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Dark Horse Debuts CLAMP's 'Gate 7'
If you're not familiar with CLAMP, the Japanese all-female superstar manga collective, you'll hear a lot more about them very soon. Best-known for such bestselling manga series as Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa, CLAMP and Dark Horse will publish Gate 7, an original manga that will be released in the U.S. October 25.
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Digital Graphic Novel on CIA's 1953 Iran Coup
In 2007, video game artist Daniel Burwen came across Steven Kinzer's Overthrow and was "blown away" by its overview of American geopolitical chicanery. The result is Operation Ajax: How the CIA Toppled Democracy in Iran, an unusual interactive digital graphic novel and app developed for the iPad.
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone, longtime cohost of On the Media, NPR's weekly radio show on journalism and media, has turned to comics: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Norton), a nonfiction comics work created in collaboration with Josh Neufeld.
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Archie Comics Launches New 'Sonic' Graphic Novel Series
Archie Comics is looking to expand the audience for Sonic the Hedgehog, the Sega videogame franchise character, with three new graphic novel series, including two in a new, larger format that are designed to appeal to teenagers and older readers. All three series will collect material previously published as monthly comics, and all are designed with bookstores and comics shops in mind.
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Digital Comics Offerings Growing for Nook
While the iPad has been the most-talked about digital platform for comics, B&N has expanded its digital comics offerings on the Nook, offering comics as apps rather than converting the content into a proprietary e-book format, like Amazon does for the Kindle, or into the open source ePub format.
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Comics Reviews: 5/9/11
New books by Yuichi Yokoyama, Doug TenNapel, Pascal Girard, Stan Lee and Deborah Vankin are reviewed this month.
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Notable Comics Events
Walt Simonson, Joe Quesada and Jim Steranko Live in NYC; Jason Shiga's Empire State Book Launch; Dallas Comic Con; Monte Schulz On Peanuts & His Father; and Heroes Con in June
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This Meme's For Us: Jay Cantor's 'Aaron and Ahmed' and the Roots of Terror
Jay Cantor and James Romberger’s graphic novel, Aaron and Ahmed, embraces the idea of memes--cultural concepts that spread quickly--in regard to the War On Terror. Beginning with 9/11 and the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the book focuses on the notion that powerful symbols dictate the fight against terror as much as actions.
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Pen World Voices: Getting Real with Superheroes
New York City's Cooper Union was the scene for "Get Super Lit," a unique extravaganza of comic art projected on a wide film screen with voice acting and musical accompaniment, held as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.
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Amazon Removes Some Explicit Yaoi Manga from Kindle Store
Amazon has removed several yaoi manga from its Kindle Store and refused to allow others to be offered for the Kindle, although the bookseller continues to sell the same manga in print and to offer more explicit erotic books in both formats. Yaoi manga features love stories between two males and can range from softly romantic to sexually explicit.
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Comics Briefly 5/03/11
Free Comic Book Day May 7, Duncan The Wonder Dog Wins LA Times Book Prize, Bendis To Write Marvel MMO Plot, Titan Brings Out Comics App, FDNY and Marvel's New Fire Safety Comic Free Online, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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Boston Comic Con 2011: Small Is Beautiful
The Boston Comic Con has been growing steadily from its origins as a small hotel comics convention centered around buying comics to an event that features top-name guests but still has the intimacy of a hometown comics festival. While the show is smaller than a big-city convention, it is growing fast. BCC press liaison Colin Solan said attendance this past weekend was 6,000, a big increase over both last year’s attendance of 4,100 and the show’s 2009 attendance of 2,800.
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Panel Mania Preview: Ray Bradbury Adaptations from Hill and Wang
Following their 2009 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Hill and Wang is publishing adaptations of Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Ray Bradbury’s The Martin Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation by Dennis Calero includes fifteen of the interconnected stories from Bradbury’s book, which follows man as they travel and settle on Mars with the ancient, dying race that inhabits the planet. In Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation by Ron Wimberly, two boys, Will and Jim, discover the dark magic and evil at work in the traveling sideshow, Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show, that comes to their town a week before Halloween. This preview includes a selection of pages from each book. Both books will be released on July 17.
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Viz Expands iPad Manga App to iPhone, iPod Touch
Viz Media has expanded its iPad app to include support for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Viz Manga app features over 200 titles. All manga currently on the iPad are also available for the other devices, and readers who buy a book on one platform can sync them across all platforms.
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First Second Evolves for the Internet with Webcomics Imprint
Macmillan's graphic novel imprint First Second Books has launched To Be Continued..., a book imprint that specializes in serializing its titles online as Web Comics before releasing them in print at a later date.
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‘PW Comics Week’ Goes Monthly; More Web Coverage Planned
After nearly six years of weekly publication, PW Comics Week, Publishers Weekly’s email newsletter on comics and graphic novel publishing, will switch to a monthly schedule effective beginning next month. Although we are changing the frequency of the newsletter, the change will not diminish our overall comics coverage. Publishers Weekly will continue to cover graphic novels and comics in the book industry and traditional comics industry, publishing news and feature stories through the PW website and PW Daily as well as in our new monthly graphic novel newsletter.
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Dark Horse Launches Comics App and Digital Store
After updating its software to comply with Apple's revamped app guidelines, Dark Horse will launch the Dark Horse Digital application for iOS devices and the Dark Horse Web store on April 27. The application will feature more than 250 comics priced from from free to 99 cents to $1.99.
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W.W. Norton to Publish Revised Edition of 'R. Crumb: The Complete Record Collection'
In November W. W. Norton will publish a new and revised edition of R. Crumb: The Complete Record Collection, a slip-cased hardcover edition of a book originally published in Europe that collects every album cover ever created by Crumb.
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Comics Briefly 04/26/2011
2011 Hugo Awards Nominations For Graphic Stories, Dark Horse CEO Speaks to ICv2 About Layoffs, Archie Comics Available Digitally in Spanish, Comixology & Stan Lee Create Digital Comics Japan Benefit Anthology, Barnes & Noble Launches Digital Comics App for Nook, Afrodisiac Free Online, Spider-Man Musical to be Satirized on Law & Order: CI, Comic Books Live Reading in NYC, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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