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Manga Publishing Update, Spring 2015
North American manga publishers continue to recover from the double whammy of recession and a market correction in the late 2000s.
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Famous Monsters To Launch Comic Book Line
Veteran comics creators including Paul Tobin and Steve Niles are on board for the debut of the new American Gothic Press line of comics this summer.
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Teenage Artist's Self-Published Graphic Novel Gets Big Time Blurbs
How a teenager got acclaimed comics artists Jeff Smith, Lucy Knisley and Hope Larson to blurb her self-published book.
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Panel Mania: Sophie Goldstein's Dystopian SF in 'The Oven'
A couple hoping to have a child in a society with strict population controls escapes to a renegade community in Sophie Goldstein's 'The Oven.'
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Panel Mania: First Look at Jeffrey Brown’s 'Darth Vader and Friends'
Here's an exclusive first look at Jeffrey Brown's fourth and final take on the Skywalker family's foibles, 'Darth Vader and Friends,' due in April.
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ComicsPRO Elects Dolan as New President
Optimism over rising sales and signs of the diversifying audience for comics set the tone at the annual meeting of the largest organization for comics retailers.
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13 Delicious Comics about Cooking and Eating
From Japanese cooking competitions to fine French restaurants, baking bread and vegetarian dishes, we've put together a tasty list of 13 great comics about all kinds of food and cooking.
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Udon Turns Literary Classics into Manga Adventure
Can manga-style versions of classics like ‘Pride and Prejudice’ become the Cliffs Notes of a new generation of readers?
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Panel Mania: Go 'Ballistic' with Mortimer and Robertson
The futuristic thriller 'Ballistic' by Adam Egypt Mortimer and Darrick Robertson is nonstop craziness and violence. It's also destined to be a classic.
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Dark Horse Moves Three Print Titles to New Digital Imprint
'Ghost Fleet,' 'Resurrectionists,' and 'Sundowners' will be switched to monthly digital editions before being released in print trade paperback collections.
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Panel Mania: The Spectacular World Building of 'The Swords of Glass'
'The Swords Of Glass' by by Sylviane Corgiat and Laura Zuccheri tells a story of a girl's quest for vengeance in an ecologically-influenced fantasy world captured by Zuccheri's award-winning art.
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Inside the Economics of Digital Comics with Todd Allen
Todd Allen has been keeping tabs on digital comics since the mid-aughts, and he's just released a ground-breaking new edition of 'The Economics of Digital Comics' that reveals a wealth of financial details rarely disclosed.
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Panel Mania: Ba and Moon Explore Home and Family in ‘Two Brothers’
Dark Horse has provided an exclusive first look at the new work by the acclaimed creators of Daytripper. 'Two Brothers' adapts Milton Hatoum's 'Dois Irmãos'—an intense look at family relations viewed through the experience of twin brothers.
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Scribd Adds Comics, Graphic Novels
Through agreements with such comics publishers as Marvel and IDW, the e-book subscription service will add more than 10,000 comics and graphic novels to its inventory.
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'Valkyrie Bump' Shifts Comics Sales
Recent bestselling comics series like Sex Criminals, Batgirl, and Lumberjanes have something in common—enthusiastic support from the Valkyries, an international networking group exclusively organized for women who work in comic shops.
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Boom! Studios Celebrates 10 Years
Boom! Studio celebrates a decade publishing original graphic novels and comics, as well as recent movie and TV deals and a push for diversity.
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Go Berserk for These 12 Viking Comics
Here are 12 books worthy of residing in comics Valhalla.
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Panel Mania: Fashion Forward with ‘Girl in Dior’
A love letter to fashion, Paris, and the House of Dior, 'Girl in Dior' ('Jeune fille en Dior') brings French superstar Annie Goetzinger to the US, and gorgeous clothes to the comics page.
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Comics Win Big at ALA’s 2015 Youth Media Awards
Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's 'This One Summer' is the first graphic novel to receive both a Caldecott Honor and a Printz Honor, while Cece Bell's graphic memoir 'El Deafo' received a Newbery Honor.
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New Telgemier, Kibuishi Deals Mark Graphix's 10-Year Anniversary
Scholastic plans a year of special convention events and giveaways of special prints by top artists including Jeff Smith, Raina Telgemeier, and Kazu Kibuishi, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Graphix, its kids' graphic novel imprint.