-
Baltimore Showcases Comics First
With a mix of popular comics creators from the book and periodical worlds, last weekend's Baltimore Comic-Con was a crowd-pleasing showcase.
-
Vampire Hunter D Creators Come to New York
Bestselling Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi and his long-time illustrator Yoshitaka Amano are legends among anime and manga fans in both Japan and America for their collaboration on Vampire Hunter D, an ongoing series of prose novels about a vampire hunter who is half-vampire himself.
-
Photo Mania
PWCW's photographers roamed the exhibition floor to bring back signature images from the 2008 New York Anime Festival at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
-
Comics Briefly
-
Dark Horse Revives Robert Howard’s Solomon Kane and Kull
Following the success of its Conan the Barbarian comic books, Dark Horse is now bringing back two other Robert E. Howard creations from the pages of the pulps to the pages of the contemporary comics world.
-
Big Fan Turnout for the 2008 New York Anime Festival
The second annual New York Anime Festival, held this past weekend at the Javits Convention Center, began slowly with a small group of fans on the floor during Friday’s professional day but their numbers swelled considerably by the evening.
-
DC Folds Minx; Virgin Becomes Liquid Comics
The day after former Virgin Comics CEO Sharad Devarajan announced plans to resurrect the now defunct Virgin Comics under a new name, DC Comics said it was shutting down Minx, a line of graphic novels targeting teen girls.
-
ADV Survives Hurricane Ike
Overshadowed by the financial crisis on Wall Street, Hurricane Ike's touchdown in Texas has had a tremendous effect on companies like the Houston anime and manga producer ADV Films.
-
Global Voices: Mia Kirshner’s I Live Here
Actress Mia Kirshner's effort to draw attention to the plight of International displaced people has led to I Live Here, an unusual collaborative graphic work that will be published by Pantheon in October.
-
IDW Launches G.I. Joe Invasion
The license from Hasbro's famous toy has landed with Idea and Design Works, which is wagering that G.I. Joe is poised to once again be a big seller. In a bit of synchronicity, original G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama is returning to the property, and a movie is set to come out next year.
-
Afro Samurai Makes Its Manga Debut
The much touted Afro Samurai series, a popular animation series on Spike TV, made its debut as manga for American audiences this month.
-
Panelmania: Nothing Nice to Say
In this 13-page excerpt from Nothing Nice to Say, a compilation of strips from the webcomic of the same name, creator Mitch Clem critiques the punk rock subculture with a comic eye.
-
Comics Briefly
-
Books About Comics: President to Prince
-
The New York Anime Festival Returns
The New York Anime Festival returns to the Javits Convention in New York September 26-28 with an impressive lineup of anime and manga programming and a range of Japanese pop culture talent.
-
The King of Queen & Country
On September 24, Oni Press will release Queen & Country Definitive Edition: Volume 3, collecting volumes seven and eight of the original comic series—which also happen to be critical tie-ins to the two existing Queen & Country novels, A Gentlemen’s Game and Private Wars (both from Bantam). Artists in the third volume are Mike Norton, Steve Rolston and Chris Samnee, and the edition includes a collection of Rucka's scripts with art by Rolston.
-
Antarctic Press: The Other Original Manga Publisher
Texas-based Antarctic Press has made a name for itself as a publisher of American Manga, or original English language manga for the U. S. market.
-
Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta
Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta edited by Edward Mason (Black Bart/Underwood Books, Sept.), aims to show off the famed fantasy artist's early comics work.
-
Comics Briefly
SPX Guests; PW The Beat: Wall Street Blues; Chris Butcher; New Archie Comics Logo; Locke & Key GN; Stephan King’s “N” Online; Geoff Johns Writes DCU Online; New MyCup o’ Joe; Princess Ai Free on Crunchyroll
-
‘PopGun’ and the Craft of Comics Anthologies
Image Comics anthology PopGun is the latest publication to bring together a wide variety of comics artists in one full color publication.



