NYCC Announcements: Yen Press Adapts NYT YA Bestsellers
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYen Press has announced two manga style adaptations of bestselling YA novels: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Chronicles of Nick and Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices trilogy. HyeKyung Baek is attached to The Infernal Devices as artist. Both series will initially be serialized online at Yen Plus before graduating to a print edition. Does “online serial followed [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC Announcements: Viz Takes Shonen Jump Digital, Syncs Closer to Japanese Original
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis is interesting. Viz is migrating Shonen Jump to a digital edition that’s only 2 weeks removed from the Japanese original. (And you can probably chalk that up to translation time.) They’re on the library model for this. Full access annual subscription or $0.99 4-week rental. The annual access subscription comes [...]
Continue ReadingWebcomic Alert: SUPERMAKER
Andrew Drilon, a Filipino artist best known for Kare Kare Kamix, a daring experimental webcomic, is back with SUPERMAKER at Top Shelf 2.0. It's an excellent metafictional play on the crisis era of comics. Even if you don't like superheroes, keep clicking!
Continue ReadingWebcomic Alert: Kittens Everywhere
a New episode of EVEYRYWHERE by Chris Miskiewicz and Maurice Fontenot, and co-starring the UK band Big Linda as they try to get to their hotel after a gig only to find that the streets of London are filled with millions of cute, adorable kittens. To us, kittens everywhere sounds like some kind of porno film, but it could conceivably be a traffic hazard as well.
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: Outfoxed by Dylan Meconis
A lovely piece of folklore, featuring a fox, naturally.
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Webcomic alert: Zubkavich’s MAKESHIFT MIRACLE returns
Ten years ago seems like a century in webcomics terms. Jim Zubkavich's MAKESHIFT MIRACLE first ran from Sept 2001 - March 2003. At the time, Scott McCloud noted that it was one of the first graphic novels ever serialized online and completed. But now it's back, in a new version of the story, which Zubkavich describes as "a modern surreal coming of age story. Sandman by way of Stand By Me," with art by Shun Hong Chan. The strip updates Mondays and Fridays, and will eventually be collected in print by UDON -- because now the web-to-print method is industry standard. A lot changes in 10 years.
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: The Last Mortician by Haspiel and Hall
Tor.com has been putting out some interesting comics works over the last few years, with some of their webcomics now going to print. Here's a new one: The Last Mortician:
Continue ReadingDigital Comics Alert: The Zen Of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the legendary guru/CEO of Apple, has had a very interesting life -- one that could easily have been imagined by a fiction writer, and writer Caleb Melby is turning his early years into a graphic novel with art by interactive agency JESS3. It's kind of like a real life Batman Begins, with Jobs going to the Far East to meet Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist priest following his removal from Apple.
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: “Sick,” parts 1-6 by Gabby Schulz
It's not finished....and it's not exactly a feel good tale for the weekend, but this streaming comic is by Gabby "Ken Dahl" Schulz 1. a fantastic example of how to make the scrolling format comic work 2. incredibly powerful and vividly drawn 3. a great reminder that the "uninsured guy who is deathly ill" that the crowd at the Republican debate on Monday wants to see die might be Gabby Schulz. Fuckers.
Continue ReadingScott Kurtz on digital and retailing
Meanwhile, PvP's Scott Kurtz retells a story of Twitter, a digital download, and a pissed off retailer, which leads to more thoughts on selling and buying:
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: Scott Morse and Skottie Young launch something
Scott Morse and Skottie Young have been doing a gorgeous sketchblog for a while, and now it's morphed into a webcomic abuot the adventures of two creatures named Asher and Spittle. The strip itself has no name. But it will be well-drawn.
Continue ReadingIrene-watch: Stuck inside? Read some comics!
With some 65 million Americans stuck inside this weekend due to the potentially devastating hurricane, what are you supposed to do but read some comics! While paper-based products will be the most useful if the power goes out, if you want to burn a few pixels, there are tons of great comics online to keep you busy.
Continue ReadingWebcomic Watch: Una the Blade
It hasn't really started yet, but Una the Blade is a new webcomic about a single mom barbarian fighter by Steve LeCouilliard, Xeric-winning cartoonist of Much the Miller's Son. Kinda looks like Lone Sonja and Cub from the development art -- promising!
Continue ReadingMany more endings for Laika
This is so cool. Nick Abadzis writes to remind us that his strips for the 25th Anniversary of Big Planet Comics has ended: a series of gorgeous alternate endings to his GN LAIKA, about the dog who went into space ... and never came back. Four strips are up here, with tributes to "Stan and Jack (Stan referring to both the Man and Kubrick), and several iterations of how the story could've turned out." The final episode definitely calls out for a sequel/spin-off.
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