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McKeever Makes Mega Return with META 4
Described by its author as "a journey of self-discovery on a road trip of bizarre nightmares, twisted romance and scientific comedic insanity, spanning from Coney Island to the desolate Midwest," Ted McKeever's new 5-issue mini-series META 4 marks the return of one of comics' most eclectic artists.
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Graphic Novels in the Spotlight at ALA
Graphic novels will take center stage at this year's American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington DC. While graphic novels have become a mainstay at ALA and other library events, this year's annual conference will feature three days of panels, author previews and other scheduled programming all focused on comics and the continued development of the category in libraries.
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Panel Mania: Networked: Carabella on the Run 6/15/10
In Networked: Carabella on the Run, by Gerard Jones and Mark Badger, the blue-skinned alien, Carabella, comes to Earth to escape the oppression on her home planet. Yet, in doing so, she is exposing Earth to a quiet invasion. When she discovers what is happening, she attempts to alert people that websites and cellphones are being used to steal their privacy and freedom. In this preview, Carabella worries the new shoes she is helping to release, which have a built in social networking system, are being used for nefarious purposes. Networked is published by NBM and will be released in July.
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Comics Reviews: 6/14/2010
Classic British war comics and a caustic new comic about the Iraq War highlight the week's releases, along with new books by Tony Millionaire and Cathy Malkesian.
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Japanese, U.S. Manga Publishers Unite To Fight Scanlations
An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the"rampant and growing problem" of scanlations, the practice of posting scanned and translated editions of Japanese comics online without permission of the copyright holders. The group is threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites.
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Comics Reviews: 6/1/2010
A collection of Basil Wolverton's priceless nonsense and a fantasy tale of a boy whose toys must rescue him fro the Booegyman highlight thid week's reviews.
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Panel Mania: How I Made it to Eighteen
In a self-proclaimed "95% true," auto-biography, Tracy White delineates her struggles as a teen with Bulimia, drug dependency, and a nervous breakdown, through the character Stacy Black. Drawn in a simple straight forward style, Black gives her perspective of her situation as she deals with her issues in a mental hospital combined with the interwoven perspectives from three friends and a nurse at the hospital. How I Made it to Eighteen will be released by Roaring Brook Press on June 8th. How I Made It To Eighteen will be published on June 8th by Roaring Brook Press.
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Comics Hold Steady At Down-Sized BookExpo America 2010
While this year's BookExpo America wasn't as gaga over graphic novels as the 2009 BEA--remember, Stitches, Logicomix and R. Crumb's Book of Genesis were three of the biggest books at last year's show--comics were still a solid albeit subdued niche at this year's BEA. Bestselling novelist Janet Evanovich's first graphic novel, Troublemaker, was easily the big graphic novel of the show and many publishers featured significant comics works for summer and fall release.
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BEA 2010: Bestselling Prose Authors Turn to Graphic Novels
Bestselling prose authors continue to migrate to the comics medium, writing original works in collaboration with cartoonists and overseeing the adaptation of their own prose works into graphic novels. Dark Horse's upcoming publication of Janet and Alex Evanovich's Troublemaker, the bestselling novelist's first foray into comics and the big graphic novel at BEA, is only the latest example.
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Comics Briefly: 6/1/2010
New Scott Pilgrim Trailer; Hope Larson Speaks; NPR's the 'Takeaway' Covers Graphic Novels; Kirby's Loki Inspires New Dinosaur Name; Apple, PC Guys Meet Marvel, DC Guys; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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At BEA, Manga Gets Down to Business
No longer the buzzword or newcomer to the show, manga publishers at BookExpo America 2010 got down to business. While most manga publishers did not exhibit, representatives from most Houses circulated on the show floor and held meetings in distributor meeting rooms.
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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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