For four days each year, Tom Cruise, Quentin Tarantino and some of the biggest movie stars on the planet head to San Diego's Comic-Con International to get grilled by a goofy, somewhat dashing stand-up comedian named Chris Hardwick.At this year's annual conference for more than 130,000 fans of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The graphic novel 'The Guardian' represents a growing trend in which soft power and civil society initiatives are increasingly being leveraged to fight extremism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joe Manganiello is deep, you guys. Like, there's way more to him than buff pecs and that killer smolder, and he readily turned preconceptions upside-down in a recent interview. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kate Manning, former sales and marketing director of Hot Key Books, is moving to The Phoenix Comic, which is published by David Fickling Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by increases in the book trade, 2014 sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in North America rose in every sales channel except the newsstand, where sales of periodical comics declined. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stay up to date on all the latest news about San Diego Comic-Con 2015 with Publishers Weekly—daily updates, podcasts and more. We'll have exclusive interviews, photos and all the rest of the action here. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Comic-Con International: San Diego (informally known as SDCC) a week away, its staff and comics publishers are grappling with critical questions about the value and location of the country’s largest comics and pop culture convention. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library content service Hoopla Digital is broadening its recently launched comics category with new graphic novel content from DC Comics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the deal, Image will expand the availability of its digital comics to retailers and libraries in North America, the U.K., Europe, South America and China. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
New York indie comics publisher Z2 Comics is publishing Koren Shadmi's surreal web comic turned graphic novel in the fall, along with a new edition of 'Harvey Pekar's Cleveland', the posthumously released 2012 graphic memoir, and a new line of periodical comics Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Joe Manganiello, who rose to fame as a werewolf on HBO's "True Blood," has sold his house in Hollywood Hills for $1.925 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty-five years after its birth as the publisher of a modest comics anthology, Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly has become one of North America’s most acclaimed literary graphic novel publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's domination of digital comics distribution continues with Marvel's new deal to sell single issues through Kindle.Last April, Amazon took steps to own the comic book industry's digital transition by purchasing comiXology, the leading platform for buying and reading digital comics. Today... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
During a recent talk show chat, "Game of Thrones" actress Maisie Williams revealed she had listened to fans' online opinions when crafting her scrappy Arya Stark character, originally written as a left-handed swordswoman in George R.R. Martin's book series. "The fans are so die-hard; they're... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital comics often arrive in comic book archive files, with extensions like cbz, cbr, cbt, cb7 or cba. These aren’t commonly used outside the comic world and it may not be immediately obvious how to view them. Fortunately, it’s quite easy, and you might be able to do it right away. These are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
At libraries across the U.S., comics and graphic novel collections have shown strong, well-documented growth among children and teens over the last decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of periodical comics and graphic novels may not have been as robust throughout 2014 as they were in recent years, but an exceptional holiday shopping season ended the year on a high note for comics retailers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here are 13 comics about the LGBTQ experience, from classics to contemporary sensations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of comics for kids and YA readers continue to grow in the book trade along with the number and variety of kids comics on display from such publishers as Andrew McMeel, Papercutz, Toon Books, Scholastic and others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comics were a lively presence throughout BEA and BookCon with all the latest trends in the category on display, including lots of kids comics and a continuing demand for Image Comics and genres beyond the dominant super hero category. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]