2006 Day Prize finalists announced
The finalists for the 2006 Day Awards, a small press award sponsored by SPACE, with nominees and winners chosen by Dave Sim and Gerhard,...
Personnel moves
§ Ruwan Jayatilleke has been upped to Vice President of Development, Publishing at Marvel. Congrats, Ruwan.
§ Viz announced a new VP of Content...
ALA lists Best Books for Young Adults
The Final YALSA list of top books for teens for 2007 is up, and there are several graphic novels in the list. We'll let...
DC News & Notes: Minx, FCBD
DC announces a returnability program in the direct sales market for THE PLAIN JANES, the debut book in the MINX launch:
With this month's solicitation...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales — December 2006
By Paul O'Brien
CIVIL WAR is still going, but with the core title running late (because you demanded it), and many of the crossover...
Nerd gets six Oscar® noms
The Academy Award noms are in and Guillermo Del Toro will henceforth be known as "Oscar® nominated del Toro" in the halls of Comic-con....
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE wins award
Let's face it, 2006 was the year of FUN HOME and AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, both of them smashing through all genre barriers to announce...WIN!...
Debbie Huey spotlighted at museum
Via LJ:
Beginning on February 17, 2007, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Debbie Huey.Debbie Huey is the...
Running gags: HOBBIT, Owen
Okay, okay. We have our little non-comics related fetishes. Can you stand them? We think you can. But we have been covering the following...
Bitpass closes
Do you remember micropayments? Well, if you ever listened to Scott McCloud in the 90s you do. Micropayments were the idea that you could...
Manga corner: mini Tezuka. manga costs, etc.
§ MangaCast has news of SegaToys plans to reproduce 400 mini-manga collecting the works of Osamu Tezuka:
The books are truly mini in every sense...
Avatar Press Names David Marks as Marketing Director
Avatar Press has been around for a long time, and published work by folks like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis and more --...
