Tag: Archaia

Webcomic sensation Emily Carroll has joined the team on Spera, the graphic novel edition of a long-running online comic by Josh Tierney. Arachaia is publishing the print edition, which includes art by Kyla Vanderklugt, Hwei Lin Lim and Carroll.

Archaia is making some moves, both with a new distributor -- PGW -- and its first illustrated novel, strong>Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes. Buried in a PR on the Ape book is the news that Archaia is leaving Diamond for PGW, which already distributes Cartoon Books. PGW distributes over 100 independent publishers, so picking up a few GN publishers makes sense. And Archaia's new books-only plan is also a good bit for a books-only distributor.

While comics dealing with cancer have usually been true life tales -- Mom's Cancer or Our Cancer Year -- AN ELEGY FOR AMELIA JOHNSON takes a more unusual tack, following the two best friends of a dying woman — a slightly egotistical documentary director and a self-absorbed journalist -- as they journey to bring her last words to the people she cares about. But if you think this is going to be a weepy about a saintly sick person...you are wrong.

RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN is a very unusual-looking graphic novel by Jim McCann and Janet Lee that comes out later this year -- Lee's wooden board collage art has been quite a conversation topic on the convention circuit this year. Prior to the book's debut, McCann has released pin-up art; here's one by illustrator John Tyler Christopher.

The cover for RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN by Jim McCann and Janet Leehas just been released. If you've ever seen Lee's art in person, you know it is fantastic multi-level mixed media, created...

Panels on imprint, their Henson and Lucid projects and All Ages comics highlight the Archaia panels, and guests include Brian Froud and David Petersen.

Archaia Comics provided us with a list of their PCBD signings across the land: