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  • Graphic Novels Feel the Love

    Graphic novel publishers at this year's BEA found that one of the problems plaguing the industry for decades has become an unexpected strength. The audience for comics historically skews young and very male. As it turns out, that's just what libraries love about carrying graphic novels--they reel in boys, who are otherwise too often absent from the stacks.

  • Graphic Novels Draw New Buyers at BEA

    Graphic novel publishers at BEA reported sustained, strong interest from libraries (which have found that comics bring in boys like nothing else) and the book trade.

  • The Year in Books 2001: Comics

    In 2001, comix--fiction or nonfiction book-length comics--continued their incremental growth as a category in the general trade book industry.

  • Graphic Novels, Tie-ins Highlight Comic-Con

    This year's Comic-Con International--the comics industry's biggest event for both its producers and its consumers, held in San Diego July 19--highlighted the ways that comics and other media, print and visual, are leaking into each other.

  • Box Office Comics

    Since the runaway success of Tim Burton's 1989 movie Batman, films adapted from comics franchises have become a staple in the movie business. This year, a host of literary graphic novels will bow on the big screen. August will see the release of Ghost World, based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes and directed by R.Crumb documentarian Terry Zweigoff

  • Selling Comics Online

    The world of online graphic-novel retail has changed dramatically over the last few months, as two of the biggest players have gone under. Fandom.com, better known as Fandom Shop (a spinoff of Another Universe), was generally recognized as the biggest online outlet for comics and graphic novels; in early April, it stopped shipping.

  • Digital, Print Comics from ComicsOne

    ComicsOne founder Robin Kuo, a wireless gaming entrepreneur and longtime manga lover, launched the firm in 1999 with a visionary plan—to sell only downloadable e-comics. But like many such plans, this one needed tweaking. Slow sales spurred the company to reconsider and while ComicsOne continues to sell e-comics, it now offers manga in trade paperback editions as well.

  • The BookExpo of Comics

    This year San Diego's Comic-Con International convention, the largest annual event devoted to comics and popular arts, will be held the weekend of July 19. Like BEA, CCI attracts professionals (more than 6,000 artists, editors and rights folks), but unlike BEA, it attracts hordes of consumers, more than 40,000 last year.

  • The Art of Selling Graphic Novels

    Although graphic novels have been gaining critical recognition, as well as sales, over a period of 15 years, many booksellers still have not made the plunge into starting a section in their stores, or if they have, it consists of half a shelf tucked into a back corner and unseen by most customers. This causes a lot of booksellers to claim that graphic novels don't sell.

  • COMICS: Not Just For Speciality Stores Anymore

    It's no secret that the American comic book business, as we know it, is in deep trouble.

  • Comicstore.com, Next Planet Over Face Off Online

    TWO NEW ONLINE retail ventures that will focus on graphic novels, comics, zines, genre literature and other related merchandise, have launched this month.

  • Preiss Multimedia Gets New President

    Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, which has yet to turn a profit, has announced that company founder Byron Preiss was named chairman of the company at a special meeting held earlier this month. James Dellomo, BPMC's chief financial officer, was named acting president and CEO at the same meeting. ...

  • PW: Graphic Novel, 'A Child's Life,' Disturbed Its Printers

    PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search News Graphic Novel, 'A Child's Life,' Disturbed Its PrintersRoxane Farmanfarmaian -- 8/31/98 Pornography? Or a socially significant book about sexual child abuse? This was the question that arose first at Malloy and then at Data Reproductions, two Michigan printers, when they saw Ph be Gl ckner's graphic novel A Child's Life and Other Stories. ...

  • Upcoming Comics Events May 10-12 2013

    Events from around the world of comics and cartooning.

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