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Walter Mosley and the Fantastic Four
From the time he discovered The Fantastic Four, the groundbreaking 1961 super-hero comic book created for Marvel Comics by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, Walter Mosley has been fascinated by how their collaboration stoked his imagination and transformed the American super-hero comic book
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DC Comics Trolls for New Readers
After years of industry concern over the rising cost of periodical comics and competition for kids' attention from videogames, DC Comics is taking steps to attract them by offering affordable, quality comics material in book format.
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Young Cartoonists Look to the Book Market
A new generation creates comics about people, not superheroes, and looks to the book market for readers.
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'Matrix' Creators Plan to Publish Graphic Novels
In another example of sympatico between comics, publishing and the movies, Larry and Andy Wachowski, the writers and directors of the blockbuster The Matrix Trilogy, have founded Burlyman Entertainment, a publishing company focusing on periodical comics and graphic novels.
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Webcomics, Books From Keenspot.com
Keenspot.com, an entertainment Web site offering free access to more than 50 exclusive, serialized Web comics, may be a useful example of how an online comics venture can support a budding book publishing program.
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Graphic Novel Sales Even Better Than Reported
The graphic novel market has been growing even more explosively than earlier estimates suggested, according to Milton Griepp, founder of ICV2.com, the comics and pop culture trade news Web site.
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Comics Shops Sell Books, Too
In both comics specialty stores--known as the direct market in the comics industry--and traditional bookstores, sales of graphic novels have been zooming upward over the past few years.
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Soft Skull Graphic Novels: Smart, Visionary Books
While large book publishers such as Doubleday, Random House and HarperCollins have been getting into graphic novels with mixed success, smaller publishing houses are also dipping their toes into the comics pool.
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Joe Sacco, Comics Journalist
PW asks Joe Sacco, "Tell us why you returned to Bosnia and Sarajevo and about Neven, the 'fixer.'"
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The Year in Books 2003: Comics
During a year in which graphic novels were celebrated with a day of events and panels at BookExpo America, sales of book-format comics continued to show striking growth in the book trade and in the comics specialty market.
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Religious Comics In the Book Trade
Tyndale publishers sold just over half a million copies of five graphic novels based on the Left Behind series' first two books--spectacular sales numbers by mainstream comics industry standards.
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Preiss Is Back with More Graphic Novels
After more than 30 years in the graphic novel business, Byron Preiss has seen it go from big to little and back again.
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The Comics Pantheon Likes
The Pantheon line of graphic novels is based mostly on "mutual enthusiasms," says Pantheon editor-in-chief Dan Frank.
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Special Report: Comics and Graphic Novel Publishing
Indie stores lag on graphic novels, Tokyopop's format leads manga into the bookstore market, DC and Marvel look for big sales and more...
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Comics! Books! Films!: The Many Faces of Neil Gaiman
It's a warm L.A. night and Cha Cha Cha! is jumping. The staff of DC Comics and their supporters are crowded into the trendy restaurant on this first night of BEA 2003. Everyone is talking, laughing, sometimes shouting.
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Comics Create Big Buzz at BEA
At past BookExpos, graphic novel publishers struggled to gain a toehold with retailers and librarians who weren't quite sure exactly what a graphic novel was.
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The Art of War: Comics Capture Combat and Its Aftermath
After three weeks of round the clock TV coverage of the war in Iraq, it's hard to just switch channels and get used to chuckling again at Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Doubleday Graphic Novels Shut Down
After months of issuing conflicting responses about the future of Doubleday Graphic Novels, Doubleday has finally acknowledged that it is folding the DGN line of book-format comics barely six months after it released its first two books. Deborah Cowell, the editor who originated and directed the DGN line, left Doubleday shortly after the release of those two books--Lance Tooks's Narcissa and Jason Little's Shutterbug Follies--in October 2002.
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IDW: Small Publisher With Big Sellers
Already the #1 selling graphic novel at Barnes & Noble, 30 Days of Night is the chilling story of a vampire on the loose in an Alaskan town where the sun has just gone down—for 30 days.
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New BISAC Category for Graphic Novels/Comics
Pulitzer-prize winning graphic-novelist Art Spiegelman and several comics publishers paid a visit to the monthly meeting of the BISAC committee of the Book Industry Study Group yesterday to urge the creation of a new category for graphic novels.
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