“Who is Jake Ellis?” Book Tour
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet While searching for various comics events, I discovered this over on the Image Comics website. Here, uncensored, is the PR from their website. That’s a very intense tour schedule, for any author! Eight states, thirteen days, coast to coast! Of course, if you can’t make the signing, contact one of the stores [...]
Continue ReadingThe Year in (P)Review: 2011
So, as happens frequently in America, we treat History like a Cassandra, reading and studying, but choosing not to believe or remember the lessons it teaches us. I know Cassandra's fate, and thus the dangers of saying "I told you so". So instead, I'll quote Gene Wilder in " Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory": Oh, you should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about. So, what can we expect in 2011?
Continue ReadingComics Industry Person of the Year: Robert Kirkman
This year in addition to our usual questions for the Year-End Survey – sent to a mix of creators, publishers, journalists and marketing personal—we added a new category: Person of the Year, the person who, we we put it, was "the most important person, someone who had an impact, someone who set the pace, or had a banner year." We were very curious to see what kind of responses this question would get – while a lot of people are doing some of the best work of their careers, or emerging as critical favorites, it was a very mixed year business-wise and we were wondering who would be seen as the most visionary and decisive person. Well, we needn't have worried that this would be a hard question to answer.
Continue ReadingDiamond December 2010 sales charts
For all you number crunchers, here are the December sales charts in raw data form.
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The DFC Library Day One: David Fickling
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhen the weekly DFC comics magazine came to an end in 2009 after only 43 issues many in the UK comics scene were saddened by its loss. The magazine was launched by David Fickling Books, a division of Random House, in 2008 and while it may not exist anymore as a [...]
Continue ReadingNice art: Victor Kerlow
The art of Victor Kerlow has been featured in The New Yorker, the NY Times, and many other outlets. His website contains not only his lovely illos but many of his comics, which are also collected in Small Victories, a volume he was kind enough to send us a review copy of. While the art is immediately stunning, stories of danger in toilets, lumberjack exploits and other mysteries makes for a fine assemblage of comics.
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The Year in Review: 2010
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” -- Robert Brault Experiencing 2010 as a comixologist was a bit like wearing kaleidoscope glasses while driving. The image might stabilize and things might become clear, but then something would jar the glasses, the shards of glass would tumble and refract, rearranging the view, causing a bit of momentary panic, before settling down for a few minutes.
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: Teasers: August 2011
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt seems WordPress is also a bit late… I scheduled this to post on January 8th, and it never did… So, while I work on the February list (2011 is amazing!), enjoy this sneak peek for August! (The antithesis of February… hot, no holidays, everyone out on vacation…) Enjoy! — Okay… I’m a bit late [...]
Continue ReadingFriday news roundup: Comic-Con parade in the works
And speaking of Comic-Con, a local politician has just thought of a way to make it even more exciting! Perhaps inspired by the Dragon*Con Parade, which marches through Atlanta and ends up on CNN every year, San Diego Council President Tony Young is suggesting aSan Diego Comic-Con parade , which, you know, really is a no-brainer of an idea. Even if you don't have a ticket, you could come out for the parade. However, Young does have a few vague notions about Con:
Continue ReadingFriday news roundup: SDCC announces 24 more guests
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAn additional 24 guests have been announced for the 2011 Comic-Con International: San Diego. You can see the whole list here. Special themes include fandom pioneers like Richard and Patty Lupoff and Richard Kyle, and Filipino comics — Alex Niño! Also, based on the headshots on the above page, an [...]
Continue ReadingFriday news roundup: Madden and Bendis teach
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet¶ Would you like to learn about comics from Matt Madden? Yes, you would. He’s teaching three courses this spring, including an Oubapo one at MoCCA, and two at SVA, one with Tom Hart. All courses are open to the public, and there’s a FREE open house which sounds killer: INFORMATION SESSION One [...]
Continue ReadingRequired reading: Comics as an information medium
Get out your grad school pants and sit down to read this vital paper: researchers Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer have written a paper called How Do People Tell Stories through Interactive Visualization which examines several modes of contemporary "charticle/infographic" information parsing, including comic strips. Enrico Bertini at Infosthetics writes:
Continue ReadingComics and GNs up in December, Marvel and DC split dollars and units
Diamond has released their December top sales charts, and they show comics and GNs rebounding a bit from a bleak November with comics up 2.58 percent, and GN sales up 5.76 percent. Year over year, GNs were up a remarkable 26.74 percent over December 2009 while comics sank 10 percent in units. Despite the gains, Q4 was a slight downer, with overall sales down 0.16 percent from Q3 BUT up 1.74 percent from Q4 2009.
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