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Marvel Children's Books Now Under Disney Management
On the heels of the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Marvel, which was announced in August 2009 and completed last December, Disney Publishing Worldwide said that it is now managing the global children's licensed book publishing business formerly overseen by Marvel Entertainment.
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'PW,' PWCW' Moving; Will Skip Next Week's Issues
Publishers Weekly and PW Comics Week are moving to new offices at, 71 W. 23rd Street, Suite 1608, New York, N.Y. 10010, on June 3, 2010 and PWCW will skip its June 8 issue.
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Comics Briefly 5/25/10
Super Size Me Creator Does Comic-Con Documentary; DC Enters Alternate Universe for Fringe; Heroes Sued by Comics Artist; Toon Books Sweepstakes; Heroes Con; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Octopus Pie Extends Its Reach
Random House's Villard imprint is turning Meredith Gran's acclaimed web comic Octopus Pie, which follows the lives of two twenty-something female roommates in Brooklyn, into a book collection. The 272-page trade paperback collects the first 13 episodes of the Web comic and will be published on June 22.
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Panel Mania: Understanding the Crash
Understanding the Crash, by Seth Tobocman and Eric Laursen, explores the origins of the current economic crisis and ways to get out of it from a progressive perspective. The book takes a look at the local and individual issues that led to the crisis, such as the story in this preview of a woman who fought to keep her house from foreclosure. Understanding the Crash is published by Soft Skull Press and will be released on June 8th.
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A Japanese Mangaka in New York City
Hiroki Otsuka teaches manga workshops and is the mangaka artist-in-residence at New York City's Japan Society, where he is creating a manga, Samurai Beam, which incorporates the woodblock prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), one of the great masters of Japanese woodblock printing and painting.
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Comics and Graphic Novels at BookExpo America 2010
Despite the absence of a number of major comics publishers, this year's BookExpo America will still manage to have a significant comics and graphic novel presence. The largest nexus of the comics scene at this year's BEA will be the graphic novels row (4558), hosted by Diamond Book Distribution.
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Comics Reviews: 5/24/2010
Reviews of new books by John Arcudi and Peter Snejbjerg, Mike Raicht and Brian Smith and a Swedish graphic novel by Kolbeinn Karlsson.
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Panel Mania: Blacksad
Blacksad, the internationally acclaimed graphic novel series by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, is coming to America in a complete edition to be published by Dark Horse on June 2. Blacksad is an anthropomorphic detective story featuring the feline private investigator, John Blacksad, in 1950s America. These preview pages are from the third album, "Red Soul", never previously available in English before.
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DC Comics To Shut Down CMX Manga Line
The battered manga category was dealt another blow after DC Comics announced plans to shut down CMX, its manga imprint, in July. The shutdown will not affect Megatokyo, Fred Gallagher's bestselling original American manga series, which will now be published under the DC Comics line.
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Manga Community Reacts to Viz Layoffs
The news last week that Viz Media had laid off as many as 60 employees, about 40 percent of the company's total staff, took many observers by surprise but did not lead to doomsday predictions among industry watchers.
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A Revolution in Learning: Reading With Pictures is Coming
Reading with Pictures is both a nascent nonprofit organization that advocates the use of comics in the classroom and a 192-page benefit comics anthology featuring a host of acclaimed cartoonists creating stories about the benefits of using comics to teach just about everything.
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Found in Translation: 'City Hunter' and 'Beelzebub'
This week Found in Translation takes a look at Tsukasa Hojo's private eye series City Hunter and Ryuhei Tamura's dark comedy Beelzebub
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Comics Reviews 5/17/2010
New books by Matt Kindt, Kathryn and Stuart Immonen and Seth Tobocman are reviewed this week.
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Janet Evanovich Mixes It Up
"For the record," Alex Barnaby assures readers at the beginning of Troublemaker, the graphic novel coming in July from mother/daughter team Janet and Alex Evanovich, "I was never involved in kidnappings and dognappings... attacked by giant spiders... or had bad juju thrust upon me... until Sam Hooker entered my life."
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Viz Media Lays Off 60
San Francisco-based Viz Media has laid off as many as 60 people and it appears to have closed its small New York office.
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A Comics Format Textbook Goes to Business School
Flat World Knowledge, an unusual "open source" textbook publisher that offers its textbooks online for free, has teamed with three professors to produce, Atlas Black: Managing To Succeed, the first book in a comics format textbook series that teaches principles of business management at the college level.
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Big Summer Movies and their Comic Book Tie-Ins
Marvel's iconic Iron Man kicks off the summer movie season with the much anticipated Iron Man 2, setting off another long summer season filled with comic book movies.
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Tokyopop's 'America's Greatest Otaku' Goes on the Road
Tokyopop is launching a new marketing campaign called the Tokyopop Tour, best described as the otaku version of MTV's reality show, Road Rules. In this case a group of six otaku will travel across the country in a bus with Tokyopop founder, CEO and COO Stuart Levy.
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