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Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel

By Calvin Reid | 10/05/2012 @ 07:00PM

Produced over the course of nine years of research, writing, and drawing, Sailor Twain, the story of mysterious doings on a 19th-century steamboat plying the Hudson River, is a debut graphic novel by Mark Seigel, author of graphic nonfiction as well as children’s books, and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint.
A Life in A Box: Invention, Clarity and Meaning in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’

By Calvin Reid | 09/28/2012 @ 12:00AM

Chris Ware, the author of Building Stories, a new graphic novel to be published by Pantheon in October, is likely the most famous literary comics artist—graphic novelist if you prefer—that isn’t Art Spiegelman.
Upcoming Comics Events: 9/24/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/24/2012 @ 02:00PM

9/26 Happy! Release Party and Concert with Darick Robertson Los Angeles, CA; 9/28-9/30 MorrisonCon with Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Gerard Way and more in Las Vegas, NV; 9/30 MICE: Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Boston, MA
Comixology Drives the E-comics Market

By Shannon O’Leary | 09/21/2012 @ 07:00PM

Comixology, a digital comics distributor and marketplace, marks its fifth anniversary this year as it emerges as the clear leader in the digital comics space. The company’s Guided View technology, a much imitated function on its Comics by Comixology app, which allows readers to read digital comics easily on mobile devices, is widely available across all platforms, including iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and the Web. The company has also made strategic deals with most of the comics industry’s heavyweight publishers, including Marvel, DC, and Image, to help it attain a market share that significantly dwarfs the efforts of its competitors, such as iVerse and Panelfly.
IVerse Debuts Exclusive Digital Foreign Rights Deal with Marvel and Archie

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/19/2012 @ 01:00PM

Noting that more than 50% of their digital comics sales each month are going to international readers, digital comics distributor iVerse has signed a deal with two publishers, Marvel and Archie, to distribute translated comics worldwide.
Archie Comics Names Adam Tracey Director of Publicity, Marketing

| 09/18/2012 @ 12:00AM

Archie Comics has named Adam Tracey, director of publicity and marketing, replacing Alex Segura, who left the company recently to return to DC Comics.
SPX Smashes Sales Records

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/17/2012 @ 04:00PM

The biggest Small Press Expo ever was hailed as one of the most profitable as well, with sales of indie and literary comics smashing records across the board. Held this past weekend in North Bethesda, MD, the 2012 edition of SPX was billed as a never before seen meeting of six of literary comics’ greatest figures.
Upcoming Comics Events: 9/17/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/17/2012 @ 02:00PM

9/17-9/23 Brooklyn Book Festival and Bookend Events in Brooklyn, NY; 9/18-9/23 "Love & Rockets" 30th Anniversary Tour in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia & Brooklyn; 9/28-9/30 MorrisonCon with Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Gerard Way and more in Las Vegas, NV.
iVerse Unveils a Comics Crowdfunding Site and Enters the DRM-Free World

By Todd Allen | 09/11/2012 @ 08:30AM

New things are percolating at iVerse, the Waco, Tex., company behind the ComicsPlus digital comics app. iVerse is looking to steal some of Kickstarter’s marketshare, as well as venture into DRM-free digital comics, with ComicsAccelerator, a new crowdfunding platform specifically for comics projects.
Strong August at DC; New ‘Earth One’, ‘Zero’ Graphic Novels Coming

by Calvin Reid | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

DC's Batman Earth One marked its second month as the top selling graphic novel to comics shop retailers and announced plans to release a new Superman Earth One graphic novel in October, as well as book collections of its New 52 “Zero” issues by the end of the year and into 2013.
Carol Lay’s Story Minute Strips Get a New Life in ‘Illiterature’

by Beth Scorzato | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

Since Carol Lay gave us The Big Skinny in 2008, a very funny account of her successful struggle to lose weight, the prolific creator has stayed largely out of the limelight in the publishing world. But in October she’ll be back with Illiterature, a brand new hardcover collection of her well-known Story Minute cartoons.
Gary Panter's ‘DalTokyo’: Strip-Mining on Mars

By James Romberger | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

Considered one of the only true punk cartoonists, Gary Panter is a tremendously influential underground cartoonist best known for a ragged, aggressive line and the wildly imaginative formal experimentation in his Jimbo graphic novels. This month Fantagraphics Books will release DalTokyo, a serial comic strip first produced by Panter in the 1980s, now collected in a handsome, horizontal-format, oversized hardcover edition.
Panel Mania: Nao of Brown

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/11/2012 @ 12:00AM

Nao Brown struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and urges to harm others. However, she wants to overcome these issues and get her design and illustration career off the ground. Her boyfriend dumps her, yet she meets a washing machine repairman and an art teacher at the Buddhist Center. The Nao of Brown is created by Glyn Dillon and will be released by SelfMadeHero, an imprint of Abrams in September.
Upcoming Comics Events: 9/10/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/10/2012 @ 02:00PM

9/10 Raina Telgenmeier, Doug Tennapel and James Burks Discuss Graphic Novels in San Francisco; 9/12 Greg Pak "Doctor Strange" Release with Signing and Discussion in New York; 9/14-9/23 "Love & Rockets" 30th Anniversary Tour in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia & Brooklyn.
Comics Reviews: September 2012

By PW Staff | 09/10/2012 @ 01:00PM

It's non-fiction comics season, with books on economics, philsophy and the original Tea Party. Plus Mark Siegel's Sailor twain and new books by Matthew Inman and Carol Lay.
Abel and Madden Delve Further into “Mastering Comics”

By Ben Towle | 09/10/2012 @ 08:00AM

Mastering Comics by Matt Madden and Jessica Abel is an instructional book intended for people who already have a solid background in producing comics. Taken with their previous Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, they've created two invaluable textbooks for teaching comics creation.
Berkley Launching Graphic Novel Imprint, InkLit

By Calvin Reid | 09/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

Penguin's Berkley/NAL division is starting a graphic novel line called InkLit to be directed by Rich Johnson, co-founder of Yen Press and former v-p of trade book sales at DC Comics.
Panel Mania: The Hive

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Hive is the second volume of Charles Burns' new trilogy following X'ed Out. In Burns’ latest nightmarish alternate reality world, Doug, the Tintin-like hero, seeks answers about the mysterious incident that shattered his life and about his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend and her menacing ex-boyfriend.
Panel Mania: Prince of Cats

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

Prince of Cats is a hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in Brooklyn and focuses on Tybalt and his crew of Capulets as they battle the Montagues. Written and illustrated by Ronald Wimberly, Prince of Cats is written entirely in iambic pentameter. Prince of Cats will be released by Vertigo in comic stores on September 5th and in book stores on September 11.
Archaia, DBD Ink Graphic Novel Distribution Pact

| 09/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

Graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment has reached an agreement to switch its domestic and international bookstore distribution to Diamond Book Distribution, effective August 2012. New Archaia titles will begin appearing in the DBD catalog beginning in February 2013

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