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Apple Debuts Comics and Graphic Novel Category in the iBookstore
Buying and reading comics on tablets and mobile devices took another step forward after Apple debuted a graphic novel format category in the iBookstore.
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Fans, Publishers, Creators Gather at the MangaNEXT Convention
The manga revolution was alive and well in East Rutherford, New Jersey, last weekend, as manga fans, cosplayers, and professionals rubbed shoulders at MangaNEXT, the only convention in the U.S. devoted solely to manga.
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Super Folk: Image Expo, Marvel’s Avengers vs. X-Men, DC's The Flash and More
This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s column on superhero comics, new series at Image Expo (Including a new Grant Morrison), rumors of writer changes at Marvel while Avengers vs. X-Men looks big and DC Comics pushes The Flash and teases its crossover series and new titles.
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Rich Burlew Talks About His $1 Million Kickstarter Book Project
Rich Burlew raised $1,254,120 on Kickstarter to reprint out of print volumes collecting his Order of the Stick webcomic. In the end, crowdfunding has given Burlew the ability to invest in and grow his business without taking on debt or partners.
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Graphic Storytelling Makes Health Care Reform A Bestseller
The Affordable Care Act may seem like an unlikely topic for a comic book, but Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works, written by MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber and illustrated by Nathan Schreiber, is nestled comfortably on the New York Times graphic book best-seller list
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Web Comic Raises $1.25M on Kickstarter
Cartoonist Rich Burlew set out to raise $57,500 on Kickstarter to reprint a book collection of his web comic, Order of the Stick. By the time the Kickstarter campaign was done, he had managed to raise $1.2 million.
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Super Folk: 'BIG' Things from Marvel, DC's Batman Crossover, and Spring Debuts
This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero column, a string of announcements from Marvel, DC Comics upcoming “Night of the Owls” crossover, and new series from BOOM! Studios, Image, IDW and Dynamite.
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Top Cow Looks Back to Go Forward
Top Cow Productions, having survived for two decades as a comics publisher, is mixing it up, experimenting with genres and crossover series, as well as rebranding. And of course, digital delivery is a big part of it.
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DC's Rood Breaks Down Reader Survey
DC Entertainment has conducted the most detailed readers survey a comics publisher has undertaken in years, with information on new and lapsed readers, and print vs. digital. EVP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood explains some of the broader picture of the results to PWCW.
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Comics Events: 2/14/2012
2/17-2/19 Megacon Comics Convention in Orlando, FL, 2/22 Big City Dare 2 Draw Charity Draw-In at Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art in New York, NY, 2/24-2/26 Image Comics Expo in Oakland, CA, 3/1 Larry Gonick Book Discussion and Signing in New York, NY
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More to Come 17: The Question of Watchmen Prequels
In this week’s podcast, the PW Comics World crew—Heidi “The Beat MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons—discuss the artistic and moral implications of the DC’s plans for Watchmen prequels, the 30th anniversary of Diamond Comic Distributors and 20th anniversary of Image Comics, and the Angouleme comics festival, the annual and gigantic French comics festival held each year in January.
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Super Folk: Marvel in 2012, DC’s New 52 Expands, Digital Developments and Something for the Kids
Marvel Comics teases its upcoming titles and begins to pull back the curtains on their overall future plans, DC’s New 52 expands and changes with new titles and art teams, a double dose of digital news, and new books for kids from a likely source and two not-so-likely sources. This is Super Folk, Publishers Weekly’s news column for all things superhero.
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Oni Press 2012: Books, Floppies, Digital, TV—Big Plans at the House of ‘Scott Pilgrim’
Celebrating its 15th year, Oni Press, best known for publishing the Scott Pilgrim and Queen & Country graphic novel series, has a score of plans that will reflect the indie house’s evolution as well as changes in book publishing.
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Lila Quintero Weaver's 'Darkroom’: The Jim Crow South Through an Immigrant’s Eyes
In Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, the first work of graphic nonfiction published by the University of Alabama Press, author/artist Lila Quintero Weaver looks back at her childhood as an Argentinean immigrant in Alabama during the era of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement.
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Jessica Abel and Matt Madden: Back to Being Comics Artists
Cartoonist Jessica Abel and husband and fellow cartoonist, Matt Madden, have finished Mastering Comics, the follow-up volume to their comics textbook, Words and Pictures, which will be released in May by First Second. Now the two plan to take a year’s sabbatical and get back to work on their own comics.
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Former Collaborator Sues Robert Kirkman for Fraud
Artist Tony Moore, who drew the first six issues of The Walking Dead, has sued creator Robert Kirkman for promissory fraud and breach of contract over the accounting for the red-hot series.
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Comics Reviews February 2012
Reviews of new books by Mary and Bryan Talbot; Jim Henson; Jason, Leela Corman; Joose Swarte and a comics biography of Steve Jobs are among those reviewed this month.
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Panel Mania: Unterzakhn
In Leela Corman's Unterzakhn, yiddish for "Underthings," two sisters, Esther and Fanya, grow up on New York City's Lower East Side beginning in 1910 when they are 6 years old. As the sisters grow up, one works at a burlesque theater and whorehouse, while the other works for an obstetrician who performs illegal abortions, and they both face painful decisions as they struggle to survive and succeed.
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Panel Mania: Beep and Bah
In Beep and Bah, by James Burks, Bah, a sheep, and Beep, a robot, embark on a journey through mountains and the sea and meet various other creatures in a search for a matching sock. Beep and Bah will be released by Lerner/ Carolrhoda Books in March and is intended for readers ages 5 though 9.
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Kickstarter Raises $600K for Web Comic; ‘Ashes’ Rebounds
Crowd-funding, the technical term for fund-raising sites like Kickstarter.com, has been an increasingly popular way for cartoonists to raise money to publish independent comic and graphic novel projects. While Kickstarter has just hit a new high point with the funding of the first $600,000 comics project, another recent high profile project hit a snag over creative differences but bounces back.
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