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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.
Preview Night Comic-Con 2013: Books by Top Shelf, Fantagraphics, D&Q

By Calvin Reid | 07/18/2013 @ 12:00AM

Rep. John Lewis’ Civil Rights memoir March from Top Shelf, a new issue of Adrian Tomine’s acclaimed comic Optic Nerve from D&Q, and the latest volume of David Petersen’s Mouse Guard were among the new titles on display during preview night at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International.
Abrams ComicArts Plans Paul Levitz Book on Will Eisner

By Calvin Reid | 07/18/2013 @ 12:00AM

Abrams ComicArts plans to publish Will Eisner: The Dreamer and the Dream, a monograph by Paul Levitz, author and former president and publisher of DC Comics
Viz Media Debuts Children's Imprint at Comic-Con 2013

By Calvin Reid | 07/17/2013 @ 09:00AM

Viz Media is relaunching its VizKids imprint and renaming it Perfect Square, with plans to launch a comprehensive new children's publishing program.
‘Megatokyo’ Raises Over $258K on Kickstarter

by Calvin Reid | 07/16/2013 @ 02:30PM

Fred Gallagher, creator of Megatokyo, a pioneering English-language manga webcomic and book series, has raised nearly $260,000 on Kickstarter to develop a Megatokyo visual novel game.
Madefire, Publishers, ITV Partner for More Motion Books

By Todd Allen | 07/16/2013 @ 08:00AM

Madefire, the digital comics publishing platform known for its partially animated “motion books” format, has announced four new content partners: comics publishers BOOM!, IDW and Top Cow; and British TV Studio iTV.

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