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Wowio: Good for Prose; Bad for Comics?
For comics and prose publishers, Wowio.com seemed almost too good to be true. The Web site allowed publishers to post their books online so readers could download them for free, with publishers earning a set fee per download. But since the site was acquired in July by Platinum Studios, an online comics and entertainment licensing firm, changes in Wowio's terms may have undermined the value of t...
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Art Books in a Booming Art Market
When discussion of the market for contemporary art makes its way into the popular press, it often centers on how immune the market seems to be to broader financial trends. Last fall, as the latest round of art auctions concluded, Carol Vogel stated it plainly in the New York Times: “Never mind the gyrations on Wall Street or the subprime mortgage and equity crisis.
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Nonfiction Reviews
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara . Columbia Univ. , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-231-13960-1 Kara, a former investment banker and executive, uses theoretical economics and business analysis to propose measures that could eradicate sex trafficking by undermining the profitability of the illegal activities associated with the crime.
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Oni and 60Frames Meld Web Videos, Comics
Recently Oni Press announced it has joined with 60Frames Entertainment, an online video distribution company, to create interlocking web videos and comic books.
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Alan's War: A Conversation Becomes a Book
First Second will release the English-language version of Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, by French artist Emmanuel Guibert, in October.
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Life in Comics: Skimming the Ocean or Digging a Well: Analysis on Comics Blogs
Editor de Guzman questions whether reading blogs about comics has any bearing on creating or marketing comics.
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September Comics Bestsellers
Diary of Wimpy Kid continues at #1 on the list, with Batman: The Killing Joke (#2), Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures (#5), Y the Last Man vol. 10 (#8) and Ultimate X-Men Vol. 18 (#10) following.
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Comics Briefly
Politics at SPX; Kids’ Comic-Con 2009; PW The Beat: Google Comic; Otaku Politician; South East Asian Comics; Comics on the iPhone; Final Chapter of A.D.; and PictureBox Back To School Sale
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Zombies, Mayhem and Martial Arts
Last Gasp is publishing Tokyo Zombie, an absurd and grotesque work by manga-ka Yasunaka Hanakuma in the art style of heta uma, which literally means, "bad but good."
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Twisted Classsics: The Work of Posy Simmonds
British cartoonist Posy Simmonds's Tamara Drewe, due out from Houghton Mifflin, is a contemporary graphic novel update of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd
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Nonfiction Reviews
Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley Stephan Faris . Holt , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8779-6 The latest communiqué from the emerging genre of traveling the world in the footsteps of climate change is an intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ...
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Fiction Reviews
Miles from Nowhere Nami Mun . Riverhead , $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-854-2 Mun's first novel is a 1980s urban odyssey in which Joon-Mee, a 12-year-old Korean-American, leaves her troubled Bronx family for the life of a New York City runaway. The novel follows Joon over six years, as she lives in a homeless shelter, finds work as an underage escort and a streetwalker, succumbs to drug add...
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Welcome to the Zoo Alison Jay . Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3177-6 Working in the burnished, crackle-varnished surfaces that are her signature, Jay (1-2-3: A Child's First Counting Book) takes the idea of a cageless zoo to the extreme, imagining humans and animals mingling with all the privileged coolness of habitués of a five-star resort.
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A Cubano Huck Finn
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos . Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $16.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4804-9 Hijuelos, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has said that his first YA novel is a novel he wished he'd read as a teen. His themes are classic—alienation, the search for identity—but his approach is pure Hijuelos: Cuban-American, musical an...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/01/2008
In this week's Web Reviews: a fair, sharp-eyed critique of U.S. policy abroad, a smart and angry look at U.S. racism, an examination of the developmental disparity between the U.S. and Latin America, more bad news in the post-Katrina bayous, and the irrational processes of the human mind that may lead the world to ruin. Plus: perfect gifts for new parents, eccentric gourmands and Repo Man fanatics!
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Paul Levitz Talks Digital Comics
DC Comics—with the recent launch of its first motion comic, an animated adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen available from iTunes, and the one-year anniversary of its Zuda Web comics site approaching —has taken some significant steps into the digital world. So what exactly is DC's philosophy toward digital content? PW Comics Week talked with DC Comics president Paul Levitz to find out.
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Return of the Prince: First Second’s Prince of Persia Graphic Novel
The multimillion-dollar video game franchise, Prince of Persia, is entering a new generation with a forthcoming graphic novel and feature film adaptation.
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Comic Foundry Breaks the Mold
Who knew that when theComic Foundrymade the jump from online to print publication last year, the hip comics quarterly would break the mold of what a print comics consumer magazine should be.
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Comics Briefly
PW the Beat: DC’s Movies; Virgin; Best American Comics 2009; O’Malley, Larson at SPX; New Vampire Hunter D Story; Middaugh on ICv2; Lansdale Writes Crypt Tales; Death Note in Canada; and Quesada On MySpace
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Moresukine: Japan On A Dare
Dirk Schwieger, a German living in Japan, produced a comics blog and offered to take on, and document in comics, any Japanese experience his readers requested him to do.
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