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Why Hollywood Loves the Comics
PWCW talks to film agent Scott Agostoni, director of the William Morris Agency's comics division, about the ongoing love affair between Hollywood and comics.
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Jeff Smith’s Bone Saga Ends—Again
Graphix, the Scholastic division focused on comics and graphic novels for children, released the ninth and final color volume of Jeff Smith’s epic fantasy adventure series Bone this month.
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What a Girl Wants Is Often a Comic
Jane Yolen to Publish Graphic Novel with Dark Horse as Publishers Weigh the Teen Girl Market for American Comics
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Comics Briefly
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The Best Comics You'll (Probably) Never Read
Sam Thielman looks back at some of the great unfinished comcis projects of the past 30 years.
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Layoffs at Diamond, DC Comics, Top Cow
Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.
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Graphic Sales Grow at Denver’s Tattered Cover
Graphic novel sales at independent Denver bookseller the Tattered Cover's three stores are bigger than both Romance and philosophy sales.
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Life in Comics# 11: What Women Want
Do women need superheroes as role mdels? Should they? Our columnist looks at the debate currently raging.
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Grant Morrison, Final Crisis, and the Superhero Genre
In part 2 of an interview with acclaimed superhero comics writer Grant Morrison, PWCW talks about Morrison’s work on DC’s Final Crisis series, a new Batman series in the spring and new work to be published by Vertigo.
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Living and Drawing in the Subway
Youme Landowne, a white female artist, met Anthony Horton, a black homeless artist, on a subway platform and the result is Pitch Black, a childrens graphic novel.
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Comics Briefly - 1/21/09
Diamond Raises Order Minimums; Kyle Baker Comic Free Online; Golden Apple Comics Owner Interviewed; Satrapi and Ware Onstage; and Brevoort hosts "Take My Trade!"
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NYCC Weathers Economic Storm
Now in its fourth year, New York Comic-Con, scheduled for February 6—8, stands as the second biggest comics/pop culture expo in the U.S. and the fourth largest event in New York City (following the International Auto Show, the International Orchid Show and the New York City Marathon). This year's Comic-Con brings together a high-powered mix of cartoonists, publishers, movie companies, vi...
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Metropolitan Books Publishes Waltz with Bashir—the Graphic Novel
Metropolitan Books will publish a full-color graphic novel adaptation of Israeli director Ari Folman’s much acclaimed animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, in February.
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Grant Morrison, Batman and the Superhero Genre
For more than 20 Years, the Scotish comics writer Grant Morrison has been regarded as one of the most original and inventive writers in the comics medium.
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Antix Goes for the Laughs
What may have come to Francis Lombard and Shawn Walker in a heat-induced dream has evolved into a full-fledged comic company called Antix Press. Antix made their official debut in October at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco; with new titles chock full of comedic value. Whereas most new comics companies have been staying in the action adventure mode, Lombard and Walker identified a lack of humor comics on the market and decided to base their new company around that genre.
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Comics Briefly
NYCC Schedule Posted; Cosplay Across Japan Tour; Caroline Kennedy Comic; Jaffe, Feiffer, Pekar Onstage; NPR Reviews ‘Omega the Unknown’; Pekar Opera Staged; and Archie Origin Story
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Bottomless Tops PW Comics Week's Third Annual Critic's Poll
Bottomless Belly Button topped PWCW's third annual critics' poll.
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Top 10 Manga for 2008
PWCW's manga editor picks her best manga of 2008.
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Comics in the Classroom
Long ghettoized—even demonized—in North America as puerile and pulpy, both “comic books” (traditional comics periodicals) and book-format graphic novels are now being used in both k—12 and higher education classrooms as everything from early developmental reading tools to serious literary texts.
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January Comics Bestsellers
Jeffy Kinney's Diary of A Wimpy Kid rolls on at #1; followed by the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker and Fables volume 11 (at #6) both from DC Comics; DK's Marvel Chronicle is at #9 and Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Season 8 volume 3 is at #10