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Off the Streets of Cleveland: 'American Splendor's' Harvey Pekar, Dead at 70
No doubt there have been worse Mondays than July 12, 2010, but it's hard to imagine it right now. On that day, Harvey Pekar, iconic American comic book writer, creator of the groundbreaking autobiographical comics series, American Splendor, and one of the most influential and delightfully eccentric creative figures in American literature, died of unknown causes at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Digital Comics: Now What?
With DC Entertainment's entry last month into the digital comics realm, the first phase of the Digital Era of comics is complete. DC was the last major player to get into the game, but their launch of a line of hundreds of comics for iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP has brought them quickly to the forefront of the digital comics evolution. But with the players all in the game, the usual questions have come back to the forefront: Will digital sales kill paper sales? How do you set prices and release dates? Is the digital reader a new kind of comics consumer? And how will it affect the creative end of things?
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Panel Mania: The Marvelous Land of Oz #8
In this exclusive preview of the final issue of The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Witch, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and Jack Pumpkinhead search for Ozma, rightful ruler of Oz who has been disguised by the evil witch Mombi. Adapted from the L. Frank Baum original by Eric Shanower, Skottie Young and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, this issue goes on sale on July 22nd. Published by Marvel.
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Fantagraphics To Publish New Editions of Tardi's Adele Blanc-Sec
Currently playing in theaters across Europe and Asia, Luc Besson's new movie The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is based upon a series of graphic novels by French creator Jacques Tardi. Although the film does not as yet have U.S. distribution, the graphic novels will be coming out in the U.S. market in a new translation this September from Fantagraphics.
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Comics Reviews: 7/12/10
The long awaited alt-manga anthology Ax, the European comics classic Blacksad and Drew Weing's poetic webcomic Set to Sea are reviewed this week.
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Comics Briefly: 7/6/10
Alan Moore Live in Concert; Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 Midnight Party Craze; Catwoman Strikes in Real Life; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Denis Kitchen Looks Back at a Life in Cartooning
Denis Kitchen is that most rare of comic book industry creatures--a chameleon. Kitchen has worn many hats over time, including cartoonist, publisher and now, literary agent. In his new book from Dark Horse, The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen, Kitchen’s earliest days as an cartoonist are revealed to those who might not be familiar with his first incarnation--and even he admits that amounts to a lot of people.
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Comics Reviews: 7/5/10
This week, the eargerly awaited new graphic novel from Charles Burns, Seymour Chwast's take on Dante, mini-comics star Will Dinski's new book and a manga that mocks historical figures.
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Panel Mania: Flight 7
In the final volume of the acclaimed Flight anthology, editor Kazu Kibuishi once again assembles a diverse collection of fantasy stories by various artists including Kean Soo, Leland Myrick, Dave Roman and Michel Gangé. The anthology will be released on July 28th by Random House.
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Found in Translation: Kyosuke Usuta's 'Sexy Commmando Gaiden' and Kenta Tsuchida's 'Lock On!'
It is time yet again for a look across the ocean at a few Japanese comic gems that have yet to make their western debut in English. This month we look to Weekly Shonen Jump for Kyosuke Usuta's absurdist comedy, Sexy Commmando Gaiden: Sugoi Yo! Masaru-San, and Kenta Tsuchida's, Lock On!, a classic blend of shonen action and risque comedy--a couple of comedy serials just begging for a creative localization team.
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Will Comic-Con Leave San Diego?
In cartoonist circles, the parting words "See you in San Diego," have been a tradition, as friends plan yearly reunions at the graphic novel world's biggest meeting. However, this year's headline about the annual Comic-Con International is that, after 2012, you might be seeing old colleagues not in San Diego, but somewhere else.
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DC Comics Shuts Down the Zuda Web Comics Site
Hot on the heels of launching its iPhone/iPad app, DC Comics is shutting down Zuda.com, a Web site originally started to solicit and launch original Web Comics, some of which were turned into print editions. DC v-p of creative services Ron Perazza announced the closing on the Zuda.com blog.
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Comics Briefly: 6/29/10
DC Comics Takes Digital Comics By Storm; Marvel Says Goodbye to Wizard World; Tokyopop Brings Full Graphic Novels Online; Kids Comic Con Goes To Africa On Kickstarter; David Hine's Bulletproof Coffin #1 Free Online; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Graphic Novels Find a Place at ALA Annual Meeting
"Graphic Novels Come of Age" was the title of the Booklist forum on the first evening of the American Library Association's annual meeting, held this past weekend in Wash. DC, and graphic novels were on the agenda for many of the librarians in attendance.
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Panel Mania: Troublemaker
Co-written by the best-selling prose author, Janet Evanovich and her daughter Alex Evanovich, Troublemaker is a continuation of the Alex Barnaby novels, which follow the NASCAR mechanic and crime fighter, Alex Barnaby. In Troublemaker, Alex and racecar driver Sam Hooker are drawn into trouble, when Alex's friends Rosa and Felicia ask for help finding a missing man. Published by Dark Horse, Troublemaker will be released on July 20th.
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Manga Publishers Face Uphill Battle Against Scanlations
The announcement of a joint coalition between American and Japanese publishers targeting illegal online manga "scanlations" has spurred a flurry of activity on two major aggregator sites. Since the announcement three weeks ago, MangaFox, one of the primary aggregators of illegal manga scans, has pulled over 330 titles--a large number of them Viz Media properties--from their home page. Likewise, OneManga, a scanlation aggregator that has a reported over a million visitors per month to their site, also pulled titles from their manga list.
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New Book Reveals Funnyman, Siegel and Shuster's Other Hero
Previously relegated to the dusty corners of comic book history, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Golden Age comedian/superhero Funnyman, has been rescued from obscurity by authors Thomas Andrae and Mel Gordon for their new book Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, coming from Feral House in July.
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Comics Reviews: 6/28/2010
This week: reviews of Mark Waid's new take on superheroics, Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro's whimsical Toriko and a new food manga by Kenji Sonishi.
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DC Comics Launches iPad, iPhone App; PlayStation Network Deals
DC Comics has teamed with the comics resource site and app developer Comixology to make its comics available through the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch beginning today; and in a separate deal, DC's comics will also be distributed through the PlayStation Network.
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Comics Briefly: 6/22/10
Longbox Digital Launches Public Beta; Black Panther Epic Motion Comic Premieres June 23
Dark Horse's FCBD Comics Available Free Online; Cartoonist Al Williamson Dies at 79; Comic Art for Kids Class at MoCCA; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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