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The Resurrection of Gahan Wilson’s 'Nuts'
Fantagraphics has done readers a great favor by releasing the first full collection of Nuts, the hilarious cult strip by famed Playboy and National Lampoon cartoonist Gahan Wilson.
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Graphicly Acquires Digital Comics Reader, Double Feature
Digital Comics vendor Graphicly has acquired Double Feature, a mobile comics reader application, from the Chicago comics studio, Four Star Studios and added Double Feature developer Josh Emmons to its development team.
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Mr. Natural Returns with ‘R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection’
This month W.W. Norton is publishing R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection, a revised, deluxe hardcover edition of a book originally published in Europe that collects—or attempts to collect—every record cover illustration ever done by Crumb.
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Ducks and Disney: The Enduring Humanity of Carl Barks
With the December publication of Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes, Fantagraphics will bring the classic comics stories of cartoonist Carl Barks (1901-2000) to bookstores in a comprehensive collection of handsome, durable hardcovers.
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Comics Reviews November 2011
Intriguing new works by Matthew Thurber and Olivier Schrauwen, a heartbreaking manga by Takashi Murakami and a long lost collection of 60's themed comics round out this month's reviews.
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How Many Digital Comics Formats Are Too Many?
With Barnes & Noble announcing a partnership with Marvel Comics for their Nook Tablet and Amazon rolling out an exclusive graphic novel deal with DC Comics for the Kindle Fire, consumers now have more choices for digital comics formats than ever before…but is more choice really better?
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Manga Publishers Find Success with Artbooks
Manga artbooks might not be as well-known as manga itself, but they create a lucrative business for their publishers. The artbooks go along with a series, a single manga, or other entertainment, like movies or video games, offering extra artwork and behind-the-scenes glimpses into their worlds.
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Panel Mania: Marzi
Marzena Sowa presents Poland under the Soviet Union on the brink of revolution in her memoir Marzi, illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Sylvain Savoia. Arranged into a sequence of vignettes, the stories are told from young Marzi’s perspective, as she struggles to make sense of the soviet-controlled and adult world.
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Graphicly Offers Comics via Facebook, Apple’s Newsstand and More
Digital comics distributor and software vendor Graphicly has launched a Facebook app offering Facebook users access to a complete list of its comics; released a widget offering access via blogs and websites and debuted on Apple’s Newsstand, a new iOS5 service that allows subscriptions and automatic downloads for monthly comics and other periodicals.
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More to Come 10: News from NYCC and Layoffs at Marvel
In this podcast, layoffs at Marvel, digital manga announcements and news and books from the recent New York Comic Con.
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Viz Media To Launch SuBLime, Digital/Print Yaoi Line in December
Viz Media is partnering with Japanese anime/manga retailer Animate and Yaoi publisher Libre Publishing, to launch SuBLime, a new manga graphic novel line specializing in Yaoi or Boys Love, that will release titles in digital and print formats beginning in December.
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Hachette Licenses App Development Platform to Round Table Companies
Round Table Companies has reached an agreement with the Hachette Book Group to get access to HBG’s digital content management system in order to develop an app that will feature a variety of RTC content.
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Cost Cutting at Marvel Comics Leads to Lay-offs
In what was described internally as a cost-cutting move, Marvel Comics laid off 11 employees last week, including three editors, four in production, two in the collections department and two from digital compositing.
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‘Kill Shakespeare’ Invited To Sundance
In July 2009, PW met two former film producers at the San Diego Comic-Con to hear about a comics project with the provocative title of Kill Shakespeare. Kill Shakespeare—a comics/graphic novel series from IDW that cleverly reshuffles characters from across the plays of the Bard into one big swashbuckling adventure tale—has found an audience.
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First Second Comics Anthology Updates Classic Nursery Rhymes
A wide range of cartoonists from Dave Roman to Mike Mignola have been recruited to update classic nursery rhymes in First Second’s Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists, an anthology edited by Chris Duffy that will be published this month.
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Comics News Stands Out From the Crowds at New York Comic-Con 2011
After attracting 105,000 fans that packed the Jacob Javits Convention Center, last weekend’s New York Comic Con was not only the second biggest U.S. comics convention of the year, it was a colorful, at times chaotic, mix of all that pop culture has to offer.
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Manga at NYCC 2011: Viz, Yen Press, Kodansha, Vertical and 'Homestuck'
Although Viz Media stole the spotlight at New York Comic Con with news of "near-simultaneous" Japan/U.S. publishing of its new digital weekly, Yen Press made an announcement of its own about a "real simultaneous" dual language publication.
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Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2011
PW Comics World joined the other 105,000 fans that swarmed through the Javits Center October 13-16 to attend this year's New York Comic Con. We brought back lots of photographs of the action, "the talent," the craziness and all the fun. So, take a look and tell us what you think!
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Comics Events 10/18/2011
Master class with Howard Chaykin in NYC, Halloween with Jill Thompson in Chicago and more.
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Kids’ Comics: Small but Mighty at NYCC 2011
This year's New York Comic-Con may have been the biggest ever, but children's comics were a smaller presence. There were no industry panels on children's comics, as there have been in previous years, and only a handful of panels and new-product announcements.
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