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What the Small Comics Publisher Needs To Know About Kindle

By Todd Allen | 03/15/2011 @ 04:30PM

Publishing digital comics to Amazon's Kindle eReader presents a set of unique problems for the small comics publisher. These problems revolve around the size of artwork and the cost of downloading as part of the KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing program.
Unauthorized Spidey Project Swings on the Stage

By Kate Fitzsimons | 03/15/2011 @ 04:00PM

In the face of the endless delays and injuries in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, The Spidey Project, a Spider-Man parody musical not endorsed by Marvel, played Monday, March 14 to a packed house with none of its bigger brother's problems.
Eureka! Looking For Comics at SXSW

By Calvin Reid | 03/15/2011 @ 04:00PM

While the number of panels weren’t huge, comics as well as comics creators and fans were much in evidence at this year’s SXSW Interactive festival. From comics-identified culture stars like filmmaker Robert Rodriguez to comics writers Greg Rucka and Greg Pak, the medium was celebrated, cited for an ability to creatively engage readers and hailed as a critical aspect of contemporary culture and storytelling.
Panel Mania: Mister Wonderful

Compiled by Ada Price | 03/15/2011 @ 04:00AM

In Mister Wonderful, a new book from Daniel Clowes originally serialized in the New York Times, Marshall, divorced and unemployed, sits alone in a café waiting for Natalie, his blind date. Marshall has resigned himself to a lonely, pathetic existence when Natalie finally arrives an hour late. She turns out to be young, beautiful and intelligent. Yet, the date goes anything but smoothly as the two are repeatedly forced into awkward and emotionally charged situations. Mister Wonderful will be released by Pantheon on April 12.
Comics Briefly 3/15/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

Viz Statement on Japan Disaster, Eagle and Stumptown Award Nominations, Neil Gaiman Writes Journey to the West Adaptation, This Week @ Good Comics 4 Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Comics Reviews: 3/14/11

| 03/14/2011 @ 12:00PM

Tardi, Frazetta and Marvel's villainous Taskmaster in this week's comics reviews.
Kodansha International to Close

By Calvin Reid | 03/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

In the wake of Japanese publisher Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing’s acquisition of New York/Tokyo independent publisher Vertical Inc., Kodansha is closing Kodansha International, an English-language imprint of the giant Japanese publishing house.
Life in Comics: Cult of Personality

By Jennifer de Guzman | 03/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

On Valentine’s day, Comic Relief, one of the best-known and most highly regarded comic book stores in the country, closed its doors permanently after twenty-four years in business. I have to admit, I rarely go to comic book stores, but if I had a comics shop that was “my” store, Comic Relief was it. When I bought graphic novels at conventions, it was usually from the Comic Relief booth.
Round Table, SmarterComics Offer Free Downloads, More Nonfiction Comics

By Calvin Reid | 03/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

On the eve of the release of SmarterComics' line of adaptations of bestselling business and motivational prose titles, book packager The Round Table Companies has joined with SmarterComics to release the nonfiction comics titles as e-books, available for free download for 90 days beginning April 1.
Comics Briefly 03/08/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

Spider-Man Parody Musical Sells Out, Original Spider-Man Show Script, Kirkman and Liefeld Team Up On New Series, Neil Gaiman & Jim Lee Digital Charity Comic, The Comics Journal Unveils New Site, Digital Wizard World Magazine Premieres, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Stu Levy and the Rise and Fall of Tokyopop

By Calvin Reid | 03/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

Battered by the economy, a global decline in manga sales and now the Borders bankruptcy, Tokyopop is now a smaller company, much reduced from the early 2000s when the company virtually defined the popularity of manga and Japanese pop culture.
Panel Mania: 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente

Compiled by Ada Price | 03/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago chronicles the life of 1960’s Hall of Fame baseball star and humanitarian Roberto Clemente from his childhood in rural Puerto Rico to the World Series he helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win. Besides being one of the greatest Latino players, the book shows Clemente’s drive outside of baseball and the relief mission to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua in 1972, during which he died in a plane crash. 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente will be released by Fantagraphics on April 12.
Comics Reviews: 3/7/11

| 03/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

New books by Naomi Novik, Carla Jablonski, a Sherlock Holmes adaptation and a story about an affair between a young Hong Kong woman and a white English teacher in this week's reviews.
Tough Times at Tokyopop

By Calvin Reid | 03/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

The recent layoffs at Tokyopop, the U.S. manga publisher founded by Stu Levy in Japan and Los Angeles in 1996 and 1997, have turned a spotlight on the house's decline over the past few years.
Vankin Explores LA's Nightlife World in 'Poseurs'

by Beth Scorzato | 03/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

Writer Deborah Vankin explores the bizarre world of L.A. nightlife in the new YA graphic novel Poseurs. Jenna is a quiet, hard-working teen from Echo Park who, after losing her job, becomes a “partier-for-hire” and soon gets mixed up in lies, blackmail, and kidnapping. The book is available from Image Comics now.
Comics Briefly 03/01/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

Comics Creator Shaun Tan Wins Oscar, Tributes to Late Comics Creator Dwayne McDuffie, Anant Pai, Father of Indian Comics, Dies, International Manga Awards, Rival Spider-Man Parody Musical Comes to NYC, Spider-Man Top Chef Comic, Powers Pilot Picked up by FX, Van Lente and Dunlavey Talk Comics History Live, Oni Press Mix Tape
Bad News But More Good News for Boom! Studios

By Brigid Alverson | 03/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

February was a bad news/good news month for Boom! Studios: The bad news: Lost the license to publish graphic novels based on Disney/Pixar movies. The good news: Picked up licenses for a Peanuts graphic novel, Word Girl comics, a new property by Muppet's graphic novel artist Roger Langridge and renamed its Boom! Kids line, kaboom!
Panel Mania: Lucille

Compiled by Ada Price | 03/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

In Lucille, two teenagers, Lucille and Arthur, struggle with issues inherited from their parents, issues that manifest in Lucille as anorexia and in Arthur as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Arthur’s father is an immigrant fisherman who drowns his depression and anger in alcohol, and Lucille’s parents have split apart. In an effort to escape the patterns and sorrows of their families, they run off together on a bold trip across Europe to forge their own destiny. Lucille is by the award winning French cartoonist Ludovic Debeurme and will be released by Top Shelf in April.
Comics Reviews: 2/28/2011

| 02/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

The latest books by Daniel Clowes, Gene Luen Yang, Chris Roberson and Michael Allred and an offbeat cancer memoir by Ross Mackintosh are reviewed this week.
First Amendment Fan Boys

By Calvin Reid | 02/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

Founded 25 years ago, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of cartoonists, publishers, retailers, and librarians, is coming off a big year. Besides electing cartoonist Larry Marder its new president, the CBLDF relaunched its Web site, moved to larger Manhattan offices, and was awarded the prestigious Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award at the American Library Association's Midwinter meeting in San Diego.

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