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Kids, Books, and Comics: Photos from New York Comic Con 2012
An estimated 116,000 people flooded the Javits Center in New York City this past weekend for New York Comic Con, the second largest show of its kind in North America. Sunday was Kids' Day at the show, but there was plenty for children to see and do during all four days of the convention, with publishers bringing in authors and artists including Sir Terry Pratchett, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Beth Revis, and Dave Roman. Read on to see our round-up of a weekend's worth of costumes, panels, and book signings.
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Déjà Vu at New York Comic Con with Archie, Disney, Nancy Drew
Kids love familiar things, and there were plenty of familiar faces at New York Comic Con, including revivals from Archie, Disney and Papercutz in addition to original graphic works.
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Harvey Pekar Gets Statue Plus Image on Cleveland Library Card
In a big weekend for the family of the late Harvey Pekar, acclaimed autobiographical comics writer and favorite son of the city of Cleveland, the city's public library erected a statue in his honor and also issued limited edition library cards with his likeness.
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Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2012
New York Comic Con is done but not forgotten. We spent the weekend capturing images of many of the creators and publishers as well as the tens of thousands of fans that jammed the Jacob Javits Center over the weekend.
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New York Comic Con Draws 116,000 Fans
Pop culture fans jammed the aisles of the Javits Center for all four days of the New York Comic Con, held this past weekend. Attendance was estimated as 116,000 by show runner and ReedPop v-p Lance Fensterman, making it the second largest comics and pop culture show in North America.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 10/15/2012
10/17 Ex Sanguine Release Event with Tim Seeley and Josh Emmons in Chicago, IL; 11/3 Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival in Las Vegas, NV; 10/20 Charles Burns, Gabrielle Bell & Tom Kaczynski Signing in Seattle, WA
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Graphic Novels as Gifts 2012: Comics Real and Surreal
From Chris Ware's virtuoso Building Stories to Scott Snyder's New 52 Batman: Court of Owls, this year's look at comics and graphic novels for gifts offers something to please everyone on your list.
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Diamond Expands Publisher Programs
Amidst a generally jaunty mood over continued strong sales, Diamond Comics Distributors held its retailer appreciation breakfast and announced an expansion of several retailer programs.
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ICV2: Digital, Comics Sales Up for 2012; Manga Down
Comics sales have held steady in the first half of 2012, led by periodicals and digital, while graphic novels are still recovering from the Borders implosion but should be up by the end of the year. These were among the industry trends covered at the ICv2 Comics and Digital conference held ahead of New York Comic-Con.
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PW Announces Webcast on How Comics are Evolving in the Digital World
PW looks at how digital is shaping the future of comics in the latest PW webcast. On November 16 join Publishers Weekly Senior News Editor Calvin Reid as he hosts a panel of industry experts from Ingram, Graphic Universe, Viz Media and Papercutz to explore the future of comics and graphic novels.
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Tr!ckster Settles in Berkeley
Following a successful run as a pop-up store, Tr!ckster is opening a permanent base in Berkeley.
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Marvel Smash! Sean Howe on Marvel’s Hectic History of Heroes
Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story separates fact from fiction and controversy from concord in charting the history of the company that has risen from the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to creating billion dollar franchises for Disney.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 10/09/2012
10/11-10/14 New York Comic Con, 10/13 Walking Dead Exhibit, 10/17 Ex Sanguine Release Party.
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Comics Reviews: October 2012
New books from Los Bros. Hernandez, Gabrielle Bell, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples and Glyn Dillon highlight the month.
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Panel Mania: August Moon
In the town of Calico, the townspeople believe you can see the "Soul Fires" of the dead in the night sky. When young Fiona Gan and her father move to the town, she discovers the depths of the town's mysteries including a boy who claims to be from the moon and a rabbit creature in an alley. However, as the Soul Fire festival approaches, a creepy corporation starts to bulldoze the nearby forests. August Moon is written and drawn by Diana Thung and will be released by Top Shelf in October.
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Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel
Produced over the course of nine years of research, writing, and drawing, Sailor Twain, the story of mysterious doings on a 19th-century steamboat plying the Hudson River, is a debut graphic novel by Mark Seigel, author of graphic nonfiction as well as children’s books, and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint.
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A Life in A Box: Invention, Clarity and Meaning in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’
Chris Ware, the author of Building Stories, a new graphic novel to be published by Pantheon in October, is likely the most famous literary comics artist—graphic novelist if you prefer—that isn’t Art Spiegelman.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 9/24/2012
9/26 Happy! Release Party and Concert with Darick Robertson Los Angeles, CA; 9/28-9/30 MorrisonCon with Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Gerard Way and more in Las Vegas, NV; 9/30 MICE: Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Boston, MA
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Comixology Drives the E-comics Market
Comixology, a digital comics distributor and marketplace, marks its fifth anniversary this year as it emerges as the clear leader in the digital comics space. The company’s Guided View technology, a much imitated function on its Comics by Comixology app, which allows readers to read digital comics easily on mobile devices, is widely available across all platforms, including iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and the Web. The company has also made strategic deals with most of the comics industry’s heavyweight publishers, including Marvel, DC, and Image, to help it attain a market share that significantly dwarfs the efforts of its competitors, such as iVerse and Panelfly.
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IVerse Debuts Exclusive Digital Foreign Rights Deal with Marvel and Archie
Noting that more than 50% of their digital comics sales each month are going to international readers, digital comics distributor iVerse has signed a deal with two publishers, Marvel and Archie, to distribute translated comics worldwide.
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