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Dark Horse Digital Store Marks 2 Years; Adds Dynamite Digital Comics

By Calvin Reid | 04/24/2013 @ 10:00AM

Dark Horse Digital, Dark Horse Comics’ standalone online comics store and reader-app, announced plans to add Dynamite Entertainment titles to its inventory, the first non-Dark Horse titles to be offered through the retail site.
Corsetto Goes Long Form with 'Adventure Time'

by Shannon O'Leary | 04/23/2013 @ 04:00PM

Popular webcomic creator Danielle Corsetto talks about adapting to the world of graphic novels with Adventure Time: Playing With Fire.
Upcoming Comics Events: 4/22/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/22/2013 @ 03:00PM

4/25 Gabrielle Bell and Boulet Live at the Society of Illustrators in New York, NY; 5/1 Iron Man and the Avengers at 50 in New York, NY; 5/4 Free Comic Book Day
Sammy Harkham Wins L.A. Times Graphic Novel Award

| 04/22/2013 @ 12:30PM

Sammy Harkham’s Everything Together: Collected Stories (PictureBox) has been awarded the L.A Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels.
Chris Ware, Fantagraphics Top 2013 Eisner Award Nominees

By Calvin Reid | 04/17/2013 @ 11:30AM

The 2013 Eisner Award nominations were highlighted by Chris Ware's Building Stories, nominated in five categories including Best New Graphic Novel, and Fantagraphics Books, which led all publishers with 24 nominations. The Eisner Comic Industry Awards honor the best in comics and graphic novel publishing and are presented each year at the San Diego Comic-con International.
Upcoming Comics Events: 4/15/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/15/2013 @ 03:00PM

4/17 New York in Comics Panel with Al Jaffee, Danny Fingeroth & More in New York, NY; 4/20-4/21 LA Times Festival of Books with Hope Larson, Derek Kirk Kim et al in Los Angeles, CA; 4/25 Gabrielle Bell and Boulet Live at the Society of Illustrators in New York, NY
'My Little Pony' Leads Kids' Comics Charge

By Shannon O’Leary | 04/12/2013 @ 07:00PM

Kids' comics were a vital piece of the comics industry's nearly 15% overall sales increase in 2012.
'Miss Peregrine's Home' Goes Graphic

By Matt White | 04/11/2013 @ 03:00PM

In March, Yen Press debuted the first chapter of its graphic novel adaptation of Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, with art by illustrator Cassandra Jean.
Seven Seas Manga: Small, Nimble and Growing

By Brigid Alverson | 04/10/2013 @ 02:30PM

Seven Seas Entertainment launched in 2004 with a line of Original English Language manga and started licensing Japanese titles the following year. Over the last three years their sales have tripled.
Radical Returns To Publishing Behind Upcoming Film Slate

By Heidi MacDonald | 04/10/2013 @ 02:00PM

With two new movies based on their graphic novels coming out—including next week’s Oblivion—Radical Studios is poised to make a return to publishing and an entrance to digital.
Analysis: Marvel NOW Has a Sales Retention Problem

By Todd Allen | 04/10/2013 @ 01:00PM

Although Marvel NOW's #1 issues have launched at high levels, sales of subsequent issues have slid fairly quickly.
Photo Mania: The MoCCA Arts Festival 2013

| 04/10/2013 @ 12:00PM

The MoCCA Arts Festival, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual indie and self-published comics festival, returns under new management by the Society of Illustrators. PW Comics World was there and brought back some fantastic images from the show.
Kids Comic Con Returns May 11 to Bronx Community College

By Calvin Reid | 04/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

The seventh annual Kids Comic Con will kick off on May 11 with more than 30 exhibitors, including Viz Media, Papercutz, Archie Comics, Jim Henson/Sesame Street and Scholastic Book Fairs, in addition to a slate of panels, film screenings and hands-on workshops on creating comics.
Dark Horse Celebrates 25 Years Publishing Manga

By Brigid Alverson | 04/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

When Dark Horse first started publishing manga in 1988, the manga market in the U.S. wasn't small, it was microscopic.
Panel Mania: Punk Rock Jesus

Compiled by Ada Price | 04/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

Punk Rock Jesus is written and illustrated by Sean Murphy, the artist of Joe the Barbarian and American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest. In the near future, a new reality show has an unlikely celebrity, a clone of Jesus Christ. He causes an outrage on a reality TV series, J2, and then as rebellious teenager when he joins a punk rock band. Punk Rock Jesus is published by Vertigo.
Panel Mania: Dial H Vol. 1

Compiled by Ada Price | 04/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

Written by the Hugo Award-winning novelist China Mieville, Dial H Vol. 1: Into You is set in the the town of Littleville, CO, where a troubled young man stumbles upon the lost H-Dial and the the power it possesses. Dial H Vol. 1: Into You will be released by DC Comics on April 17 in comic book stores and on April 23 in bookstores everywhere.
Upcoming Comics Events: 4/08/2013

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/08/2013 @ 02:00PM

4/9 Jane Esperson & Brad Bell "Husbands" Signing in New York, NY; 4/10 "Man of Steel vs. Orson Scott Card" with David Gerrold, Danny Fingeroth & More in New York, NY; 4/14 Lucy Knisley "Relish" Signing in San Francisco, CA
The MoCCA Arts Fest Returns Under New Management

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 04/08/2013 @ 01:00PM

The MoCCA Arts Festival, The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual celebration of small press and self-published comics, opened over the weekend at the historic Lexington Avenue Armory to exhibitors and crowds of several thousand fans anxious to see a show revamped and under new management.
Panel Mania: New School

Compiled by Ada Price | 04/08/2013 @ 12:00AM

From Dash Shaw, the author of Bodyworld and Bottomless Belly Button, New School follows Danny, a young boy who moves to an exotic land and becomes infatuated with the unfamiliar culture, which changes to disillusionment.
Panel Mania: Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes

Compiled by Ada Price | 04/08/2013 @ 12:00AM

In the city of Red Wheelbarrow, Detective Gould, the world's greatest detective, catches every criminal in the city. However, a rash of random and eccentric crimes has him stumped. There are strange crimes such as the compulsive chair thief, a novelist who uses stolen signs to write her magnum opus, and a photographer who documents people's most anguished personal moments. Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes is by Max Kindt and will be released by First Second on May 7.

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