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Tweet Parker Adair was a guest columnist here last year, covering C2E2 as a first-time convention-goer. This year, the planned nuptials prevented a return visit, but instead, they celebrated their union on Free Comic Book Day. (Easy for me to remember!) Yes, the couple are bonafide geeks, as was proven when the wedding party made a stop [...]
TweetAnd here’s the last of the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2013! Hard to believe the first FCBD in 2002 had only four titles! ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— KELLERMAN L’AMOUR SAMPLER Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE (W) Jonathan Kellerman & Various (A) Tom Yeates, Michael Gaydos Kellerman / L’Amour features thrilling excerpts from 2 of the Random House Publishing Group’s [...]
Tweet52 titles. Hundreds of fans and curious onlookers. A plethora of four-color enjoyment. What to grab, what to leave left behind this Free Comic Book Day 2013? And what extra titles should you grab for those who are fans of movie and television properties, but didn’t realize there were new stories being published in comics? [...]
TweetYes, there are 52 comics being offered this Saturday! (Collect them all!) Some of them are from well-known publishers and characters, others are a bit obscure. Since most stores limit how many comics you can grab, I’ve compiled a list in three parts, with simple reviews. Here’s the first, featuring the Gold sponsors, which are [...]
TweetThis year, publishers have distributed fifty-two titles for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday. While it is not uncommon for many comics shops to order all of the titles, it is becoming common that most comics shops anticipate large crowds of customers. While this is a good thing, it means that the stores must limit the [...]
TweetOnce again, it’s that time of year again! Sports geeks speculate who will make the Big Dance, who got snubbed, and who will be the Cinderella Team this year. Billions of dollars are wagered on the outcomes, as casual fans contemplate the 68 teams and fill out numerous brackets. It’s not uncommon among comics fans [...]
TweetSo, once again, Hollywood confabulates and celebrates the best of motion picture arts and sciences tonight, at the 85th Academy Awards. Among the many awards will be two showcasing the best in animation: Animated Feature Film and Short Film Animated. Many people have seen the feature films (or had a chance to…dunno how many actually [...]
TweetMarvel recently announced their titles for Summer 2013. The list of titles is mostly Marvel Now titles, as the automatic schedule of new titles finally overlaps with last Fall’s launch/rearrangement of Marvel’s superhero titles. Also included are tie-ins to the blockbuster release of Iron Man 3 (as seen in the first title below), as well [...]
TweetEver since Diamond announced their Diamond Digital initiative, allowing comics shops to sell digital comics to customers, I’ve been wondering about the future of comics retailing, specifically, How well do comics shops market their stores online?
Tweet Before “meta” was physical, before Modernism became Posted, before Art Popped, cartoonists drew stories about cartoonists and cartooning! Some of it was autobiographical (or possibly semi-auto… I doubt Milt Gross almost became Batman!), some of it was pure fantasy. (The pygmalian dream of a drawing come to life is represented twice in this volume, [...]
TweetEvery week, the New York Times runs bestseller listings, which include “Graphic Books”. There’s a listing for Hardcover, Paperback, and Manga titles. The Times dates the charts a week ahead of publication, while tabulating titles a week behind. That means that the chart from January 1, 2012 “reflects sales for the week ending December 17, [...]
TweetWhen the New York Times first started their “graphic books” bestseller lists, they included one for manga. Why manga? Why not one for superheroes, or comic strips, or any other segment of graphic novels?
TweetDAN SLOTT! Way back in 1993, circa January, Dan Slott was a journeyman comics writer, toiling away writing stories about Marlin T. Höek and Stimpson J. Cat. While the meddlesome meddling of the corporate overlords of Nickelodeon eventually convinced Mr. Slott to explore creative opportunities elsewhere (writing a character with long green hair, for example), he [...]
TweetSo as the new year approaches, I continue my look back at the graphic novels which made the New York Times bestseller lists in 2012.
TweetAs the end of the year approaches, it is commonplace to take a look back at the year, see where we’ve been, and if it foretells anything for the year ahead. I’m a bookseller and librarian, and this past year saw a continuing growth of comics in bookstores and specialty shops. The New York Times [...]
TweetHe was created by a cartoonist who was (in)famous for his pornographic comics, and written by a noted underground cartoonist (and later drawn by another! And then another!). He’s one of the few iconic advertising candy characters, and along with Twinkies, one of the few brands to use comics to sell the product. He’s known world-wide, [...]
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