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Ennis Moves from Punisher to Phantom Eagle
This March, critically acclaimed comic book writer Garth Ennis will end his four-year run on the series Punisher MAX and debut a new title for Marvel called War is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
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Comics Briefly
Toon Books Moved Up; NYCC News; PW The Beat Looks at Sales; Viz News; and Bluewater to Publish Pistolfist
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Incognegro: Passing for White to Expose Lynching
DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint brought together novelist Mat Johnson and artist Warren Pleece to create Incognegro, an original graphic novel that recreates a terrible period in American history when the brutal lynchings of black Americans were carried out throughout the South.
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David Fickling to Launch Weekly Comic
“In my own experience, the link between reading a comic and reading a book is wonderful and exciting,” says publisher David Fickling, who will launch a comic book program this May called The DFC (The David Fickling Comic). For Fickling, whose London-based, eponymous imprint at Random House publishes children’s books on both sides of the Atlantic, the launch of The DFC reflects his lifelong love of comic books.
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American Manga Gets Push at Tokyopop
As the market for manga in America continues to grow, one of the top publishers, Tokyopop, has made a push to promote its OEL, or “Original English Language” manga, works created by non-Japanese writers and artists.
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Publishers Turn to Far East for Printing
With the continuing monetary woes of Quebecor, several publishers are turning to China to print their periodical comics.
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Blue Pills: Positively Lovely
Houghton Mifflin is publishing Blue Pills, Frederik Peeters's moving and award-winning autobiographical graphic novel about falling in love with an HIV-positive woman.
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Jeph Loeb Strikes Back
A top comic book writer and executive producer and screenwriter for the hit NBC series Heroes, Jeph Loeb is headlining some of Marvels biggest titles, including The Ultimates and the recent relaunch of The Hulk.
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Geoff Johns Takes the Green into the Black
One of DC's most surprising successes this year was the rather modest crossover The Sinestro Corps War.
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Nelson Goes Graphic
Thomas Nelson is making a serious commitment to the graphic novel category with plans to publish adaptations of the prose novels of bestselling author Ted Dekker as well as a variety of manga-styled series aimed at teens, especially girls. While some of these graphic novels reflect the publisher's religious mission, most of the new works do not have overt religious content and are aimed at the ...
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The Last Issue of Y the Last Man
DC Comics has published the final issue of Y the Last Man, wrapping up writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's 60-issue Vertigo series about the aftermath of a plague that instantly killed all males on Earth except for a young escape artist and his pet monkey.
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Lolita Culture: An Introduction
The increasingly popular anime/mnag -inspired "Lolita" look features young women dressing like frilly Victorian dolls.
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February Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Sequel to Diary of Wimpy Kid tops the list; followed by Naruto Volumes 27-24; and King’s Dark Tower at #6.
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Comics Briefly
IGN.com Theater at NYCC; Exhibit on Race in Comics; Kennedy Center Spotlights Japan; PW The Beat: Self Publishing, Lit Crit; Essex County Wins Alex Award; Stumptown Comics Festival; Pulitzer Winners in MAD; Cartoonists on NPR ; Iron Man Super Bowl Spot; and Brian Wood at Rocketship
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Jackie Ormes: Resurrecting a Comics Pioneer
Nancy Goldstein’s Jackie Ormes: The First African-American Woman Cartoonist (Univ. of Michigan) offers a fascinating look at a comics trailblazer whose name and works have largely fallen through the cracks of time and memory.
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From Manga to Madame Xanadu
Artist Amy Reeder Hadley covers a lot of ground with her work for both Tokyopop and Vertigo.
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Pendragon, Nonfiction Launch S&S Comics
This summer S&S Children’s Publishing is releasing a graphic novel adaptation of D.J. MacHale’s Pendragon series by Carla Speed McNeil, Hope Larson’s Chiggers and launching two nonfiction-oriented comics series.
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Muth and Abrams Rediscover M
Abrams is bringing back a long-lost adaptation of Fritz Lang's expressionist classic by acclaimed illustrator Jon. J. Muth.
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Not Just Blood, but Blood+
In February, Dark Horse will begin publishing more than 14 books—both manga and prose—based on the Blood+ anime series.
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Jeff Smith’s New World, Part 2
Jeff Smith talks about the process of working on RASL, his new comics series.
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