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BEA 2012: Hot, Hot, Hot! New Graphic Novels Sizzle

by Matt White | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

Organized by the Graphic Novel Reporter, the “Hottest Graphics Novels of 2012” panel, a rapid-fire rundown of the year’s best releases, has quickly become one of the more popular panels on graphic novels and comics at BookExpo America.
JManga's Evolving Digital Subscription Service

By Brigid Alverson | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

JManga launched last August as a digital manga site that would be an online subscription portal to the work of 39 different Japanese publishers. PW Comics World spoke with the site's managers to get an update on its evolution.
BEA 2012: Happy Publishers, Great Comics and the Graphic Novel Revolution

by Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

While comics and graphic novels didn’t make a huge splash at this year’s BookExpo America, the category nevertheless held its own at the show on several panels, the Author Stages and throughout the exhibition Floor.
Super Folk: DC’s Zero Issues, Avengers Vs. X-Men, New from Boom and May Sales

By Matt White | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics Worlds’s superhero news hub, DC Comics reveals its September #0 issues and its “Third Wave” of New 52 titles, Marvel's Avengers Vs. X-Men’s second act, upcoming comics from Boom Studios, May sales and more.
The Will Eisner Graphic Novel Prize For Libraries to Debut at ALA Anaheim

By Calvin Reid | 06/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

The American Library Association and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation announced plans to launch the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Prize for Libraries, to be awarded to three libraries annually at the ALA Summer conference.
Panel Mania: Are You My Mother?

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, creator of the acclaimed graphic memoir, Fun Home, the story of her closeted gay father, returns with a new comics memoir Are You My Mother?, this time about her brilliant, diffcult and emotionally distant mother. Are You My Mother? is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
BEA 2012: Comics and Graphic Novels: Indies Rule

By Beth Scorzato and Matt White | 06/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

Independent comics publishers will rule the floor at BEA, while Marvel and DC Comics, the Big Two of U.S. comics publishing, have decided to skip having their own booths at the show. Nevertheless, both publishers are likely to have at least a minimal presence of their titles in the Diamond Comic Distributors booth (3575) as well as displays with their parent companies, Disney (3351 and MR7023) and Warner Bros. (RC67), respectively.
Super Folk: DC’s Outed Hero, Digital News, New from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, and More

By Matt White | 06/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero news central, DC Comics’ gay character revealed, new and series from Image, Dynamite, IDW, Hermes, digital news: a Kickstarter for Cerebus, Marvel news, and more.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/04/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 06/04/2012 @ 02:00PM

6/7 Chip Kidd "Batman: Death By Design" Signing in New York, NY; 6/13 Aline Kominsky-Crumb & Dominque Sapel at MoCCA in New York, NY; 6/13-6/17 Denver Comic Con & Literary Conference in Denver, CO.
Midtown Comics Opens in FAO Schwarz

| 06/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

Midtown Comics, which has been in Manhattan's central neighborhood since 1997, is opening a store inside FAO Schwarz's Fifth Avenue location. The retail spot will feature graphic novels, hardcovers, apparel, collectibles and other items.
Yen Press Plans Graphic Novels Based on Monster Galaxy Videogame

| 05/31/2012 @ 12:00AM

Yen Press, the Hachette Book Group’s manga and graphic novel imprint, has reached an agreement with social gaming publisher Gaia Interactive to create a series of graphic novels based on GI’s popular Monster Galaxy videogame franchise.
Super Folk: Marvel’s Same-Sex Wedding, DC Rumors, Digital News, National Cartoonist and Eagle Awards

By Matt White | 05/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s superhero news roundup, X-Men’s gay wedding, gay speculation from DC, Boom Studios, digital updates, the National Cartoonist Society, Eagle Awards, and more.
Upcoming Comics Events: 5/28/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 05/28/2012 @ 02:00PM

5/30 "Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist" Screening in Pittsburgh, PA; 6/2 Patric Reynolds Art Opening at Things from Another World in Portland, OR; 6/7 Chip Kidd "Batman: Death By Design" Signing in New York, NY.
Occupying Democracy: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco

By Casey Burchby | 05/25/2012 @ 07:00PM

Individually, journalists Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco have reported from some of the world's most chaotic war zones, including Bosnia, Gaza, and Iraq. In their first book-length collaboration, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (Nation Books, June), Hedges's words and Sacco's pictures form a mosaic portrait of the United States at a low point of economic dysfunction.
Andrews McMeel to Launch AMP! Comics for Kids Line at BEA

By Calvin Reid | 05/24/2012 @ 10:00AM

Andrews McMeel Publishing, a humor, comics strip collections, giftbook and nonfiction house, is launching AMP! Comics for Kids, a line of paperback graphic novel stories aimed at middle grade readers.
Panel Mania: Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

| 05/24/2012 @ 12:00AM

In this excerpt from the new hardcover collection, Best of Sonic the Hedge, Sonic wants to be turned into a robot to fight Dr. Robotnik, but Princess Sally rejects the risky scheme. The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog will be published this month by Archie Comics.
The University of Chicago Hosts a Gem of a Comics Conference

By Erich Beasley | 05/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

An amazing comics convention took place at the University of Chicago. Comics: Philosophy & Practice, hosted by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center of Art and Inquiry, featured such acclaimed and subversive artists as R. Crumb, punk cartoonist Gary Panter, graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel and comics giant Art Spiegelman, to name just a few.
Trajectory Releases Classic Illustrated Digital Comics on Kobo

By Calvin Reid | 05/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

After announcing it will release more than 120 Classics Illustrated comics as e-books on the Apple platform, Trajectory is now releasing the line through the Kobo e-bookstore and the 7-inch Kobo Vox tablet e-reader.
Super Folk: New from IDW, BOOM, and Dynamite, Digital DC, Kapow! Con and the Glyph and Stan Lee Awards

By Matt White | 05/22/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week Super Folk, PWCW’s superhero news rundown, looks at new series from IDW, Dynamite, Image and BOOM, DC’s online store, the Kapow! Con and the Glyph and Stan Lee Awards.
Upcoming Comics Events: 5/21/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 05/21/2012 @ 02:00PM

5/22, 5/23 Francoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman Discuss "Blown Covers" Live in New York; 5/23 Epic of Gilgamesh Release Party Portland, OR; 5/30 "Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist" Screening in Pittsburgh, PA

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