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Panel Mania: 'Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape' by Sam Nakahira
Sam Nakahira’s 'Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape' is a diligent and charmingly illustrated graphic biography chronicling the life and creative career of the celebrated Japanese American sculptor. A 10-page excerpt.
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From Middle Grade Novel to Graphic Novel
There’s more to adapting a chapter book into a graphic novel than just drawing pictures to go with the words. Adapters often bring a whole new level of nonverbal communication to the page.
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New Middle Grade Graphic Novel Adaptations to Look Out For
We’ve gathered a list of some upcoming middle grade graphic adaptations.
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The Boom in Middle Grade Novels Turned Comics
As the middle grade graphic novel category has grown in recent years, the number of graphic adaptations of middle grade books has exploded.
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Show Me the Data: PW Talks with Katie Pryde
Katie Pryde, owner of the comic shop Books with Pictures, is leading an industry effort to improve the quality of comics metadata and explains the new standards just released by ComicsPRO at its annual meeting.
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Six Signs You’re in a Comics Shop
Wonder where you’ve wandered into—and why there’s a looming statue of an Ewok? How are comics shops different from general bookstores? If you’re asking that question, you definitely haven’t browsed a comics shop before. Here are six hallmarks that set the specialty retailer apart.
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Comic Shop Retailers Share Their Favorite Handsells
Here’s what retailers across the country told us about the comics and graphic novels they’re handselling this spring.
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Should Comics Keep It Direct?
Whatever the future holds, local comic shops thrive when they deliver what few bookstores can: a “third place” for fans.
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'Dragon Ball' Creator and Manga Pioneer Akira Toriyama Dies at 68
The Japanese artist is credited with helping to change the history of manga, including in the U.S. market, where he achieved massive mainstream success. His Dragon Ball series, which ran from 1984 to 1995, remains one of the bestselling manga of all time.
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Folio Society Comes Out Swinging in the Battle of Deluxe Comic Book Reprints
'DC: Batman,' a luxe new slipcased hardcover gathering some of the Dark Knight’s most iconic stories, is among a number of recent reprint editions employing differing printing strategies and techniques to bring classic comics stories to readers old and new.
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Maurice Vellekoop Comes Out in a Big Way
The veteran comics creator’s first full-length graphic memoir, ‘I’m So Glad We’ve Had This Time Together’ (Pantheon), is a coming-of-age story mixed with a family history so unsparingly honest that his mother dreaded its publication.
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Virtuous Con Returns—and Looks Toward the Future
At the fourth annual Black woman–owned online convention, which celebrates sci-fi, fantasy, and comics artists, panelists discussed topics including book banning, incorporating real-world issues into children’s books, and more.
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Panel Mania: 'Mary Tyler MooreHawk' by Dave Baker
Dave Baker’s new graphic novel 'Mary Tyler MooreHawk' is a relentlessly inventive sci-fi adventure epic starring an eponymous plucky teen superhero who takes on a succession of monsters, evil robots, and supervillains. An eight-page excerpt.
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Comics Industry Unites Against Headwinds at ComicsPRO 2024
Comics retailers, publishers, and distributors discussed a changing distribution landscape, a new metadata system for publishers and retailers, and more at the annual retailer meeting, held February 22–24.
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EC Comics Rises from the Crypt at Oni Press
A new publishing partnership between Oni and the family of the late William M. Gaines will bring back the pioneering genre comics publisher in summer 2024, starting with two new series.
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James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion Blooms Into an Indie Comics Production Company
The acclaimed comics writer is expanding his Tiny Onion imprint into an independent comics production company that will operate like a book packager, managing Tynion’s creations and working with other creators on their own projects.
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Panel Mania: 'Shook! A Black Horror Anthology,' Edited by Second Sight Publishing
Published by Dark Horse Books in collaboration with the African American horror publisher Second Sight Publishing, 'Shook! A Black Horror Anthology' collects a dozen tales of hair-raising terror, monsters, and gore grounded in America’s grim racial history and enlivened by humor and hip-hop culture.
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From the Stage to the Page: 10 Years In, Z2 Comics Rocks On
For nearly a decade, Z2 Comics has worked to merge the twin fandoms of comics and music, collaborating with musicians to produce titles that coexist with their musical work. The result: books that act as bridges between mediums.
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New SFF Publisher Gungnir Hopes to Hit Its Target
Gungnir, a new publisher helmed by comics veterans Jim Krueger and Steve Orlando, will launch in April. Named after the staff of the Norse god Odin, which always hit its target, Gungnir will publish a mix of graphic novels, prose novels, and art books in the sci-fi/fantasy categories.
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Panel Mania: ‘Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis’ by Dave Maass and Patrick Lay
Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's ‘Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis’ is a grim, albeit comical, allegorical anti-war graphic novel adapted from a satirical opera originally created by prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. A five-page excerpt.