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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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Comics Events 1/10/2012
Chip Kidd discusses Bat-Manga in New York, Eric Shanower discusses Oz in San Francisco and more.
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Peter Kuper, Bemis Balkind Team to Publish ‘Drawn to New York'
Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper has teamed up with L.A. advertising agency Bemis Balkind to publish Drawn to New York, a new e-book-only collection documenting his comics and illustration work for the U.S market.
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Round Table To Publish Graphic Adaptation of The U.S. Constitution
The Round Table Companies is turning to the educational market and releasing The Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, adapted by Nadja Baer and illustrated by Nathan Lueth along with a curriculum guide for use in the classroom.
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Panel Mania: The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, published by Writers of the Round Table Press, includes the text of the original Constitution in it's entirety, as well as an accompanying narrative and full color illustrations that explore the Constitution's creation.
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More To Come 15: Outlook 2012
In their first podcast of 2012, the More To Come crew makes their predictions for the year to come, from publishers to watch out for and cultural trends to the most exciting books of the upcoming year!
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‘Kramers Ergot #8:’ Compact, Fresh and Terrifying
In January, Picturebox releases the eighth issue of editor/cartoonist Sammy Harkham's influential anthology title, Kramers Ergot.
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New Apps Spotlight Indie and Web Comic
As digital comics have risen to become a $25 million a year business, even more specialized apps for different comics genres are emerging.
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