A large group of comic book creators will be using Twitter to auction books, art and more to benefit stores upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-14 13:49:17 UTC ]
Here we are in week three of our new (hopefully short-lived) weekly roundup of praise for publishers doing their part to give back to their communities and readerships during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s heartening to see publishers act selflessly, despite the challenges their own businesses and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-04-10 13:51:46 UTC ]
Wednesday is usually New Comic Book Day but, with everyone on lockdown due to coronavirus, this week’s selection was a little light. The main distributor, Diamond, ceased shipments both to and from its warehouse — a seemingly logical move given that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2020-04-02 17:30:13 UTC ]
Diamond Comic Distributors has announced it will not be shipping new comic books to retailers "until further notice" due to the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-25 00:11:33 UTC ]
His character Asterix captured the spirit of the French of the 1960s and grew into a worldwide phenomenon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-24 22:57:45 UTC ]
Free Comic Book Day, which is usually held in May, has been postponed until the summer because of the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-19 23:32:50 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK has announced a new partnership between its audio division and Rebellion, a publisher of comic books, fiction and video games, in response to increasing demand for science fiction audio. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-18 22:09:16 UTC ]
I draw, write, speak about, teach, facilitate and organise events about comics. After graduating with a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, I attended art college and worked as a freelance illustrator. In 2008, I began to incorporate comics into my practice. I also... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-03-11 13:11:13 UTC ]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund plans to create the Rory D. Root Comics Ambassador Grant, a program designed to support community building by retailers, named in honor of the late Rory Root, an influential Berkeley comics retailer noted for his pioneering embrace of book trade practices and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-25 05:00:00 UTC ]
Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide by Kate CharlesworthMy favourite place to be is partway through a book that I have just realised is becoming an all-time favourite. This month, it happened with Kate Charlesworth’s graphic memoir, Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, a political history of gay... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-02-14 09:49:28 UTC ]
JOHN VERCHER’S TAUT, impressive debut crime novel, Three-Fifths, follows Bobby Saraceno — a mixed-race man living a lie. Saraceno has spent his life passing as a white man, raised by his racist maternal grandfather in Pittsburgh. Bobby’s kept his true self hidden from everyone, even his fellow... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-01-29 13:30:35 UTC ]
A new comic book series imagines that Nancy has been killed, infuriating some fans of the unstoppable teen detective who made her debut 90 years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-25 19:16:28 UTC ]
The author’s latest comic book endeavor adapts a short story, “The Sacrifice of Darkness,” from her 2017 collection “Difficult Women.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-24 18:30:05 UTC ]
A new story will reveal more about the characters before the Amazon Prime TV superhero series returns this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-23 18:30:05 UTC ]
Canadian independent publisher (and bookstore!) Biblioasis has printed up a limited run of indie bookseller trading cards, featuring heroic comic book portraits of prominent booksellers. Why? Well, for starters, this week is the annual independent booksellers conference in Baltimore, the ABA’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-21 13:40:31 UTC ]
There is no way I can do crimes without making coffee first. Fill up one of these comic book villain mugs to start your morning off right. Or, very wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-13 11:39:29 UTC ]
Second only to the occasional test kitchen tour, the biggest perk of editing Folio: is the constant reminder that magazines overwhelmingly remain the primary medium for the greatest long-form journalism being produced today. As another year ends, we once again turned to the tastemakers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-12-30 17:04:32 UTC ]
Two sequels to the classic comic book series came to a conclusion just days apart—one more successfully than the other. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2019-12-18 18:04:02 UTC ]
Comic book creators search for ways to combat the rise of illegal digital sharing of their work. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2019-11-29 13:41:32 UTC ]
A right-wing hero called the Question inspired Watchmen’s faceless vigilante. But later stories took the character in a very different direction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-11-22 19:45:46 UTC ]