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Panel Mania: How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

A travel memoir, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, documents Sarah Glidden's Birthright trip to Israel. During the trip Glidden visited Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Masada, and other historic locations. Combining personal experience and historical and current events, the book explores Glidden's reconciliation of her own identity with the real world discoveries of her trip. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less will be released by Vertigo on November 3 in comic stores and on November 6 everywhere books are sold.
Comics Reviews: 9/20/2010

| 09/20/2010 @ 12:00AM
ICv2 Debuts Conference on Comics and Digital at New York Comic-Con

By Calvin Reid | 09/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

Held in conjunction with New York Comic-Con, the ICv2 Comics and Digital Conference is scheduled to be held on October 7, the day before the show opens at the Javits Center in New York City. Much like the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference, the new Conference will bring together professionals from every part of the comics industry to discuss the impact of digital delivery on the future of comics publishing and retailing.
Small Press Expo Flies Indie Comics Flag

by Heidi MacDonald | 09/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

Among the most consistent shows on the convention circuit, the Small Press Expo in Betheda, Maryland continues to be a fun, friendly and successful show for the indie/art comix crowd. D&Q, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf and AdHouse Books led the publishers on hand, while cartoonists from Carla Speed McNeill to Keith Knight to Roger Langridge led the creator contingent.
Comics Briefly: 9/14/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

Millar to launch Women's Comics Magazine, CBLDF's New Liberty Annual Benefit Comic,Comics Writer Wolk Awarded Getty Fellowship, Josh Neufeld to Speak at Greenlight Bookstore, Dark Horse and Vanguard Team Up for Frazetta, This Week @ Good Comics 4 Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Life in Comics: Making It Work

By Jennifer de Guzman | 09/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

A popular topic in conversation in the comics online world lately has been personal finances. The dearth of money in comics, and particularly independent comics, has been a subject of banter every since I’ve been in comics. However, in the midst of a long recession, for some of us, what was a bit of a joke now has become very serious.
Panel Mania: X'ed Out

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

X'ed Out by Charles Burns, the creator of Black Hole, follows Doug who is woken up by a buzzing on the other side of the wall to discover his long dead cat leading him through a hole in the wall and into a strange night. Pantheon will release the first volume of X'ed Out on October 19th.
Comics Reviews: 9/13/10

| 09/13/2010 @ 12:00AM
Graphic Novels As Gifts

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 09/13/2010 @ 12:00AM

Whether you're looking for just the right gift for the comic book nerd in your life or you'd like to introduce someone to the world of sequential art, comics and graphic novels can be the perfect gift during the holiday season.
Candlewick Partners with Toon Books

By Publishers Weekly Staff | 09/09/2010 @ 12:00AM

On October 1, Candlewick Press will launch a Toon Books imprint, a partnership with the already existing Toon Books, a press founded by New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly in spring 2008 with the mission of getting kids to read using comics.
OverDrive Offers Single Issue Comic Downloads for Libraries

by Todd Allen | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

While apps for mobile devices have gotten the most attention as the way to download single issues of comics series, other methods are available. Since April 2010, Marvel has made a selection of their periodical comics available as e-books for libraries. In mid-September, Moonstone Books is poised to become the second comics publisher to take this step, with IDW soon to follow. And Tokyopop already has a number of their manga graphic novels available.
Found in Translation: Soccer and Basketball Manga

By Jonathan Bethune | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

This month's column celebrates the return of football with a couple of unlicensed sports-themed manga that we’d love to see a publisher put in the game. For the soccer fans out there, if the World Cup was not enough to satisfy your soccer itch, then have I got a comic for you. Yoichi Takahashi's classic soccer manga Captain Tsubasa gives the beautiful game the stylish comic treatment it deserves.
Comics Briefly: 9/7/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Small Press Expo Coming This Weekend, ICv2 Conference on Comics and Digital, Justin Beiber Cease & Desists Bluewater Comics, Girl Genius Wins the Hugo Award - Again, A Comic Con for the Middle East, This Week @ Good Comics 4 Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Vanessa Davis Keeps It Complicated

By Sasha Watson | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

In her second collection of autobiographical comics, Make Me A Woman, coming in October from Drawn & Quarterly, Davis creates an intimate portrait of a world you totally want to hang out in. Her chatty-charming personality, quirky memories, and oddball thoughts are all telegraphed in drawings that hum with life.
Panel Mania: EmiTown

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Emi Lenox chronicles her everyday life in EmiTown, an online auto-bio comic that is updated nearly daily. Lenox utilizes a variety of styles to transform the mundane into an adventure (take note of her metaphorical superheroes) and to emphasize the meaning in small moments-—like the joy of a beer after work. Image is releasing the first collection of EmiTown on October 27.
Children's Comics: 9/6/10

by PW Staff | 09/06/2010 @ 12:00AM
First Second Graphic Novel with Banned Book Theme Appears First on Web, Later in Stores

By Sally Lodge | 09/02/2010 @ 12:00AM

A book-loving boy from the small Oklahoma town of Americus grapples with the travails of high school and takes a stand when it looks as though his favorite fantasy series, starring a young sorceress who hunts monsters and tyrants, might be banned from the local library. That's the storyline of Americus, written by MK Reed and illustrated by Jonathan Hill, due from Roaring Brook's First Second Books in fall 2011. This graphic novel is making an earlier, serialized appearance on the Web, where new installments have been posted three times a week since early June.
Diamond to Change Weekly Delivery Date

By Heidi MacDonald | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Starting in January 2011, accounts serviced by Diamond Comics Distributors will be able to get comics and graphic novels delivered to stores on Tuesday for a Wednesday on sale date, in line with other industries that have street dates.
Comics Still King at Baltimore Comic-Con

by Heidi MacDonald | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

While mega-shows like the San Diego Comic-Con and the FanExpo Canada—held the same August 27-29 weekend—have morphed into multi-media showcases for everything from entertainment news to horror to anime, the Baltimore Comic-Con purposely stays focused on just comics.
PW Select is for Graphic Novels

By Calvin Reid | 08/31/2010 @ 12:00AM

Yes, PW Select, our new quarterly supplement listing self-published titles, is for graphic novels and comics too. Launched by PWxyz president George W. Slowik Jr., the PW Select registration site is now live and accepting submissions for the first PW Select supplement, which will appear in our year-end issue in December.

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