This American Elf
James Kochalka celebrates the 10th anniversary of his daily diary strip, American Elf
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Comics Go to the Ivy League
Academic Librarian Karen Green has successfully made the case for the literary legitimacy of comics at one of the most elite schools in the nation, and transformed Columbia’s collection of graphic novels from a paltry few to over 800 books and climbing.
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Vampire Hunter D Creators Come to New York
Bestselling Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi and his long-time illustrator Yoshitaka Amano are legends among anime and manga fans in both Japan and America for their collaboration on Vampire Hunter D , an ongoing series of prose novels about a vampire hunter who is half-vampire himself.
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Global Voices: Mia Kirshner’s I Live Here
Actress Mia Kirshner's effort to draw attention to the plight of International displaced people has led to I Live Here , an unusual collaborative graphic work that will be published by Pantheon in October.
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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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Boom! Launches Disney Imprint
Boom! Studios announced the formation of Zoom, a new children's comic book imprint for licensed Disney properties, at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday. The new line, which launches in spring 2009, will publish original comics based on Pixar films and The Muppet Show.
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Return to the Perry Bible Fellowship
After the success of last year's The Trials of Colonel Sweeto , Nicholas Gurewitch is planning an even bigger and broader compilation of his cult web comic favorite, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack .
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Jason Shiga By The Numbers
Jason Shiga loves puzzles, and he makes no secret of it in his comics, which often involve logic games, narrative mazes and choose-your-own-adventure themes. The Oakland, Calif., native, who holds a degree in mathematics from the UC Berkeley, has earned numerous awards for his unconventional cartooning, and talked with PWCW about math, fanfiction and the book he’ll be working on for the next decade of his life.
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IDW Kids' Line Lures Screen Writers
Worthwhile Books, the new children’s book imprint of comics publisher IDW, has announced its upcoming slate of books for fall and spring, including a number of children’s books by Emmy and Peabody award-winning Hollywood screenwriters.
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Top Shelf Launches Web Comics Site
Indie comics publisher Top Shelf Productions will launch an all-new webcomics site on Friday, May 16, spearheaded and edited by Top Shelf publisher Brett Warnock and his co-editor, Leigh Walton.
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Orson Scott Card’s Ender Comics
Marvel Comics and renowned science fiction writer Orson Scott Card announced at last weekend’s New York Comics Convention a new series of comics based on Ender's Game.
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Marvel’s Viral Marketing Invasion
Thanks in part to an unprecedented marketing campaign that generated big buzz on the internet, Secret Invasion , the latest Marvel Comics crossover event, launched last Wednesday to strong initial sales.
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SPLAT! Makes Splash
Over 150 cartoonists, librarians, editors, publishers and would-be cartoonists, attended “SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium,” a one day conference sponsored by the The New York Center for Independent Publishing in Manhattan.
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New York Comic-Con 2008: Comics, Books and Kids
The third annual New York Comic-Con, to be held April 18–20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, opens next month with a record of impressive growth that suggests the ongoing mutual embrace of comics publishing and traditional book publishing is even more apparent and more inevitable than ever.
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Action Historians: Making Comic Book History
In their new series, Comic Books Comics , writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey embark on an attempt to tell the complete history of the comic book industry in the comics medium itself.
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Terry Brooks Makes Manga Magic
With Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks takes his best-selling series to comics for the first time.
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Ennis Moves from Punisher to Phantom Eagle
This March, critically acclaimed comic book writer Garth Ennis will end his four-year run on the series Punisher MAX and debut a new title for Marvel called War is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle .
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