Comics Briefly
This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week on August 15, 2006 Sign up now!
-- Publishers Weekly, 8/15/2006
Kubert School Temporarily Relocates
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art is on the go. The school will move temporarily from its well-known location at 37 Myrtle Avenue in Dover, New Jersey to 274 South Salem Street in nearby Randolph, New Jersey while the site in Dover is renovated. The school, however, will retain the same phone number, 973-361-1327, and website address, www.kubertsworld.com, for the duration of its brief relocation. The legendary school was founded over a quarter of a century ago by artist Joe Kubert and his spouse Muriel in 1976. Members of the school's faculty and alumni include some of the most renowned and respected artists working in the comics industry today.
UGO.com's 52 Pick Up
UGO has paired with DC Comics to bring online readers the initial five issues of DC's highly popular weekly comic book maxi-series 52. Fans can catch up on missed events in the DC universe by reading the first five entire issues on the Internet for free at UGO.com. Each week a new issue of the series will debut. The first issue of the series is available now! UGO has also provided fans with "Who's Who of 52?", a featured column by Jed Davis that provides readers with background information on pivotal DC characters appearing in the series.
AiT/PlanetLar Renames Seven Brothers
AiT/Planet Lar has changed the name of the upcoming AiT/Planet Lar graphic novel Seven Brothers to its new title Seven Sons to avoid confusion with the similarly titled John Woo's Seven Brothers from Virgin Comics. Seven Sons, an AiT/Planet Lar graphic novel by creators Alexander Grecian and Riley Rossmo, is scheduled for release in October. Interested readers can preview an excerpt from Seven Sons by visiting Alexander Grecian's website at alexandergrecian.com.
Comics Go to College
San Diego State University has begun a special collection of comics. The collection was created by head of SDSU special library collections Cristina Favretto and alum Dan Hager, who approached her about starting it in 2002. The university already had the Elizabeth E Chater collection, which is focused on science fiction books, along with significant holdings in zines and Favretto, who has since moved on to the UCLA Library, agreed it would be a good fit.
Hager focused on used book stores, looking to acquire indie comics, among them feminist works and other comics work by women. The SDSU Collection was presented at the recent San Diego comic-con and featured the work of self-published comics artist Donna Barr. Barr is best known for her work Desert Peach, antic adventures of the fictional younger homosexual brother of Nazi general Erwin "the Desert Fox" Rommel, and for Stinz, equally antic tales from a society of centaur-like creatures in pre-WW1 Germany. She is also the author of the Black Manuscripts, an illuminated and heavily embroidered, one-of-a-kind artbook. It tells the story of a totalitarian society where citizens are punished by having to swap body parts with the bodies of animals. The SDSU collection, along with the Black Manuscripts, is available to students, scholars and interested parties.
