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More Layoffs Hit Oni-Lion Forge
Less than a month after the publisher and v-p of creative and business development were laid off at the comics publisher, a new round of dismissals hit the company last week, casting uncertainty over its future.
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Penguin Classics Adds Marvel to the Literary Canon
The first three titles in the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection were released last month and we talk to Ben Saunders, professor of English and director of the Cartoon and Comics Studies minor at the University of Oregon and editorial director for the line, about his vision for the series.
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Panel Mania: Halina Filipina: A New Yorker in Manila by Arnold Arre
In 'Halina Filipina', a charming comics rom-com by Arnold Arre, Halina MItchell, a biracial Filipino New Yorker, makes a trip to Manila to reconnect with her Filipino roots and meets a snide but charming local movie critic. A 12-page excerpt.
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Tuttle Provides Showcase for Filipino Graphic Novels and Prose
Tuttle Publishing, which has been bringing English-language editions of Asian books to an international audience since 1948, is set to release a total of seven books by Filipino authors between now and October.
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Close-Up on: Svetlana Chmakova
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Seven Seas Voluntarily Recognizes Union
Independent manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment has agreed to recognize the United Workers of Seven Seas as the union representative of its workers without an election.
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival Makes In-Person Return
After a three year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, held June 17-19, welcomed in-person artists and fans to the Toronto Reference Library for an international presentation of new titles and artists.
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Meet Linda Sunshine, Groundbreaking Book Trade Comics Editor
Linda Sunshine established comics reprint imprints at both Harmony Books and Fireside in the 1970s that produced some of the earliest hardcover and trade paperback comics collections in the book trade.
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Panel Mania: Animal Castle by Xavier Dorison and Felix Delep
In this homage to George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm', the cocreators of 'Animal Castle' have expanded Orwell’s allegorical attack on totalitarian societies to include an embrace of civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, and the concept of love, as weapons to fight and beat social oppression. An eight-page excerpt.
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Panel Mania: Radium Girls by Cy.
Set in 1918, 'Radium Girls' by Cy. is the tragic story of the women working for the U.S. Radium Corporation who unknowingly painted the dials of clocks and watches with the deadly radioactive substance that would destroy their health and ultimately take their lives. An eight-page excerpt.
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The Return of (Some) Comics Festivals
Small independent comics conventions are beginning to return to in-person events after being on hold for two years. But many of these much-loved shows may not be able to return.
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Seven Seas Calls for Union Election
Seven Seas Entertainment has alerted the National Labor Relations Board that it has chosen to hold an election among its employees to decide whether the staff will unionize.
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Seven Seas Staff Launches Effort to Form Union
Staff at independent manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment have announced plans to seek to form a union in affiliation with the Communications Workers of America.
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Archie Comics Navigates the Pandemic
Despite the pandemic, shutdowns, and supply chain problems, Archie Comics had one of its best years in 2021, its 80th-anniversary year.
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Tokyopop Marks 25 Years: CEO Stu Levy Looks Back and Ahead
Founded 25 years ago by Stu Levy at a time when manga was a niche within a niche, Tokyopop brought manga—Japanese book-format comics—to a new generation of young American fans, ushering in a new era in North American comics.
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Panel Mania: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
In the summer of 2018, 'New Yorker' Cartoonist Sofia Warren emailed Julia Salazar, a young democratic socialist running for the New York state senate, a request to follow her around and create a nonfiction comics account of her campaign. The result is the graphic memoir 'Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator'. A 13-page excerpt.
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Comics Retail Rebuilds, and Restocks
Booksellers discuss comics’ resurgence in 2021—and how strong sales were hindered by supply chain issues.
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Panel Mania: The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner
Filmmaker and comics artist James Spooner revisits his Afropunk teen years in his new graphic memoir 'The High Desert. Black. Punk. Nowhere,' to be published in May by Harper. A ten-page excerpt.
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Rich Johnson Joins Diamond Book Distributors
Comics and graphic novel publishing executive Rich Johnson has been named v-p, sales and business development at Diamond Book Distributors, the book trade division of Diamond Comics Distributors.
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Panel Mania: Yellow Cab by Benoît Cohen and Christophe Chabouté
In Benoit Cohen and Christophe Chabouté’s new graphic novel 'Yellow Cab', Cohen decides to become a New York City cab driver, and we follow the long bureaucratic journey required to get a taxi license, and Cohen’s plunge into the wildly diverse experience of driving a taxi cab in New York City. An 11-page excerpt.
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