Archie Comics Grows Book Side
Since 2010, sales of book-format Archie comics have grown 410% and e-book sales are up over 1,000%. more...Not Your Parents’ Sex Manual
A quirky but serious anthology of minicomics about sex and sexuality from Softskull Press. more...The PW Comics World Podcast
This week we discuss Free Comic Book Day, comics in libraries, C2E2, the closing of Comics Alliance, the Outhouse/DC Comics blacklist controversy and more. here.Global Comics a Hit at Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Thousands of readers swarmed the Toronto Reference Library this past weekend to attend the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Celebrating its 10th year, TCAF offered a day of library programming as well as welcoming literary comics publishers and creators from Canada, Japan, Belgium, Israel and even the U.S. more...How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
Over the past decade, the graphic novel category has become one of the fastest-growing sections at libraries of all kinds, as a new generation of librarians adopts the category as a means to energize collections and boost circulation and patronage. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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Upcoming Comics Events: 5/13/2013
5/22 Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba Signing in Portland, OR; 5/30 Edwin Huang "All New Secret Skullkickers #1" Signing in New York, NY; 6/1-6/2 Third Annual Latino Comics Expo in San Francisco, CA
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Global Comics a Hit at Toronto Comic Arts Festival
A flood of readers filled the Toronto Reference Library for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, as creators from around the world showcased the latest graphic novels.
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Not Your Parents’ Sex Manual
Originally launched as a print zine that invoked the legacy of 1970s feminist underground comix, Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book is a quirky but serious anthology that brings together candid personal commentary in the form of minicomics aimed at educating young people about sex and sexuality.
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Archie Comics Grows Book Side
Like most comics publishers, Archie Comics, home to America’s favorite fictional redheaded teenager, has historically focused its distribution on newsstand sales and the comics specialty market.
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Abrams ComicArts to Publish Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred'
Abrams ComicArts plans to publish a comics adaptation of renowned science-fiction author Octavia Butler’s acclaimed novel, Kindred, and noted that the book will be edited by newly hired senior editor Carol Burrell, who was originally chosen to adapt and draw the adaptation herself for another publisher back in 2009.
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Bob Fingerman Talks to Robert Kirkman about ‘Maximum Minimum Wage’
Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman talks with Bob Fingerman about Minimum Wage, his semi-autobiographical comic about the lives of Sylvia and Rob in an ultra-realistic New York City, now republished, in all its hilariously demented glory, in an oversized edition called Maximum Minimum Wage, just out from Image Comics.
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Control Freak: The Prickly, Hostile World of Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge is one of the most striking and popular talents in alternative comics, as evidenced by his two Eisner nominations this year; in conversation with James Romberger, he reveals the secrets of his intense personal world.
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Fantagraphics Books Grows, Looks to Digital
Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books has grown from publishing only The Comics Journal, an often controversial monthly publication focused on news of the comics industry and criticism of the comics medium, into one of the foremost publishers of comics, graphic novels and related works in the world.
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New from Akashic: ‘Simon’s Cat,’ Uglytown’s ‘By the Balls’
Looking for a repeat of its surprise picture book bestseller, Go the F**k to Sleep, Akashic publisher Johnny Temple is touting two new books with strong graphic components.
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Dublin’s James Joyce Center Licenses Web Rights to ‘Ulysses Seen’
In what may be the beginnings of a new business model for supporting long-form serious comics narratives, Rob Berry, creator of Ulysses Seen, the comics adaptation of James Joyce’s masterpiece, has licensed the graphic work to the James Joyce Center in Dublin, Ireland, for online display.
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