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Avon Inspire Debuts at ICRS
A garden party on the exhibit floor of International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta on Tuesday (July 10) welcomed retailers, agents and media to the official launch of a new Christian romance imprint, Avon Inspire.
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At Summer Show, Christian Publishers Look to Winter
The International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) is meeting this week in Atlanta (July 9-12), returning to the steamy city after two years in Denver.
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Guideposts’ Moore “Stepping Out”
Last night (Monday, July 9) at the annual Guideposts dinner at the International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta, new president Dick Hopple and Jonathan Merkh, just named v-p of the company’s book publishing division, made their debuts.
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Religion Reviews Highlights
Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen; The Best Buddhist Writing 2007; The History of Last Night’s Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul; Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible: Flawed Women Loved by a Flawless God; Prescribing Faith: Medicine, Media, and Religion in American Culture; Shaking the System: What I Learned from the Great American Reform Movements; After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
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Anita Blake Stakes Out Comics
Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the bestselling Anita Blake series of urban fantasy novels, sexually charged, plot-driven thrillers set in a world where vampires are real. Marvel is adapting her first three novels—Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse and Service of the Damned—as comic books that Hamilton is writing with Stacie Ritchie.
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Kodansha to Publish Megatokyo in Japan
In a move that marks the growing stature of non-Japanese manga, the Japanese house Kodansha will publish a Japanese-language edition of Megatokyo, the American original manga Web comic and book series created by Fred Gallagher.
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Comics Bestsellers July 2007
Top 10 comics for July
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Looking for a Few Good Stories
I’m not the only creator crossing the boundaries with this kind of hybrid approach, either. Who else do you think the readership for the profusely illustrated Baltimore book by Mike Mignola and Chris Golden will be? And more importantly, what will those readers be looking to buy next? Hellboy? Golden’s other novels?
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The Man with No Name Rides to Dynamite
Fans of nihilistic Western adventure will cheer the announcement that Dynamite Entertainment will add a monthly title based on the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Man with No Name series of movies.
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Comics Briefly
San Diego Comic-Con Programming; Kuper, Pyle Events in NYC; New Yaoi Convention
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Panel Mania: Cairo
In this 9-page preview of G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker’s Cairo, the book’s hero comes into possession of a genie in a hookah, in a story that brings the Egyptian city vividly to life. PWCW interviewed Wilson in July 2006. Cairo will be published by DC/Vertigo in November.
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Fans Mob AnimeExpo 2007
Held this year at the Long Beach (Calif.) Convention Center, AnimeExpo, an annual fan festival celebrating anime, manga and cosplay, opened to crowds of 20,000 on the first day and peaked at around 30,000 on the second day.
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Eddie Campbell's Black Diamond, Part 2
Last week in part 1 of our interview with Eddie Campbell about his new graphic novel, The Black Diamond Detective Agency, the cartoonist discussed his thoughts on adapting a screenplay into a comics work, serializing versus original graphic novels and his attraction to American-style detective writers like Raymond Chandler.
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NetComics Adds Yaoi Press, Japanese Manga
Korean manhwa publisher NetComics is expanding its offerings with a new copublishing agreement to offer Yaoi Press titles online.
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Comics Briefly
VIZ Releases The Taste of Tea; nner with Joss Whedon; Hong Kong Artist wins Manga Nobel; Ellison, Fantagraphics Suit Resolved
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Scratching the Niche: Erotic Manga
Before Tokyopop’s Sailor Moon led the way to today’s shojo manga boom almost 10 years ago, a high percentage of independent U.S. manga publishers were in the business of publishing pornographic manga, or ero manga, the industry’s term.
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Rosen Offers Comics Interview Series
Rosen Publishing, a nonfiction book publisher that caters to libraries and educational markets, will release four books this fall collecting a series of interviews with acclaimed comics creators Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, George Perez and Michael Avon Oeming.
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Harper Offers a Summer of the Simpsons
Aiming to satisfy the countless fans of the longest-running prime-time show in television history, this summer HarperCollins is publishing three Simpsons titles to coincide with the release of the show's first feature film, slated to open July 27.
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Is Bigger Better?
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Book-Based Properties on the Rise at This Year's Licensing Show
Publishers and authors were out in full force at this year's Licensing International trade show, held June 19-21 at the Javits Center in New York City.



