The PW Comics World Podcast
This week we discuss TCAF, the end of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, Kevin Keller's GLAAD Award, our 50th episode and much more here.Q & A with Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon
Novelist Cecil Castellucci and cartoonist Sara Varon celebrate being a little different in a new and hybrid comics/picture book. more...Archie Comics Grows Book Side
Since 2010, sales of book-format Archie comics have grown 410% and e-book sales are up over 1,000%. more...Kindle Worlds: The Economics of Crowdsourcing Media Tie-In Novels
Amazon and Alloy Media have announced a deal to officially license fan fiction via the Kindle Worlds program. How does this new royalty based fan fiction model compare to the traditional media tie-in model for authors? more...How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
Over the past decade, the graphic novel category has become one of the fastest-growing sections at libraries of all kinds, as a new generation of librarians adopts the category as a means to energize collections and boost circulation and patronage. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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Rutu Modan: Family Fictions
Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan, best known for her Eisner Award winning 2008 graphic novel Exit Wounds (D&Q), returns with a new graphic novel called The Property.
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Kindle Worlds: The Economics of Crowdsourcing Media Tie-In Novels
Amazon and Alloy Media have announced a deal to officially license fan fiction via the Kindle Worlds program. How does this new royalty based fan fiction model compare to the traditional media tie-in model for authors?
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Annual ECBACC Festival Honors Indie Black Comics
Indie black comics creators gathered in Philadelphia to showoff new comics to the fans, honor the 20th anniversary of Milestone Media, cosplay and present the Glyph Comics Awards for the best African American characters of the preceding year.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 5/20/2013
5/20 Lisa Hanawalt: My Dirty Dumb Eyes Book Launch and Signing in Brooklyn, NY; 5/23-25 Sixth Annual International Comic Arts Forum in Portland, OR; May 23-26 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, AZ
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Upcoming Comics Events: 5/13/2013
5/22 Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba Signing in Portland, OR; 5/30 Edwin Huang "All New Secret Skullkickers #1" Signing in New York, NY; 6/1-6/2 Third Annual Latino Comics Expo in San Francisco, CA
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Global Comics a Hit at Toronto Comic Arts Festival
A flood of readers filled the Toronto Reference Library for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, as creators from around the world showcased the latest graphic novels.
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Not Your Parents’ Sex Manual
Originally launched as a print zine that invoked the legacy of 1970s feminist underground comix, Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book is a quirky but serious anthology that brings together candid personal commentary in the form of minicomics aimed at educating young people about sex and sexuality.
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Archie Comics Grows Book Side
Like most comics publishers, Archie Comics, home to America’s favorite fictional redheaded teenager, has historically focused its distribution on newsstand sales and the comics specialty market.
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Abrams ComicArts to Publish Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred'
Abrams ComicArts plans to publish a comics adaptation of renowned science-fiction author Octavia Butler’s acclaimed novel, Kindred, and noted that the book will be edited by newly hired senior editor Carol Burrell, who was originally chosen to adapt and draw the adaptation herself for another publisher back in 2009.
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Bob Fingerman Talks to Robert Kirkman about ‘Maximum Minimum Wage’
Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman talks with Bob Fingerman about Minimum Wage, his semi-autobiographical comic about the lives of Sylvia and Rob in an ultra-realistic New York City, now republished, in all its hilariously demented glory, in an oversized edition called Maximum Minimum Wage, just out from Image Comics.
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