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Comics Events Week of 6/6/2011
Toonseum Comics for Comics Benefit, Jim Woodring Tour, Astronaut Academy Launch Party & Workshop and more.
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DC Reboots its Comics Universe; Goes 'Day and Date' For Print, Digital Release
DC Comics, home to comics icons Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, announced some radical moves for its publishing program. DC will relaunch many of its classic series with new origins, new costumes and more, and in another bold move, the publisher will release all of its superhero comics in digital editions at the same time as the print editions.
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Finding Graphic Novels in Unexpected Places at BEA 2011
Although dedicated graphic novel publishers showed up in smaller numbers than in the past, plenty of graphic novels could still be found on the floor of this year's Book Expo America.
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Hot Fall Graphic Novels For Libraries at BEA 2011
The BEA panel, "Hot Fall Graphic Novels for Libraries," discussed titles that give educators options for all kinds of students, from toddlers to advanced college and even graduate students, yet these titles can also stand on their own literary and artistic merit.
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Comics Events: Week of 5/30/11
Just Opened “Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images In Comics” Exhibit in New York, 6/1 Georges Jeanty & Jane Espenson at Buffy Comic Wrap Party in LA, 6/2 Monte Schulz On Peanuts & His Father, 6/4 Brian Azzarello Signing in Chicago, 6/3-6/5 Heroes Con, 6/11 Green Lantern Event with GL Comics Creators at Cartoon Art Museum, 6/11 Astronaut Academy Launch Party & Kids Workshop in New York
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Panel Mania: American Vampire Vol. 2
In this second volume of American Vampire, which sets vampires in the American West, Skinner Sweet and Pearl have relocated from Hollywood to Las Vegas in 1935. As Las Vegas grows from a cow town to booming city, the police chief there must deal with the murders of prominent businessmen drained of blood. American Vampire Vol. 2 is written by Scott Snyder with art by Rafael Albuquerque and Mateo Santoluco.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: The Graphic Novel Scene
More comics publishers have opted not to attend BEA this year, with both indie house Fantagraphics and Marvel Comics sitting it out. However, as with previous years, most comics publishers can be found in the Diamond Comic Distributors row (4839), including such houses as Dark Horse, IDW Publishing, and Image Comics.
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Dark Horse Debuts CLAMP's 'Gate 7'
If you're not familiar with CLAMP, the Japanese all-female superstar manga collective, you'll hear a lot more about them very soon. Best-known for such bestselling manga series as Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa, CLAMP and Dark Horse will publish Gate 7, an original manga that will be released in the U.S. October 25.
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Digital Graphic Novel on CIA's 1953 Iran Coup
In 2007, video game artist Daniel Burwen came across Steven Kinzer's Overthrow and was "blown away" by its overview of American geopolitical chicanery. The result is Operation Ajax: How the CIA Toppled Democracy in Iran, an unusual interactive digital graphic novel and app developed for the iPad.
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone, longtime cohost of On the Media, NPR's weekly radio show on journalism and media, has turned to comics: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Norton), a nonfiction comics work created in collaboration with Josh Neufeld.
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Archie Comics Launches New 'Sonic' Graphic Novel Series
Archie Comics is looking to expand the audience for Sonic the Hedgehog, the Sega videogame franchise character, with three new graphic novel series, including two in a new, larger format that are designed to appeal to teenagers and older readers. All three series will collect material previously published as monthly comics, and all are designed with bookstores and comics shops in mind.
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Digital Comics Offerings Growing for Nook
While the iPad has been the most-talked about digital platform for comics, B&N has expanded its digital comics offerings on the Nook, offering comics as apps rather than converting the content into a proprietary e-book format, like Amazon does for the Kindle, or into the open source ePub format.
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Comics Reviews: 5/9/11
New books by Yuichi Yokoyama, Doug TenNapel, Pascal Girard, Stan Lee and Deborah Vankin are reviewed this month.
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Notable Comics Events
Walt Simonson, Joe Quesada and Jim Steranko Live in NYC; Jason Shiga's Empire State Book Launch; Dallas Comic Con; Monte Schulz On Peanuts & His Father; and Heroes Con in June
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This Meme's For Us: Jay Cantor's 'Aaron and Ahmed' and the Roots of Terror
Jay Cantor and James Romberger’s graphic novel, Aaron and Ahmed, embraces the idea of memes--cultural concepts that spread quickly--in regard to the War On Terror. Beginning with 9/11 and the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the book focuses on the notion that powerful symbols dictate the fight against terror as much as actions.
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Pen World Voices: Getting Real with Superheroes
New York City's Cooper Union was the scene for "Get Super Lit," a unique extravaganza of comic art projected on a wide film screen with voice acting and musical accompaniment, held as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.
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Amazon Removes Some Explicit Yaoi Manga from Kindle Store
Amazon has removed several yaoi manga from its Kindle Store and refused to allow others to be offered for the Kindle, although the bookseller continues to sell the same manga in print and to offer more explicit erotic books in both formats. Yaoi manga features love stories between two males and can range from softly romantic to sexually explicit.
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Comics Briefly 5/03/11
Free Comic Book Day May 7, Duncan The Wonder Dog Wins LA Times Book Prize, Bendis To Write Marvel MMO Plot, Titan Brings Out Comics App, FDNY and Marvel's New Fire Safety Comic Free Online, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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Boston Comic Con 2011: Small Is Beautiful
The Boston Comic Con has been growing steadily from its origins as a small hotel comics convention centered around buying comics to an event that features top-name guests but still has the intimacy of a hometown comics festival. While the show is smaller than a big-city convention, it is growing fast. BCC press liaison Colin Solan said attendance this past weekend was 6,000, a big increase over both last year’s attendance of 4,100 and the show’s 2009 attendance of 2,800.
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