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Comixology: Six Billion Digital Comics Served
The digital comics platform and marketplace Comixology continues to extend the reach of new comics to comics consumers and finished the year as the Top Grossing non-game app for iPad 2013.
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Upcoming Comics Events: January 13, 2014
Gene Luen Yang at Berkeley Public Library in Berkeley, CA; Garry Leach Signing in London, U.K.; "Compulsive Narratives" Opening in Camden, NJ; Congressman Jon Lewis in Portland, OR.
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Marvel Gets Star Wars Comics License from Dark Horse
Marking a significant change after 20 years, Disney has assigned the rights to publish Star Wars comic and graphic novels from Dark Horse to their own Marvel subsidiary. While the move—which becomes effective in 2015—did not come as a surprise, it left open many questions.
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New Comics Line Magnetic Press Hopes to Stick Around
Two comics industry veterans have teamed up to launch Magnetic Press, a new comics publisher offering both original and translated titles.
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Off the Page: Comics at Rutgers Gallery and In the Subway
The Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts in Camden New Jersey is hosting, “Compulsive Stories: Narratives that must be told,” an exhibition of comics and other works; while Nathan Fox, veteran comics artist and chair at the School of Visual Arts has been commissioned by the school to create posters for the subway promoting SVA.
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Panel Mania: Alone Forever
"Alone Forever" by Liz Prince, the author of the relationship comic "Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?," explores the joys of the single life with self-deprecation and humor, as well as cats. It will be released by Top Shelf in February.
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Graphic Novels In Translation From the Nicolas Grivel Agency
While literature in translation can be a tough sell to U.S. readers, in recent years the Nicolas Grivel Agency, which represents such acclaimed international comics artists as Ulli Lust, Dylan Horrocks and Blutch, has managed to place a host of impressive foreign titles at U.S. publishers.
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Viz Renews Distribution Pact with S&S UK, Adds S&S India
After four years of sales growth in the UK, Viz Media, one of the largest publishers and distributors of manga and anime, is renewing its sales and distribution deal with Simon & Schuster UK, which has distributed Viz manga in the UK since 2007.
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Upcoming Comics Events: January 6, 2014
Bob Fingerman and Dean Haspiel in New York, NY; Image Expo in San Francisco, CA; Paul Tobin, Colleen Coover and Wook Jin Clark in Portland, OR; "The Cartoon Utopia" exhibition in Seattle, WA.
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LaBeouf Skywrites Apology, But Not to Melville House
The odd standoff between Shia LaBeouf, cartoonist Dan Clowes and indie publisher Melville House over the movie star’s plagiarism continues after LaBeouf apparently hired a plane to skywrite an apology to the cartoonist.
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Video: James Romberger at the Pop-up Jack Kirby Museum
Cartoonist James Romberger, creator, along with colorist Marguerite Van Cook, of 7 Miles a Second, the acclaimed comics memoir of the late artist David Wojnarowicz, paid a visit to the popup Jack Kirby Museum in November to speak about the life of the “King of Comics.”
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Upcoming Comics Events: December 30, 2013
12/29-12/31: Comic Market Tokyo 2013 in Tokyo, Japan; 1/1: Christos Gage in Worcester, MA.
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Marvel Halts Sales of Periodical Comics in Bookstores
Marvel has ended sales of print single-issue periodical comics through trade bookstore channels. This will not affect the sales of book format graphic novels through those retailers.
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Frederator Books Launches Catbug E-book Series
Frederator Books, the e-book imprint of Frederator, the YouTube cartoon producer, is launching a new e-book series starring Catbug, an animated character spun off from Frederator’s wildly popular YouTube cartoon show Bravest Warriors.
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Melville House, Dan Clowes Plan Response to Labeouf Plagiarism
Hollywood star Shia Labeouf faces legal action from both Dan Clowes and indie publisher Melville House, after admitting plagiarizing a Clowes comic for his short film and after lifting chunks of novelist Benoit Duteurtre’s novel The Little Girl and the Cigarette for his mini-comics.
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Comixology Brings French Digital Comics to U.S., Canada
Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is releasing 700 French comics in the North American marketplace.
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DC, Madefire Partner For New Motion Book Starring Batman
DC Entertainment has entered into a partnership with Madefire to produce all-new "motion comics" a hybrid format that adds sounds and limited motion to comics, while giving the reader a choice in how the story plays out. The first release will be Batman: Arkham Origins – A DC2 MultiVerse Graphic Novel.
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Columbia Acquires Kitchen Sink Press Comics Archive
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library has reached an agreement with comics artist, historian, publisher and literary agent Denis Kitchen to acquire the archive of Kitchen Sink Press, the legendary publisher of underground comics that Kitchen directed between 1969 and 1999.
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Laphams’s ‘Stray Bullets’ Is Back in Print and Digital
Stray Bullets, David Lapham’s enigmatic, brutal and heartbreaking comic about the web of crime, murder and abuse that surrounds several generations of lowlifes, is back. Now coming out from Image, the first 40 issues of the book are available today digitally via the Image Comics website, Comixology, the Image Comics iOS app, and Android, Android, Google Play, iBooks and Kindle
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Upcoming Comics Events: December 16, 2013
Jesse Reklaw Signing in Portland, OR; Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner in Tampa, FL.