Comics Briefly 4/12/2011
Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 2011
2011 Eisner Award Nominations
The annual Eisner Awards have announced their 2011 nominations for excellence in comics. PWCW's own Heidi MacDonald has been nominated for an Eisner for her comics blog The Beat. This year's nominations can be found here. The Eisners, named after comics pioneer Will Eisner, are awarded annually at San Diego Comic-Con, and are widely held to be the most prestigious comics award there is.
Comics Announcements from Kapow! Comic Con
London's first annual Kapow! Comic Con, ambitiously positioned to grow into the UK's answer to San Diego Comic-Con, took place last weekend. Organized by comics creator Mark Millar, it featured a wide variety of Britain-based comics creators including Peter Milligan and Paul Cornell, with a few imports in the mix. Andy Diggle and Jock, creators of The Losers, have announced that they will reteam for a new project entitled Snapshot, to be published in Judge Dredd Magazine. Mark Millar announced two new upcoming series, a Hit Girl spin-off comic and Supercrooks, a comic about supervillains.
Comixology Introduces Comics 4 Kids App
Digital comics giant Comixology has announcedComics 4 Kids, a special comics app available through iTunes, that will contain comics appropriate for children from a wide variety of publishers. Publishers participating include Archie, Image, NBM, Red 5 and many more. More details are available here.
Act-I-Vate Launches New Egyptian Revolution Comic
The Act-I-Vate webcomics collective has launchedThe Revolution Will be Televised, a webcomic about the recent Egyptian revolution by Dov Torbin.
Nick Cage's $1 Million Comic Found
A copy of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman in print, stolen from actor and comics fan Nicholas Cage has been found. Stolen over a decade ago, the comic was found in a storage unit in Simi Valley, CA. Similar comics have sold for around $1 million. More details are available here.
New MoCCA Courses
The Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art is hosting a new slate of classes this spring. This season's offerings are How to Write Comics and Graphic Novels with Danny Fingeroth and Advanced Visual Storytelling with Peter Kuper as well as one night masterclasses with J.M. DeMatteis and Larry Hama. More details are available on the MoCCA site.
George Takei Wants to be Spider-Man
Star Trek actor George Takei made the case for being cast as Spider-Man on Broadway in this humorous video.
Bill Roundy's New Weekly Bar Comic Strip
Comics creator Bill Roundy's comic Bar Scrawl will now be featured on a weekly basis in The Brooklyn Paper. Spotlighting a new Brooklyn bar every week, Roundy launched the comic last September. Older installments of the series can be found at BarScrawl.net.
This Week @ Good Comics For Kids
This week School Library Journal’s blog Good Comics for Kids covered Viz's new kid manga, Ibuki's pants, the 4/06 listing of comics suitable for all ages and had a MoCCA Madness link post.
This Week @ The Beat
This week at PWCW editor Heidi MacDonald’s blog The Beat, she covered the March 2011 comics sales charts, the February Marvel month-to-month sales numbers, the 2011 MoCCA Festival, and the Eisners.
Also on PW
The Roundup for Comics
Publishing news from across the Web
Rich Burlew, creator of the longrunning Web comic, Order of the Stick, has raised a $1 Million on Kickstarter to fund a reprint program for the seven volume trade paperback series.
The Comics Reporter blog has posted a 2004 interview with cartoonist James Sturm, challenging him after he published a reimagined version of Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four.
Cartoonist Jean-Claude Denis was awarded the Grand Prix—the festival’s lifetime achievement award—at this year’s Angouleme Festival, France’s gigantic festival honoring comics. North Americans honored at the festival include Art Speigelman, Frank Woodring and Guy Delisle.
Although U.S. manga sales have dropped nearly 50% since 2007, manga expert Jason Thompson says the category is still popular—kids today just read it for free on pirate websites. Thompson takes a look at manga and offers some history and some hope for the category going forward.
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