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Comic-Con 2013: Gene Yang Talks Avatar and Chats with Paul Pope

By Shannon O’Leary | 08/08/2013 @ 01:00PM

Cartoonist Gene Yang is having a big year with the release of his two volume Boxers and Saints from First Second; he was also a guest at the recent San Diego Comic-Con where he talked about his work on the Avatar: The last Airbender series, and enjoyed a spotlight panel talking with fellow graphic novelist Paul Pope.
Upcoming Comics Events: August 5, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 08/05/2013 @ 12:00PM

8/8-8/11: Wizard World Chicago in Chicago, IL; Trillium #1 Release party in Portland, ME; Portland Zine Symposium in Portland, OR; Stripped in Edinburgh, UK
Faith Erin Hicks and Jeff Smith Talk Future Web Comics

By Shannon O’Leary | 08/02/2013 @ 11:00AM

Mutual admiration didn't stop Jeff Smith and Faith Erin Hicks from talking about using web comics to serialize their work and the craft of of cartooning.
Graphic Novel Storefront App Sequential Launches in the U.S.

By Heidi MacDonald | 08/02/2013 @ 10:00AM

Literary graphic novels now have their own storefront app, thanks to Sequential, which just launched in the US and worldwide after debuting in the UK in May.
Denis Kitchen Revives Kitchen Sink Imprint at Dark Horse

By Casey Burchby | 07/31/2013 @ 12:15PM

Comics impresario Denis Kitchen and his book packaging partner John Lind have forged an alliance with Dark Horse to launch Kitchen Sink Books, an imprint that will publish several titles a year focused on new book editions of out-of-print classic material
Upcoming Comics Events: 7/29/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 07/29/2013 @ 12:00PM

Collider Release Party in Portland, OR; Optic Nerve #13 Release Party in Brooklyn, NY; Boston Comic Con in Boston, MA.
Anomaly Publishing Returns with ‘Shifter’

By Calvin Reid | 07/28/2013 @ 12:50PM

Skip Brittenham and Brian Haberlin, the creative team that produced Anomaly, an ambitious sci-fi/AR-enhanced graphic novel released last year, were on hand at Comic-Con to promote Shifter: The Graphic Novel, the latest release in a line of painted, multimedia-enriched graphic novels.
Selling Prose at Comic-Con 2013

By Rich Shivener | 07/26/2013 @ 07:00PM

This year PW walked the floor of Comic-Con, checking in with Random House, Penguin, Tor, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and the Hachette Book Group about how they use the show to market prose authors.
Photo Mania: San Diego Comic-Con International 2013

| 07/25/2013 @ 04:00PM

The San Diego Comic-Con International attracts more than 130,000 fans and professionals to San Diego for a five days of total immersion into a dazzling world of comics, movies, gaming, TV and personal appearances by the top creative people in comics publishing and other media. We were there and here are a few photographic images from the biggest pop culture convention in North America.
Comics for Kids Are Hot at Comic-Con 2013

By Brigid Alverson | 07/25/2013 @ 03:00PM

From Viz Media's relaunch of its children's imprint to Archie's first zombie comic and Papercutz’s team-up with the WWE, publishers attending the San Diego Comic-Con International had plenty of news about kids' comics to share.
Finding the Comics at Comic-Con 2013

By Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid | 07/24/2013 @ 12:00AM

Whether it was meeting comics giants such as Lone Wolf and Cub creator Kazuo Koike or getting your picture taken with zombies in the Walking Dead prison-camp re-creation on the floor, comics creators and comics content were everywhere at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2013.
The Latest PWCW More to Come Podcast; Daily Podcasts from Comic-Con

PW Staff | 07/23/2013 @ 04:00PM

Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons have all the soundbytes from the biggest pop culture festival of the year, including David Petersen, Noelle Stevenson, Chris Staros, Eric Reynolds and many many more.
PW at Comic-Con: What’s Next for Graphic Novels in Libraries

By Calvin Reid | 07/23/2013 @ 12:00AM

Organized by PW graphic novel reviews editor Heidi MacDonald, the PW panel at Comic-Con, "Whats Next For Graphic Novels in Libraries," served as a followup report on her May feature, “How Graphic Novels became the hottest section in the library,” and surveyed both the upbeat current marketplace as well as possible obstacles to growth.
Upcoming Comics Events: 7/22/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 07/22/2013 @ 12:00PM

NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium in New York, NY; Dan Slott Appearance and Signing in New York, NY; Lecture by Dash Shaw in San Francisco, CA.
Movies Rule, But Books, Digital Deals Rise at Comic-Con 2013

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 07/22/2013 @ 12:00AM

Despite the towering posters for NBC’s Blacklist and Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man 2, there was plenty of chatter about publishing going on at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
New PBS Film and Book Survey Superhero Comic Books

By Calvin Reid | 07/21/2013 @ 09:00AM

This Fall PBS will air the three-part documentary Superheroes: The Never Ending-Battle by filmmaker Michael Kantor to be accompanied by a companion volume, Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture, written by Laurence Maslon and Kantor, to be released in October from Random House’s Crown Archetype imprint.
Scholastic and Comixology Ink Digital Distribution Pact

By Calvin Reid | 07/20/2013 @ 07:00AM

Scholastic has reached an agreement with digital comics distributor Comixology to make graphic novels from its Graphix imprint, available through the Comixology platform on iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle, and the web.
Two Archie Books Announced at Comic-Con 2013

By Calvin Reid | 07/20/2013 @ 12:00AM

Archie Comics plans to release The Best of Archie Comics: Betty & Veronica, the best stories starring Archie’s iconic girlfriends; and Archie’s Valentine: A Rock & Roll Romance, in which Archie and Valerie Brown of Josie and the Pussycats get married.
Comixology at Comic-Con 2013: Exponential Growth

By Calvin Reid | 07/19/2013 @ 12:00AM

Launched at Comic-Con in 2007 with about eight publishers and less than a hundred comics, Comixology now offers more than 40,000 titles via a digital reader and Web site and consumers can read and buy comics across every platform and device from phones to tablets.

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