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Kindle, We Have a Problem: Amazon's Pricing Policies Affect Publishers

By Todd Allen | 02/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

In the comics world, most of the digital conversation is about comic books as apps for tablets and smart phones. However, while there is a nascent market for comics on e-book readers like the Kindle and B&N’s color device, the Nook, Amazon’s recently introduced digital “delivery fee,” charging publishers 15 cents per megabyte to transfer a book’s file to the Kindle, has forced some comics publishers to rethink using the Kindle platform.
Comics Briefly 2/22/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

Diamond Owed 3.9 Million by Bankrupt Borders, Spider-Man Musical Brings On Comics Writer, Fables and The Walking Dead To Become Videogames, India's First Comic-Con, DC Sweeps Gem Awards, Dark Horse Wins Manga Publisher of the Year, Will Eisner's New York , This Week @ Good Comics 4 Kids, This Week @ The Beat
History, Identity and Baseball: Wilfred Santiago Tells 'The Story of Roberto Clemente'

By John Seven | 02/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

The great Roberto Clemente is more than a baseball legend to cartoonist Wilfred Santiago. Santiago set out to capture the cultural realities underlying the legend in his new graphic biography, 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente, to be published by Fantagraphics Books in April.
Rizzoli To Reprint Howard Cruse's 'The Complete Wendel'

By Beth Scorzato | 02/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

Today, a gay character in comics doesn't seem that odd. But in the 1980s, life was very different for the homosexual community. So, when Howard Cruse wrote and drew his groundbreaking comic strip Wendel, it was revolutionary.
Panel Mania: The Cardboard Valise

Compiled by Ada Price | 02/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

The first book by MacArthur "Genius" grant winner Ben Katchor in ten years, The Cardboard Valise follows three residents of the same tenement and although they never meet, their lives overlap in a imaginative fictional world that features restroom ruins and an island whose inhabitants eat nothing but canned food. Emile Delilah loves foreign nations and is addicted to travel; Boreal Rinse is an exiled king; and Elijah Salamis is determined to erase cultural and geographic boundaries. The Cardboard Valise will be released by Pantheon on March 15.
Comics Reviews: 2/21/2011

| 02/21/2011 @ 12:00AM
Comics Briefly: 2/15/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

Obama Advisor Writes Health Care Comic, L'Association Strike Ends, Jobs Returned, Marvel Says No To Jury In Kirby Case, Sgt. Rock Salutes Army Maintenance In Special Comic, Craig Yoe Curates Comics Exhibit at Museum of Sex, This Week @ The Beat, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids
Shableski To Head New Publishing Division at JeffCorwinConnect

By Calvin Reid | 02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

John Shableski, DBD sales manager and one of the best known and energetic supporters of the graphic novel category, is leaving the distributor to take a position as president of the newly formed publishing division of JeffCorwinConnect
Rostan's Elegy Sprang from Jeopardy

by Kate Culkin | 02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

An Elegy for Amelia Johnson, the first graphic novel by Andrew Rostan, offers a meditation on death, love, and the connection between them. Archaia Press, which will release the 128-page volume in March, sees it as a tent pole of their list that will draw new readers to graphic novels.
Panel Mania: An Elegy for Amelia Johnson

Compiled by Ada Price | 02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

In An Elegy for Amelia Johnson, Amelia Johnson, dying of cancer, calls on her two best friends in her last weeks of life to fulfill her final request. Henry Barrons, a documentary filmmaker, and Jillian Webb, a magazine writer, drive across America to deliver and record Amelia’s last messages to those who were close to her. During the trip, the two make discoveries about their common friend, their perspective of her, and themselves. An Elegy for Amelia Johnson is written by Andrew Rostan and illustrated by Dave Valeza and Kate Kasenow; it is the first book for all three of them. It will be released by Archaia in March.
More Vendors, More Options In the Digital Comics Market

By Rich Shivener | 02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

In the wake of last week’s launch of Diamond Digital, Diamond Comics Distributors new program to offer digital downloads through physical comics shops, digital comics vendors like ComiXology and iVerse Media have entered into the spotlight of digital comics distribution. While both vendors are among the frontrunners in offering digital comics, PWCW talked with a number of digital vendors also looking to compete in the digital comics distribution and retail marketplace.
Comics Reviews: 2/14/11

| 02/14/2011 @ 12:00AM
The New Archie Comics

By Brigid Alverson | 02/14/2011 @ 12:00AM

Thanks to new story lines at Archie Comics, as well as an emphasis on graphic novels and digital delivery, a distribution deal with Random House, and more diversity in the characters, things are definitely changing in Riverdale
Diamond, iVerse Team Up to Sell Digital Comics Via Comics Shops

By Calvin Reid | 02/10/2011 @ 12:00AM

Diamond Comics Distributors is teaming with digital comics vendor iVerse to launch a digital program that will give physical comics shops the ability to offer exclusive digital delivery of a select group of comics.
Comics Briefly: 02/08/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

San Diego Comic-Con Tickets Sell Out, Congressman John Lewis Writes Graphic Novel, George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire Becomes Comic, Kids Comic Con Seeks Creators for Ronald McDonald House Mini-Con, This Week @ The Beat
Canadian Book Distributor Files For Bankruptcy

By Calvin Reid | 02/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

Still grappling with the impact of a likely bankruptcy filing by Borders, comics publishers learned last week that H.B. Fenn, the largest book distributor in Canada, had filed for bankruptcy. H.B. Fenn distributes more than 90 publisher-clients including such comics publishers as Marvel, NBM, Seven Seas, Tor Books and Yen Press.
Comics on Campus: New Programs Grow, Attract Diverse Students

By Ada Price | 02/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

One measure of the continued growth in the popularity of comics and graphic novels has been the parallel growth of serious academic programs at the college level focused on training a new generation of comics artists. PW Comics Week spoke with administrators at five programs--School of Visual Arts, Minneapolis School of Art and Design; Savannah School of Art and Design, Center for Cartoon Studies and the Memphis College of Art--about the history, development and future of their programs and comics pedagogy.
Panel Mania: Night Animals

Compiled by Ada Price | 02/08/2011 @ 12:00AM

Night Animals, a wordless comic by the Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens, includes two stories. The first follows a man dressed as a rabbit on a blind date that becomes an epic adventure with monsters; the second presents a young girl as she becomes a woman and the creatures she meets in the process. Top Shelf will release Night Animals in March.
Comics Reviews: 2/7/2011

| 02/07/2011 @ 12:00AM
Comics Briefly 02/01/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

Art Spiegelman Wins Angouleme Gran Prix, New York Comic Con Expands to Four Days, Dark Horse Digital Debut Delayed, Comic-Con Registration Now Feb 5, Stan Lee and Marvel Launch Hockey Mascot Superheroes, Tezuka's Princess Knight Comes to the US, True Grit and Falling Skies Offer Free Comics, True Blood Comic Returns, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat

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