Last week reports gathered that Chicago Public Schools was going to pull Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis after some questioned its appropriateness for seventh-graders. According to Robot 6, the Chicago Public Schools CEO has decided that the book should remain in the schools, but not be used as material for seventh graders. After directing principals […]
An interesting move by ComiXology to become more of a platform, like Apple’s iBook Store and Amazon eBook store. Today, the digital comic book startup is launching ComiXology Submit, a submission portal for comic book creators who want to sell their self-published work in ComiXology?s digital store. If successful, the Submit portal could usher in […]
Michael Cavna talks to Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney about the three movies based on his hit books – the third book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days opens today in theaters. MC: Three films in, what?s most enjoyable and most challenging about making them now? JK: I think the most […]
NPR talked to Alison Bechdel:Cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s first memoir came out in 2006. Called Fun Home, it dug deep into her complicated relationship with her father, a closeted gay man who poured his emotional energy into redecorating their Victorian Gothic home. He died, possibly a suicide, shortly after Bechdel herself came out as a lesbian […]
Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch out For and creator/author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, has a new book out entitled Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. The New York Times gives it a favorable review:Bechdel weaves emotional honesty with highbrow deliberation in a way that is never burdensome, and mostly light. […]
The Antler Boy and Other StoriesJake Parker has launched a Kickstarter project to fund a collection of comic short stories that he’s created over the last eight years. The project has already met its funding goals with 28 more days left, but donors can still contribute and receive signed copies and other incentives.Part of his […]
Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned the […]
From Fantagraphics Books:We are always grateful to readers who buy books directly from us, so we are pleased to offer a new series of mini-comics featuring fascinating, previously-unpublished (or at least way out of print) sketches, drawings and even full stories, which are available for FREE with the purchase of their matching tie-in books, or […]
Chris Mautner interviews Art Spiegelman about the release of the book MetaMaus to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his seminal graphic novel Maus.To mark the anniversary, Spiegelman and his publisher, Pantheon, have released MetaMaus, a new book about the making of that seminal graphic novel, which features a lengthy series of discussions with editor Hillary […]
My Cage creators Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power will be producing a graphic novel called Santa vs Dracula and is soliciting donations through Kickstarter. Here’s their description: ‘Santa vs Dracula’ is full color graphic novel about Count Dracula invading Santa Claus’s workshop with an army of monsters (Frankenstein’s Monster, Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, the Wicked […]
Last year Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan did a reboot of sorts taking his character Poncho back to year one. He’s now compiled all of those strips into a book. What’s interesting about the book is that it’s not a straight compilation. He’s reworked some of the punchlines so that it fits a more sequential […]
Tom Racine has posted video of his interviews with Brad Guigar (Evil, Inc.) and Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive).http://talltalefeatures.com/2011/08/07/brad-guigar-and-dave-kellett-sdcc-2011/ Other that he’s interviewed of late include Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry, Joe Murray, creator of Rocko’s Modern Life and Camp Lazlo on Nickelodeon and David Lloyd creator of V for Vendetta
The webcomic Ratfist by graphic novelist Doug TenNapel has come to a close at a neat 150 pages. On his blog, Doug says that when he started he knew that it would end at 150 pages (“The only way I could start a webcomic was if I knew it would end”). He also reveals that […]
Two comic related big screen movies squared off this weekend and came up with a tie. Cowboys & Aliens and The Smurfs both earned $36.2 million. I saw Cowboys and Aliens on Friday night and thought it was a great adventure western mashed-up with a sci-fi. I’ve never read the graphic novel, so I don’t […]
I found this article for MacWorld interesting. Jason Snell attended the San Diego Comic Con and compared creator’s love-fest with Digital comics for the iPad this year with yesteryear’s worry about digital comics. The part that interested me was this subject about whether to format your online comics for print (book collections) or for digital […]