Comics Briefly

First Appearance of Batman, Priciest Comic Ever; Spider-Man Gets Fired; Staple Indie Expo Comes to Austin; Girl Comics #1 Signing At Jim Hanley's; ‘New York, The Super-City' Lecture; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat

Code Geass Manga Expands at Bandai

U.S. anime distributor and manga publisher Bandai Entertainment has acquired the licenses to two more Code Geass manga, all based on the popular alternate history SF anime series that features character designs by CLAMP. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Knights is a 5 volume anthology of original stories about the male characters of the series while Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Queens covers the female characters of the series. Queens is also a five volume series and will debut in June of this year. Knights will debut in May.

A Historian Takes on the Graphic Novel with Booth

The history of notorious presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth is examined in Booth, written by C.C. Colbert and illustrated by the renowned French artist Tanitoc, a graphic novel which First Second will publish on April 1. After touching on Booth's childhood and early career, the story centers on the months leading up to Lincoln's assassination and its aftermath. "This is a really fascinating book to be publishing right now, about a violent polarized country that echoes where we are today," notes Gina Gagliano, First Second's marketing associate.

Even Graphic Novels Can Get a Kickstart

It began as a failed fan quest and turned into a visionary plan for arts funding. Kickstarter.com is a social networking platform that uses the internet to raise money to fund creative projects. Artists of all kinds-including a growing number of cartoonists-are starting to take advantage of it.

Howard Cruse Returns with a New Edition of 'Stuck Rubber Baby'

When Howard Cruse's first and only original graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby, was published by DC Comics' Paradox Press imprint in 1995, it garnered great reviews, where it could get them, before it silently slipped away from a world that wasn't quite ready for it.

Hicksville Returns in New Edition

Long, long ago in the early 1990's, Dylan Horrocks began to work on Hicksville, his graphic novel tale of a New Zealand town utterly devoted to comics. Hicksville earned widespread adoration from fans, as well as both Harvey and Eisner Awards, when it was released, and now Drawn+Quarterly has brought it back into print, with a new introduction by Horrocks.

Comics Briefly

LA Times Book Prize Graphic Novel Nominations; MoCCA's Master Class from Claremont, DeFalco & O'Neil; Mouly on New Yorker cover ; Marvel's Black Superhero Exhibit; Moomin Exhibit in Brussels; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat

Panel Mania: A Home for Mr. Easter

In Brooke Allen's whimsical new graphic novel, A Home for Mr. Easter, a young woman named Tesana goes on an epic quest to get the Easter bunny back to his rigthful home. The book goes on sale in April from NBM.

New Day at DC Comics: Lee, DiDio Named Copublishers

While the appointment of superstar artist Jim Lee and DC Universe senior v-p and executive editor Dan DiDio as copublishers of DC Comics didn't come as a shock, it certainly wasn't expected.

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Found in Translation: Outlaw Star and Sakura Hime Kaden

Two manga series that really ought to be in English: Arina Tanemura's Sakura Hime Kaden and Takehiko Ito's Outlaw Star.

Snyder's Vampire is Fit for a King

What the world needs now is more vampires. That's what it wants, anyway. What it really needs are more inventive and interesting vampires. American Vampire, a new series from Vertigo, wrtten by Scott Snyder and Stephen King provides just that.

Comics Reviews: 2/22/2010

First Second to Publish Iranian Graphic Novel and Web Comic

First Second, the graphic novel imprint of Macmillan Publishing, is launching Zahra's Paradise, a graphic novel about the social and political situation in Iran, as a serialized web comic and will publish it as a book collection in 2011.

Jim Lee, Dan DiDio Named Copublishers of DC Comics

DC Entertainment has named acclaimed comics artist Jim Lee and DC Universe senior v-p and executive editor Dan DiDio as copublishers of DC Comics, the comics division and publisher of Superman, Batman, and other classic comics characters.

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Azzarello Reinvents Pulp Icons & Superheroes in 'First Wave'

On March 3rd, DC Comics kicks off a new fictional universe built on a combination of two sturdy adventure concepts: classic pulp icons including Doc Savage and the Avenger and hardboiled superheroes from Batman to the Spirit. Or as writer Brian Azzarello put it, "The number one draw is 'Let's do a superhero book with no super powers.'"

MacDonald Relaunches Comics News Blog, The Beat

Heidi MacDonald has moved her poppuar comics news blog, The Beat, to its own web domain and will focus the site on a newly transformed (and still transforming) comics industry.

Gods, Man and Comics: George O’Connor’s Olympians

For many kids, the gods of Greek mythology are every bit as exciting as the superheroes seen in comic books and on TV. Now, with the release of George O'Connor's graphic novels Zeus: King of the Gods (First Second, Jan.) and Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess (Apr.), the gods look the part. O'Connor spoke with PW Comics Week about his visual inspiration for the books, the relationship between modern superheroes and their mythical predecessors, and how he dealt with the less PC aspects of the myths.

February Comics Bestsellers

Two of Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, Dog Days and Last Straw, rule the top two slots; followed by Viz’s Yu-Gi-Oh! GX vol. 4; R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis and Naruto Vol. 47. Next up is Full Metal Alchemist, Vol. 22 at #7; followed by Zombie Survival Guide; Yen Press’s Black Butler, Vol. 1 and Warriors: Shattered Peace.