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Despite Economy, Fan Turnout Big for New York Comic-Con 2009

by Calvin Reid | 02/09/2009 @ 03:03PM

The country may be reeling from the worst economy in years, but you couldn’t tell it from the tens of thousands of fans pouring into the Jacob Javits Center for the fourth annual New York Comic-Con.
TCP to Publish Graphic Adaptation of Bill Ayers Memoir

by Calvin Reid | 02/05/2009 @ 10:47AM

Teachers College Press has reached agreement with William Ayers, the controversial University of Illinois at Chicago professor, lauded educational theorist and former leader of the radical 1960s Weather Underground, to publish a graphic novel adaptation of his acclaimed teaching memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.
Image Adding All-Ages Focus

By Van Jensen | 02/03/2009 @ 07:49PM

Image Comics is adding children's comics to its mix with a line of news books from Silverline.
Tor.com Offers New Sci-fi and Fantasy Webcomics

By Sam Thielman | 02/03/2009 @ 05:50PM

Partnering with another Macmillan imprint, the comics and graphic novel publisher First Second Books, sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books has launched, Tor.com, its own online comics imprint.
Sex, Costumes and Videotape: The Comics of Koren Shadmi

By Calvin Reid | 02/03/2009 @ 05:49PM

Moody, thoughtful and rich in emotion and nuance, Koren Shadmi's comics combine gripping, surreal imagery with narrative scenarios that chronicle the vivid, alluring power of sex and the frustration and comedy of quirky relationships
Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010

By Calvin Reid | 02/03/2009 @ 05:37PM

Reed Exhibitions plans to launch a new comics and pop culture convention, in April of 2010 at the McCormick Place convention facility in downtown Chicago and plans to move the New York Comic-con permanently to the fall in 2010.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/03/2009 @ 05:18PM

Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010; Blutch Wins Angoulême Grand Prix; CBLDR at NYCC ; PWCW Editors at NYCC ; Way Hosts Fresh Ink Online; Whedon’s Dollhouse at NYCC; British Porn Laws Target Comics; MySpace Comics Layoffs; Graphic Novel Buyers Survey; Jerry Craft Children's Book; Murder of Abraham Lincoln Reprint ; and Unlovable Book Launch; Exhibition
February Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 02/02/2009 @ 10:37PM

The Last Straw, the newest volume in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series takes the #1 spot followed by Naruto at #2 and the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker at #3
Funnies Business: The 2008 Retailers Survey

by Todd Allen | 02/02/2009 @ 09:35PM

Our columnist surveys comics specialty retailers on their sell-through on both periodicals and graphic novels.
First Second To Publish Scott McCloud

By Calvin Reid | 01/30/2009 @ 09:28PM

First Second Books announced plans to publish two new books by acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud.
Why Hollywood Loves the Comics

By Calvin Reid | 01/27/2009 @ 09:29PM

PWCW talks to film agent Scott Agostoni, director of the William Morris Agency's comics division, about the ongoing love affair between Hollywood and comics.
Jeff Smith’s Bone Saga Ends—Again

By Kate Culkin | 01/27/2009 @ 09:28PM

Graphix, the Scholastic division focused on comics and graphic novels for children, released the ninth and final color volume of Jeff Smith’s epic fantasy adventure series Bone this month.
What a Girl Wants Is Often a Comic

By Evie Nagy | 01/27/2009 @ 07:30PM

Jane Yolen to Publish Graphic Novel with Dark Horse as Publishers Weigh the Teen Girl Market for American Comics
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/27/2009 @ 04:51PM
The Best Comics You'll (Probably) Never Read

By Sam Thielman | 01/26/2009 @ 08:39PM

Sam Thielman looks back at some of the great unfinished comcis projects of the past 30 years.
Layoffs at Diamond, DC Comics, Top Cow

By Heidi MacDonald | 01/23/2009 @ 08:49PM

Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.
Graphic Sales Grow at Denver’s Tattered Cover

By Judith Rosen | 01/20/2009 @ 09:15PM

Graphic novel sales at independent Denver bookseller the Tattered Cover's three stores are bigger than both Romance and philosophy sales.
Life in Comics# 11: What Women Want

by Jennifer de Guzman | 01/20/2009 @ 09:14PM

Do women need superheroes as role mdels? Should they? Our columnist looks at the debate currently raging.
Grant Morrison, Final Crisis, and the Superhero Genre

By Jeffery Klaehn | 01/20/2009 @ 09:10PM

In part 2 of an interview with acclaimed superhero comics writer Grant Morrison, PWCW talks about Morrison’s work on DC’s Final Crisis series, a new Batman series in the spring and new work to be published by Vertigo.
Living and Drawing in the Subway

By Calvin Reid | 01/20/2009 @ 05:33PM

Youme Landowne, a white female artist, met Anthony Horton, a black homeless artist, on a subway platform and the result is Pitch Black, a childrens graphic novel.

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