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Indie Comics Make News at Comic-Con
Despite the bombast of Hollywood studio hype, indie comics publishers still made some noise with their own announcements at last weekend's San Diego Comic-Con, with a mix of old classics and new work from top creators. Fantagraphics, D&Q and Top Shelf all had major news.
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Comics Briefly: 7/27/10
SDCC 2010: ComicsPro Looks at Retailing in the Digital Age; Archie Comics Relaunches Monthly Mag; Four Publishers Sitting Around Talking Comics; Librarians Pick Fave Graphic Novels; Spotlight on Charlaine Harris; Spotlight on Jillian Tamaki; Comics in the Classroom; Protesting The Protesters; The Big Two's Biggest Announcements; Assorted Comics Announcements; Neil Gaiman Scripting Anansi Boys Movie.
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Classy Creators, Online Manga and Bean Dogs: Manga at Comic-Con
While this year's San Diego Comic-con didn't have giant billboards or star-studded panels just to show off manga, there was lots of news and trends to watch from the world of Japanese comics that emerged out of this year's pop culture fun-fest. The most intriguing developments to come out of this year’s show were both a nod to manga's past and a look toward its digital future.
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Photo Mania: 7/27/10 SDCC 2010
The San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 may be over but we've brought back a host of images to remind us of just about everything that happened. From comics and cartoonists to movies and costumed fans, here are some of the images of this year's Comic-con.
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The Comic-Con Movie Freight Train Hauls Some Books
It's become a kind of broken record, but this year's San Diego Comic-con, like last year's Comic-con, was dominated by the hype and marketing machines of the Hollywood film and TV studios. From the buzz generating around the release of Universal's Scott Pilgrim film next month and, later this year, AMC's Walking Dead, to a bulked-up lineup of superhero movies coming next year--DC's Green Lantern and Marvel's Thor and Captain America films--Comic-con is the ultimate platform for hyping big budget film and TV projects, whether they're based on comics or not.
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San Diego Comic-Con: Scott Pilgrim, 'Ulysses Seen,' and a Layoff at Del Rey
If there was any doubt about what is the big book/event at this year's Comic-Con International, the response to the Scott Pilgrim panel--held in the massive 6,000 seat Hall H of the Convention Center--cleared up any lingering ambiguity right away. 13 members of the cast, including Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley, filmmaker Edgar Wright and the film's star, Michael Cera--who mugged through the entire panel dressed in a goofy padded-muscle Captain America costume--appeared on stage to wildly enthusiastic applause.
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Preview Night at the San Diego Comic-Con 2010
Although the crowds seemed a bit more subdued than in the recent past, this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego still managed to attract hordes of fans interested in comics, books, manga, films and more.
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Comics Reviews: 7/26/10
The latest graphic novel by Norwegian cartoonist Jason, Vikings, Codename Knockout and the eagerly awaited finale to the Scott Pilgrim saga are reviewed this week.
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Panels and Presentations: What to See at Comic-Con 2010
Let's face it, there's so much great programming at Comic-Con, it can be overwhelming. So we've put together a very subjective and far from comprehensive listing of panels, presentations and events that caught our eye.
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Comics Briefly: 7/20/10
Robert Kirkman Starts New Imprint; Marvel's C.B. Cebulski Promoted; DC Announces New Static, Thunder Agents, Hellblazer and More; Dark Horse to Publish Complete Milo Manara; Marvel's Black Panther Motion Comic Vanishes from iTunes; Free Online Inception Prequel;Comic from Udon & Warner Bros; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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'Scott Pilgrim' Goes from Indie Comic to Media Phenomenon
Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series has gone from a poor selling indie graphic novel to a major media picture phenomenon. The final volume, 'Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour', will be released by Oni in July and a major motion picture based on it will be released August 13.
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Hill & Wang to Publish Authorized Graphic Bio of Anne Frank
Working closely with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Holland, Novel Graphics, Hill & Wang's line of nonfiction comics, will publish, Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Ernie Colon and Sid Jacobson.
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Panel Mania: Tribes: The Dog Years
Set a hundred years after a virus shortened humans' lifespan to 21 years, Tribes: The Dog Years presents the world re-organized into packs and tribes by the surviving kids and teenagers. While fighting to survive, these groups have coalesced around unifying mythologies. Tribes is written by Michael Geszel and Peter Spinetta and is illustrated by Inaki Miranda, with colors by Eva de la Cruz. Produced by Soulcraft Comics, the book will be released by IDW Publishing on July 29th.
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Comics Reviews: 7/19/10
The latest comic by surrealist master Jim Woodring, a non-fiction graphic novel about child crime, a politically charged space opera and a stylish sci-fi yarn from artist Inaki Miranda highlight this week's comics.
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Life in Comics: See you in San Diego!
As the comic book industry prepares for Comic-Con International in San Diego, I find myself in a strange situation: I won't be in the SLG booth this year. Instead, I'll be one of the people I would watch from the other side of the table--a woman with her husband and baby, pressed in with the rest of the crowd.
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Digital Comics Are Coming
he last major comics publisher to launch its digital program, DC Entertainment made hundreds of its titles available last month through the iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP. Despite concerns about the viability of digital comics, publishers are gearing up. DC Comics plans to use its digital initiative to also support traditional retailers, and both Marvel and DC plan to release digital and print comics simultaneously.
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More Monster-Classics Mashups from IDW
With an eye on the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, comics publisher IDW Publishing is trying its hand at prose and plans to release an anthology of genre mashups called Classics Mutilated, featuring novella-length stories by a host of prominent horror and fantasy writers. To highlight the volume at Comic-Con, IDW is also making one of the book's novellas, Dread Island by Joe Lansdale available as a standalone preview show special, and also has plans to release it in multiple print formats.
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Comics Briefly: 7/13/10
Tributes to the Late Harvey Pekar; Webcomics Art Auction for Gulf ; Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos MoCCA Talk; Vietnamese Comics iTunes Scam; Wally Wood's 22 Frames That Always Work--the Movie; Kirby Krackle's Wolverine Tribute Music Video; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Off the Streets of Cleveland: 'American Splendor's' Harvey Pekar, Dead at 70
No doubt there have been worse Mondays than July 12, 2010, but it's hard to imagine it right now. On that day, Harvey Pekar, iconic American comic book writer, creator of the groundbreaking autobiographical comics series, American Splendor, and one of the most influential and delightfully eccentric creative figures in American literature, died of unknown causes at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Digital Comics: Now What?
With DC Entertainment's entry last month into the digital comics realm, the first phase of the Digital Era of comics is complete. DC was the last major player to get into the game, but their launch of a line of hundreds of comics for iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP has brought them quickly to the forefront of the digital comics evolution. But with the players all in the game, the usual questions have come back to the forefront: Will digital sales kill paper sales? How do you set prices and release dates? Is the digital reader a new kind of comics consumer? And how will it affect the creative end of things?
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