Literary and Kids' Comics Shine at Toronto Comic and Art Festival
Comics and reading forged an Avengers-like alliance at the 2012 Toronto Comics and Arts Festival. Held at the Toronto Reference Library in downtown Toronto, the event drew over 15,000 people--including sessions aimed at librarians and teachers--to buy stacks of comics from cartoonists and publishers from around the world. more...
05/15/2012 @ 12:30PM
The spirit of indie comics has not only influenced some of the Cartoon Network's biggest recent hits—it's led to a wave of indie cartoonists moving into the animation field on shows including Adventure Time and Regular Show.
05/15/2012 @ 10:00AM
5/16 Jeffrey Brown Darth Vader & Son Signing in San Francisco, CA; 5/18-5/20 University of Chicago's "Comics: Philosophy & Practice" with Bechdel, Clowes et al in Chicago; 5/22, 5/23 Francoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman Discuss "Blown Covers" Live in New York
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Dark Horse, plans to release both a regular hardcover edition and a deluxe limited hardcover edition of Carla Speed McNeil’s much acclaimed novella, Finder: Talisman.
05/08/2012 @ 01:00PM
Comics and reading forged an Avengers-like alliance at the 2012 Toronto Comics and Arts Festival. Held at the Toronto Reference Library in downtown Toronto, the event drew over 15,000 people--including sessions aimed at librarians and teachers--to buy stacks of comics from cartoonists and publishers from around the world.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
To coincide with the release of this weekend's box office record breaker, The Avengers, Marvel and Disney have been offering a smattering of official tie-in material to bring fans up to speed with the characters and provide backstory to the film.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
Over the past year, U.S. manga publisher Viz media has begun branching out in a new direction, releasing original graphic novels created just for them.
05/08/2012 @ 09:00AM
After making a name for himself as a humorist with the newspaper strip The City and graphic novels like Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, John “Derf” Backderf revisits his teenage memories of being friends, neighbors and classmates with the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
05/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
Arne Bellstorf's Baby's in Black looks at the Beatles in their early years, as well as the love story of Stuart Sutcliffe, the fifth Beatle, and Astrid Kirchherr. Baby's in Black will be released by First Second on May 8th.
05/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
Featuring over 50 cartoonists captured in interviews and photos, Christopher Irving and Seth Kushner’s Leaping Tall Buildings The Origin of American Comics, from PowerHouse Books, weaves a narrative about working in the comics field through the eyes of a diverse array of creators
05/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
Beginning this month DC Comics begins releasing book collections of The New 52 with hardcover editions of Justice league of America Vol. 1: The Origin by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee and Batman Vol. 1: Court of Owls by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, in addition to a trade paperback edition of Animal Man Vol. 1: The Hunt by Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman.
The Roundup for Comics
Publishing news from across the Web
Comics journalist Joe Sacco’s powerful history of a 1956 massacre in Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books), a 2009 PW Best Book, was awarded the Oregon Book Awards’ biennial Graphic Literature Award.
Carla Speed McNeil’s Eisner award-winning epic science-fiction graphic novel, Finder: Voice, a PW Best Book, was awarded the 2012 L.A. Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels over the weekend at the L.A. Times Book Festival.
Anders Nilson’s massive and inventive graphic novel, Big Questions (D&Q), a PW Best Book, has been awarded the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, an annual prize for the “best graphic novel, fiction or nonfiction,” published in the previous calendar year.
Philly theater group Save the Day Productions’ Super Heroes Who Are Super!, is a word-for-word staged reading of superhero comic books that is both celebration and parody.
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Chomp | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
