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Comics Reviews: 12/06/10

| 12/06/2010 @ 12:00AM
Comics Briefly 11/20/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 11/30/2010 @ 12:00AM

Mark Millar Announces Kapow! Comic Con, Glyph Comics Awards Call for Submissions, Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Novel Festival, Kids Comics LA, Bent Con
Tara Books Brings Bengali Art to the Civil Rights Movement

By Beth Scorzato | 11/30/2010 @ 12:00AM

South Indian-based Tara Books' I See the Promised Land, an unusual graphic work based on the life of Martin Luther King, is the inaugural title in their new line of graphic novels that link the Bengali scroll art tradition with contemporary texts.
A Cardboard Valise In A Digital World: The Comics of Ben Katchor

By Sasha Watson | 11/30/2010 @ 12:00AM

Cartoonist and MacArthur Fellow Ben Katchor is back with a new book, The Cardboard Valise, his first book in ten years. Pantheon will release the book in February along with an e-book version.
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival Is Back

By Ada Price | 11/30/2010 @ 12:00AM

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival returns for its second year on December 4 at the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church on North 8thStreet in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While shows like this are a familiar platform for small press and self-published comics and other graphic works, the BCGF is a bit different. Exhibiting at this show is by invitation only—a practice that has generated a few bruised feelings—and admission is free to the public.
Panel Mania: Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity

Compiled by Ada Price | 11/30/2010 @ 12:00AM

Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity is written and drawn by Jeff Lemire, the creator of the award winning graphic novel trilogy Essex County. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the main character Gus is a human-animal hybrid, and in this volume he is held captive with other hybrids in a militia camp. In this preview, Gus meets his fellow captives and learns the severity of his situation. Sweet Tooth Vol. 2 will be released by Vertigo in comic stores on December 8 and in general bookstores on December 14.
Comics Reviews: 11/29/10

| 11/29/2010 @ 12:00AM
Comics Briefly: 11/23/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 11/23/2010 @ 12:00AM

San Diego Comic Con Sales Crash Again, Angouleme Festival Announces Official Selections, Tokyo Once Again Tries to Ban Hentai, Hit Manga Creator Starts Legal Free Manga Site, Viz Brings Out Unedited Tenjho Tenge, Amy Reeder Batwoman Signing and Art Exhibition, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
After Five Years BOOM! Still Makes Noise

By Heidi MacDonald | 11/23/2010 @ 12:00AM

What do Philip K. Dick, Stan Lee, Roger Langridge, Mark Waid and Darkwing Duck have in common? They're all publishing stars at BOOM! Studios, the LA-based comics publisher that has weathered the economic storms of the last five years to become a company that's consistently in the top seven publishers.
Comics Reviews: 11/22/10

| 11/23/2010 @ 12:00AM
Panel Mania: Strange Tales II

Compiled by Ada Price | 11/23/2010 @ 12:00AM

Marvel's Strange Tales series has collected a variety of indie comics artists' offering less-than-reverent interpretations of the superheroes of the Marvel Universe. The final issue of the second volume will be released on December 8. This exclusive preview of Strange Tales II #3 includes a page from Dean Haspiel's story, "The Left Hand of Boom," and two pages from Terry Moore’s Thor send-up, "How Mjolnir Got its Strap."
DBD's Liang Finds Graphic Novel Growth Abroad

By Calvin Reid | 11/23/2010 @ 12:00AM

Just back from a tour of International book fairs in Frankfurt and the Middle East, Kuo-Yu Liang, v-p, sales and marketing at Diamond Book Distributors, is upbeat about the graphic novel market at home and abroad. Despite a tough economy, overall declines in manga sales and the loss of Marvel Comics as a distribution client, Liang says DBD's business is up for the year and he’s even more excited about the growing popularity of graphic novels around the world.
Comixology Program Offers Free Access To App Development Tools

By Calvin Reid | 11/17/2010 @ 12:00AM

Comics resource site and digital developer Comixology has launched the Guided View Authoring Tools early adopters program, a new venture that will give independent artists and publishers free access to the development tools it uses to prepare comics for digital delivery through its Comixology app and digital retail channel.
Comics Briefly: 11/16/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 11/16/2010 @ 12:00AM

J. M. Straczynski to Quit Monthlies, Write More Graphic Novels, Comics at the Miami Book Fair, Spider-Man Musical Unsafe?, Kirby Krackle Comics Band Signs With Marvel, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Creator to be Graphic Novel, This week @ Good Comics for Kids,and This Week @ The Beat
LOA Publishes Lynd Ward's Wordless Graphic Novels

By Brigid Alverson | 11/16/2010 @ 12:00AM

The term "graphic novel" didn't exist when Lynd Ward started telling stories in pictures, back in the late 1920s, but to modern eyes, that's exactly what Ward's novels are. Now the Library of America has collected Ward's wordless graphic novels in a two-volume boxed set, Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts, with an introduction by Art Spiegelman.
Humanoids Returns to the U.S. Graphic Novel Market

By Calvin Reid | 11/16/2010 @ 12:00AM

The French comics house Les Humanoides Associes has returned to the U.S. graphic novel market and launched Humanoids Inc., its U.S. office in Los Angeles, with plans to release up to two books a month in the U.S. in hardcover and trade paperback.
Paul Levitz Puts 75 Years of DC Comics In One Huge Book

By Jill Pantozzi | 11/16/2010 @ 12:00AM

Former President and Publisher of DC Comics, Paul Levitz has lived and breathed comics his entire adult life. A comics fan magazine that he co-wrote and published in high school, The Comic Reader, led to his first job with the mega-publisher that is DC. With DC celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, Levitz took on the incredible task of writing about its numerous characters, authors and artists and their impact on the world.
Panel Mania: The Story of Lee

Compiled by Ada Price | 11/16/2010 @ 12:00AM

In The Story of Lee, Lee, a young woman in Hong Kong meets Matt, a young British man, and they begin a relationship despite their cultural differences. In this preview, Lee’s father and a Chinese man also in love with her impede the burgeoning romance, as Lee and Matt struggle to overcome cultural obstacles to their physical relationship. The Story of Lee is written by Sean Michael Wilson, editor of AX: Alternative Manga from Top Shelf, one of PW's Best Books of 2010, and illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada. NBM will release The Story of Lee in December.
Comics Reviews: 11/15/10

| 11/15/2010 @ 12:00AM
Viz's 'Shonen Jump' Magazine Gets Facelift Online and Off

By Kai-Ming Cha | 11/11/2010 @ 12:00AM

Consistent with its new digital initiative, Viz Media will introduce a new format for its print manga anthology, Shonen Jump, and the magazine will also expand its online presence, allowing subscriber access to up to 100 pages of manga previews on the Shonen Jump website.

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