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JManga.com Opens Web portal to Japanese comics

By Brigid Alverson | 08/24/2011 @ 12:00AM

Last week the Digital Comics Association, a group of 39 Japanese manga publishers, launched the web manga portal JManga.com with plans to make a catalog of 10,000 titles available by 2013. The site serves both as a promotional vehicle for publishers and a destination site for readers looking for manga they can read and buy online.
Comics Events: 8/22/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/22/2011 @ 10:30AM

Kagan McLeod's Infinite Kung Fu Launch in Toronto, Evan Dorkin in New York and more.
Baltimore Comic-Con Attendance Way Up

By Heidi MacDonald | 08/22/2011 @ 10:00AM

Amid the general economic gloom, and uncertainty over comics sales' shift to digital delivery, attendance was up sharply at this weekend's Baltimore Comic-Con.
More To Come 5: The New Spider-Man Unmasked

Produced by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/16/2011 @ 04:00PM

This episode, our three hosts cover the new Ultimate Spider-Man, Womanthology, MoCCA vs. Stumptown and more.
ComicsUnited: An Ad Network for Independent Comics

By Todd Allen | 08/15/2011 @ 09:00AM

The Bonfire Agency has announced a new ad network, ComicsUnited, that will sell across five prominent comics publishers.
Valiant Comics Looks To Return In 2012

By Beth Scorzato | 08/09/2011 @ 12:10PM

After nearly 10 years off the shelves, the assets of Valiant Comics have been acquired by new owners and attracted funding from the private investment firm of Cuneo & Co. The revived comics publisher will be relaunched in 2012 with distribution by Diamond Comics Distributors.
Inside the Digital Manga Guild

By Brigid Alverson | 08/09/2011 @ 12:01AM

Digital Manga Publishing's experiment in fan translation, the Digital Manga Guild, is about to release its first book, a yaoi romance. This is just the first of 54 titles in the process of being translated, edited, and lettered by 18 different localization teams.
'Age of Bronze Seen' iPad App to Debut at New York Comic-Con

By Calvin Reid | 08/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

This October at New York Comic-Con, Throwaway Horse, the venture behind graphic adaptations of Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, will debut Age of Bronze Seen, an iPad app for Eric Shanower’s acclaimed graphic novel series that retells the epic story of the Trojan War.
Ramon Perez Brings Early Jim Henson Script To Life

By Brigid Alverson | 08/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

All collaborations have their own challenges, but the one that faces Ramon Perez, the artist for A Tale of Sand, due out this fall from Archaia, is especially delicate: He is drawing a graphic novel based on an unproduced movie script by Muppets creator Jim Henson.
Panel Mania: Underwire

Compiled by Ada Price | 08/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

Underwire is a collection of short auto-biographical comics by Jennifer Hayden. Originally serialized on the webcomic collective, Act-I-Vate, Underwire offers a witty look at her everyday life, womanhood, parenting, and rocking out. This preview includes two comics from the collection: “Watercress” and “Lose the Balloons.” Underwire will be released by Top Shelf in October.
Massive, Eccentric, Ambitious: Anders Nilsen's 'Big Questions'

By James Romberger | 08/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

This month Drawn and Quarterly will publish Anders Nilsen’s massive graphic novel Big Questions, a book fourteen years in the making.
Comics Reviews August 2011

| 08/08/2011 @ 12:01PM
Comics Events: 8/08/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/08/2011 @ 12:00PM

Mike Mignola in Manhattan Beach, Wizard World Chicago Comic Con & Eduardo Risso exhibit in Chicago
Comics Enter Big Box Stores Under a Cloud of Mystery

By Todd Allen | 08/05/2011 @ 09:00AM

Although publishers are keeping their plans private, comics are reappearing in Walmarts and other big box stores, in both specially targeted lines and as multi-packs.
More to Come 4: Surviving Comic-Con with the PW Comics World Podcast

By Kate Fitzsimons | 08/03/2011 @ 08:00AM

In the fourth episode of the PW Comics World Podcast, Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons look back at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
Comics Events: 08/01/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/01/2011 @ 12:00PM

Robert Kirkman & Rob Liefeld in Anaheim, Grant Morrison in San Francisco & more
Fork in the Manga Road

By Calvin Reid | 07/29/2011 @ 07:00PM

During the recent Comic-Con International, Viz Media launched VizManga.com, a for-pay manga portal offering access to top-quality titles. At the same time, a coalition of 39 Japanese manga publishers announced an August launch for JManga.com, a promotional manga site aimed at offering mostly free but limited access to an unknown number of titles and other content.
Comics, Digital Delivery and a Few Movies Rule Comic-Con 2011

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 07/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

Even the failure of a major book retail chain couldn’t put a damper on this year’s San Diego Comic-con international. Attendance is capped at about 130,000—still not a bad crowd—and the show featured big announcements about forthcoming graphic novels, digital delivery and more than a few blockbuster movies and TV shows. And publishers contacted by PW Comics World seemed happy with the sales of books at their booths and the number of media outlets on hand to write about them.

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