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'Little Vampire' Rises Again
Mark Siegel, editorial director at Roaring Brook’s First Second imprint, hopes that resurrecting a series by French comic book creator Joann Sfar can help the author find the same popularity here that he does abroad. This April, the imprint will release Little Vampire, a compilation of three graphic novels by Sfar, the first two of which had been published individually by Simon & Schuster five years ago.
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Terry Brooks Makes Manga Magic
With Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks takes his best-selling series to comics for the first time.
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Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic in the Ocean
Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published environmental comic for kids that examines the destructive impact of plastic on the world’s oceans.
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Life Sucks: Vampires Work the Late Shift
Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece have collaborated for a fresh and comedic new take on the vampire tale.
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WonderCon ‘08: New Frontier; King Kirby Bring Out Fans
This year’s WonderCon, held in San Francisco Feb. 22-24, drew more than 22,000 comics fans to the Moscone Center.
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Udon Takes Over Murata’s Robot
The first three volumes of Range Murata’s experimental manga anthology Robot were published by Digital Manga Publishing. Now Udon Entertainment has taken over English language publication of the series beginning with the fourth volume. Robot, volume 5, will be released in March.
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Comics Briefly
Shooting War Optioned; New PW Video Channel; NYCC Tabs Kubert, Simon; Glyph Award Nominees; Dark Tower Midnight Release; New Naruto; Viz Down Under; Bionicle GN from Papercutz; Berberian, Dupuy at Housing Works; Japanamerica at Kinokuniya; Hotwire Signing Reslated; Tank Girl Prose Novel; and DIY Amulet Comic
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Exclusive: Read Jonathan Lethem's Omega the Unknown #1
In recent years Marvel has added a number of stellar novelists to its list of comics contributors, including Stephen King, George R.R. Martin and now, Jonathan Lethem.
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Diamond, Retailers Eye Graphic Novel Remainders
Graphic Novels are gaining traction in the bargain book business and Diamond Book Distributors, is also getting in the remainder business and will exhibit for the first time at the Spring Book Show, the largest remainder book show in the South, held in Atlanta at the end of March.
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Rogue Wolf Acquires Cold Cut
Chicago-based Rogue Wolf Entertainment has acquired Cold Cut Distribution, the 14-year-old California wholesaler of independent comics, and will move the company to Chicago.
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Flash Gordon Returns Via Ardden Entertainment
A new comics startup, Ardden Entertainment, is relaunching theFlash Gordonseries with plans to publish other licensed properties and original creations from a number of novelists and comics writers.
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Ennis Moves from Punisher to Phantom Eagle
This March, critically acclaimed comic book writer Garth Ennis will end his four-year run on the series Punisher MAX and debut a new title for Marvel called War is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
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Comics Briefly
Toon Books Moved Up; NYCC News; PW The Beat Looks at Sales; Viz News; and Bluewater to Publish Pistolfist
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Incognegro: Passing for White to Expose Lynching
DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint brought together novelist Mat Johnson and artist Warren Pleece to create Incognegro, an original graphic novel that recreates a terrible period in American history when the brutal lynchings of black Americans were carried out throughout the South.
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David Fickling to Launch Weekly Comic
“In my own experience, the link between reading a comic and reading a book is wonderful and exciting,” says publisher David Fickling, who will launch a comic book program this May called The DFC (The David Fickling Comic). For Fickling, whose London-based, eponymous imprint at Random House publishes children’s books on both sides of the Atlantic, the launch of The DFC reflects his lifelong love of comic books.
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American Manga Gets Push at Tokyopop
As the market for manga in America continues to grow, one of the top publishers, Tokyopop, has made a push to promote its OEL, or “Original English Language” manga, works created by non-Japanese writers and artists.
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Publishers Turn to Far East for Printing
With the continuing monetary woes of Quebecor, several publishers are turning to China to print their periodical comics.
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Blue Pills: Positively Lovely
Houghton Mifflin is publishing Blue Pills, Frederik Peeters's moving and award-winning autobiographical graphic novel about falling in love with an HIV-positive woman.
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Jeph Loeb Strikes Back
A top comic book writer and executive producer and screenwriter for the hit NBC series Heroes, Jeph Loeb is headlining some of Marvels biggest titles, including The Ultimates and the recent relaunch of The Hulk.
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Geoff Johns Takes the Green into the Black
One of DC's most surprising successes this year was the rather modest crossover The Sinestro Corps War.
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