Dan Goldman's Real Estate Nightmare

Cartoonist Dan Goldman made a splash with the political graphic novels Shooting War and '08, but his webcomic Red Light Properties is his real labor of love, the story of a Florida real estate exorcist told with cutting edge web techniques that mix the supernatural with the current real estate crisis.

Disparate Creators Go "Beyond the Panel"

On Wednesday, the Columbia College Chicago Comics Club and the Columbia College Chicago held “Beyond the Panel: Chicago Women in Comics,” which brought together three very different creators. C. Spike Trotman, Jill Thompson and Audrey Niffenegger.

Shanower's Age of Bronze to Become Web Comic, iPad App

Eric Shanower, creator of Age of Bronze, an award-winning series that retells the epic story of the Trojan War, is teaming up with literary web publisher Throwaway Horse, the online venture launched by the creators of Ulysses Seen, a web comic adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, to relaunch it as a color serialized web comic and application for the iPad.

Panel Mania: The Zabime Sisters

In The Zabime Sisters, three sisters, M'Rose, Elle, and Celina, enjoy the freedom of summer vacation, with boys, fights, and even a little sneaky alcohol. Set in Guadalupe, the setting is dense with the rich brushwork by the creator, Aristophane, in this coming-of-age story. First Second will release The Zabime Sisters in late October.

Comics Reviews: 10/4/10

Random House to Shift Manga Publishing to Kodansha USA Publishing

In the latest round of changes to impact a major U.S. manga publisher, Random House, which has published manga, or Japanese comics, under its Del Rey imprint since 2003, will cease publishing its manga licenses and shift them back to Kodansha USA Publishing, a subsidiary of Kodansha Ltd. Under its new arrangement with Random House, Kodansha USA Publishing will begin publishing Kodansha-originated manga directly into the U.S. market, shifting from a licensing relationship to a sales and distribution arrangement with Random House Publisher Services in December.

Comic-Con Will Stay in San Diego

After a long and much delayed process that featured aggressive campaigns by Los Angeles and Anaheim to attract the show, Comic-con International: San Diego is going to stay at the San Diego Convention Center for the foreseeable future. Organizers of the giant comics and pop culture show have voted to stay in the city where Comic-con was launched in 1970.

Top Cow's Evolution with Hawkins and Sablik

Over the past 20 years, many comics publishers have come and gone, but Top Cow Productions has stuck around. Founded in 1992 by artist Marc Silvestri, Top Cow was one of the six original studios that established the publishing collective known as Image Comics. Since then the company has weathered every boom and bust of the comics publishing world with a handful of key properties and creators. PWCW spoke with president Matt Hawkins and publisher Filip Sablik for some insights into where the company has been and where it is going.

Comics Briefly: 9/28/2010

Changes Shake DC Comics, Malaysian Cartoonist Arrested for Comic, Groceries to Help Hero Initiative, Cuba, My Revolution Exhibit, New York Comic Con Coming Soon, Banned Books Week, Last Unicorn Creators Seek Help, This Week @ Good Comics 4 Kids, This Week @ The Beat

Harras Named Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics

Robert Harras, formerly group editor, collected editions at DC Comics, has been named editor-in-chief, v-p, DC Comics, overseeing editorial for the DC Universe, Mad magazine and Vertigo. He will report directly to DC Comics co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio and he will be based in New York City.

Comics Reviews 9/27/10

Panel Mania: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

Created by the French cartoonist Jacques Tardi, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is set in Paris before World War I and follows the heroine, Adele, as she becomes embroiled in a series of mysterious and fantastic adventures--from battling a revived pterodactyl to a demon in the Eiffel Tower. This preview includes pages from the first story, "Pterror Over Paris," in which the pterodactyl in question comes back to life and reeks havoc in Paris. Fantagraphics will release the first volume of the series in December.

Mouly's Toon Books Begins New Era with Candlewick

Over the last 30 years, New Yorker art director Francoise Mouly has made a distinctive mark on American comics at least three or four times. Mostly recently she launched Toon Books, a line of graphic novels aimed at pre-readers, as an independent publishing operation. Toon Books' independent publishing status will change in October when the Toon Books line of young readers' comics becomes an imprint of Candlewick Books, a childrens' and YA publisher.

A Literary Imagination Goes Graphic

After publishing Voodoo Hearts, a critically acclaimed short story collection from 2006, Scott Snyder has teamed up with horror master Stephen King and artist Rafael Albuquerque to create American Vampire, a hardcover graphic novel collection of this unusual collaboration that will published by DC/Vertigo in October.

Tokyopop, Comixology Team to Release 'Hetalia' in Print and Digital

Tokyopop is teaming with comics resource site and app developer Comixology to release the first volume of the much-anticipated manga series Hetalia Axis Powers simultaneously in print graphic novel and digital formats in North America.

DC Comics Publishing Stays In NYC But Cuts Staff; Digital Moves To Burbank

After months of intense speculation over a possible move to the West Coast, DC Entertainment has split the difference and will move its digital, multimedia and consumer product operations as well as administrative functions to Burbank, Calif., and keep its editorial and publishing operations in New York City where DC Comics has been for the last 75 years. DCE president Diane Nelson acknowledged there will be layoffs and one report claims as many as 50 people may be let go, about 20% of DC's current workforce. Relocation should be complete by the end of 2011.

Comics Briefly: 9/21/2010

Scott Pilgrim Reaches 1 Million Copies in Print, Marvel Moves to New Offices, Speculation on Possible DC Move, All-Star Superman Comes to Animation, Cuba, My Revolution Exhibit, Neil Gaiman to Guest Star on Arthur, Grant Morrison Stars in My Chemical Romance Music Video

Rediscovering The Retro-Future: Craig Yoe on Dan DeCarlo's 'Jetta'

The late Dan DeCarlo (1919-2001) is renowned as one of the signature artists who breathed four-color life into Archie. But he also crafted the space age cutie, Jetta, "The Teen-age Sweetheart of the 21st Century", a fusion of the Archie sensibility with pre-Jetsons futurism. The comic ran for only three issues before disappearing into the mists of comics history.

New York Comic Con Is Back After Shift from Spring to Fall

After a shift from spring to fall that will combine it with the New York Anime Festival, New York Comic Con returns and will open at the Javits Convention Center, October 8-10. The combined shows will take over the entire Jacob Javits Center and Lance Fensterman, group v-p of ReedPop, Reed Exhibitions' pop culture division, couldn't be happier.

Sfar's 'Little Prince Graphic Novel' Offers New Take on a Classic

Next month Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish The Little Prince Graphic Novel, adapted from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic illustrated novella, with drawings by acclaimed French cartoonist Joann Sfar.