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Despite No-Shows, Many Comics, Graphic Novels at BEA

This year's BEA will be much changed affair, and with fewer attendees, fewer galleys and reduced booth space for many giant publishers, but graphic novel publishers will still be there. In many ways graphic novels—an exotic newcomer at Book Expos seven or eight years ago—are now mainstream. For instance, graphic novels will be spotlighted on both buzz panels, and comics creators will be speaking on the author's stage and in several separate panels not focused on graphic novels.

Publishers contacted by PWCW had a variety of reasons for not attending. Some were looking for a way to cut costs in a challenging economy. Other publishers continue to question the expense and utility of BookExpo America. First Second editorial director, Mark Siegel, whose parent company Macmillan is not attending, noted that he will be attending BEA and will be on a panel discussing his graphic novel list. However, he said, "attending a show like the American Library Association is vital to us. But BEA is not so clear. It's expensive and while it had a certain validity in the past, now BEA has to reinvent itself." Nevertheless, Siegel said he was looking forward to the show, "We've got a lot of important meetings set up at BEA, especially with publishers from abroad."

Anime Boston Brings Out Manga Publishers, Fans

The biggest anime event in the Northeast, last weekend's Anime Boston attracted more than 15,000 people, up from last year.

EW's Jeff Jensen Examines the Green River Killer

Journalist Jeff Jensen examines the true-life story of his father's pursuit of the Green River Killer in an upcoming graphic novel.
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Underground Comix and the Transformation of the American Comic Book

Underground Classic: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, a companion volume to a fascinating gallery show at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art., documents the first time in American comics when the uncensored ideas of anti-establishment thinkers—from women, blacks and homosexuals to other disenfranchised members of American society—were given full and unfettered voice.

Bayou: Volume 1
JEREMY LOVE AND PATRICK MORGAN. DC/Zuda, $14.99 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2382-3

Extremely beautiful, scary and wonderful, this Web comic takes readers to a pair of almost familiar, frequently threatening worlds. We first journey back in time to Mississippi, 1933, where a black sharecropper's daughter, Lee Wagstaff, is learning how to be strong in a segregated society. While Lee and her white friend, Lily, are playing near the bayou where black victims of racial violence are thrown, Lily is abducted by a monster—but Lee's father is blamed. To save him from a lynch mob by rescuing her friend, Lee enters the parallel universe of Dixie, where Southern folklore comes to life in disturbing echoes of our world. There she meets the eponymous character, a hulking creature living alone in a shack, troubled by disturbing memories and threatened by hateful embodiments of the South's violent past. When Lee convinces Bayou that he doesn't have to remain a victim, the two of them set off on a joint quest for understanding and redemption. Love's script and art, laid out in big blocks like Sunday comics, are lovely and eloquent; Morgan's coloring fills the panels with hazy sunlight and menacing darkness. (June)
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"That's the terrible irony. The stuff that people love the most that I do is my comics, and they're the ones I really have to use my own time to do, and I don't know if I'll ever really make money from comics, directly."


—Michael Kupperman, interviewed in The Daily CrossHatch.


May 28, 2009
  • Bayou Vol. 1 (DC)
  • Dead @ 17 Ultimate Edition (Image)
  • Galveston (Boom)
  • Gravel (Avatar)
  • Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimaya Vol. 2 (Yen Press)
  • Special Forces Vol. 1: Hot To Death (Image)
  • Spider-Man Noir (Marvel)
  • Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays (Random House)
  • T-Minus: The Race to the Moon (Simon & Schuster)
  • X-Men: Magneto - Testament (Marvel)

  • Carol Burrell to draw Kindred GN
  • CBLD Fund Member Drive
  • Guilty Plea on Manga Obscenity Case
  • 2008 Reuben Awards
  • This Week @ Good Comics for Kids
  • This Week @ The Beat

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