Today’s digital comics bestsellers — UPDATED
What's selling at the various comics apps -- both standalone and publisher-centric? It's easy to find out. METHODOLOGY: These charts are from the iTunes app store; every app has a "Top In App Purchases" list which is where I got these from. I don't know how they're compiled, but I'd guess live updating, so these really show only best sellers at THAT MOMENT. However, I do check these fairly regularly, and they are pretty stable, even if a sudden spike would be missed by random checks.
Continue ReadingDigital sales figures: a comparison
In a CBS survey of DC's tack to the digital winds, some more sales metrics trickle out:
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Preview: THE BIG LIE #1
While the re-you-know-what by you-know-who has been sucking all the air and dollars out of the room, there are lots of other great comics on sale from other publishers this month, and it's high time to get back to previewing them. One such book is THE BIG LIE #1 by Rick Veitch and Gary Ersksine, a highly provocative book about a woman who goes back in time to rescue her husband from the destruction of the World Trade Center. Along the way she uncovers some startling questions. Creator Veitch says he's not a Truther -- as are those who believe the 9/11 attacks were a government conspiracy -- but as in this Huffington Post interview he believes in skepticism:
Continue ReadingR. Kikuo Johnson is back
After a spectacular debut graphic novel in 2005, Night Fisher, cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson has kinda kept a low profile, at least on the comics front, while staying very busy with illustration work. But he just launched a new website that includes news of a new children's book, The Shark King, which will be published next year by Toon Books. Preview here.
Continue ReadingTop Shelf announces $3 sale
Want some great full length comics for the price of a single comic? TopShelf is having a ginormous sale. The pr makes it clear that this is a "kickstarter" campaign for next year's publishing schedule so let's support this.
Continue ReadingBrooklyn Book Festival announces comics programming
The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York's biggest public book event of the year, and it's always had some comics programming -- however this year's edition, which takes place Sunday, September 18th at Brooklyn Borough Hall, is blowing off the hinges with appearances by Kate Beaton, Dean Haspiel, Michael Kupperman, Keith Knight, Ted Rall, David Shrigley, Sarah Glidden, Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Hayden, GB Tran, Dave Roman, Laura Lee Gulledge, Nick Bertozzi, Hillary Chute, and Steven Weinberg. Instead of being confined to only comics events, graphic novelists are taking part in panels with non-comics writers. I'm moderating the humor panel with Kate Beaton, Michael Kupperman, Keith Knight, and Jennifer Hayden -- oh boy!
Continue ReadingBoom! editor Ian Brill returns to writing
Boom! editor Ian Brill, who spearheaded much of that line's Disney relaunch, including writing titles like DARKWING DUCK, is leaving the editor's chair to concentrate on writing, as he reveals in his new Tumblr blog:
Continue ReadingDiesel drops some info on Riddick 3
Vin Diesel has taken to Facebook (irony alert) to offer some morsels and concept art on a third outing for Riddick, his SF saga character. Although a lot of people liked the first action flick PITCH BLACK, an equal number disliked the trippy sequel, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, which introduced air fairies, revolutions, bounty hunters, Lady Macbeth, Necromongers, and all sorts of other weird shit. Although considered an underperformer when it opened, it's gained a cult following on the internet -- and at Stately Beat Manor -- via two successful video games, and a new edition would be much welcomed here.
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Snuffy Smith and others remember Sept. 11
As you may not have noticed, the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks falls on a Sunday and so more than 90 Sunday strip cartoonists will be marking the occasion.
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Read Taiyo Matsumoto’s No. 5 on iPad
Taiyo Matsumoto is a groundbreaking manga-ka whose Tekkon Kinkreet is one of the most striking works of its time. But he has a whole body of remarkable work, which Chris Butcher introduces for you here along with an interview with the man himself.
Continue ReadingIs Comic-Con turning into Stalker Con?
I never got around to writing a big meta post about this year's San Diego, but one of the things I would have written about is the increasing frenzy over celebrity spotting. I was reminded of this by a content farm post I cane across entitled The best place to meet celebs at San Diego Comic-Con:
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