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Super Folk: Watchmen Prequels, Spider-Men, and 2012 Sales Start Strong
This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's weekly’s round up of superhero news, DC Comics causes a stir with Before Watchmen and shuffles some of its writers, Marvel teases Spider-Man events, Mark Waid on The Omega Effect and the end of Irredeemable, January puts up some strong sales numbers, and more.
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Alan Moore Does Live Video Chat to Support Harvey Pekar Memorial
In a moving tribute to the late cartoonist Harvey Pekar, Alan Moore, acclaimed creator of Watchmen, spent more than 2 hours answering questions and remembering Pekar during a live video conference for fans that donated money to the Harvey Pekar memorial project on Kickstarter.
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Panel Mania: EmiTown 2
Emi Lenox draws a page a day for her online sketch dairy, EmiTown. The second collected print volume, which goes on sale February 22nd, includes over 400 pages with 50 pages of previously unreleased material. The dairy chronicles her daily life of going to work, making comics, and eating burritos, as well as larger life shifts such as a relationship and losing a job. EmiTown 2 is published by Image Comics.
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Jimmy Gownley Wraps Up 'Amelia'; Launches New Projects
Cartoonist Jimmy Gownley started with a doodle of a little girl and ended up with Amelia Rules, a popular kids’ comic that eventually became a self-published graphic novel and then an eight-volume series, now published by Simon & Schuster.
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Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics
In what looks to be the graphic publishing literary event of the year, Seven Stories Press will publish the first volume of the Graphic Canon: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons in May, the first of a three-volume anthology of graphic interpretations of the world’s literary classics created by 130 comics artists and illustrators.
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DC Comics To Publish Prequels To Alan Moore’s ‘Watchmen’
After years of rumors and, more recently, leaks of character designs, DC Comics has announced plans to publish Before Watchmen, seven interconnected series of new comics stories based on the superhero epic, Watchmen.
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Graphicly Debuts New Digital Distribution Platform
Graphicly, a digital comics vendor and marketplace, is launching an automated digital distribution platform for publishers and self-publishers.
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Super Folk: Marvel's New Line and New Cuts, DC's Second Wave and GLAAD Nominees
This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's run down of all things superhero, Marvel offers a new line of all-ages comics and cancels three series, DC Comics sheds some light on its big name releases for the Spring and Fall, as well as the release of the New-52 collected editions and superheroes get nominated for GLAAD awards.
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Capstone, DC Comics Ink Licensing Deal
Capstone, a children’s educational and library publisher, has reached a licensing deal with DC Entertainment to create library hardcovers and paper-over-board editions of DC Comics titles.
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Super Folk: January 20-23
This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s weekly survey of superhero comics, we take stock of DC’s new logo, a new line of Marvel prose novels based on their characters, new digital-only releases from Dark Horse, IDW and DC, and the end of an unlikely creative team up between Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld.
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Oni Press Shows Off New Company Logo
Beginning in March, the books and periodicals of independent comics publisher Oni Press will sport a new logo.
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More to Come 16: SOPA, PIPA and Comics
In this podcast, the More To Come crew discuss the implications of SOPA and PIPA for the comic book community, the downfall of Bandai and the state of the manga industry, Lego and DC team up for kids digital comics and more
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Super Folk: January 9-19
There’s never a dull day in the superhero business, and with the copious headlines and happenings occurring on a daily basis, it can seem a heroic task to keep up. That’s where I come in.
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DC Comics Launches Effort to Fight Hunger in Africa
DC Comics parent DC Entertainment has announced the launch of We Can Be Heroes, a humanitarian effort to address the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa, with plans to raise $2 million for three aid organizations working in the region.
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Lone Star’s Chris Powell to Join Diamond Comics Distributors
Chris Powell, longtime general manager of the Texas comics shop chain, Lone Star Comics, and Mycomicsshop.com, has been named executive director of business development for the comic book specialty market at Diamond Comics Distributors.
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Retailers Struggle with Marvel’s Inconsistent Backlist
Marvel Comics has long ruled the comic book sales charts, but the comics giant has not achieved the same dominance in the book trade.
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Antarctic Press Wins Extension in Wimpy Kid Suit
Antarctic Press, the small manga publisher that was sued for copyright infringement by Wimpy Kid, Inc. over the sale of its parody of the popular children's series featuring zombies, was given more time to negotiate.
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2011: Bad Start, Good Ending For Diamond Book Distributors
Despite a year spent weathering the failure of Borders Books, Diamond Book Distributors v-p sales and marketing Kuo-yu Liang says the year ended strongly for the distributor of graphic novels and pop culture merchandise.
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Hark! A Vagrant Tops 2011 PW Comics World Critic’s Poll
Although it’s often said that comedy has a disadvantage when it comes to winning recognition, that was not the case with this year’s PW Comics World Critic’s Poll: the book with the most votes was Kate Beaton’s webcomic compilation Hark! A Vagrant, a laff riot of frustrated admirals, over-zealous girl detectives and baby-dropping F. Scott Fitzgerald characters that cemented Beaton's ascent of one of North America's top cartoonists.
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Comics Reviews January 2012
The New 52 compilation, a sequel to Beilerplate and new books by Derf Backderf and Nick Spencer are reviewed this month.
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