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Comics On the Library Reference Shelf

By Karen Green | 01/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

There are some venerable veterans in the battle to place comics on library shelves and one of the best known is Katharine “Kat” Kan, who has been writing about comics in schools for over fifteen years. She is also the editor of Graphic Novels and Comic Books, a new reference work on comics aimed at both librarians and the general reader that has just been released by H.W. Wilson.
Looking for Comics at CES 2011

By Calvin Reid | 01/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Techies and the digiterati in general are known to often be big comics fans, but after searching high and low for any kind of comics presence at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, all we found were super cute flash drives and promotional displays.
The Evolution of the Comics Media Tie-in

By Shannon O’Leary | 01/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

As graphic novels continue as source material for many media spin-offs, the way the originals are sold and marketed is changing. During the first year of The Great Recession, the industry term The Watchmen Effect had a different meaning than it does today. The trailer (not the movie) for the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel caused an uptick in sales from 45,000 copies in 2007 to 300,000 in 2008. At the time, it was strongly believed those readers would return to book and comics stores to buy more graphic novels.
Comics Briefly; 01/11/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Sea Lion Books Signs Distribution Deal With Diamond, David Hine Defends His “Muslim Batman” on BBC Radio, Make-A-Wish Foundation at New Orleans Comic Con, New The Demon Mini-series from Sam Kieth and Scott Ian, Beetle Bailey Gets a Fashion Line, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids and This Week @ The Beat
Panel Mania: Vietnamerica

Compiled by Ada Price | 01/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Vietnamerica, a graphic memoir by GB Tran, follows Tran, who was born and raised in South Carolina, as he travels to Vietnam to attend his grandparents’ funerals and learn of his family’s history. His journey leads to revelations about his parents, who fled Saigon in the last hours of the Vietnam war and struggled to adapt to American life, as well as his grandfather, who was a Viet Cong soldier. Vietnamerica will be released by Villard on January 25.
Comics Reviews: 1/10/11

by PW Staff | 01/10/2011 @ 12:00AM
Alonso Named Editor-in-Chief at Marvel

by Heidi MacDonald | 01/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

15-year comics veteran Axel Alonso has been named editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, replacing Joe Quesada, who remains at his existing title of chief creative officer. In addition, Tom Brevoort has been named senior v-p Publishing.
Acme #20 Tops PWCW’s Fifth Annual Critics Poll

by The Editors | 01/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

It was the return of the masters, as books by acknowledged cartoon giants topped our fifth annual critic’s poll. Topping the list, Chris Ware’s amazing Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint, which follows the life of an average man—a page per year—from birth to death, showing the missed opportunities and bad decisions along the way, and using the comics narrative itself to replicate the experience of life itself.
Comics Briefly: 1/4/2011

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

Marvel Gives Free Digital Comics To Veterans, Stan Lee Gets a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, DC Brings Back the Letters Page, Fantagraphics to Reprint All Carl Barks, Duncan the Wonder Dog Gets Second Printing, Muslim "Batman of Paris" Sparks Controversy, The Communist Manifesto Gets Comics Adaptation, The Last Two Weeks @ Good Comics for Kids, The Last Two Weeks @ The Beat
Rotterdam, Catto Launch The Bonfire Agency

By Calvin Reid | 01/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

Former DC sr. marketing v-p Steve Rotterdam and marketing veteran Ed Catto have launched the Bonfire Agency, a full service marketing and promotional firm focused on the pop culture sector.
Critic’s Picks: Manga in 2010

by Kai-Ming Cha | 01/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

It was simultaneously a year of contraction and expansion for manga as the industry saw a few more of its traditional manga houses fall off the list and indie comics publishers picking up the slack. Go! Comi called, DC Comics shut down CMX and Del Rey Manga was reshuffled into Kodansha Comics.
Panel Mania: Lewis and Clark

Compiled by Ada Price | 01/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

Lewis and Clark's epic 19th century journey from St. Louis to the Pacific is brought to life in Nick Bertozzi’s comic, Lewis & Clark. Thoroughly researched, Bertozzi's new work focuses on the individual aspect of the adventure as well as the historical, offering both humor as well as deference to the hardships of their journey. Lewis & Clark will be released by First Second on February 15.
Comics Reviews: 1/3/11

by PW Staff | 01/03/2011 @ 12:00AM
Comics Briefly: 12/21/2010

| 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

World War 3 Retrospective at NYC’s Exit Art, Romberger on Wojnarowicz’s ‘A Fire in My Belly’, Marvel's Alias Comes to ABC, Comixology Comes to the Android Platform, Transmetropolitan Book on Kickstarter for CBLDF, Walking Dead Comic Creators Interviewed by Vice, Free Little Nemo Digital Comic, Girl Genius Novel Hits Print, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Panel Mania: Memoir

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

Written by Ben McCool (Choker) and illustrated by Nikki Cook (Girl Comics), Memoir is the story of Lowesville, a small peaceful Midwestern town whose population awakens one morning to discover that they have no memory of who they are, where they are, or what has happened to them. Memoir will be published by Image Comics in January.
Marvel Revives CrossGen with New Creators, New Stories

By Calvin Reid | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

Despite offering a complex comics universe featuring a wide variety of genres, CrossGen Comics, an ambitious comics company launched in 2000 by entrepreneur Mark Alessi, was forced into bankruptcy and shutdown in 2004. Now Marvel is launching a new CrossGen imprint that will offer original, all new stories based on the titles first developed by CrossGen.
Comics Reviews: 12/20/2010

| 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM
Kids Can Press Grows a Graphic Novel Line

By Brigid Alverson | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

Kids Can Press has been publishing children's books since 1973 and launched its first graphic novels in 2008: Claire and the Bakery Thief, a fantasy tale, and No Girls Allowed, an anthology of true stories about women who disguised themselves as men. Since then, they have built up a diverse line of graphic novels offering everything from historically based works to fantasy, adventure and mysteries.
The Wonderfully Scabrous World of Lurid Comics

By Steve Bunche | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

A hefty celebration of the joys of sleaze, gore and the downright warped world of pre-Comics Code Authority comics, Jim Trombetta's The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read, published by Abrams ComicsArts, serves as an unexpected look into the mindset of post-WWII America.
Archaia Sells Out 'Dapper Men' and 'Mouse Guard'

By Rich Schivener | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

After quickly selling through more than 10,000 copies each of, The Return of Dapper Men and Mouse Guard: Legends of the Mouse Guard, two late November hardcover graphic novel releases, indie comics house Archaia is looking carefully at the marketing and promotional strategies used for the two books. And while Archaia publishes both periodical series and original graphic novels, the success of the two titles in the bookstore market is making the publisher consider moving away from releasing periodical issues at all.

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