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Panel Mania: Earth 2 Vol. 2: The Tower of Fate

Compiled by Ada Price | 10/07/2013 @ 08:00AM

In Earth 2 Vol. 2: The Tower of Fate, ritten by James Robinson with art by Nicola Scott and Yildiray Cinar, the World Army is rounding up the Super Heroes of Earth 2 for an unknown purpose.
Bechdel, Cruse, Staples, Williams Headline 2014 MoCCA Art Festival

By Calvin Reid | 10/05/2013 @ 02:00PM

The Society of Illustrators announced plans to return to the Lexington Avenue Armory April 5-6 for the 2014 MoCCA Arts Festival and will feature as guests of honor cartoonists Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Fiona Staples and painter/cartoonist Robert Williams.
Madefire Secures $5.2M in Funding

By Calvin Reid | 10/02/2013 @ 10:15AM

Madefire, a digital authoring and display platform for creating “Motion Books,” or partially animated multimedia digital comics, announced that it has received $5.2 million in Series A Funding led by True Ventures.
Viz Manga Comes to Kindle Store

By Calvin Reid | 10/02/2013 @ 09:30AM

Viz Media, a U.S.-based manga publisher and anime distributor, announced a deal to make its entire catalog of digital manga available through the Amazon Kindle Store. Beginning today, more than 1,500 volumes are available for download for about $6.99 each.
Upcoming Comics Events: September 30, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 09/30/2013 @ 12:00PM

10/4-10/7: GRAPHIC festival in Sydney, Australia; 10/4-10/6: Dallas Comic Con in Irving, TX; 10/5: Jeff Smith RASL Signing in Chicago, IL; 10/5: Locust Moon Comics Festival in Philadelphia, PA.
A New World of Comics: Graphic Novels as Gifts 2013

By Calvin Reid and Matt White | 09/30/2013 @ 12:00AM

This year, comics publishers are offering a bumper crop of beautiful gift books for readers of all stripes
Not Your Grandmother’s Fairy Tales: Bill Willingham

By Brigid Alverson | 09/27/2013 @ 07:00PM

Just as Rapunzel spun straw into gold, Bill Willingham spins childhood stories into adult drama filled with action, romance, and intrigue.
Upcoming Comics Events: September 23, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 09/23/2013 @ 10:45AM

9/25: Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 9/26: Peter Bagge and Cienna Madrid in Seattle, WA; 9/28-9/29: Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Cambridge, MA; 9/29: Chris Claremont signing in Toronto, ON, Canada.
Gene Yang’s ‘Boxers’ and ‘Saints’ Makes NBA Longlist

By Calvin Reid | 09/17/2013 @ 10:00AM

Gene Luen Yang’s two-book boxed set Boxers and Saints, has been picked as one of the ten titles on the longlist of finalists for this year’s National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature.
Upcoming Comics Events: September 16, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 09/16/2013 @ 01:00PM

9/17: Conversation with Liza Donnelly and Rutu Modan in New York, NY; 9/17: Alex Schubert Signing and Release Party in Brooklyn, NY; 9/18: Art Spiegelman Book Launch Party in Brooklyn, NY; 9/18: Peter Milligan & Brendan McCarthy Launch Party in London, U.K.; 9/20-9/22: Wizard World Ohio Comic Con in Columbus, OH; 9/21-9/22: Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR; 9/22: Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, NY.
Record Number of Attendees and Exhibitors at SPX 2013

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/16/2013 @ 09:00AM

The only thing that was “small” about this year’s Small Press Expo was the name of the event. A record number of exhibitors and what looked like the largest crowd yet descended on Bethesda, Md. for a two day comics shopping spree.
Comics Creators Highlight the 2013 Brooklyn Book Festival

By Calvin Reid | 09/11/2013 @ 02:30PM

The eighth annual Brooklyn Book Festival will open September 22 on the Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza with an expanded presence for comics and graphic novel artists who will be featured on comics-focused panels and throughout all the festival’s literary programming.
Frankel Launches Z2 Comics with Paul Pope, Dean Haspiel

By Calvin Reid | 09/11/2013 @ 02:00PM

Zip Comics publisher Josh Frankel is renaming his publishing company, now to be called Z2 comics, and will relaunch it in April 2014 with new and revised editions of Paul Pope’s Escapo, originally published in 1999, and Dean Haspiel’s Fear My Dear: A Billy Dogma Book, a selection of Billy Dogma comics originally published online.
Panel Mania: Bad Houses

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/11/2013 @ 01:00PM

In Bad Houses, written by Sara Ryan and illustrated by Carla Speed McNeil, teenagers Anne and Lewis refuse to lose hope in a once thriving logging community as they discover the secrets of their hometown and families.
Meet The Micropress: The Publishers of Cartoon House

by Robyn Chapman | 09/11/2013 @ 01:00PM

Cheap printing and easy distribution have given rise to several new comics "micropresses," usually one-person companies that put out small, highly curated lines. Cartoon House is a collective that houses three of the most experimental.
Fantasy Becomes Reality at Baltimore Comic-Con

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/10/2013 @ 09:00AM

A record crowd showed up at the Baltimore Comic-Con to celebrate comics, prompting the show to expand to three days next year, as Saga dominated the Harvey Awards.
Upcoming Comics Events: 9/9/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 09/09/2013 @ 12:00PM

9/10: Brian Ralph Signing in San Francisco, CA; 9/14: Jim Lee Signing and Appearance in Concord, CA; 9/14-9/15: Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD
Panel Mania: Boxers and Saints

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/09/2013 @ 09:00AM

Boxers and Saints is a two volume set by Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese that looks at the Boxer Rebellion from the side of the rebels (Boxers) and the Chinese Christian converts (Saints) and English missionaries they were fighting against. Boxers and Saints will be published by First Second in September.
HBO Go Exec Joins Comixology

By Calvin Reid | 09/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

Jeff DiBartolomeo, former senior v-p, consumer tech at HBO and a cofounder of HBO Go, the popular HBO content-viewing app, has left the company to join the digital comics distributor and marketplace as chief technology officer.
Viz Media to Raise Digital Manga Prices October 1

By Calvin Reid | 09/04/2013 @ 05:00PM

Viz Media is raising the prices of its regular digital manga releases from $4.99 a volume to $6.99 beginning October 1. The standard price of its print volumes will remain $9.99.

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