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Sons Against Fathers In Elk's Run
For fans of the Elk's Run comics series, the release of all eight issues in one volume for the first time is a long-awaited prize.
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Media Blasters Drops Shonen; Adds Yaoi
After meeting with little enthusiasm for their non-yaoi titles, Media Blasters will drop its line of shonen manga and increase the number of yaoi titles on its list.
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A Year of Yaoi at Iris Print
Last winter, Kellie Lynch, founder and managing editor of the American yaoi (boys' love) publisher Iris Print, launched the newcompany in an effort to expand the genre of boys' love in the U.S. and gain recognition for the genre.
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Captain America's Death Captures Attention, Sells Comics
Some of the biggest stories in comic book history have revolved around the death of a beloved character.
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Graphic Novel Market Hits $330 Million
In front of a packed hall at the second annual ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference, ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp reported that graphic novel sales in the U.S. and Canada hit $330 million in 2006, a 12% increase over revised sales figures for 2005. ICv2 has upped its estimates on 2005 sales from $245 million to $295 million.
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Graphic Novel Sales Hit $330 Million in 2006
Graphic novel sales are booming to the tune of $330 million in 2006, a 12% increase over 2005, according to Milton Griepp, who presented his annual white paper on the state of the graphic novel market to kick off the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference yesterday.
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The Koreans Are Coming: Manhwa in America
It shouldn’t be a surprise to American comics professionals that manhwa, or Korean comics, have become an increasingly important component of the competitive and ever-evolving manga market here in the United States.
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Ranma 1/2: America’s First Manga Hit
The longest running manga series in the U.S., Rumiko Takahashi’s world famous Ranma 1/2 has come to a close after 13 years. Last month Viz Media published volume 36, the concluding volume of the series.
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The First Annual PW Comics Week Critic's Poll
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic topped the first ever PW Comics Week critics poll. Regular PW writers and reviewers were polled for up to ten of their favorite graphic novels. The results came in as follows with a listing in descending order of the books that received the most votes, followed by selected comments from the critics.
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Selling Books, Comics at L.A.'s Earth-2
Launched in 2003 by a Hollywood movie producer and an actor/director and part-time comics dealer, Earth-2 is a Los Angeles comics retailer that prides itself on attracting hardcore comics fans, but also welcoming kids, women and lapsed comics fans more interested in books than the latest superhero periodical.
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Unshelved: Laughter in the Stacks
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, creators of the Web comic Unshelved, are the comedic patron saints of the library world
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NBA Nominates 'American Born Chinese'
Comics publishers just aren't used to getting National Book Award nominations. So when Gene Yang's American Born Chinese was nominated for the Young People's Literature award last week—the first graphic novel ever nominated for an NBA— his publisher was virtually the last to know.
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Cable Toons Spur Graphic Novels Sales
The TV connection is a boom for comics, graphic novels and manga—but only for some.
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Brubaker Does the Crime and the Time
Ed Brubaker has established himself as one of the premiere writers of crime/noir comics with books like Scene of the Crime from DC/Vertigo and Gotham Central from DC Comics, co-written by Greg Rucka.
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Passion and Business at Tokyopop
It's impossible to discuss the impact of manga on the American comics market without talking about Tokyopop and its CEO, Stuart Levy, a 39-year old designer and producer who has worked in Japan, is fluent in Japanese, and founded Tokyopop in Los Angeles in 1997.
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A New Era in Comics Publishing: A Roundtable
Beginning in the late 1990s, a certain feeling of dread was felt by many smart comics folk.
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HarperCollins, Tokyopop Ink Manga Deal
In a startling move that not only highlights the sales potential of book format comics but also gives almost every major New York publishing house a significant graphic novel program, HarperCollins will take over the distribution of the Tokyopop manga list to the North American book trade.
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Batman, Manga and Life on Mars: Talking with Paul Pope
One of the most thoughtful and iconoclastic artists working in comics today, Paul Pope began his career in comics as a literary-oriented self-publisher whose works were broadly informed by literature, politics and world culture.
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It's Time for First Second
After more than two years of preparation, the first books from First Second, the new graphic novel imprint at Henry Holt's Roaring Brook Press children's book division, will arrive in stores in May.
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FSG's Hill & Wang Gets into the Comics Game
In the latest sign that comics have found a home at traditional book publishers, Hill & Wang, a nonfiction imprint at the distinguished literary house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will publish a series of nonfiction comics works this fall, led by a comics adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report as well as biographies of Malcolm X and Ronald Reagan.
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