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DC Comics' Before Watchmen Prequels Under Scrutiny at L.A. Times Book Festival
DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee sat down to discuss the controversial upcoming Before Watchmen prequel series on a panel at The LA Times Festival of Books this weekend.
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Reading with Pictures Launches Kickstarter Project
Cartoonist Josh Elder is spearheading a project to raise funds for The Graphic Textbook, a Kickstarter project featuring a dozen short stories that are coordinated with the Common Core Standards that teachers use nationwide.
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iVerse to Launch Digital Comics Library Service
The digital comics distributor iVerse is breaking new ground with a service that will allow libraries to offer digital comics to their patrons to read on just about every digital device.
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Journey Into Mystery – Where Am I Getting My Comics This Week?
Every Wednesday, comics readers across the nation go to their shops for their weekly purchases. But it isn't always easy to pick things up off the rack, as one man's quest shows.
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David Hyde To Leave DC Comics
After nearly nine years directing publicity, DC Comics v-p of publicity David Hyde, is leaving the company.
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Alvin Lu Promoted at Viz Media
Alvin Lu, formerly senior v-p and general manager, has been promoted to executive v-p of publishing of Viz Media, the largest North American publisher and distributor of manga and anime.
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Super Folk: C2E2 2012
This week Super Folk, PW Comics World's one stop superhero destination, covers the deluge of news from the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) including lots of big news from the Big Two, IDW, Archaia, Mark Waid and more, as well as some news from outside the convention.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 4/16/2012
4/19 Toonseum Fundraiser Party with Doug Sneyd in Pittsburgh, PA, 4/23, 4/28-4/29 The Story of Rock 'N' Roll Comics Release Party and Screenings in New York, NY, 4/28-4/29 Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR
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Attendance Way Up at Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo
ReedPOP finally seems to have cracked the code on getting wary Midwesterners to venture into Chicago's McCormick Place for a comics and entertainment festival. Attendance for this year's C2E2 Expo—held April 13-15—was "way up," said show runner Lance Fensterman.
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Materfamilias: Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel—creator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of the lauded 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home and now the new biocomic Are You My Mother?—doesn’t know what to call herself. “I know I’m a cartoonist. The drawing is completely inextricable from my writing,”she says from her home in Vermont. “I do feel, since Fun Home came out, I’ve had to sort of reimagine myself a little bit.”
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DC Comics Switches U.K. Book Distribution to Diamond Book Distributors
With the London Book Fair fast approaching, DC Entertainment announced plans to move its U.K. book trade distribution to Diamond Book Distributors U.K from its longtime partner Titan Books.
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Comics Retailers Upbeat Despite Digital Competition at Diamond Summit
The mood among retailers was generally upbeat even in the face of digital competition at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Chicago. Held April 11-13 in conjunction with the C2E2 comics/entertainment expo, the meeting drew nearly 400 retailers for several days of focus groups and presentations on the state of comics retailing.
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Daniel Clowes on his New Exhibition and Monograph and Lee Marvin
To his own surprise, Daniel Clowes is currently working on ten projects. And now, the first retrospective museum exhibition of his work, “Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes” is about to open in his adopted hometown at the Oakland Museum of California on April 14. Accompanying the exhibition is a beautifully-produced monograph from Abrams ComicArts.
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The Mighty Crusaders Return as Digital-Only Comic
Archie’s superhero line, sometimes called “Red Circle,” has been revived several times since the characters were created in the 1940s. Now Archie is bringing the characters back in-house and launching them as a digital-only property.
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Middle East Film And Comic Con Set for April 20 and 21
The Middle East Film and Comic Con, an annual pop culture convention aimed at Middle Eastern fans, has rescheduled and will be held in Dubai, April 20 and 21.
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PW Comics World Talks with Makoto Tateno
Makoto Tateno is one of the first names that springs to mind in any discussion of yaoi manga (also known as BL, or Boys Love). Not only is she a prolific creator, but her series, which include Yellow and Blue Sheep Reverie, have been hugely popular with U.S. readers.
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Best Job Ever: My Six Months As An Eisner Judge
Our intrepid comics reporter Brigid Alverson was invited this year to be a judge for the Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, the National Book Awards of the comics industry, and spent the next six months happily reading every graphic novel in sight.
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Comics and Education Meet at First Ever Wildcat Comic Con
The Wildcat Comic Con is a two-day celebration of comics in the classroom to be held this weekend, April 13-14, at the Pennsylvania College of Technology (the technical wing of Penn State) in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Norton's Liveright to Publish Jules Feiffer Graphic Novel
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, will publish Kill My Mother, his first original graphic novel, in fall 2013 with the Liveright publishing division of W. W. Norton.
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Super Folk: 'Before Watchmen' At Kapow!, Marvel Takes March, New Witchblade, Eisner Nominations
This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero news column, DC reveals two new series and some Before Watchmen news, Marvel takes March, a new Witchblade and KISS comics, Eisner Nominations.
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