May we recommend: Magic Trixie
While Marvel and DC are apparently shipping enough comics to choke a rhino today, may we recommend the quality cartooning of Jill Thompson and...
BOOM! gets Disney, Archaia gets Henson
It looks like kids' comics licenses are the new hot thing, as two new licenses were revealed yesterday: BOOM! Studios will be picking up...
Nickelodeon Magazine folds
The Beat has confirmed an LA Times report that Nickelodeon Magazine, the last studio kids magazine, has been canceled:
Viacom is shutting down Nickelodeon Magazine...
FACTORING WITH MR. YANG AND MOSLEY THE ALIEN
Award-winning cartoonist Gene Luen Yang (AMERICAN BORN CHINESE) leads a double life: he's a teacher as well as a 'toonist. But he puts both...
Hugh Jackman goes to Ghostopolis
Hugh Jackman is joining the multi-comic club with a planned starring role in GHOSTOPOLIS, based on a graphic novel by Doug TenNapel. The book...
This weekend: Kids Comic Con
The annual event, focused on children's graphic book material and organized by Alex Simmons, comes to the Bronx tomorrow:
The KIDS COMIC CON 2009 is...
SALT WATER TAFFY goes online
We forgot to pot this news, but everyone else did, but it's still too good not to pass along: SALT WATER TAFFY, Matt Loux's...
First ever Nickelodeon Comics Awards winners announced
Wimpy Kid unsurprisingly won two of the inaugural Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards, but Naruto got beaten by Pokémon. The winners:
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Top GNs in bookstores
And in our final chart based item for the morning, ICv2 has released an adjusted list of the top-selling graphic novels of 2008, according...
NYCC: Archie Comics – #1821
Archie Comics was kind enough to send over their schedule for the show:
Stop by the Archie Comics booth #1821 and meet writers Misako Rocks!,...
WIMPY KID as popular as Obama?
Well, at least in NYC, as reported by Shelf Awareness:
Harry N. Abrams is off to a very muscular start in 2009. On Tuesday, the...
WIMPY KID phenomenon detailed
The New York Times looks at Jeff Kinney's "Wimpy Kid" blockbuster status:
The franchise has been a sleeper hit for Amulet Books, an imprint of...
