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Upcoming Comics Events: 2/04/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/04/2013 @ 03:00PM

2/9 New Chuck Jones Art & Animation Exhibit in San Francisco, CA; 2/13 Kelly Sue DeConnick & Pete Woods "Avengers Assemble" Signing in Portland, OR; 2/23, 2/24 Scott McCloud's 2-Day Making Comics Class in Los Angeles, CA
Rep. John Lewis To Visit BEA, San Diego Comic-Con To Promote ‘March’

By Calvin Reid | 02/04/2013 @ 12:00AM

Slated for publication in August 2013 by Top Shelf Productions, March is a three volume graphic autobiography of longtime Congressman and legendary Civil Rights veteran John Lewis, that will be co-produced by Andrew Aydin, Lewis’ co-writer, and award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell.
Alvin Lu Leaves Viz Media

| 02/01/2013 @ 12:00AM

In an unexpected development, it has been reported by the pop culture news site ICv2.com that Alvin Lu, Viz Media executive v-p of publishing, has left the company.
Digital Comics Are Getting Cheaper

By Todd Allen | 01/31/2013 @ 10:00AM

Digital comics are in a transitional period as they enter the traditional world of e-books, with wider availability but total inconsistency in pricing.
DMI to Shut Down Digital Manga Direct

By Calvin Reid | 01/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

Digital Manga Inc., a California-based manga publishers specializing in the yaoi genre and digital delivery, announced plans to close Digital Manga Direct, its wholesale division. The move follows DMI’s announcement in November that it is suspending all of its print publication until June 2013, while continuing to offer digital editions of its publishing list.
Upcoming Comics Events: 1/28/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/28/2013 @ 03:00PM

2/3 Ming Doyle Signs Graphic Novel "Mara" in Boston, MA; 2/3 100th Issue of "Invincible" Party with Kirkman and Ottley in Sherman Oaks, CA; 2/9 New Chuck Jones Art & Animation Exhibit in San Francisco, CA.
Spring 2013 Announcements: Comics & Graphic Novels: Childhood Rediscovered

By Heidi MacDonald | 01/25/2013 @ 07:00PM

Although new works by Bryan Lee O’Malley and Paul Pope will come later in the year, early 2013 boasts two past winners of the PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll: Dash Shaw and Rutu Modan. One recurring theme of the Spring season’s best books is an examination of childhood: the momentary joys and terrors of an average child’s day told with the detachment and sympathy of passing time.
Upcoming Comics Events: 1/21/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/21/2013 @ 03:00PM

1/26 Rick Remender "Captain America" and "Uncanny Avengers" Signing in Huntingdon Beach, CA; 2/3 Ming Doyle Signs Graphic Novel "Mara" in Boston, MA; 2/9 New Chuck Jones Art & Animation Exhibit in San Francisco, CA.
Viz’s ‘Weekly Shonen Jump’ Debuts New Era of Simultaneous Releases

by Calvin Reid | 01/21/2013 @ 12:00AM

Manga publisher and anime distributor Viz Media embarked on a new era of simultaneous Japanese and English manga publishing January 21 after releasing the first issue of the renamed and redesigned Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha.
DC Comics Looks to the Library Market in 2013

By Calvin Reid | 01/15/2013 @ 12:00AM

In a year that started with an agreement to add Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data to all of its graphic novel collections, DC Comics also reported that overall sales of its graphic novels to the library market grew by “double digits” in 2012 and the publisher is looking to continue that growth in 2013.
Upcoming Comics Events: 1/14/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/14/2013 @ 01:00PM

1/18 Ryan Stegman Signs "Superior Spider-Man #1" in Orlando, FL; 1/18-1/20 Animate! Miami in Miami, FL; 1/26 Rick Remender "Captain America" and "Uncanny Avengers" Signing in Huntingdon Beach, CA.
Diamond Releases Top Graphic Novels Charts for 2012

| 01/09/2013 @ 11:00AM

Diamond Comics Distributors released its annual figures ranking the top performers in the direct market in 2012.
Ware's 'Building Stories' Tops PW Comics World's 2012 Graphic Novel Critics' Poll

By PW Staff | 01/09/2013 @ 09:00AM

File under the totally expected: Chris Ware's amazing Building Stories has topped the seventh annual PW Comics World Critics' Poll for best graphic novels of 2012.
Panel Mania: Wonder Woman Vol. 2

Compiled by Ada Price | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Guts collects the New 52 storyline of Wonder Woman. Hades kidnaps Zola and traps her in the underworld, and Wonder Woman, with the help of the God of Love and the God of Smiths, is determined to break her out. Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Guts is written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Cliff Chiang; it will be released by DC Comics on January 15.
Panel Mania: Curses! Foiled Again

Compiled by Ada Price | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

Curses! Foiled Again is the sequel to Foiled (2010), written by the bestselling YA prose writer Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro. Aliera Carstairs is the hereditary defender of the fairy kingdom Seelie, which is under attack and only Aliera and her cousin Caroline can save it. Curses! Foiled Again was published by First Second in January.
Panel Mania: Northlanders Vol. 7

Compiled by Ada Price | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

In Northlanders Vol. 7: The Icelandic Trilogy, writer Brian Wood weaves together the decades spanning crime drama of the Hauksson clan with Ulf Hauksson taking over his clan's settlement in a new land and a violent civil war years later. This is the final story arc in the series which explores the bloody origins of Iceland. Northlanders Vol. 7 is illustrated by Massimo Carnevale and will be released in January by Vertigo Comics.
Panel Mania: 7 Miles a Second

Compiled by Ada Price | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

7 Miles a Second was written by the legendary East Village artist David Wojnarowicz during the last years of his life before his AIDS related death in 1992. It was originally published by DC's Vertigo imprint in 1996 and follows his childhood hustling on the streets of Manhattan, through his adult life with AIDS, and his anger with the indifference of the government and health agencies. 7 Miles a Second is illustrated by James Romberger and colored by Marguerite Van Cook.
Titan Books To Launch Titan Comics Imprint

By Calvin Reid | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

U.K. comics and pop culture publisher Titan Books is launching Titan Comics, a new comics and graphic novel imprint, featuring both original creator-owned material and classic reissues published as both monthly periodicals, complete and collected graphic novels and digital editions.
Lerner Names Karre, Hinz Interim Directors of Graphic Universe

by Claire Kirch and Calvin Reid | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

Lerner Publishing Group announced that Andrew Karre, editorial director of the Lerner imprints Carolrhoda Books and Darby Creek, and Carol Hinz, editorial director of Lerner’s Millbrook Press, have been named interim co-directors of Graphic Universe, Lerner’s graphic novel imprint.
ShiftyLook Uses Free Web Comics and Games to Build an Audience

By Brigid Alverson | 01/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

The Japanese videogame giant Namco Bandai is giving the freemium model a try with their new Web comics site, ShiftyLook.

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