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Upcoming Comics Events: 8/27/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/27/2012 @ 03:00PM

8/31 "Leaping Tall Buildings" Book Discussion and Signing in New York; 9/6 MADison Avenue Party at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco; 9/8-9/9 Baltimore Comic Con in Baltimore, MD.
Super Folk: DC, Marvel at Fan Expo Canada, Image Free Digital #1s, Bryan Lee O'Malley

By Matt White | 08/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s superhero news roundup, DC and Marvel news from Fan Expo Canada, Image and Comixology offer Free digital #1s, upcoming Image titles, Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s new series, and more.
Madefire Offers New Model for Digital Comics

By Todd Allen | 08/22/2012 @ 04:00PM

As comics move into new platforms and explore technological innovations, Madefire is one of the companies looking to push the envelope on comics as they offer an iPad app and comics by creators such as Dave Gibbons and Bill Sienkiewicz.
JManga Spinoff to Serve Fresh Manga Seven Days a Week

By Brigid Alverson | 08/21/2012 @ 05:00PM

The digital manga site JManga will launch a spinoff site in October that will serialize a number of manga series one chapter at a time, allowing readers to stay current with series and then purchase them as complete volumes on JManga. The new site, named JManga 7, will be updated seven days a week with new material.
Super Folk: Series Finales at Marvel, Image, Dynamite, Who’s Back in the DCU, Spawn Gets Political

By Matt White | 08/21/2012 @ 06:00AM

This week in Super Folk, Publisher’s Weekly’s superhero news hub, series endings and beginnings at Dynamite, Marvel and Image, familiar faces return to the DC Universe, retailers ready for Uncanny Avengers launch, Spawn gets political and more.
Panel Mania: Saga

Compiled by Ada Price | 08/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Brian K. Vaughan, the writer of such acclaimed works as Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina, returns with a new series, Saga, the story of an unlikely couple, Marko and Alana, two soldiers on opposite sides of a never-ending intergalactic war who fall in love.
AMP! Adds Original Graphic Novel Series by Mark Tatulli

By Heidi MacDonald | 08/20/2012 @ 11:00AM

Continuing their efforts in graphic novel publishing for kids, Andrews McMeel Publishing AMP! imprint has just signed a two-book deal with Mark Tatulli (Lio) for their first original graphic novel series. The Chronicles of Desmond will be published in October 2013.
How Affordable Color POD Could Change the Comics Industry

By Todd Allen | 08/20/2012 @ 07:00AM

Ingram's new, lower prices for color POD make short run printing very affordable and make a whole new range of options for distribution available for creators. This means you no longer have to have material out of print. It means you have access to the bookstore market, especially the online bookstore market. You can turn a profit on shorter print runs through Diamond Comics Distributors.
Upcoming Comics Events: 8/20/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/20/2012 @ 01:00AM

8/21-8/25 Colosse Comics Collective Tour in Seattle, Vancouver & Portland; 8/23 "Noche de Latinas" Gabrielle Gamboa, Crystal Gonzales, Liz Mayorga and Grasiela Rodriguez in San Francisco; 8/31 "Leaping Tall Buildings" Book Discussion and Signing in New York
'The Activity' Follows SpecOps Soldiers On the Front Lines

By Chris Arrant | 08/14/2012 @ 10:00AM

Inside the Special Forces community there’s a group even more secret than Seal Team Six; it’s called the Intelligence Support Activity, the ISA. And for the first time, this clandestine group is getting its chance in the sun in a new comic book series from Image titled The Activity.
Panel Mania: The Art of Betty and Veronica

| 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Archie Comics celebrates its two classic teenage beauties in The Art Of Betty and Veronica, its first deluxe hardcover artbook dedicated to Archie's rivals.
Cognito Releases ‘Operation Ajax’ for iPhone, iPod Touch’

By Calvin Reid | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Operation Ajax: How the CIA Toppled Democracy in Iran is an innovative interactive, multimedia graphic novel created by Dan Burwen for the iPad, that retells the story of the overthrow of the government of Iran in 1953. This month the digital graphic novel has been reformatted and re-released for the iPhone and iPod and will be priced at $ 2.99 for a limited time.
A Look Around the Digital-First Comics Landscape

by Matt White | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Digital-first comics are released in digital format before they eventually reach print. The majority of digital comics are digitized versions of print comics and digital-first offerings are beginning to represent an alternative, more specific market as publishers begin to treat digital as a complement to print rather than a replacement.
Super Folk: More Marvel NOW, DC’s Crossovers, New From Image and IDW

By Matt White | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero news rundown, Marvel NOW news including series details and covers, DC’s crossovers and guest artists, upcoming releases from Image and IDW and more.
Fantagraphics Debuts ‘No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics’

By Shannon O'Leary | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

The publication this month of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, the most definitive collection of queer comics to date, has made the voluminous but largely hidden history of LBGT comics finally visible.
Gabrielle Bell: The Unreliable Observer

By James Romberger | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Gabrielle Bell's new book The Voyeurs will be released this month in the form of a handsomely designed hardcover with full color interior art. It is the first book format publication by Uncivilized Books, a small press imprint run by artist Tom Kaczynski.
Panel Mania: The Hypo

Compiled by Ada Price | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

In The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, a debut graphic novel by Noah Van Sciver, we follow a young Abraham Lincoln as he arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law and the book is focused on what historians have described as his struggles with depression and a nervous breakdown, conditions that Lincoln refers to as "the hypo."
Panel Mania: Adventure Time Vol. 1

Compiled by Ada Price | 08/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Based on the hit Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time Vol.1 features the characters Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum on their adventures through the land of Ooo. Adventure Time Vol. 1 is written by Ryan North and illustrated by Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb, and Mike Homes. It will be released by Boom! Studios in November.
August Comics Reviews

By PW Staff | 08/13/2012 @ 05:00PM

An intriguing look at the young years of Abraham Lincoln; a widescreen SF epic in comics format; and a new Batman original graphic novel are just a few of the notable graphic novels we've reviewed in the past month.
Upcoming Comics Events: 8/13/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/13/2012 @ 03:00PM

8/17-8/25 Colosse Comics Collective Tour in San Francisco, Berkeley, Seattle, Vancouver & Portland; 8/18 "Revival" Signing with Tim Seeley and Mike Norton in Skokie, IL; 8/23 "Noche de Latinas" Gabrielle Gamboa, Crystal Gonzales, Liz Mayorga and Grasiela Rodriguez in San Francisco

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