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Graphic Novel Sales Hit $330 Million in 2006
Graphic novel sales are booming to the tune of $330 million in 2006, a 12% increase over 2005, according to Milton Griepp, who presented his annual white paper on the state of the graphic novel market to kick off the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference yesterday.
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The Koreans Are Coming: Manhwa in America
It shouldn’t be a surprise to American comics professionals that manhwa, or Korean comics, have become an increasingly important component of the competitive and ever-evolving manga market here in the United States.
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Ranma 1/2: America’s First Manga Hit
The longest running manga series in the U.S., Rumiko Takahashi’s world famous Ranma 1/2 has come to a close after 13 years. Last month Viz Media published volume 36, the concluding volume of the series.
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The First Annual PW Comics Week Critic's Poll
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic topped the first ever PW Comics Week critics poll. Regular PW writers and reviewers were polled for up to ten of their favorite graphic novels. The results came in as follows with a listing in descending order of the books that received the most votes, followed by selected comments from the critics.
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Selling Books, Comics at L.A.'s Earth-2
Launched in 2003 by a Hollywood movie producer and an actor/director and part-time comics dealer, Earth-2 is a Los Angeles comics retailer that prides itself on attracting hardcore comics fans, but also welcoming kids, women and lapsed comics fans more interested in books than the latest superhero periodical.
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Unshelved: Laughter in the Stacks
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, creators of the Web comic Unshelved, are the comedic patron saints of the library world
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NBA Nominates 'American Born Chinese'
Comics publishers just aren't used to getting National Book Award nominations. So when Gene Yang's American Born Chinese was nominated for the Young People's Literature award last week—the first graphic novel ever nominated for an NBA— his publisher was virtually the last to know.
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Cable Toons Spur Graphic Novels Sales
The TV connection is a boom for comics, graphic novels and manga—but only for some.
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Brubaker Does the Crime and the Time
Ed Brubaker has established himself as one of the premiere writers of crime/noir comics with books like Scene of the Crime from DC/Vertigo and Gotham Central from DC Comics, co-written by Greg Rucka.
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Passion and Business at Tokyopop
It's impossible to discuss the impact of manga on the American comics market without talking about Tokyopop and its CEO, Stuart Levy, a 39-year old designer and producer who has worked in Japan, is fluent in Japanese, and founded Tokyopop in Los Angeles in 1997.
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A New Era in Comics Publishing: A Roundtable
Beginning in the late 1990s, a certain feeling of dread was felt by many smart comics folk.
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HarperCollins, Tokyopop Ink Manga Deal
In a startling move that not only highlights the sales potential of book format comics but also gives almost every major New York publishing house a significant graphic novel program, HarperCollins will take over the distribution of the Tokyopop manga list to the North American book trade.
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Batman, Manga and Life on Mars: Talking with Paul Pope
One of the most thoughtful and iconoclastic artists working in comics today, Paul Pope began his career in comics as a literary-oriented self-publisher whose works were broadly informed by literature, politics and world culture.
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It's Time for First Second
After more than two years of preparation, the first books from First Second, the new graphic novel imprint at Henry Holt's Roaring Brook Press children's book division, will arrive in stores in May.
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FSG's Hill & Wang Gets into the Comics Game
In the latest sign that comics have found a home at traditional book publishers, Hill & Wang, a nonfiction imprint at the distinguished literary house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will publish a series of nonfiction comics works this fall, led by a comics adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report as well as biographies of Malcolm X and Ronald Reagan.
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L'Association Brings French Comics to the U.S.
In the last few years, there's been a small flood of French-language art comics being translated into English. But the French comics revolution of the last decade and a half didn't originate with big French publishing companies like Delcourt and Dargaud; it came from the underground--specifically a small, artist-run publisher known as L'Association.
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Gamers, Hipsters and Comics Nerds: G4TV's Cool New World
The web is a vast resource for comics, and you can't pick up a magazine or newspaper without seeing news about the latest graphic novel. But where do you go to find comics stuff on TV? Try G4TV, a cable channel that focuses on pop culture, technology and, increasingly, comics and the people who create them.
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Catching Up with Alan Moore
When it comes to comic book legends, few loom as large as Alan Moore. The author of Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentleman and the upcoming Lost Girls, his work takes pulp conventions and turns them into multi-leveled philosophical inquiries and has inspired not only comics creators but musicians and filmmakers for the past 25 years.
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Manga in English: Born in the USA
It would be relatively easy to make the claim that Japanese pop culture—from Astro Boy in the 1960s to Pokémon in the 1980s—is, so to speak, about as American as apple pie. From comics and animation to fashion, movies and an endless supply of adorable knickknacks, J-pop products are no strangers to the American consumer. And since the late 1990s, licensed English-language editions of Japanese comics—manga—have been instrumental in helping bring book-format comics of all kinds into the general bookstore market.
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Happy Birthday, Little Nemo: Big New Book Restores McCay's Masterpiece
Winsor McCay’s classic Sunday comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland, turns 100 years old this month, but the turn-of-the-century strip couldn’t look better in a new, lavishly produced book...
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