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Comics Briefly: 5/18/10

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/18/2010 @ 12:00AM

2010 Glyph Award Winners; Little Orphan Annie Cancelled; Wallace and Gromit Comic Strip Debuts; Paul Levitz Comes to Midtown Comics; Todd MacFarlane Visits Book Expo America; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; This Week @ The Beat
Here Comes C2E2: Reed Exhibitions Goes Pop

Calvin Reid | 03/16/2010 @ 07:45PM

When it comes to pop culture events Lance Fensterman, show manager of Reed Exhibitions' New York Comic Con and the inaugural Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, or C2E2, must be tempted to ask "What recession?" Reed Exhibitions is not only launching a new comics convention in the midst of a recession but also manages a group of pop culture consumer shows that are some of the fastest growing conventions at the company.
Emerald City Comicon Booms

Heidi Macdonald | 03/16/2010 @ 07:40PM

Driven by a top-notch list of comics guests and a strong selection of
media guests, the eighth Emerald City Comicon in Seattle saw Saturday
attendance grow 40% from last year. Organizer Jim Demonaokos said that
about 13,000 people had attended both days in 2009—in 2010 Saturday
alone saw 11,000 people buy tickets.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/16/2010 @ 04:09PM

X-Diary Manwha to Become American Film: Comic Book Literacy Premieres at C2E2; Bahadur, India's First Superhero, Returns; Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show; Chaykin's Black Kiss #1 Free Online; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
Defective Article Here Comes C2E2—Reed Exhibitions Goes Pop

Calvin Reid | 03/15/2010 @ 11:27PM

Reed Exhibitions is not only launching a new comics convention in the midst of a recession but also manages a group of pop culture consumer shows that are some of the fastest growing conventions at the company.
Abrams to Publish Deluxe Hardcover of Archie Marries

Calvin Reid | 03/15/2010 @ 11:21PM

Abrams ComicsArts is teaming with Archie Comics to publish Archie Marries, a special deluxe hardcover collection of the Archie mini-series focused on which of Archie's longtime female interests-beautiful heiress Veronica Lodge or Betty Cooper, the cute girl next door-will land Riverdale's famous redheaded teenager.
Fantagraphics Steps into Manga Publishing

Kai Ming Cha | 03/15/2010 @ 11:15PM

Indie comics publisher Fantagraphics Books is the latest comics house to add manga publishing to its list. The Seattle-based company known for such artists as the Hernandez Bros, creators of the acclaimed Love and Rockets series, and for historical collections like The Complete Peanuts, will roll out a new manga line starting in September.
Comics Retailers Adapt to a Tough Economy; Look Ahead to Better Times

Ada Price | 03/15/2010 @ 11:06PM

Once again, PW Comics Week talked with comics retailers from around the county—six direct market comics shops and two general bookstores—in our annual informal phone survey about the state of the comics and graphic novel marketplace.
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Ada Price | 03/11/2010 @ 08:54PM

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Amazon.com Removes Buy Buttons from Diamond's Publishers

Calvin Reid | 03/10/2010 @ 11:24PM

In what is apparently an effort to correct the glitch that caused the wild discounting of graphic novels on Amazon.com, the online retailer has been forced to remove the buy buttons from all comics publishers distributed by Diamond Comics Distributors.
Comics Briefly: 3/9/2010

Kate Fitzsimons | 03/09/2010 @ 05:00PM
Life in Comics: Why San Diego Might Not Love Comic-Con

Jennifer De Guzman | 03/09/2010 @ 05:00PM

A couple of years ago, on the way to the San Diego airport, the taxi driver asked me and my co-workers if we had been in town for Comic-Con. Yes, we said, we were working. He asked how it was, and we gave the usual "fun but tiring" answer, adding that we were relieved it was over.
Amazon, Diamond Deal with Aftermath of Computer Pricing Snafu

Calvin Reid | 03/09/2010 @ 03:19PM

Amazon.com’s Top 100 Book List returned to reality—Kathryn Sockett’s novel The Help was back on top; the Wolverine Ominbus was gone—after a data snafu offered hundreds of graphic novel titles at eye-popping discounts.
New look for Del Rey's Ben 10 and Bakugan Graphic Novels

Brigid Alverson | 03/08/2010 @ 10:49PM

While Del Rey manga is popular with serious manga fans, their top three sellers in bookstores, according to the 2009 BookScan data, were two series most manga fans probably never picked up—adaptations of Cartoon Network's Ben 10 and Bakugan animated cartoons. These three slim volumes (two of Bakugan and one of Ben 10) sold over 50,000 copies combined last year.
Vertical To Publish Twin Spica Space Training Manga

Kai Ming Cha | 03/08/2010 @ 10:29PM

Vertical, Inc, a New York City-based boutique publisher of all things Japanese, from hard-boiled crime to DIY crafts and cookbooks, will publish Kou Yaginuma's science fiction manga series, Twin Spica.
March Comics Bestsellers

Calvin Reid | 03/08/2010 @ 10:04PM

No surprise: Jeff Kinneys 2009 Wimpy Kid books, Dog Days and Last Straw hold down the top two slots; Naruto vol. 47 is next; followed by The Walking Dead: Fear the Hunters; Viz's Vampire Knight vol. 9 and Black Bird vol. 3; and Yen Press's Black Butler vol. 1. R. Crumb's Book of Genesis is next followed by Bill Willingham's The Great Fables Crossover at #9.
Comics Reviews: 3/8/2010

Heidi Macdonald , PW Staff | 03/08/2010 @ 05:13PM

The latest graphic novels by Dash Shaw and Jame sSturm are reviewed, along with several others.
Amazon.com Glitch Offers Super Discounts on Graphic Novels

Calvin Reid | 03/08/2010 @ 02:43PM

In what is being described as a computer glitch, Amazon.com's Top 100 Book List was filled with comics and graphic novels after a computing error heavily discounted hundreds if not thousands of graphic novel titles.
Panel Mania

Compiled by Ada Price | 03/08/2010 @ 12:55PM

Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine,
Gene Yang's Prime Baby is the delightful story of 8 year-old Thaddeus and his
annoying 18 month-old baby sister, Maddie. And no wonder she's annoying! Thaddeus
discovers that little Maddie is really a weird trans-dimensional conduit for
aliens—although turns out they are some of the most boringly pleasant aliens
ever. Prime Baby will be published in April by First Second Books.
Panel Mania

| 03/02/2010 @ 05:53PM

In the strange retro British music scene of Kieron Gillen and Jamie Mckelvie's Phongram: The Singles Club, music is magic and Penny B. is a Phonomancer, urban pop-music obsessives who use the music like a magician to achieve their desires. The trade paperback will be published in March by Image.

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