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Mister X: Still Sleepless After All These Years
The Mister X Archives hardcover collection is set to release on 11/26 from Dark Horse and an all-new Mister X limited-series, Mister X: Condemned, by series creator Dean Motterwill premiere in December, also from Dark Horse. Motter spoke withPWCW about the book's history and future.
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Comics Briefly
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The Kirkman/Bendis Debates: Let’s Do the Math
Todd Allen compares some printing estimates to sales estimates to figure out just who's making money at Image Comics.
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Broccoli Books to Shut Down
Manga publisher Broccoli Books will be shut down at the end of this year
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The Saga of Swamp Thing’s Saga
In 1983 DC Comics editor Len Wein decided to take a chance and give a British writer by the name of Alan Moore a shot at writing the Swamp Thing. The rest of the story is history.
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Dave Gibbons and the Creation of Watchmen
Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore’s artist-collaborator on the now-classic superhero epic Watchmen, provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of the graphic novel in a new book just released by U.K. publisher Titan Books.
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Fanboys and Families: Miami Book Fair Debuts Comix Galaxy
The Miami Book Fair International, held November 9-16, marked its 25th anniversary by launching the Comix Galaxy, a partnership between the Miami Book Fair and Diamond Book Distributors that greatly expands the presence of comics and graphic novels at the annual show.
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Mike Allred Hits All The Right Notes
Originally published as a series by Dark Horse in the late 1990s, Red Rocket 7, a labor of love by Mike Allred that manages to integrate aliens, spaceships, robots and clones into the history of rock n’ roll, is back in print now in a .45-record-sized collection from Image.
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Comics Briefly
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Popeye's "Immortalicky"
Popeye: one of the most beloved cartoon personalities of the 20th century, was created by E.C. Segar (a former movie house projectionist who loved his Chaplin) some ten years after he became a cartoonist in pre-Capone Chicago. At the time, Popeye was a world-wide sensation. The daily adventures of this very American character literally changed the face of comic strips and heavily influenced that other burgeoning art form, animation.
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About Comics at the Ten Year Mark
About Comics has lasted 10 years with a small staff and a very personal vision that creates an eclectic line of books.
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Meet the Joie de Tel Aviv: Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan
At age 42, writer-illustrator Rutu Modan has been creating comics for over a decade now, amassing a hipster following in her native Israel. But it wasn't until she released her graphic-novel debut, last year's coolly complicated familial drama Exit Wounds, that she finally earned international praise from both the comics cognoscenti and the ever-discriminating literati.
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Abrams To Publish Hereville Web comic in Print
Barry Deutsch has signed a book deal with Harry N. Abrams to publish his much lauded webcomic, Hereville, as a graphic novel
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AX: Top Shelf To Publish Gekiga Anthology
In August 2009 Top Shelf, will publish AX, a much-anticipated Japanese alternative comics anthology.
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Gaiman’s Sandman At 20
On Sunday November 9, the twentieth anniversary of DC Comics’ Sandman series was marked at one of Manhattan’s leading cultural centers, the 92nd Street Y, when creator Neil Gaiman was interviewed onstage by acclaimed graphic designer (and comics enthusiast) Chip Kidd.
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Books About Comics: Encyclopedic Wonders
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Comics Briefly
Miami Book Fair Embraces Comics; 2009 Eisner Judges ; Steve Geppi Speaks; NYCC Sign-up, Casting Call; Death Note II Canadian Screening ; Abel on NPR; Fan Questions on MyCup o' Joe; Spotlight on Comics; and This Week In The Beat
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November Rain and Ergot at APE
The final stop on the 2008 comics convention circuit, the Alternative Press Expo was held at the Concourse in San Francisco on November 1 and 2—a big change for a show that's usually taken place in April. APE is always a laid-back sort of show, with spacious corridors and, thanks to its Bay Area location, connections to the old school of underground comix. (First-wave veteran Spain Rodriguez even came by the Last Gasp booth to sign copies of Che: A Graphic Biography.)
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Yen Press in Orbit: Manga and the Hachette Reorg
In the wake of the Hachette ororganization, Yen Press publishing director Kurt Hassler chatted with PWCW about the future of Yen Press, the future of manga in the U.S. and the importance of strong properties to any publishing category.
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A Visit to Paul Pope's World
The iconoclastic creator of such acclaimed original comics works as 100%, Heavy Liquid and Batman: Year 100, is at work on multiple book projects—including a new series aimed at kids and even turns his attention to the world of fashion.
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