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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.
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

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