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Fall 2012 Announcements: Comics and Graphic Novels: Good Yarns

By Heidi MacDonald | 06/15/2012 @ 07:00PM

Why is a story about the sea always called a yarn? This season’s best graphic novels not only include two set on the water but a number of great yarns, some outright science fiction, that present the kind of larger than life stories comics are often known for.
Panel Mania: Ulysses Seen Book Two

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 06/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ulysses Seen is the comics adaptation of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, a masterwork of 20thCentury literature, created by Rob Berry. The excerpt offers the newest completed pages of Ulysses Seen that were debuted on the website of the National Library of Ireland in celebration of this year’s June 16 Bloomsday event
‘Ulysses Seen,’ and Rob Berry Feted in Dublin on Bloomsday

By Calvin Reid | 06/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

Robert Berry, artist for Ulysses Seen, an app and online comics adaptation of James Joyce’s 20th Century literary masterpiece Ulysses, is traveling to Dublin for the first time to take part in celebrations that will mark Bloomsday as well Ulysses’s entry into the public domain.
Bruce Harris Helps Launch Big Sci-Fi Graphic Novel at BEA 2012

By Calvin Reid | 06/13/2012 @ 12:00AM

Anomaly is an independently produced sci-fi graphic novel scheduled for release in October co-created by Hollywood super lawyer Skip Brittenham and artist/co-writer Brian Haberlin and published with the help of former Random House and Workman executive Bruce Harris.
Lost and Found–the Brian K. Vaughan 'Saga'

By Todd Allen | 06/12/2012 @ 02:30PM

Brian K. Vaughan was a popular comic book writer, getting great acclaim for his work on titles like Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina, when he left the comics world for screenwriting. He's back with a new comic, Saga which has already sold 70,000 copies of its first issue.
Mark Waid Is Thrillbent on Going Digital

By Todd Allen and Heidi MacDonald | 06/12/2012 @ 02:00PM

A-list comics writer Mark Waid has embraced digital comics with a new website, Thrillbent, where he'll be debuting his new comics properties. THe move has gotten him a lot of heat from both the creative and retail communities.
Comics Reviews June 2012

| 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

DC's first New 52 collections a debut from Ed Piskor and acollection of comics by R. and Aline Kominsky Crumb highlight the month.
The Bat Designer: Chip Kidd, Batman and Crimes of Urban Design

By Casey Burchby | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

Best known for reinvigorating book design, Chip Kidd has also quietly sustained a sideline as an historian of all things Batman. Kidd has now written his first original graphic novel featuring the Dark Knight, Batman: Death by Design.
BEA 2012: Hot, Hot, Hot! New Graphic Novels Sizzle

by Matt White | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

Organized by the Graphic Novel Reporter, the “Hottest Graphics Novels of 2012” panel, a rapid-fire rundown of the year’s best releases, has quickly become one of the more popular panels on graphic novels and comics at BookExpo America.
JManga's Evolving Digital Subscription Service

By Brigid Alverson | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

JManga launched last August as a digital manga site that would be an online subscription portal to the work of 39 different Japanese publishers. PW Comics World spoke with the site's managers to get an update on its evolution.
BEA 2012: Happy Publishers, Great Comics and the Graphic Novel Revolution

by Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

While comics and graphic novels didn’t make a huge splash at this year’s BookExpo America, the category nevertheless held its own at the show on several panels, the Author Stages and throughout the exhibition Floor.
Super Folk: DC’s Zero Issues, Avengers Vs. X-Men, New from Boom and May Sales

By Matt White | 06/12/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics Worlds’s superhero news hub, DC Comics reveals its September #0 issues and its “Third Wave” of New 52 titles, Marvel's Avengers Vs. X-Men’s second act, upcoming comics from Boom Studios, May sales and more.
The Will Eisner Graphic Novel Prize For Libraries to Debut at ALA Anaheim

By Calvin Reid | 06/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

The American Library Association and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation announced plans to launch the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Prize for Libraries, to be awarded to three libraries annually at the ALA Summer conference.
Panel Mania: Are You My Mother?

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, creator of the acclaimed graphic memoir, Fun Home, the story of her closeted gay father, returns with a new comics memoir Are You My Mother?, this time about her brilliant, diffcult and emotionally distant mother. Are You My Mother? is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
BEA 2012: Comics and Graphic Novels: Indies Rule

By Beth Scorzato and Matt White | 06/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

Independent comics publishers will rule the floor at BEA, while Marvel and DC Comics, the Big Two of U.S. comics publishing, have decided to skip having their own booths at the show. Nevertheless, both publishers are likely to have at least a minimal presence of their titles in the Diamond Comic Distributors booth (3575) as well as displays with their parent companies, Disney (3351 and MR7023) and Warner Bros. (RC67), respectively.
Super Folk: DC’s Outed Hero, Digital News, New from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, and More

By Matt White | 06/05/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero news central, DC Comics’ gay character revealed, new and series from Image, Dynamite, IDW, Hermes, digital news: a Kickstarter for Cerebus, Marvel news, and more.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/04/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 06/04/2012 @ 02:00PM

6/7 Chip Kidd "Batman: Death By Design" Signing in New York, NY; 6/13 Aline Kominsky-Crumb & Dominque Sapel at MoCCA in New York, NY; 6/13-6/17 Denver Comic Con & Literary Conference in Denver, CO.
Midtown Comics Opens in FAO Schwarz

| 06/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

Midtown Comics, which has been in Manhattan's central neighborhood since 1997, is opening a store inside FAO Schwarz's Fifth Avenue location. The retail spot will feature graphic novels, hardcovers, apparel, collectibles and other items.
Yen Press Plans Graphic Novels Based on Monster Galaxy Videogame

| 05/31/2012 @ 12:00AM

Yen Press, the Hachette Book Group’s manga and graphic novel imprint, has reached an agreement with social gaming publisher Gaia Interactive to create a series of graphic novels based on GI’s popular Monster Galaxy videogame franchise.
Super Folk: Marvel’s Same-Sex Wedding, DC Rumors, Digital News, National Cartoonist and Eagle Awards

By Matt White | 05/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s superhero news roundup, X-Men’s gay wedding, gay speculation from DC, Boom Studios, digital updates, the National Cartoonist Society, Eagle Awards, and more.

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