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NetComics Adds Yaoi Press, Japanese Manga
Korean manhwa publisher NetComics is expanding its offerings with a new copublishing agreement to offer Yaoi Press titles online.
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Comics Briefly
VIZ Releases The Taste of Tea; nner with Joss Whedon; Hong Kong Artist wins Manga Nobel; Ellison, Fantagraphics Suit Resolved
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Scratching the Niche: Erotic Manga
Before Tokyopop’s Sailor Moon led the way to today’s shojo manga boom almost 10 years ago, a high percentage of independent U.S. manga publishers were in the business of publishing pornographic manga, or ero manga, the industry’s term.
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Rosen Offers Comics Interview Series
Rosen Publishing, a nonfiction book publisher that caters to libraries and educational markets, will release four books this fall collecting a series of interviews with acclaimed comics creators Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, George Perez and Michael Avon Oeming.
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Harper Offers a Summer of the Simpsons
Aiming to satisfy the countless fans of the longest-running prime-time show in television history, this summer HarperCollins is publishing three Simpsons titles to coincide with the release of the show's first feature film, slated to open July 27.
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CMX Brings Back Gon
"The little dinosaur with the big attitude." That's how CMX editor Jim Chadwick described the title character in Gon, the classic manga that CMX will be releasing in a new edition beginning next month.
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Return to Gasoline Alley
Golden Age comic strips make a comeback.
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Lerner Launches Graphic Universe Trade Line
Midwest educational and library publisherLerner Publishing has added a trade line to Graphic Universe, an imprint specializing in educational hardcover and paperback comics aimed at ages 9—12.
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Transforming IDW
The comic book license for the Transformers property has changed publishers more often than the robots have changed shape. But now it's in the hands of IDW Publishing, a company with a track record for licensed properties.
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Civil War and Dark Tower Lead Marvel
Revenue in Marvel's publishing segment rose 15% in the first quarter, to $27.5 million, and operating income jumped 29%, to $11.5 million.
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First Kids Comic-Con a Big Hit
Kids' interest in comic books is healthy and strong if the first annual New York City Kids Comic Con was any indication.
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Shojo Beat Marks Second Year
Shojo Beat, Viz Media's monthly shojo anthology magazine, will celebrate its second birthday in July with a special present for its readers: an excerpt from legendary manga-ka Osamu Tezuka's 1954 manga Princess Knight, which has never been available in the U.S. before.
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Anjali Singh Loves Comics and Prose
After publishing a string of acclaimed graphic novels at Pantheon, Anjali Singh moved to Houghton Mifflin last year. Singh, a senior editor specializing in international literary fiction and nonfiction as well as comics, revealed plans to publish a new comics work in early 2008 by Frederik Peeters as well as prose novels by Rudolph Delson and by Samantha Hunt.
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Brandon Graham tours King City
King City is a sprawling metropolis, where a criminal underground has planted roots and grown to be as inextricable as the pavement in the streets.
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Comics Bestsellers: April
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Comics Briefly
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Grave Robbing with Richard Sala
What scares frightmaster cartoonist Richard Sala? Well, judging by his work, normalcy.
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Kirby's Fourth World Lives—at DC
Jack Kirby was one of the most imaginative and visionary creators in the history of American comic books. His Fourth World story, originally serialized in DC Comics' Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, The Forever People, New Gods and Mister Miracle, had some of his most important character creations.
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Panelmania: Korgi
In this 8-page preview of Christian Slade's irresistible fantasy tale Korgi, Ivy and her dog Scout are about to make a strange and frightening discovery. Korgi will be available in May from Top Shelf, which will introduce the series with an original story in Owly & Korgi, Top Shelf's Free Comic Book Day giveaway issue on May 5.
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Viz Media and Manga in the U.S.
With the success of the wildly popular Naruto and Death Note, Viz Media is at the head of the game in manga publishing.