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L'Association Brings French Comics to the U.S.
In the last few years, there's been a small flood of French-language art comics being translated into English. But the French comics revolution of the last decade and a half didn't originate with big French publishing companies like Delcourt and Dargaud; it came from the underground--specifically a small, artist-run publisher known as L'Association.
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Gamers, Hipsters and Comics Nerds: G4TV's Cool New World
The web is a vast resource for comics, and you can't pick up a magazine or newspaper without seeing news about the latest graphic novel. But where do you go to find comics stuff on TV? Try G4TV, a cable channel that focuses on pop culture, technology and, increasingly, comics and the people who create them.
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Catching Up with Alan Moore
When it comes to comic book legends, few loom as large as Alan Moore. The author of Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentleman and the upcoming Lost Girls, his work takes pulp conventions and turns them into multi-leveled philosophical inquiries and has inspired not only comics creators but musicians and filmmakers for the past 25 years.
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Manga in English: Born in the USA
It would be relatively easy to make the claim that Japanese pop culture—from Astro Boy in the 1960s to Pokémon in the 1980s—is, so to speak, about as American as apple pie. From comics and animation to fashion, movies and an endless supply of adorable knickknacks, J-pop products are no strangers to the American consumer. And since the late 1990s, licensed English-language editions of Japanese comics—manga—have been instrumental in helping bring book-format comics of all kinds into the general bookstore market.
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Happy Birthday, Little Nemo: Big New Book Restores McCay's Masterpiece
Winsor McCay’s classic Sunday comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland, turns 100 years old this month, but the turn-of-the-century strip couldn’t look better in a new, lavishly produced book...
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Walter Mosley and the Fantastic Four
From the time he discovered The Fantastic Four, the groundbreaking 1961 super-hero comic book created for Marvel Comics by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, Walter Mosley has been fascinated by how their collaboration stoked his imagination and transformed the American super-hero comic book
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DC Comics Trolls for New Readers
After years of industry concern over the rising cost of periodical comics and competition for kids' attention from videogames, DC Comics is taking steps to attract them by offering affordable, quality comics material in book format.
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Young Cartoonists Look to the Book Market
A new generation creates comics about people, not superheroes, and looks to the book market for readers.
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'Matrix' Creators Plan to Publish Graphic Novels
In another example of sympatico between comics, publishing and the movies, Larry and Andy Wachowski, the writers and directors of the blockbuster The Matrix Trilogy, have founded Burlyman Entertainment, a publishing company focusing on periodical comics and graphic novels.
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Webcomics, Books From Keenspot.com
Keenspot.com, an entertainment Web site offering free access to more than 50 exclusive, serialized Web comics, may be a useful example of how an online comics venture can support a budding book publishing program.
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Graphic Novel Sales Even Better Than Reported
The graphic novel market has been growing even more explosively than earlier estimates suggested, according to Milton Griepp, founder of ICV2.com, the comics and pop culture trade news Web site.
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Comics Shops Sell Books, Too
In both comics specialty stores--known as the direct market in the comics industry--and traditional bookstores, sales of graphic novels have been zooming upward over the past few years.
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Soft Skull Graphic Novels: Smart, Visionary Books
While large book publishers such as Doubleday, Random House and HarperCollins have been getting into graphic novels with mixed success, smaller publishing houses are also dipping their toes into the comics pool.
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Joe Sacco, Comics Journalist
PW asks Joe Sacco, "Tell us why you returned to Bosnia and Sarajevo and about Neven, the 'fixer.'"
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The Year in Books 2003: Comics
During a year in which graphic novels were celebrated with a day of events and panels at BookExpo America, sales of book-format comics continued to show striking growth in the book trade and in the comics specialty market.
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Religious Comics In the Book Trade
Tyndale publishers sold just over half a million copies of five graphic novels based on the Left Behind series' first two books--spectacular sales numbers by mainstream comics industry standards.
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Preiss Is Back with More Graphic Novels
After more than 30 years in the graphic novel business, Byron Preiss has seen it go from big to little and back again.
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The Comics Pantheon Likes
The Pantheon line of graphic novels is based mostly on "mutual enthusiasms," says Pantheon editor-in-chief Dan Frank.
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Special Report: Comics and Graphic Novel Publishing
Indie stores lag on graphic novels, Tokyopop's format leads manga into the bookstore market, DC and Marvel look for big sales and more...
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Comics! Books! Films!: The Many Faces of Neil Gaiman
It's a warm L.A. night and Cha Cha Cha! is jumping. The staff of DC Comics and their supporters are crowded into the trendy restaurant on this first night of BEA 2003. Everyone is talking, laughing, sometimes shouting.
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