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Upcoming Comics Events: 7/2/2012

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 07/02/2012 @ 01:00PM

7/3 Authors discuss Walt Kelly: The Life and Art of the Creator of Pogo in San Francisco, CA;7/5 Our Valued Customers signing with "Mr. Tim", New York, NY; 7/7 Kids Read Comics in Ann Arbor, MI
Publishers Prepare for Comic-con International

By Rich Shivener | 06/29/2012 @ 07:00PM

Perhaps it’s an understatement to say that Comic-Con International, held annually in San Diego, is the most exciting, influential, and competitive convention of the year—for comics publishers and so many more champions of pop culture.
Midtown Comics Reality TV Show to Air on NatGeo Channel

By Calvin Reid | 06/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

The National Geographic channel will broadcast Comic Store Heroes, a one-hour pilot for a reality TV show about life among the fans, super collectors and staff at New York City's Midtown Comics.
DC Comics Graphic Novels Now Available Via B&N’s Nook, NookColor Devices

By Calvin Reid | 06/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

DC Entertainment announced an agreement to digitally deliver DC’s line of full graphic novels through Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet and Nook Color tablet devices as well as through Android devices via B&N’s Nook for Android app.
Jim Sokolowski Joins Archie Comics; Buchholz, Kaminski, Segura Promoted

| 06/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

Archie Comics announced that Jim Sokolowski, a former senior executive at both Marvel and DC Comics, will join the company as senior v-p, sales and business development. Archie Comics also announced promotions for Harold Buchholz, Paul Kaminski and Alex Segura.
Super Folk: Marvel's Brubaker, Rivera Move On, Comixology's Big Numbers and Notable Collections

By Matt White | 06/26/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics Worlds’s superhero news destination, two longtime Marvel creators opt for more creator-owned work, digital vendor Comixology reports 77 million downloaded digital comics, DC’s new survey and digital He-Man series, teasers from Image, Dark Horse and Valiant, notable collections and more.
Upcoming Comics Events: 6/24/2013

Compiled by Matt White | 06/24/2012 @ 12:00PM

Ales Kot & Charles Soule Signing in Brooklyn, NY; Wizard World NYC Experience in New York, NY; Fiona Staples Signing in Calgary, Alberta, CA.
Kazu Kibuishi’s Latest Anthology, ‘Explorer: The Mystery Boxes’

By Brigid Alverson | 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Now after much critical acclaim for the Flight anthology series, Kazu Kibuishi has organized a new anthology called Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, that was published in the spring by Abrams’ Amulet Books.
Dean Haspiel Donates Mini-Comics to SPX, Library of Congress Collection

By Calvin Reid | 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel has reached an agreement to donate his collection of mini-comics to the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress.
Amazon Studios Looks to Crowdsource Films Using Digital Comics, Animation

By Rich Shivener | 06/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Later this summer, Amazon Studios, the film and TV development arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, will publish its first digital comic.
Super Folk: Marvel Creator Rumors, Batman in Smallville and Heroes Return at Valiant

By Matt White | 06/19/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero hangout, Marvel’s flurry of creator rumors, Batman and a fan favorite arrive in Smallville Season 11, familiar heroes at Dynamite, Valiant and Image and series from around the industry, big sales for Walking Dead #100 and more.
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.

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