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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.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/24/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 06/24/2012 @ 12:00PM

Ales Kot & Charles Soule Signing in Brooklyn, NY; Wizard World NYC Experience in New York, NY; Fiona Staples Signing in Calgary, Alberta, CA.
Kazu Kibuishi’s Latest Anthology, ‘Explorer: The Mystery Boxes’

By Brigid Alverson | 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Now after much critical acclaim for the Flight anthology series, Kazu Kibuishi has organized a new anthology called Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, that was published in the spring by Abrams’ Amulet Books.
Dean Haspiel Donates Mini-Comics to SPX, Library of Congress Collection

By Calvin Reid | 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel has reached an agreement to donate his collection of mini-comics to the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress.
Amazon Studios Looks to Crowdsource Films Using Digital Comics, Animation

By Rich Shivener | 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Later this summer, Amazon Studios, the film and TV development arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, will publish its first digital comic.
Super Folk: Marvel Creator Rumors, Batman in Smallville and Heroes Return at Valiant

By Matt White | 06/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero hangout, Marvel’s flurry of creator rumors, Batman and a fan favorite arrive in Smallville Season 11, familiar heroes at Dynamite, Valiant and Image and series from around the industry, big sales for Walking Dead #100 and more.
Fall 2012 Announcements: Comics and Graphic Novels: Good Yarns

By Heidi MacDonald | 06/15/2012 @ 07:00PM

Why is a story about the sea always called a yarn? This season’s best graphic novels not only include two set on the water but a number of great yarns, some outright science fiction, that present the kind of larger than life stories comics are often known for.
Panel Mania: Ulysses Seen Book Two

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 06/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ulysses Seen is the comics adaptation of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, a masterwork of 20thCentury literature, created by Rob Berry. The excerpt offers the newest completed pages of Ulysses Seen that were debuted on the website of the National Library of Ireland in celebration of this year’s June 16 Bloomsday event
‘Ulysses Seen,’ and Rob Berry Feted in Dublin on Bloomsday

By Calvin Reid | 06/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

Robert Berry, artist for Ulysses Seen, an app and online comics adaptation of James Joyce’s 20th Century literary masterpiece Ulysses, is traveling to Dublin for the first time to take part in celebrations that will mark Bloomsday as well Ulysses’s entry into the public domain.

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