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Cable Toons Spur Graphic Novels Sales
The TV connection is a boom for comics, graphic novels and manga—but only for some.
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Brubaker Does the Crime and the Time
Ed Brubaker has established himself as one of the premiere writers of crime/noir comics with books like Scene of the Crime from DC/Vertigo and Gotham Central from DC Comics, co-written by Greg Rucka.
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Passion and Business at Tokyopop
It's impossible to discuss the impact of manga on the American comics market without talking about Tokyopop and its CEO, Stuart Levy, a 39-year old designer and producer who has worked in Japan, is fluent in Japanese, and founded Tokyopop in Los Angeles in 1997.
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A New Era in Comics Publishing: A Roundtable
Beginning in the late 1990s, a certain feeling of dread was felt by many smart comics folk.
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HarperCollins, Tokyopop Ink Manga Deal
In a startling move that not only highlights the sales potential of book format comics but also gives almost every major New York publishing house a significant graphic novel program, HarperCollins will take over the distribution of the Tokyopop manga list to the North American book trade.
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Batman, Manga and Life on Mars: Talking with Paul Pope
One of the most thoughtful and iconoclastic artists working in comics today, Paul Pope began his career in comics as a literary-oriented self-publisher whose works were broadly informed by literature, politics and world culture.
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It's Time for First Second
After more than two years of preparation, the first books from First Second, the new graphic novel imprint at Henry Holt's Roaring Brook Press children's book division, will arrive in stores in May.
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FSG's Hill & Wang Gets into the Comics Game
In the latest sign that comics have found a home at traditional book publishers, Hill & Wang, a nonfiction imprint at the distinguished literary house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will publish a series of nonfiction comics works this fall, led by a comics adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report as well as biographies of Malcolm X and Ronald Reagan.
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L'Association Brings French Comics to the U.S.
In the last few years, there's been a small flood of French-language art comics being translated into English. But the French comics revolution of the last decade and a half didn't originate with big French publishing companies like Delcourt and Dargaud; it came from the underground--specifically a small, artist-run publisher known as L'Association.
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Gamers, Hipsters and Comics Nerds: G4TV's Cool New World
The web is a vast resource for comics, and you can't pick up a magazine or newspaper without seeing news about the latest graphic novel. But where do you go to find comics stuff on TV? Try G4TV, a cable channel that focuses on pop culture, technology and, increasingly, comics and the people who create them.
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Catching Up with Alan Moore
When it comes to comic book legends, few loom as large as Alan Moore. The author of Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentleman and the upcoming Lost Girls, his work takes pulp conventions and turns them into multi-leveled philosophical inquiries and has inspired not only comics creators but musicians and filmmakers for the past 25 years.
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Manga in English: Born in the USA
It would be relatively easy to make the claim that Japanese pop culture—from Astro Boy in the 1960s to Pokémon in the 1980s—is, so to speak, about as American as apple pie. From comics and animation to fashion, movies and an endless supply of adorable knickknacks, J-pop products are no strangers to the American consumer. And since the late 1990s, licensed English-language editions of Japanese comics—manga—have been instrumental in helping bring book-format comics of all kinds into the general bookstore market.
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Happy Birthday, Little Nemo: Big New Book Restores McCay's Masterpiece
Winsor McCay’s classic Sunday comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland, turns 100 years old this month, but the turn-of-the-century strip couldn’t look better in a new, lavishly produced book...
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Walter Mosley and the Fantastic Four
From the time he discovered The Fantastic Four, the groundbreaking 1961 super-hero comic book created for Marvel Comics by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, Walter Mosley has been fascinated by how their collaboration stoked his imagination and transformed the American super-hero comic book
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DC Comics Trolls for New Readers
After years of industry concern over the rising cost of periodical comics and competition for kids' attention from videogames, DC Comics is taking steps to attract them by offering affordable, quality comics material in book format.
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Young Cartoonists Look to the Book Market
A new generation creates comics about people, not superheroes, and looks to the book market for readers.
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'Matrix' Creators Plan to Publish Graphic Novels
In another example of sympatico between comics, publishing and the movies, Larry and Andy Wachowski, the writers and directors of the blockbuster The Matrix Trilogy, have founded Burlyman Entertainment, a publishing company focusing on periodical comics and graphic novels.
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Webcomics, Books From Keenspot.com
Keenspot.com, an entertainment Web site offering free access to more than 50 exclusive, serialized Web comics, may be a useful example of how an online comics venture can support a budding book publishing program.
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Graphic Novel Sales Even Better Than Reported
The graphic novel market has been growing even more explosively than earlier estimates suggested, according to Milton Griepp, founder of ICV2.com, the comics and pop culture trade news Web site.
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Comics Shops Sell Books, Too
In both comics specialty stores--known as the direct market in the comics industry--and traditional bookstores, sales of graphic novels have been zooming upward over the past few years.
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