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  • Comics Reviews May 2012

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  • New Books, New Faces, New Indie Comics at the Annual MoCCA Art Festival

    The MoCCA Festival threw open its doors April 28-29 for an annual celebration of literary and self-published comics. A fundraiser for Soho's Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, MoCCA drew several thousand fans to the Lexington Armory to peruse everything from mini-comics to thick tomes like Seven Stories' massive The Graphic Canon.

  • Photo Mania: MoCCA Art Festival 2012

    PW Comics World Spent the weekend hanging out and taking pictures at this year's MoCCA Art Festival, the annual indie comics show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. Photos by Jody Culkin.

  • Super Folk: New at Image, DC Nation Mag and App, Marvel Villain and 2000AD

    This week in Super Folk, PW Comic World’s superhero news destination, Image reveals new and resurrected series, DC Comics launches DC Nation Magazine and App, Spider-Men gets a villain, Dark Judges Judge Dredd, Tank Girl goes digital and more.

  • Upcoming Comics Events: 04/30/2012

    5/5-5/6 Toronto Comics Art Festival (TCAF) in Toronto, Canada, 5/5 Free Comic Book Day, 5/5-5/6 Latino Comics Expo & La Raza Comica Exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco

  • New Day at Archie Comics, Despite Internal Strife

    Archie Comics Publications, the home of the iconic American red-headed teenager and his Riverdale High School buddies, is reshaping its longstanding brand and revitalizing its publishing program. In recent years Archie Comics has implemented a combination of new publishing formats and provocative new content aimed at keeping the classic Archie brand youthful and relevant to a new generation of Archie fans.

  • Kids Comic Con 2012: The Show Moves to New Bronx Location

    Forced to move to a new location, this year the Kids Comic Con will be held Saturday May 5 from 10 am until 6 pm at the Church of the Mediator, 260 West 231st Street in the Bronx.

  • Archie Plans Jinx Graphic Novel Sequel for 2013

    A sequel to Jinx, an updated graphic novel version of Archie Comics’ original 1940 Li’l Jinx comic, will be released in April 2013. The new Jinx series has been created by writer J. Torres and artist Rick Burchett.

  • Dark Horse Releases ‘Mogworld’ e-Book with Sequel Excerpt

    Comics publisher Dark Horse, which released the bestselling 2010 prose novel Mogworld by popular rapid-fire videogame reviewer Yahtzee Croshaw, is publishing the first chapter of Jam, a sequel, in the new digital edition of Mogworld.

  • Viz Media Tabs Gagan Singh to Head New Viz Labs Tech Unit

    manga and anime publisher/distributor Viz Media, is launching Viz Labs, a new division at the company that will consolidate its engineering and digital business platforms into a single unit.

  • Super Folk: DC Comics In The Fall, Marvel’s New Titles, Free Comic Book Day

    This week in Super Folk, PW Comic World’s look at the goings-on of the superhero industry, what’s down the pipeline at DC Comics, Marvel’s creators offer some details on their upcoming titles, Dark Horse on The Goon and Xerxes, Free Comic Book Day orders, and Valiant’s new logo.

  • Upcoming Comics Events: 04/23/2012

    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, 5/5 Free Comic Book Day

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • David Hyde To Leave DC Comics

    After nearly nine years directing publicity, DC Comics v-p of publicity David Hyde, is leaving the company.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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