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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/01/2008
In this week's Web Reviews: a fair, sharp-eyed critique of U.S. policy abroad, a smart and angry look at U.S. racism, an examination of the developmental disparity between the U.S. and Latin America, more bad news in the post-Katrina bayous, and the irrational processes of the human mind that may lead the world to ruin. Plus: perfect gifts for new parents, eccentric gourmands and Repo Man fanatics!
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Paul Levitz Talks Digital Comics
DC Comics—with the recent launch of its first motion comic, an animated adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen available from iTunes, and the one-year anniversary of its Zuda Web comics site approaching —has taken some significant steps into the digital world. So what exactly is DC's philosophy toward digital content? PW Comics Week talked with DC Comics president Paul Levitz to find out.
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Return of the Prince: First Second’s Prince of Persia Graphic Novel
The multimillion-dollar video game franchise, Prince of Persia, is entering a new generation with a forthcoming graphic novel and feature film adaptation.
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Comic Foundry Breaks the Mold
Who knew that when theComic Foundrymade the jump from online to print publication last year, the hip comics quarterly would break the mold of what a print comics consumer magazine should be.
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Comics Briefly
PW the Beat: DC’s Movies; Virgin; Best American Comics 2009; O’Malley, Larson at SPX; New Vampire Hunter D Story; Middaugh on ICv2; Lansdale Writes Crypt Tales; Death Note in Canada; and Quesada On MySpace
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Moresukine: Japan On A Dare
Dirk Schwieger, a German living in Japan, produced a comics blog and offered to take on, and document in comics, any Japanese experience his readers requested him to do.
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Panel Mania: Aya of Yop City
Following their award-winning 2007 graphic novel Aya, author Marguerite Abouet and artist Clement Oubrerie return to the Ivory Coast once again in this 10-page preview from Aya of Yop City. The book will be released by Drawn & Quarterly on Sept. 16th.
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Virgin Comics Shut Down
Virgin Comics, the 2006 international joint venture between Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and the India-based comics publisher Gotham Entertainment, is being shut down.
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Working for the Man
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Leslie T. Chang . Spiegel & Grau , $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-52017-1 Chang, a former Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, explores the urban realities and rural roots of a community, until now, as unacknowledged as it is massive—China’s 130 million workers whose exodus from villages to factory and city life...
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Fiction Reviews
The Sweet In-Between Sheri Reynolds . Crown/Shaye Areheart , $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-39389-0 Bestseller Reynolds (The Rapture of Canaan) delivers again with this story of an embattled teenage girl growing up in a Virginia tidewater town. Kendra “Kenny” Lugo has it tough: her mother is dead, her father is in jail, and she is what others might call gender-confused (“the yea...
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books What a Trip! Arthur Yorinks , illus. by Richard Egielski. Scholastic/di Capua , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-03611-5 Taking a tip from MAD magazine’s fold-ins, longtime collaborators Yorinks and Egielski (Hey, Al; Sid and Sol) create a book with two trick spreads. Their title refers to a boy’s mysterious drop “into another dimension” after tripping on the...
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Nonfiction Reviews
Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB Jaime Lowe . Faber and Faber , $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-86547-969-2 Ol’ Dirty Bastard was one of the founding members of hip-hop’s Wu-Tang Clan, “the heart and soul of the group” in its early years, although he had embarked on a solo career before he died of an accidental drug overdose.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 8/25/2008
An imperative week in Web Reviews: China, make room for Africa; crossworders, put down your pens; ladies, give up your no-good beaus; families, meet your new meal nanny; and New York City pet-owners, curb your damn dog. Plus: the complete story of the hardest music ever to come out of Visby, Finspäng, Hägersten-Liljeholmen, and many other funny-sounding Swedish places.
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DC Kids Line Continues to Grow, Succeed
In 2007, DC launched a new line of all-ages comics, bringing the stories of popular heroes such as Batman, Captain Marvel, the Teen Titans and others to young children. DC has no official age range for the books beyond saying they are aimed at young readers. The line has done well and now includes eight ongoing titles, with another, Supergirl's Cosmic Adventures of the 8th Grade, set to launch in the fall.
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Yen Press Highlights 4-Panel Manga Format
This summer, Yen Press is releasing four new series featuring four-panel manga, a Japanese manga format that looks like an American cartoon strip that runs vertically rather than horizontal.
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Trotman talks Templar
The business of Web comics depends on making money by giving something away for free. Not everyone can pull that off, but Charlie Trotman earns a living from her Web comic, Templar, Arizona, despite the fact that the entire comic is available online at no cost.
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Kyle Baker: When Stupid is Smart
Kyle Baker's new art book should be shelved in the self-help, self-improvement, new age-y section of the bookstore where folks try to find some direction in life. Kyle Baker has a message for THE PEOPLE. And what is Kyle Baker's message? Learn How To Draw, Stupid! No,wait, it's: Learn How To Draw Stupid. No comma after the word "draw", heh.
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Comics Briefly
Dash Shaw, Pantheon Ink Deal; Jake Parker Two-Book Pact; PW The Beat: Watchmen Fight; More; Nickelodeon Kids’ GN Award; Japan Society at NYAF; DMP to Rent Manga Online; Response to Tokyopop’s Postponed Titles; Spider-Man Free Online; Kyle Baker on NPR; Fresh Ink in Tokyo; Joe Chiappetta Interview; and Paul Sizer on The Pulse
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Panel Mania: Prince of Persia
In this 12-page preview from the upcoming Prince of Persia graphic novel, a young woman in ancient Persia undertakes a daring adventure. Created by Jordan Mechner, written by B. Sina and illustrated by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, the book is due out from First Second on September 2.
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Girls with Guitars: Apocalipstix Rocks
Artist Cameron Stewart and writer Ray Fawkes tell the tale of the Apocalipstix—an all-girl band who decide they’re not going to let Armageddon stop their cross-country tour! New from Oni Press.
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