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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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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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