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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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Panel Mania: The Talisman
The Talisman adapts the novel by Stephan King and Peter Straub, and follows Jack Sawyer as he travels between two worlds in search of a magical talisman that will save his mother. Del Rey's collection of the entire adaptation by Robin Furth and Tony Shasteen has just been released this month.
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Comics Reviews 5/11/10
This week's reviews includes works from Joe Kubert, Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Gene Luen Yang.
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Panel Mania: Solomon's Thieves
Renegade Knights Templar returning from the Crusades get together for a gigantic heist in Solomon's Thieves, a sort of "Ocean's 13th Century." Written by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner with art by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, the book is out from First Second this month.
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Life in Comics: Reading the Next Generation
Last Thursday, I loaded the kidling into the car and we went to San Jose's Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, where I was going to read the children's submissions to the San Jose public library's Graphic Novel Contest. I spent a pleasant afternoon reading thirty-three stories by children from the ages of eight to twelve in the lovely children's section of the library, and I learned a few things in the process:
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Berkeley Breathed Sets the Record Straight
Berkeley Breathed is one of two cartoonists to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for a multi-panel daily strip (the other is Garry Trudeau, about whom more in a minute). But unlike Trudeau's Doonesbury, Breathed's three strips--daily Bloom County and later weeklies Outland and Opus - are only just now being reprinted in their entirety, with new introductions, classy binding, and a completist mania that, Breathed says, belongs entirely to IDW publisher Scott Dunbier. The first volume came out last fall and the second volume, collecting strips from 1982-1984 has just been released.. PW spoke with Breathed about the strip's history, its future, and why he wishes he'd punched Pat Oliphant.
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Prequel to a Blockbuster: Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm
Disney Press released author/game developer Jordon Mechner's new graphic novel, Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm in April, six weeks before the release of Disney Picture's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a potential summer blockbuster film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and based on Mechner's popular Prince of Persia videogame series first developed in 1989.
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Big Crowds for Free Comic Book Day In NYC
This year, at comic book stores around Manhattan, morale was generally high, with most retailers seeing their largest Free Comic Book Day attendance ever.
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