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Iverse Media Debuts Digital Comics Lending Service at ALA

By Calvin Reid | 06/27/2013 @ 12:00AM

Comics Plus: Library Edition offers libraries an easy-to-use, budget-friendly way to circulate graphic novels.
Boom! Studios Acquires Archaia Entertainment

By Heidi MacDonald | 06/24/2013 @ 05:00PM

In the first sign of consolidation in the graphic novel market, Boom! Studios announced on Monday that they were acquiring Archaia Entertainment.
Obituary: Kim Thompson, 1956-2013

By Calvin Reid | 06/20/2013 @ 12:00AM

Kim Thompson, co-publisher of Fantagraphics Books as well as a superlative editor and translator of comics, died June 19 of lung cancer at his home in Seattle. He was 57.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/17/2013

| 06/17/2013 @ 12:00PM

Comix NSFW Lecture; Witch Doctor: Mal Practice Release Party, East London Comics & Arts Festival
Dark Horse Expands Originals Line With New Ryan/McNeil, Webcomics Collections

By Heidi MacDonald | 06/14/2013 @ 02:00AM

Dark Horse is significantly ramping up its Original’s line of creator-owned graphic novels this fall with books by an array of award-winning creartors, including a new book by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil and collections of webcomics Bandette and Sin Titulo.
Panel Mania: Blood-C Vol. 2

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/12/2013 @ 03:00PM

Blood-C is written by manga collective CLAMP and illustrated by Ranmaru Kotone. It follows Saya Kisaragi, a kind, clumsy student, who trains and performs duties at her father's shrine. However, at night she slays monsters that are beginning to eat humans and threaten her friends. Blood-C Vol. 2 will be released by Dark Horse in June.
Marvel's New Original Graphic Novel Line Could Be a Game Changer

By Heidi MacDonald | 06/12/2013 @ 02:00PM

Marvel's new line of original grahpic novels opens a whole new business for them.
Panel Mania: A Distant Soil Vol. 1

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/12/2013 @ 01:00PM

Colleen Doran's out of print sci-fi, fantasy comic, A Distant Soil Vol. 1 has been collected into a new, digitally remastered edition. The series has not had a new edition in seventeen years, and this version features restored and re-lettered pages. A Distant Soil Vol. 1 will be released in June by Image Comics.
Panel Mania: Solo Deluxe Edition

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/12/2013 @ 11:00AM

The acclaimed 12-issue series Solo, which features great comics creators interpreting DC characters in their own way, is being collected into a deluxe edition. The book includes work by Darwyn Cooke, Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale, Mike Allred, Neil Gaiman, Paul Pope, and Howard Chaykin. It was released by DC Comics on June 5th.
Panel Mania: Saga Vol. 2

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/12/2013 @ 09:00AM

The second volume of the new series, Saga, from the writer of Y: the Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan, is a galactic fatantsy story which follows the star crossed love of two soldiers from opposing sides and their young child. Saga is drawn by Fiona Staples, and the second volume will be released on June 19th by Image Comics.
Panel Mania: A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/12/2013 @ 07:00AM

By the creator of the travelogue-comics, Pyongyang, Burma, and Shenzhen, Guy Delisle presents the dilemmas of parenting with wry, ironic humor in A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting. A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting will be released by Drawn and Quarterly in June.
Panel Mania: A Matter of Life

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/12/2013 @ 05:00AM

Jeffery Brown, author of Clumsy and Unlikely, returns to autobio comics with A Matter of Life. It weaves together Brown's memories of three generations of men in his family: himself, his minister father, and his preschool son Oscar to create a kaleidoscopic answer to life's big questions. A Matter of Life will be published by Top Shelf in June.
Upcoming Comics Events: June 10, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 06/10/2013 @ 12:00PM

6/14 Way & Cloonan Signing in Anaheim, CA; 6/14-6/16 Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con in Las Vegas, NV; 6/15-6/16 The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo in Chiacgo, IL
DC Entertainment Introduces DC2 Interactive Comics

By Heidi MacDonald | 06/05/2013 @ 09:00AM

With their digital comics sales surging, DC Entertainment announced two new “enhanced” storytelling formats which they hope will offer innovative storytelling possibilities.
BEA 2013: Comics and Graphic Novels Find New Markets

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 06/04/2013 @ 11:00AM

Much like the overall BookExpo America, the comics and graphic novel presence at the show was smaller than in the past but comics exhibitors also projected a sense of stability and optimism about the future of the industry.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/3/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 06/03/2013 @ 11:00AM

6/5 Peter David in New York, NY; 6/5 Neil Gaiman in Cambridge, MA; 6/7-6/10 HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC
Hocking Begins Digital Release of ‘The Hollowland Graphic Novel’

By Calvin Reid | 05/29/2013 @ 09:00AM

Novelist Amanda Hocking has teamed with Dynamite Comics to digitally release The Hollows: A Hollowland Graphic Novel, a comics adaptation of her 2010 zombie novel. First Chapter is free.
Upcoming Comics Events: 5/28/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 05/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

5/29-6/2: Comic Festival München; 5/30-6/2: Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con; 5/31: Scott Snyder & Sean Murphy The Wake Signing; 5/31-6/2: Denver Comic Con.
Rutu Modan: Family Fictions

By Grace Bello | 05/25/2013 @ 12:00AM

Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan, best known for her Eisner Award winning 2008 graphic novel Exit Wounds (D&Q), returns with a new graphic novel called The Property.

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