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Panel Mania: Marzi
Marzena Sowa presents Poland under the Soviet Union on the brink of revolution in her memoir Marzi, illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Sylvain Savoia. Arranged into a sequence of vignettes, the stories are told from young Marzi’s perspective, as she struggles to make sense of the soviet-controlled and adult world.
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Graphicly Offers Comics via Facebook, Apple’s Newsstand and More
Digital comics distributor and software vendor Graphicly has launched a Facebook app offering Facebook users access to a complete list of its comics; released a widget offering access via blogs and websites and debuted on Apple’s Newsstand, a new iOS5 service that allows subscriptions and automatic downloads for monthly comics and other periodicals.
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More to Come 10: News from NYCC and Layoffs at Marvel
In this podcast, layoffs at Marvel, digital manga announcements and news and books from the recent New York Comic Con.
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Viz Media To Launch SuBLime, Digital/Print Yaoi Line in December
Viz Media is partnering with Japanese anime/manga retailer Animate and Yaoi publisher Libre Publishing, to launch SuBLime, a new manga graphic novel line specializing in Yaoi or Boys Love, that will release titles in digital and print formats beginning in December.
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Hachette Licenses App Development Platform to Round Table Companies
Round Table Companies has reached an agreement with the Hachette Book Group to get access to HBG’s digital content management system in order to develop an app that will feature a variety of RTC content.
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Cost Cutting at Marvel Comics Leads to Lay-offs
In what was described internally as a cost-cutting move, Marvel Comics laid off 11 employees last week, including three editors, four in production, two in the collections department and two from digital compositing.
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‘Kill Shakespeare’ Invited To Sundance
In July 2009, PW met two former film producers at the San Diego Comic-Con to hear about a comics project with the provocative title of Kill Shakespeare. Kill Shakespeare—a comics/graphic novel series from IDW that cleverly reshuffles characters from across the plays of the Bard into one big swashbuckling adventure tale—has found an audience.
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First Second Comics Anthology Updates Classic Nursery Rhymes
A wide range of cartoonists from Dave Roman to Mike Mignola have been recruited to update classic nursery rhymes in First Second’s Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists, an anthology edited by Chris Duffy that will be published this month.
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Comics News Stands Out From the Crowds at New York Comic-Con 2011
After attracting 105,000 fans that packed the Jacob Javits Convention Center, last weekend’s New York Comic Con was not only the second biggest U.S. comics convention of the year, it was a colorful, at times chaotic, mix of all that pop culture has to offer.
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Manga at NYCC 2011: Viz, Yen Press, Kodansha, Vertical and 'Homestuck'
Although Viz Media stole the spotlight at New York Comic Con with news of "near-simultaneous" Japan/U.S. publishing of its new digital weekly, Yen Press made an announcement of its own about a "real simultaneous" dual language publication.
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Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2011
PW Comics World joined the other 105,000 fans that swarmed through the Javits Center October 13-16 to attend this year's New York Comic Con. We brought back lots of photographs of the action, "the talent," the craziness and all the fun. So, take a look and tell us what you think!
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Comics Events 10/18/2011
Master class with Howard Chaykin in NYC, Halloween with Jill Thompson in Chicago and more.
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Kids’ Comics: Small but Mighty at NYCC 2011
This year's New York Comic-Con may have been the biggest ever, but children's comics were a smaller presence. There were no industry panels on children's comics, as there have been in previous years, and only a handful of panels and new-product announcements.
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Big Crowds, More Digital Delivery at New York Comic Con
Big crowds and the growing transition to digital delivery were the big stories coming out of New York Comic Con, held this past weekend at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Although official figures have not yet been released, in his blog, ReedPop v-p and show organizer Lance Fensterman said the 2011 New York Comic Con attracted a record crowd of 105,000 people, easily surpassing the 90,000 fans that attended last year.
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Kodansha Debuts Manga iPad App at New York Comic Con
In the latest digital news to come out of New York Comic Con, Kodansha USA Publishing, in conjunction with its distributor Random House Publisher Services, announced plans to release a Kodansha Comics iPad app featuring a selection of the publisher’s manga backlist.
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DC Extends Returnability for The New 52
DC Comics will stick with what works and keep their new 52 comics relaunch returnable through April, it was announced at Thursday's Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con. The move is to keep retailers from simply cutting their orders as perceived interest drops off, DC v-p of sales and marketing Bob Wayne told PW.
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Viz Media to Launch Near-Simultaneous Japan/U.S. Digital Manga Weekly
In a move that will brings its manga program very close to simultaneous English and Japanese publication, Viz Media plans to launch Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, a weekly digital serialized manga anthology.
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The DC Relaunch Bests Marvel on Line Average Sales
DC Comics relaunched their entire superhero line in September with new #1 issues for 52 titles. The event has certainly been a best-case scenario for sales with multiple printings and sell-outs. DC even edged out Marvel for overall sales for the first time in recent memory. How did DC and Marvel really stack up for September sales? For that answer, we need to look at line averages.
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Abrams Acquires U.K. Graphic Novel Publisher SelfMadeHero
Art and illustrated book publisher Abrams has signed a letter of intent to purchase SelfMadeHero, a London-based graphic novel publisher.
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BAM Joins B&N, Removes DC Graphic Novels Over Kindle Fire Deal
Book retailer Books-A-Million has joined with Barnes & Noble and notified DC Entertainment that they are removing the 100 graphic novels from their shelves that DC plans to sell exclusively through the Kindle Fire.
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