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San Diego Monster-Con
The San Diego Comic Convention has long been the preeminent event of the comic book industry, an annual pop-culture phenomenon that attracts more than 100,000 fans and grows larger and more prominent in the general culture every year. Much of the recent mainstream attention comes courtesy of the convention's significant Hollywood presence that has drawn both the event and the medium further int...
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Keith Knight's Really Big Book
Let's just call this the year of Keith Knight. Dark Horse is publishing The Complete K Chronicles: A Comprehensive Collection of Keith Knight's Award Winning Strip, a gigantic 500-page omnibus of some of Knight's funniest and most eccentrically insightful cartoons of the past 15 years.
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Books, Comics, Films From Angel Gate
Angel Gate CEO Debbie Bishop brings together a lot of skills in the service of her company. A screenwriter, producer, novelist and graphic designer, Bishop launched Angel Gate in 2003; since then the Los Angeles publishing house has released novels, graphic novels and cookbooks, as well as YA fiction and children's picture and chapter books.
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Dabel Bros, Del Rey Turn ‘Wheel of Time’ into Comics
Dabel Brothers Publishing announced plans to team up with Del Rey Books to create a comics version of acclaimed fantasy novelist Robert Jordan’s bestselling 11-volume Wheel of Time series.
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Comics Briefly
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Not Your Daddy's Seinen; Violent Gantz Comes to the U.S.
This month, Dark Horse will publish Gantz, a violent, sexually explicit and surreal series that many American manga fans thought would never be licensed for the U.S. market.
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Life in Comics #5: Creator Rights and Small Publishers
Tokyopop's controversial new Manga Pilot program has reignited discussion of creators rights in comics.
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Secret Acres: Not So Secret Any More
One of the most impressive debuts at this year's MoCCA Festival was Secret Acres, a new comics imprint launched by Barry Matthews and Leon Avelino. Their first two books and Samuel C. Gaskin's Fatal Faux-Pas and Eamon Espey's Wormdye.
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Brian K. Vaughan In A New York State of Mind
This month DC Comics Wildstorm imprint is releasing a deluxe hardcover edition of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris's superhero series Ex Machina.
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Crime and Comic Books: Gary Phillips’s High Roller
Boom! Studios is publishing High Rollers, a new four-issue comics mini-series written by crime and mystery novelist Gary Phillips, detailing the rise of a Los Angeles gangster.
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Viz Media Owners Revamp Licensing Unit
Shueisha and Shogakukan—the two Japanese publishers that own the American-based manga publisher Viz Media—have entered into a new partnership to expand the company’s licensing and mechandising arm.
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A New Love & Rockets In a New Format
Fantagraphics will relaunch the Hernandez brother’s acclaimed series, Love and Rockets, calling the series Love and Rockets: New Stories, and publishing it as a 112-page trade paperback collection starting in September.
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Koontz’s Odd Thomas Goes Graphic
Dean Koontz’s character Odd Thomas makes the leap from paragraphs to panels in the new graphic novel In Odd We Trust, published on June 24 by Del Rey.
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ADV Manga Is Still in the Picture
Despite a lack of new releases and continuing rumors about its future, ADV Manga is still alive and keeping its books in print, according to Chris Oarr, the ADV sales account manager who oversees the manga line.
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‘Turning Them into Movies Is Just an Added Benefit’: Kingdom Comics at Disney
Ahmet Zappa and Christian Beranek are launching a new line of graphic novels at Disney to be distributed via Disney Worldwide Publishing
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Comics Briefly
2008 Harvey Awards; PW The Beat: Didio, Heroes Con; EW’s 100 Best Books; Brian K. Vaughan at Midtown Comics; Guests at NYAF; Vanguard at SDCC; Transfuzion at Wizard World Chicago; and Don Parent at Wizard World Chicago
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Miami Book Fair Adds Graphic Novel Focus
The Miami Book Fair International, which attracts more than 250,000 visitors over eight days, is partnering with Diamond Comics Distributors to expand the comics and graphic novel presence at the 25th annual fair set for November 9—16 on the campus of Miami-Dade College. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will be a featured guest and will create this year's poster.
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Nee Reported Out at DC Comics
According to a report on the comics news website Comic Book Resources, John Nee, DC Comics senior v-p of business development, is leaving the company.
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The Amazing Remarkable Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell's latest opus takes on cowboys and circuses and takes him and his creative muse in even more daring directions.
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It’s a Big Manga World After All
Literary agent Yukari Shiina and her agency, World Manga, aim to make the manga world more of a two-way street.