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Comics events: 7/11/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 07/11/2011 @ 12:00PM

Bill Plympton in San Francisco, Grant Morrison in New York and more!
Viz Kids Line Expands with Original 'Mameshiba' Books

By Danica Davidson | 07/08/2011 @ 10:00AM

VIZ Media may be best known for its teen manga like Naruto and Bleach, but this summer the company is trying something different with the launch of Mameshiba, original manga for U.S. kids.
Comics Events: 7/05/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 07/05/2011 @ 12:00PM

Palle Schmidt in San Francisco, Derby City Comic Con and more.
More to Come #2: The CBLDF's New Case and Comics Tackle the Death of Osama

| 07/05/2011 @ 12:00AM

Welcome to Episode #2 of More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast, featuring co-editors Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid and producer Kate Fitzsimons. This week: the CBLDF and Canadian Comic Book Seizures, a new graphic work about the Bin Laden raid, the death of cartoonist Gene Colan and much more.
Will Comics Take Back Comic-Con?

By Heidi MacDonald | 07/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

As the Comic-Con International: San Diego (better known simply as Comic-Con) has grown in importance and size, each year observers wonder if this is the year things get too big to handle. While the 2011 edition—to be held July 20–24 at the San Diego Convention Center—has scaled back the major media presentations for studio films a bit, it still has no rival as the biggest pop culture event of the year. And publishers—both of graphic novels and traditional books—still find it a key venue to promote authors and talk to fans.
Papercutz, Lego to Launch Ninjago Graphic Novels

By Brigid Alverson | 06/29/2011 @ 03:00PM

Blazing Lego ninja action will come to kids' graphic novel imprint Papercutz this fall, with the publication of the first in a series of Ninjago graphic novels. Ninjago is a line of Lego products featuring ninjas who practice the martial art of Spinjitzu, a tradition found only in the Lego world.
Panel Mania: Feynman

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

Feynman is a graphic biography of Richard Feynman, a Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, and raconteur. This biography spans his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. Feynman is written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Myrick; it will be released by First Second in August.
‘Anti-Matter’: Web Comedy Series Captures the Secret Life of Comics Shops

By John Seven | 06/28/2011 @ 12:00PM

Comic book colorist and filmmaker Chris Walker has transformed his life as a comic book geek into the video series, Anti-Matter, a web-based situation comedy set in a fictional New York City comic book store. The show follows a nerdy cast of characters throughout their comic-book filled working day, mixing the comic personal interactions of staff and customers with the funny details of life working in a comic book shop.
Comics Events: 6/27/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 06/27/2011 @ 12:01PM

Charlie Adlard in Orlando, Works of Chris Ware, Seth at new NYC exhibit, and more.
Crowdfunding: When the Publisher Doesn’t Cover the Creator’s Expenses

By Todd Allen | 06/27/2011 @ 12:01PM

Crowdfunding is emerging as a new force in comics publishing, not only to fund new projects, but to address long-standing creator complaints like lack of promotion and advances.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/25/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 06/25/2011 @ 02:00PM

7/3 Authors discuss Walt Kelly: The Life and Art of the Creator of Pogo in San Francisco, CA;7/5 Our Valued Customers signing with "Mr. Tim", New York, NY; 7/7 Kids Read Comics in Ann Arbor, MI
CBLDF Forms Coalition to Defend U.S. Comic Book Reader Charged in Canada

By Calvin Reid | 06/24/2011 @ 12:00AM

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has formed a coalition to support the defense of an American comic book reader facing criminal charges after Canadian officials claimed the comics found on his laptop are child pornography.
Gene Yang’s ‘Level Up’: Videogames, Angels and Growing Up Asian-American

By Beth Scorzato | 06/23/2011 @ 12:00AM

Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang follows his critically acclaimed graphic novels Prime Baby, The Eternal Smile and 2006 National Book Award finalist, American Born Chinese, with Level Up, written by Yang with art by Thien Pham, published by First Second.
PW Comics World Launches the 'More To Come' Podcast

| 06/21/2011 @ 10:00AM

PW Comics World joins the podcasting world with the first episode of "More to Come" featuring co-editors Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald and producer Kate Fitzsimons anlayzing current comics news, with a look at upcoming books and current trends in the book publishing world as they affect comics.
Faith-Based Comics and Graphic Novels from Kingstone Media

By Rich Shivener | 06/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

Focused on an aggressive release schedule supported by key distribution channels and solid financing, Kingstone Media Group has set its sights on becoming the leading publisher of faith-based graphic novels and periodical comics in the Christian Booksellers Association.
Panel Mania: Any Empire

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

Nate Powell, author of the 2009 Eisner award-winning graphic novel,Swallow Me Whole, explores war and violence in Middle America in his new book, Any Empire. A group of kids from a small, Southern town face their privileged suburban fantasies of violence when there is a string of turtle mutilations. Later as adults, they meet again to confront the questions raised by their childhood experiences. Any Empire will be released by Top Shelf in August.
Graphic Nonfiction: The Life, Art and Death of Ana Mendieta

By Ada Price | 06/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

If you’ve never heard of Ana Mendieta, the visionary Cuban feminist artist who died in 1985, then Who is Ana Mendieta?, a new graphic biography by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron, published this month by the Feminist Press, will provide an introduction to both her life and to her art.
Comics Events 6/20/11

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 06/20/2011 @ 12:01AM

Pride Month Signing with Abby Denson & Jennifer Camper in New York, Boilerplate Art Opening in Portland & More
Graphic Novel Winners of the Random House Creative Writing Competition for NYC High School Seniors.

By Calvin Reid | 06/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

The winners of the annual Random House Creative Writing Competition For New York City Public High School Seniors were announced last week at the competition’s annual awards ceremony. The RH CWC awards are designed to encourage and support young creative talent in the New York City public school system and first, second and third place scholarship prizes are awarded in fiction, poetry, drama, personal memoir and graphic novels.
Doctors, Comic Books and Healing: Chicago’s Comics & Medicine Conference 2011

By Erich Beasley | 06/17/2011 @ 12:00AM

The second annual Comics & Medicine conference took place the weekend of June 9-11 in Chicago, bringing together a host of speakers and cartoonists, among them Scott McCloud, John Porcellino, David Small and Hillary Chute, to focus on the melding of graphic illustration in the field of healthcare both as a teaching tool and as a means of healing.

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