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No Starch Press Offers Manga-Style Technical Guides
This month, add No Starch Press to the roster of publishers looking to enter the manga educational market when they release the first of a series of manga-style technical guides intended to teach topics like statistics, calculus and physics
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Lilli Carré Looks Into the Lagoon
Comic creator and animator Lilli Carré has been a talent to watch since Tales of Woodsman Pete hit the stands in 2006. Her first graphic novel, The Lagoon, came out from Fantagraphics Books this October.
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Public TV Uses Nature Comics to Teach and Promote
Since 2006, the Public Broadcasting Service has been publishing an annual comic book series that illustrates how comics can be used as an informal educational tool as well as how effective the medium can be for marketing and promotion.
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Chapel Hill Comics: The Evolution of a Comics Bookstore
Late last month Chapel Hill Comics marked its fifth anniversary with its second move, more than doubling its space from 800 to 1800 sq. ft. space.
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Liquid City Drips with Southeast Asian Comics Talent
Southeast Asia recently has risen in prominence in the U.S. comics scene, with Malaysian artist Lat seeing his seminal cartoons released stateside by First Second and the Filipino Leinil Yu drawing Marvel's summer blockbuster Secret Invasion. There's perhaps no better time, then, for an anthology of comics from the region.
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Lynda Barry's What It Is—Personal Growth for Troubled Times
The author ponders her personal growth as Lynda Barry's wisdom helps guide her to a stronger place.
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December Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Rodrick Rules continues to top the list; followed by DC’s Azzarello/Bermejo Joker at #2; Stephen King’s The Long Road Home returns, this time at #5 and Jim Butcher’s Welcome to Jungle (this week at #9) is on the list for the second month in a row.
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Comics Briefly
Neal Adams NYCC Quest of Honor; 2009 Glyph Awards Submissions; Changes at Newsarama; Help Rich Faber; New Ardden Comic Series; Bluewater Plans Poe Comic; Gene Colan Retrospective and Anders Nilsen Exhibition
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Broccoli Books Folds; Publishers Struggle in Tough Economy
Manga publisher Broccoli Books will shut down at the end of the year prompting a number of comics publishers to reflect on the economic downturn and its effect on category.
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Publishers Show No Fear of Horror Comics
Horror is experiencing a big resurgence in comics.
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Mister X: Still Sleepless After All These Years
The Mister X Archives hardcover collection is set to release on 11/26 from Dark Horse and an all-new Mister X limited-series, Mister X: Condemned, by series creator Dean Motterwill premiere in December, also from Dark Horse. Motter spoke withPWCW about the book's history and future.
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Comics Briefly
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The Kirkman/Bendis Debates: Let’s Do the Math
Todd Allen compares some printing estimates to sales estimates to figure out just who's making money at Image Comics.
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Broccoli Books to Shut Down
Manga publisher Broccoli Books will be shut down at the end of this year
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The Saga of Swamp Thing’s Saga
In 1983 DC Comics editor Len Wein decided to take a chance and give a British writer by the name of Alan Moore a shot at writing the Swamp Thing. The rest of the story is history.
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Dave Gibbons and the Creation of Watchmen
Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore’s artist-collaborator on the now-classic superhero epic Watchmen, provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of the graphic novel in a new book just released by U.K. publisher Titan Books.
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Fanboys and Families: Miami Book Fair Debuts Comix Galaxy
The Miami Book Fair International, held November 9-16, marked its 25th anniversary by launching the Comix Galaxy, a partnership between the Miami Book Fair and Diamond Book Distributors that greatly expands the presence of comics and graphic novels at the annual show.
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Mike Allred Hits All The Right Notes
Originally published as a series by Dark Horse in the late 1990s, Red Rocket 7, a labor of love by Mike Allred that manages to integrate aliens, spaceships, robots and clones into the history of rock n’ roll, is back in print now in a .45-record-sized collection from Image.
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Comics Briefly
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Popeye's "Immortalicky"
Popeye: one of the most beloved cartoon personalities of the 20th century, was created by E.C. Segar (a former movie house projectionist who loved his Chaplin) some ten years after he became a cartoonist in pre-Capone Chicago. At the time, Popeye was a world-wide sensation. The daily adventures of this very American character literally changed the face of comic strips and heavily influenced that other burgeoning art form, animation.
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