-
Comics Events: 7/25/11
Denny O'Neil and Danny Fingeroth in New York, Grant Morrison in San Francisco and more
-
Comic-Con International Faces The Digital World
Comic-Con International: San Diego wound down Sunday, following four and a half days of pageantry and announcements. Completely sold out since the spring, some 130,000 fans thronged the San Diego Convention Center to hear about the latest comics and graphic novels, watch movie presentations, get freebies and attend an extensive slate of panels and presentations.
-
Japanese Publishers Launch Jmanga.com Manga Portal at Comic-Con
Six of Japan’s most prominent manga publishers were on hand at the San Diego Comic-con International to announce the launch of Jmanga.com, an online portal offering access to thousands of manga titles unseen in North America, beginning in August for the U.S. market.
-
Viz Media Debuts Online Manga Portal and More from Comic-Con
Digital delivery drove the news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con International as Viz Media launched VizManga.com, an online portal providing for-pay access to 40 different manga series on the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone at the launch.
-
Liveright Acquires New David Small Graphic Memoir
Liveright & Co. editor-in-chief Robert Weil has acquired Murphy, a new graphic memoir by David Small, the author's first graphic work since his 2009 graphic memoir, and National Book Award finalist, Stitches.
-
ICv2 Report: Graphic Novel Sales Up Slightly in 2011
Despite a tough retail environment, graphic novel sales were up slightly, at 3%, in the first half of 2011, it was reported yesterday at the ICv2 Comics, Media and Digital Conference.
-
A Few Good Things To See at Comic-Con International
The San Diego Comic-con International: So big and sprawling and full of of every imaginable layer of pop culture that you can only hope to keep it from overwhelming you. Here, in our humble opinion, is a very short and a very selective listing of events of unusual interest.
-
Bryan Lee O’Malley Takes Next Graphic Novel To Villard
Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of the bestselling Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, upon which the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is based, will publish his next graphic novel at Random House’s Villard imprint.
-
Morgan Spurlock Produces a Book and Film About Comic-Con
Turns out that academy award-winning documentary film director Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me, is also a huge comic book fan. Spurlock has created Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary about the huge pop culture convention.
-
Comics Reviews July 2011
Reviews of new books from Seymour Chwast, Roz Chast, Dave McKean, Jason and the long awaited Habibi by Craig Thompson.
-
Comics Events: 7/18/11
Larry Hama, Amy Reeder, Evan Dorkin, Rebekah Isaacs & M.C. Chris in New York, Bill Plympton in San Francisco and more
-
Ashley Marie Witter: Bringing Ann Rice’s Vampires to Life
Comics artist Ashley Marie Witter is starting her career with a splash: Her first full-length graphic novel is an adaptation of Anne Rice's best-seller Interview with the Vampire, to be published by Yen Press in 2012.
-
More To Come: The PW Comics World Podcast Goes to Comic-Con
In the third episode of the PW Comics World Podcast, Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons prepare for the San Diego Comic-Con the epicenter of pop culture for four and a half days in July. Our panelists talk about what's new this year, what they are looking forward to, big news likely to come out of the show and even a few books they had time to check out.
-
Womanthology Project Blows Up on Kickstarter
Looking to address the many talented woman cartoonists who can’t seem to get published, Comics artist Renae de Liz used kickstarter.com to organize Womanthology, a forthcoming anthology of female creators that raised $25,000 in one day.
-
Can DC Comics Rebuild Itself This Fall?
In a move to regain lost readers and attract new ones, DC Comics is relaunching their entire slate of superhero comics with brand new first issues and plans to release them in print and digital at the same time.
-
Panel Mania: Americus
A book-loving boy from the small Oklahoma town of Americus grapples with the travails of high school and takes a stand when it looks as though his favorite fantasy series, starring a young sorceress who hunts monsters and tyrants, might be banned from the local library. That’s the storyline of Americus, written by M.K. Reed and illustrated by Jonathan Hill. The book will be published by Roaring Brook’s First Second Books in August 2011.
-
Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' Goes Graphic
Yen Press will adapt Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire into a new graphic novel with the same plot but a new point of view: the story will be told by Claudia, a child who is transformed into a vampire by Louis, the narrator of the original novel.
-
Depicting Muhammad: Religion, Biography and Bad Faith
Maybe comic book and graphic novel readers will one day have a biography of the Prophet Muhammad created for an English-language audience that treats the subject matter with nuance. But The Biography of the Prophet Muhammad Illustrated – Volume 1 is not the book to do it.
-
D&Q Publishes Shigeru Mizuki’s Classic War Manga
The story opens with whores and closes with mass graves. Huge explosions and carnage pepper the body of the narrative and there is a splash of dry humor, albeit on the morbid side. It may sound like a summer blockbuster but Onward Towards Our Nobel Deaths, Shigeru Mizuki’s semi-autobiographical account of life as a soldier in the Japanese Army during World War II, is something crueler and more heartbreaking than any Hollywood movie.
-
Panel Mania: The Armed Garden
The creator of the acclaimed graphic memoir Epileptic, French cartoonist David B., presents in The Armed Garden a collection of short stories based on historical legend. This preview includes a selection from the story, "The Veiled Prophet," in which a Persian fabric dyer is enveloped by a piece of white cloth that comes from the sky, and he is declared a prophet. He then proceeds to defeat seven armies sent against him. The other two stories in this collection are "The Armed Garden" and it’s sequel "The Drum Who Fell in Love," about a bloody quest for a paradise on Earth. The Armed Garden will be released by Fantagraphics in August.
Browse archive by date:
