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Amanda Moon Takes Over Hill & Wang’s Novel Graphics Imprint

By Calvin Reid | 07/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

Farrar Straus Giroux/Hill & Wang’s Novel Graphics, a line of serious nonfiction comics is now under the editorial direction of Amanda Moon, named to head the imprint after H&W publisher and Novel Graphics founder Thomas LeBien left for a new position at Simon & Schuster at the end of 2011.
Panel Mania: God and Science: The Return of Ti-Girls

Compiled by Ada Price | 07/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

Originally serialized in Love and Rockets: New Stories, acclaimed cartoonist Jaime Hernandez's "Ti-Girl Adventures" features new characters, older side character from Jaime's universe, and well known character's such as Peggy Century and Angel, Maggie's roommate and an aspiring super-heroine. God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls will be released in July by Fantagraphics.
Upcoming Comics Events: 7/9/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 07/09/2012 @ 03:00PM

7/11-7/14 Trickster in San Diego, CA; 7/12, 7/14 CBLDF Welcome Party and Art Auction, San Diego, CA; 7/19 "No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics" Release Party San Francisco, CA
Comics Reviews: July 2012

| 07/09/2012 @ 02:00PM

New books by Chris Ware, Harvey Pekar, new Juanjo Guarnido, Ellen Forney, and Joe Sacco make it another great month for graphic novels.
Super Folk: Marvel NOW, Fall DC Updates, Diamond Digital Launches, June Sales

By Matt White | 07/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s superhero news hub, Marvel NOW shakes things up this fall, DC Comics’ upcoming titles, annuals and creator changes, new from Dark Horse, Image and Boom, Diamond Digital Launches and June Sales.
Diamond, iVerse Set to Launch Diamond Digital Service For Comics Shops

by Matt White | 07/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

After more than a year of beta testing, delays and at least three layoffs, Diamond Comics Distributors and digital comics vendor iVerse Media announced plans to launch Diamond Digital, a digital storefront service that will allow comic shop retailers to sell downloads of digital comics, on July 23
Panel Mania: Wizzywig

Compiled by Ada Price | 07/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

Wizzywig follows Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle, a genius hacker whose exploits are hotly debated from his experiments with phones as a kid to his run-ins with the FBI as an adult. Creator Ed Piskor drew on the stories of real life hackers for inspiration for the character and story. Wizzywig will be released by Top Shelf in July.
Panel Mania: Bloody Chester

Compiled by Ada Price | 07/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

Chester Kates is a skinny teenage orphan fighting to survive in a gruesome, filthy, disease-ridden old west. He is hired to burn down a ghost town to make way for a railroad, however there are three living residents who refuse to leave. Bloody Chester is written by JT Petty and illustrated by Hilary Florido and will be released by First Second in July.
Comics Retailers See Strong Sales in 2012

By Shannon O’Leary | 07/06/2012 @ 07:00PM

Although the economic recovery continues to chug along at a snail’s pace, the comics retail market, at least anecdotally, is doing much better than in recent years. Buoyed by successful events such as DC’s New 52, the reboot of its superhero comics universe last Summer, and The Avengers movie earlier this year, and sustained by savvy booksellers who’ve learned to pivot quickly no matter what the economy throws at them, the responses to this year’s annual, informal survey of comic book retailers and general bookstores leaves little doubt that sales of book format and periodical comics are up in nearly every area of the market.
Kodansha Plans New Sailor Moon Anime

By Calvin Reid | 07/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Japanese manga publisher Kodansha announced plans to create a new anime series based on Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, better known simply as Sailor Moon, one of the most popular media franchises of all time.
Hill & Wang Publishes Harvey Pekar’s New Graphic Work on Israel

by Matt White | 07/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

This month Hill & Wang’s graphic nonfiction line Novel Graphics is publishing Harvey Pekar’s latest posthumuous work, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, with art by JT Waldman, a historical profile and memoir that confronts the modern legacy of the Jewish state and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Papercutz Plans 425K First Printing of ‘Ninjago: Tomb of the Fangpyre’

By Calvin Reid | 07/04/2012 @ 12:00AM

Kids graphic novel specialist Papercutz marked yet another leap upward in the endless popularity of the Lego brand, announcing a 425,000 copy first printing of vol. four of its Ninjago graphic novel line.
Greg Palast, Seven Stories Take Aim at ‘Election Bandits’ in New Book

By Calvin Reid | 07/03/2012 @ 12:00AM

Acclaimed investigative reporter Greg Palast (along with cartoonist Ted Rall) takes on the big money interests financing—and in his view stealing—the American presidential election in his new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Ways, being published by Seven Stories Press.
Super Folk: News, Rumors on Marvel, DC Comics Post-San Diego Comic-Con

By Matt White | 07/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
Upcoming Comics Events: 7/2/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 07/02/2012 @ 01:00PM

7/3 Authors discuss Walt Kelly: The Life and Art of the Creator of Pogo in San Francisco, CA;7/5 Our Valued Customers signing with "Mr. Tim", New York, NY; 7/7 Kids Read Comics in Ann Arbor, MI
Publishers Prepare for Comic-con International

By Rich Shivener | 06/29/2012 @ 07:00PM

Perhaps it’s an understatement to say that Comic-Con International, held annually in San Diego, is the most exciting, influential, and competitive convention of the year—for comics publishers and so many more champions of pop culture.
Midtown Comics Reality TV Show to Air on NatGeo Channel

By Calvin Reid | 06/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

The National Geographic channel will broadcast Comic Store Heroes, a one-hour pilot for a reality TV show about life among the fans, super collectors and staff at New York City's Midtown Comics.
DC Comics Graphic Novels Now Available Via B&N’s Nook, NookColor Devices

By Calvin Reid | 06/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

DC Entertainment announced an agreement to digitally deliver DC’s line of full graphic novels through Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet and Nook Color tablet devices as well as through Android devices via B&N’s Nook for Android app.
Jim Sokolowski Joins Archie Comics; Buchholz, Kaminski, Segura Promoted

| 06/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

Archie Comics announced that Jim Sokolowski, a former senior executive at both Marvel and DC Comics, will join the company as senior v-p, sales and business development. Archie Comics also announced promotions for Harold Buchholz, Paul Kaminski and Alex Segura.
Super Folk: Marvel's Brubaker, Rivera Move On, Comixology's Big Numbers and Notable Collections

By Matt White | 06/26/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics Worlds’s superhero news destination, two longtime Marvel creators opt for more creator-owned work, digital vendor Comixology reports 77 million downloaded digital comics, DC’s new survey and digital He-Man series, teasers from Image, Dark Horse and Valiant, notable collections and more.

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