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Who Are These Lapsed Comics iPad Readers Anyway?
Digital comics have been big news for a while, but the iPad is currently getting all the attention, with even DC Comics finally jumping into the fray with their app store. Retailers fret about losing customers. Publishers dream of new readers, or at least getting lapsed ones back. PWCW talked to one such lapsed comics reader to find out about their digital comics buying habits.
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Panel Mania: The Unsinkable Walker Bean
After his grandfather falls ill due to a cursed pearl skull, mild and meek Walker Bean must go on a high-seas adventure to return the skull to the witches who created it. The witches, who sunk Atlantis, are imprisoned in a deep trench near an uncharted island. The Unsinkable Walker Bean, written and illustrated by Aaron Renier, will be released by First Second on August 17.
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New Manga Projects from 'AX' Editor Sean Michael Wilson
Sean Michael Wilson is a comics rennaissance man. He's the editor of the Top Shelf's AX Alternative Manga anthology, unveiled at the recent San Diego Comic-Con International, and has two manga adaptations in the works. His original graphic novel, The Story of Lee is forthcoming from NBM in February of 2011 and his adaptations for Classical Comics (which include Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, Dickens's Christmas Carol, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Sweeney Todd) come out beginning this month.
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Comics Should be Fun: Mark Chiarello and 'Wednesday Comics'
Besides being an artist, Mark Chiarello is the art director at DC Comics as well as an editor. Chiarello's most recent project is Wednesday Comics, an unusual and vivid homage to the history of color Sunday newspaper comic strips.
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Prose to Graphic Novel: Audrey Niffenegger & Diana Gabaldon Make the Leap
Novelists known for their time-traveling abilities (or at least their characters') are making a different move in the fall--to graphic novels. Audrey Niffenegger's The Night Bookmobile will be published by Abrams, while Ballantine will release Diana Gabaldon's The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel.
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Comics Reviews: 8/9/10
Mat Johnson, Kim Deitch and a sociological take on the Big Bad wolf highlight this week's graphic novels.
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Marder Elected President of Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of comics artists, publishers, retailers, and librarians, announced that comics retailer Chris Powell is stepping down as president and that cartoonist Larry Marder has been elected to succeed him. In addition, Dale Cendali, an intellectual property lawyer and partner at the firm Kirkland & Ellis, has been named to the CBLDF board.
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Baltimore's Otakon Draws 28,000 Anime, Manga Fans
Despite a false fire alarm that forced an evacuation of the convention center, the 17th annual Otakon convention, held at the Baltimore Convention Center this past weekend, attracted more than 28,000 anime and manga fans along with about 1230 staff and dealer/exhibitors.
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Space Opera With Teeth: Jim Starlin's 'Dreadstar'
Dynamite Entertainment is reissuing Jim Starlin's philosophical space opera Dreadstar in a library of handsome hardcover editions, appropriately launching with "The Beginning." This inaugural volume contains the "Metamorphosis Odyssey" and "The Price" and "Dreadstar," from which the ongoing comics series spun off.
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Milo Manara at Comic-Con
Italian cartoonist Milo Manara is internationally known for erotically rendered graphic novels. The author of both slyly and blatantly sexual works such as Click, Butterscotch, Indian Summer and Trip to Tulum (with Frederico Fellini), Manara was visiting this year's San Diego Comic-Con to announce that Dark Horse is publishing his works in a complete multi-volume edition.
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Panel Mania: AX Vol. 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga
Top Shelf's collection of AX, a Japanese magazine of alternative comics, features works from 33 artists taken from over 10 years of the magazine's history, including such manga luminaries as Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The collection offers a comprehensive selection of styles and themes available outside of mainstream manga. In this preview, Shinya Komatsu's story "Mushroom Garden", the protagonist's obsession with mushrooms begins to take over his life; the first half of the story is excerpted here. AX Vol. 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga will be released in August.
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Comics Reviews: 8/2/10
Shojo manga pioneer Moto Hagio finally has a collection in English; murder expert Rick Geary investigates the Axe-Man of New Orleans; and Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's acclaimed Beasts of Burden highlight this week's reviews.
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Big or Small, Publishers Look To Hollywood
While major publishers/film producers like DC Comics and Marvel dominated the headlines at this year's San Diego Comic-Con International with blockbuster superhero films, mid-size independents, smaller presses, and even self-publishers still benefit from the Hollywood presence, as it gives them the chance to ink their own movie, TV, and licensing deals and use them to drive support for publishing books.
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Indie Comics Make News at Comic-Con
Despite the bombast of Hollywood studio hype, indie comics publishers still made some noise with their own announcements at last weekend's San Diego Comic-Con, with a mix of old classics and new work from top creators. Fantagraphics, D&Q and Top Shelf all had major news.
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Comics Briefly: 7/27/10
SDCC 2010: ComicsPro Looks at Retailing in the Digital Age; Archie Comics Relaunches Monthly Mag; Four Publishers Sitting Around Talking Comics; Librarians Pick Fave Graphic Novels; Spotlight on Charlaine Harris; Spotlight on Jillian Tamaki; Comics in the Classroom; Protesting The Protesters; The Big Two's Biggest Announcements; Assorted Comics Announcements; Neil Gaiman Scripting Anansi Boys Movie.
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Classy Creators, Online Manga and Bean Dogs: Manga at Comic-Con
While this year's San Diego Comic-con didn't have giant billboards or star-studded panels just to show off manga, there was lots of news and trends to watch from the world of Japanese comics that emerged out of this year's pop culture fun-fest. The most intriguing developments to come out of this year’s show were both a nod to manga's past and a look toward its digital future.
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Photo Mania: 7/27/10 SDCC 2010
The San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 may be over but we've brought back a host of images to remind us of just about everything that happened. From comics and cartoonists to movies and costumed fans, here are some of the images of this year's Comic-con.
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The Comic-Con Movie Freight Train Hauls Some Books
It's become a kind of broken record, but this year's San Diego Comic-con, like last year's Comic-con, was dominated by the hype and marketing machines of the Hollywood film and TV studios. From the buzz generating around the release of Universal's Scott Pilgrim film next month and, later this year, AMC's Walking Dead, to a bulked-up lineup of superhero movies coming next year--DC's Green Lantern and Marvel's Thor and Captain America films--Comic-con is the ultimate platform for hyping big budget film and TV projects, whether they're based on comics or not.
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San Diego Comic-Con: Scott Pilgrim, 'Ulysses Seen,' and a Layoff at Del Rey
If there was any doubt about what is the big book/event at this year's Comic-Con International, the response to the Scott Pilgrim panel--held in the massive 6,000 seat Hall H of the Convention Center--cleared up any lingering ambiguity right away. 13 members of the cast, including Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley, filmmaker Edgar Wright and the film's star, Michael Cera--who mugged through the entire panel dressed in a goofy padded-muscle Captain America costume--appeared on stage to wildly enthusiastic applause.
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Preview Night at the San Diego Comic-Con 2010
Although the crowds seemed a bit more subdued than in the recent past, this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego still managed to attract hordes of fans interested in comics, books, manga, films and more.
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