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DC Comics Launches Effort to Fight Hunger in Africa
DC Comics parent DC Entertainment has announced the launch of We Can Be Heroes, a humanitarian effort to address the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa, with plans to raise $2 million for three aid organizations working in the region.
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Lone Star’s Chris Powell to Join Diamond Comics Distributors
Chris Powell, longtime general manager of the Texas comics shop chain, Lone Star Comics, and Mycomicsshop.com, has been named executive director of business development for the comic book specialty market at Diamond Comics Distributors.
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Retailers Struggle with Marvel’s Inconsistent Backlist
Marvel Comics has long ruled the comic book sales charts, but the comics giant has not achieved the same dominance in the book trade.
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Antarctic Press Wins Extension in Wimpy Kid Suit
Antarctic Press, the small manga publisher that was sued for copyright infringement by Wimpy Kid, Inc. over the sale of its parody of the popular children's series featuring zombies, was given more time to negotiate.
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2011: Bad Start, Good Ending For Diamond Book Distributors
Despite a year spent weathering the failure of Borders Books, Diamond Book Distributors v-p sales and marketing Kuo-yu Liang says the year ended strongly for the distributor of graphic novels and pop culture merchandise.
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Hark! A Vagrant Tops 2011 PW Comics World Critic’s Poll
Although it’s often said that comedy has a disadvantage when it comes to winning recognition, that was not the case with this year’s PW Comics World Critic’s Poll: the book with the most votes was Kate Beaton’s webcomic compilation Hark! A Vagrant, a laff riot of frustrated admirals, over-zealous girl detectives and baby-dropping F. Scott Fitzgerald characters that cemented Beaton's ascent of one of North America's top cartoonists.
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Comics Reviews January 2012
The New 52 compilation, a sequel to Beilerplate and new books by Derf Backderf and Nick Spencer are reviewed this month.
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Comics Events 1/10/2012
Chip Kidd discusses Bat-Manga in New York, Eric Shanower discusses Oz in San Francisco and more.
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Peter Kuper, Bemis Balkind Team to Publish ‘Drawn to New York'
Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper has teamed up with L.A. advertising agency Bemis Balkind to publish Drawn to New York, a new e-book-only collection documenting his comics and illustration work for the U.S market.
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Round Table To Publish Graphic Adaptation of The U.S. Constitution
The Round Table Companies is turning to the educational market and releasing The Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, adapted by Nadja Baer and illustrated by Nathan Lueth along with a curriculum guide for use in the classroom.
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Panel Mania: The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, published by Writers of the Round Table Press, includes the text of the original Constitution in it's entirety, as well as an accompanying narrative and full color illustrations that explore the Constitution's creation.
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More To Come 15: Outlook 2012
In their first podcast of 2012, the More To Come crew makes their predictions for the year to come, from publishers to watch out for and cultural trends to the most exciting books of the upcoming year!
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‘Kramers Ergot #8:’ Compact, Fresh and Terrifying
In January, Picturebox releases the eighth issue of editor/cartoonist Sammy Harkham's influential anthology title, Kramers Ergot.
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New Apps Spotlight Indie and Web Comic
As digital comics have risen to become a $25 million a year business, even more specialized apps for different comics genres are emerging.
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Panel Mania: Silent Partner Graphic Novel
Fictional LAPD forensic psyhologist Alex Delaware comes to life in this graphic novel adaptation of bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s classic 1989 psychological thriller Silent Partner by Michael Gaydos and Ande Parks, in the first graphic adaptation of a Kellerman novel.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 1/07/2013
1/9 Brian Wood "Star Wars #1" Release Party and Trivia Game in New York, NY; 1/12 Center for Cartoon Studies Portfolio Day at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA; 1/18 Ryan Stegman Signs "Superior Spider-Man #1" in Orlando, FL.
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Houghton To Release 100K First Printing of Alison Bechdel Memoir
On May 1 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will release a 100,000 copy first printing of Are You My Mother?, the newest work by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the acclaimed and bestselling 2006 comics memoir Fun Home.
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Same Day Print, Digital Release: The New Standard For Comics
It’s time to declare a winner in the argument over when the digital edition of a comic should be released. The winner is the same day as the print edition.
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Panel Mania: The Silence of Our Friends
Written by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos, The Silence of Our Friends is a semi-autobiographical story which follows a white and black family in segregated 1967 Texas. Told from the point of view of a young Mark Long, his father is a reporter covering the story of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman and the struggle to free them.
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Wimpy Kid Wins Restraining Order Against Comics Parody
The Wimpy Kid was not so wimpy in a Massachusetts court Wednesday when the company won a temporary restraining order against Antarctic Press, publisher of two Wimpy Kid parody graphic novels.
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