York Comic-Con.
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TCP to Publish Graphic Adaptation of Bill Ayers Memoir
Teachers College Press has reached agreement with William Ayers, the controversial University of Illinois at Chicago professor, lauded educational theorist and former leader of the radical 1960s Weather Underground, to publish a graphic novel adaptation of his acclaimed teaching memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.
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Image Adding All-Ages Focus
Image Comics is adding children's comics to its mix with a line of news books from Silverline.
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Tor.com Offers New Sci-fi and Fantasy Webcomics
Partnering with another Macmillan imprint, the comics and graphic novel publisher First Second Books, sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books has launched, Tor.com, its own online comics imprint.
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Sex, Costumes and Videotape: The Comics of Koren Shadmi
Moody, thoughtful and rich in emotion and nuance, Koren Shadmi's comics combine gripping, surreal imagery with narrative scenarios that chronicle the vivid, alluring power of sex and the frustration and comedy of quirky relationships
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Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010
Reed Exhibitions plans to launch a new comics and pop culture convention, in April of 2010 at the McCormick Place convention facility in downtown Chicago and plans to move the New York Comic-con permanently to the fall in 2010.
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Comics Briefly
Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010; Blutch Wins Angoulême Grand Prix; CBLDR at NYCC ; PWCW Editors at NYCC ; Way Hosts Fresh Ink Online; Whedon’s Dollhouse at NYCC; British Porn Laws Target Comics; MySpace Comics Layoffs; Graphic Novel Buyers Survey; Jerry Craft Children's Book; Murder of Abraham Lincoln Reprint ; and Unlovable Book Launch; Exhibition
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February Comics Bestsellers
The Last Straw, the newest volume in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series takes the #1 spot followed by Naruto at #2 and the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker at #3
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Funnies Business: The 2008 Retailers Survey
Our columnist surveys comics specialty retailers on their sell-through on both periodicals and graphic novels.
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First Second To Publish Scott McCloud
First Second Books announced plans to publish two new books by acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud.