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ICV2: Digital, Comics Sales Up for 2012; Manga Down

By Heidi MacDonald | 10/11/2012 @ 08:00AM

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.
PW Announces Webcast on How Comics are Evolving in the Digital World

| 10/09/2012 @ 02:00PM

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.
Tr!ckster Settles in Berkeley

By Casey Burchby | 10/09/2012 @ 02:00PM

Following a successful run as a pop-up store, Tr!ckster is opening a permanent base in Berkeley.
Marvel Smash! Sean Howe on Marvel’s Hectic History of Heroes

by Casey Burchby | 10/09/2012 @ 01:00PM

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.
Upcoming Comics Events: 10/09/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 10/09/2012 @ 12:15PM

10/11-10/14 New York Comic Con, 10/13 Walking Dead Exhibit, 10/17 Ex Sanguine Release Party.
Comics Reviews: October 2012

| 10/09/2012 @ 09:00AM

New books from Los Bros. Hernandez, Gabrielle Bell, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples and Glyn Dillon highlight the month.
Panel Mania: August Moon

Compiled by Ada Price | 10/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel

By Calvin Reid | 10/05/2012 @ 07:00PM

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.
A Life in A Box: Invention, Clarity and Meaning in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’

By Calvin Reid | 09/28/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Upcoming Comics Events: 9/24/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/24/2012 @ 02:00PM

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
Comixology Drives the E-comics Market

By Shannon O’Leary | 09/21/2012 @ 07:00PM

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.
IVerse Debuts Exclusive Digital Foreign Rights Deal with Marvel and Archie

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/19/2012 @ 01:00PM

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.
Archie Comics Names Adam Tracey Director of Publicity, Marketing

| 09/18/2012 @ 12:00AM

Archie Comics has named Adam Tracey, director of publicity and marketing, replacing Alex Segura, who left the company recently to return to DC Comics.
SPX Smashes Sales Records

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/17/2012 @ 04:00PM

The biggest Small Press Expo ever was hailed as one of the most profitable as well, with sales of indie and literary comics smashing records across the board. Held this past weekend in North Bethesda, MD, the 2012 edition of SPX was billed as a never before seen meeting of six of literary comics’ greatest figures.
Upcoming Comics Events: 9/17/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/17/2012 @ 02:00PM

9/17-9/23 Brooklyn Book Festival and Bookend Events in Brooklyn, NY; 9/18-9/23 "Love & Rockets" 30th Anniversary Tour in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia & Brooklyn; 9/28-9/30 MorrisonCon with Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Gerard Way and more in Las Vegas, NV.
iVerse Unveils a Comics Crowdfunding Site and Enters the DRM-Free World

By Todd Allen | 09/11/2012 @ 08:30AM

New things are percolating at iVerse, the Waco, Tex., company behind the ComicsPlus digital comics app. iVerse is looking to steal some of Kickstarter’s marketshare, as well as venture into DRM-free digital comics, with ComicsAccelerator, a new crowdfunding platform specifically for comics projects.
Strong August at DC; New ‘Earth One’, ‘Zero’ Graphic Novels Coming

by Calvin Reid | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

DC's Batman Earth One marked its second month as the top selling graphic novel to comics shop retailers and announced plans to release a new Superman Earth One graphic novel in October, as well as book collections of its New 52 “Zero” issues by the end of the year and into 2013.
Carol Lay’s Story Minute Strips Get a New Life in ‘Illiterature’

by Beth Scorzato | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

Since Carol Lay gave us The Big Skinny in 2008, a very funny account of her successful struggle to lose weight, the prolific creator has stayed largely out of the limelight in the publishing world. But in October she’ll be back with Illiterature, a brand new hardcover collection of her well-known Story Minute cartoons.
Gary Panter's ‘DalTokyo’: Strip-Mining on Mars

By James Romberger | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

Considered one of the only true punk cartoonists, Gary Panter is a tremendously influential underground cartoonist best known for a ragged, aggressive line and the wildly imaginative formal experimentation in his Jimbo graphic novels. This month Fantagraphics Books will release DalTokyo, a serial comic strip first produced by Panter in the 1980s, now collected in a handsome, horizontal-format, oversized hardcover edition.
Panel Mania: Nao of Brown

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

Nao Brown struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and urges to harm others. However, she wants to overcome these issues and get her design and illustration career off the ground. Her boyfriend dumps her, yet she meets a washing machine repairman and an art teacher at the Buddhist Center. The Nao of Brown is created by Glyn Dillon and will be released by SelfMadeHero, an imprint of Abrams in September.

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