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Comics Reviews: 7/26/10
The latest graphic novel by Norwegian cartoonist Jason, Vikings, Codename Knockout and the eagerly awaited finale to the Scott Pilgrim saga are reviewed this week.
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Panels and Presentations: What to See at Comic-Con 2010
Let's face it, there's so much great programming at Comic-Con, it can be overwhelming. So we've put together a very subjective and far from comprehensive listing of panels, presentations and events that caught our eye.
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Comics Briefly: 7/20/10
Robert Kirkman Starts New Imprint; Marvel's C.B. Cebulski Promoted; DC Announces New Static, Thunder Agents, Hellblazer and More; Dark Horse to Publish Complete Milo Manara; Marvel's Black Panther Motion Comic Vanishes from iTunes; Free Online Inception Prequel;Comic from Udon & Warner Bros; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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'Scott Pilgrim' Goes from Indie Comic to Media Phenomenon
Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series has gone from a poor selling indie graphic novel to a major media picture phenomenon. The final volume, 'Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour', will be released by Oni in July and a major motion picture based on it will be released August 13.
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Hill & Wang to Publish Authorized Graphic Bio of Anne Frank
Working closely with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Holland, Novel Graphics, Hill & Wang's line of nonfiction comics, will publish, Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Ernie Colon and Sid Jacobson.
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Panel Mania: Tribes: The Dog Years
Set a hundred years after a virus shortened humans' lifespan to 21 years, Tribes: The Dog Years presents the world re-organized into packs and tribes by the surviving kids and teenagers. While fighting to survive, these groups have coalesced around unifying mythologies. Tribes is written by Michael Geszel and Peter Spinetta and is illustrated by Inaki Miranda, with colors by Eva de la Cruz. Produced by Soulcraft Comics, the book will be released by IDW Publishing on July 29th.
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Comics Reviews: 7/19/10
The latest comic by surrealist master Jim Woodring, a non-fiction graphic novel about child crime, a politically charged space opera and a stylish sci-fi yarn from artist Inaki Miranda highlight this week's comics.
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Life in Comics: See you in San Diego!
As the comic book industry prepares for Comic-Con International in San Diego, I find myself in a strange situation: I won't be in the SLG booth this year. Instead, I'll be one of the people I would watch from the other side of the table--a woman with her husband and baby, pressed in with the rest of the crowd.
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Digital Comics Are Coming
he last major comics publisher to launch its digital program, DC Entertainment made hundreds of its titles available last month through the iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP. Despite concerns about the viability of digital comics, publishers are gearing up. DC Comics plans to use its digital initiative to also support traditional retailers, and both Marvel and DC plan to release digital and print comics simultaneously.
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More Monster-Classics Mashups from IDW
With an eye on the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, comics publisher IDW Publishing is trying its hand at prose and plans to release an anthology of genre mashups called Classics Mutilated, featuring novella-length stories by a host of prominent horror and fantasy writers. To highlight the volume at Comic-Con, IDW is also making one of the book's novellas, Dread Island by Joe Lansdale available as a standalone preview show special, and also has plans to release it in multiple print formats.
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Comics Briefly: 7/13/10
Tributes to the Late Harvey Pekar; Webcomics Art Auction for Gulf ; Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos MoCCA Talk; Vietnamese Comics iTunes Scam; Wally Wood's 22 Frames That Always Work--the Movie; Kirby Krackle's Wolverine Tribute Music Video; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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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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