Penguin Debuts InkLit Graphic Novel Line; Iverse Tries Crowdfunding

News Berkley Launching Graphic Novel Imprint, InkLit Penguin's Berkley/NAL division is starting a graphic novel line called InkLit which will do original titles as well as graphic adaptations of already-published prose works. InkLit will launch on October 2 with the release of Patricia Briggs's Alpha and Omega: Volume 1. Richard Johnson, who co-founded Yen Press and is a former v-p of trade book sales at DC Comics, will be overseeing the new imprint. more iVerse Unveils a Comics Crowdfunding Site and Enters the DRM-Free World New things are percolating at iVerse, the Waco, Tex., digital vendor behind the ComicsPlus digital comics app. iVerse is looking to steal some of Kickstarter's marketshare, as well as venture into DRM-free digital comics. ComicsAccelerator is the company's new crowdfunding play, a whole new platform for raising money specifically for comics-based projects. more Gary Panter's 'DalTokyo': Strip-Mining on Mars Considered one of the only true punk cartoonists, Gary Panter is a tremendously influential underground cartoonist best known for a ragged, aggressive line and the wildly imaginative formal experimentation in his Jimbo graphic novels. This month Fantagraphics Books will release DalTokyo, a serial comic strip first produced by Panter in the 1980s, now collected in a handsome, horizontal-format, oversized hardcover edition. more Abel and Madden Delve Further into "Mastering Comics" Mastering Comics by Matt Madden and Jessica Abel is an instructional book intended for people who already have a solid background in producing comics. Taken with their previous Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, they've created two invaluable textbooks for teaching comics creation. more Strong August at DC; New 'Earth One', 'Zero' Graphic Novels Coming DC Entertainment continued its strong showing in August, edging past Marvel for market share in retail dollar sales, while its Batman Earth One, a graphic novel that updates the superheroes origin story, marked its second month as the top selling graphic novel to comics shop retailers. DC Comics also plans to release a new Superman Earth One graphic novel in October, as well as book collections of its New 52 "Zero" issues by the end of the year and into 2013. more Carol Lay's Story Minute Strips Get a New Life in 'Illiterature' Since Carol Lay gave us The Big Skinny in 2008, a very funny account of her successful struggle to lose weight, the prolific creator has stayed largely out of the limelight in the publishing world. But in October she'll be back with Illiterature, a brand new trade paperback collection of her well-known Story Minute cartoons. more Today's Job Missouri State University is seeking a Director of the Bookstore. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. WonderCon Returns to Anaheim in 2013—but Could Go Back To the Bay Area, Too For months a huge question mark has loomed over the location of 2013's WonderCon, one of the largest comics conventions in the United States. In an exclusive interview with Comic-Con International's v-p of marketing and pr, David Glanzer, he revealed that the answer is Anaheim—but that could change, as Comic-Con International, the non-profit organization that runs the show, may still get dates in the fall for a Bay Area show. more Archaia, DBD Ink Graphic Novel Distribution Pact Graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment, publisher of 2012 Eisner Award winner Jim Henson's Tale of Sand, has reached an agreement to switch its domestic and international bookstore distribution to Diamond Book Distribution. DBD will take over backlist titles immediately and new Archaia titles will begin appearing in the DBD catalog beginning in February 2013. more Alex Segura Named Executive Director of Publicity at DC Comics Alex Segura, v-p publicity and marketing at Archie Comics, has been named executive director of publicity at DC Entertainment effective immediately. Segura has directed publicity and marketing at Archie since 2010 and returns to DC Comics where he was a publicity manager. more JManga Spinoff to Serve Fresh Manga Seven Days a Week The digital manga site JManga will launch a spinoff site in October that will serialize a number of manga series one chapter at a time, allowing readers to stay current with series and then purchase them as complete volumes on JManga. The new site, named JManga 7, will be updated seven days a week with new material. more Super Folk: Series Finales at Marvel, Image, Dynamite, Who's Back in the DCU, Spawn Gets Political This week in Super Folk, Publisher's Weekly's superhero news hub, series endings and beginnings at Dynamite, Marvel and Image, familiar faces return to the DC Universe, retailers ready for Uncanny Avengers launch, Spawn gets political and more. more How Affordable Color POD Could Change the Comics Industry Ingram's new, lower prices for color POD make short run printing very affordable and make a whole new range of options for distribution available for creators. POD is now profitable in almost all situations. more Taking on the Vote Armed with sarcasm and independence, journalist Greg Palast pounds the pavements of America like the hard-boiled PIs of pulp novels, searching for truth and justice. His practices are unconventional in today's journalism, not to mention in investigative reporting. Maybe that's why his books are bestsellers. His newest book is Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps (Seven Stories) with a 50-page comics section by Ted Rall. more Madefire Offers New Model for Digital Comics As comics move into new platforms and explore technological innovations, Madefire is one of the companies looking to push the envelope on comics as they offer an iPad app and comics by creators such as Dave Gibbons and Bill Sienkiewicz. more Super Folk: DC, Marvel at Fan Expo Canada, Image Free Digital #1s, Bryan Lee O'Malley This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's superhero news roundup, DC and Marvel news from Fan Expo Canada, Image and Comixology offer Free digital #1s, upcoming Image titles, Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley's new series, and more. more AMP! Adds Original Graphic Novel Series by Mark Tatulli Continuing their efforts in graphic novel publishing for kids, Andrews McMeel Publishing AMP! imprint has just signed a two-book deal with Mark Tatulli (Lio) for their first original graphic novel series. The Chronicles of Desmond will be published in October 2013 more More To Come: The PW Comics World Podcast More To Come 32 Part 2: The Jack Kirby Birthday Special In part 2 of this double-length podcast special, the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the creator rights struggles and legacy of Jack Kirby as well as their personal history with his works on what would have been the 95th birthday of the late, great Jack Kirby in this edition of PWCW. More More To Come 32 Part 1: The Jack Kirby Birthday Special In part 1 of this double-length podcast special, the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the art and career of the late, great Jack Kirby on what would have been his 95th birthday in this edition of PWCW's More to Come. More More To Come 31: In Memory of MoCCA and Joe Kubert In this week's podcast the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the late great Joe Kubert, the Society of Illustrator's acquisition of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon art, the advent and implications of cheap color print on demand, and much more on PWCW's More to Come. More Reviews Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics Margeet de Heer. NBM (www.nbmpubl.com), $16.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-56163-698-3 Former film student and theologian de Heer, already known for comics on subjects ranging from Buddhism to magic mushrooms, turns her gaze to Western philosophy. Beginning with a very general introduction to the topic, she fast-forwards through nearly 25 centuries of axiomatic reasoning, from Socrates, whose thoughts so endeared him to his fellow Athenians they made him drink poison; to the thinkers of post-Roman Europe, cunning but constrained by religion amid the ruins of a greater age; to Nietzsche, whose works fell victim after his death to editing by his anti-Semitic sister; more Taxes, The Tea Party, And Those Revolting Rebels Stan Mack. NBM (www.nbmpub.com), $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56163-697-6 This re-issue of cartoonist and social chronicler Mack's thoroughly researched 1994 history of the American Revolution offers a spectacular, unvarnished account that runs counter to the mythology-as-history often taught in American schools. Mack's re-telling avoids speechifying and presents realistic motivations for the rebels. It also manages to depict the towering figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other founding fathers as mere men, some of whom were not necessarily as commanding or even competent as legend would have it. more Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) Michael Goodwin and Dan E. Burr. Abrams Comic Arts, $19.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8839-2 Economics is terrifying. Even if one doesn't consider the bleak state of the current world economy, just attempting to create a mental picture of the complex systems of market forces, government agencies, and human psychologies that drive the economy can be like trying to visualize a map of the universe. But Goodwin and illustrator Burr argue that the economy is easy enough to understand if you break it down into bite-sized chunks, roughly the dimensions of a comic panel. They tell the story of the economy starting with its first documented examination by Adam Smith and working their way up to 2011. more Graphic Preview Panel Mania: Nao of Brown Nao Brown struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and urges to harm others. However, she wants to overcome these issues and get her design and illustration career off the ground. Her boyfriend dumps her, yet she meets a washing machine repairman and an art teacher at the Buddhist Center. The Nao of Brown is created by Glyn Dillon and will be released by SelfMadeHero, an imprint of Abrams in September. more Panel Mania: The Hive The Hive is the second volume of Charles Burns' new trilogy following X'ed Out. In Burns' latest nightmarish alternate reality world, Doug, the Tintin-like hero, seeks answers about the mysterious incident that shattered his life and about his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend and her menacing ex-boyfriend. The Hive will be released by Pantheon on October 9. more Panel Mania: Prince of Cats Prince of Cats is a hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in Brooklyn and focuses on Tybalt and his crew of Capulets as they battle the Montagues. Written and illustrated by Ronald Wimberly, Prince of Cats is written entirely in iambic pentameter. Prince of Cats will be released by Vertigo in comic stores on September 5th and in book stores on September 11 more Panel Mania: Saga Brian K. Vaughan, the writer of such acclaimed works as Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina, returns with a new series, Saga, the story of an unlikely couple, Marko and Alana, two soldiers on opposite sides of a never-ending intergalactic war who fall in love. Despite being hunted by their former comrades, Alana gives birth to a child and the couple bring a new fragile life into this dangerous universe. Illustrated by Fiona Staples, the first collected volume of Saga will be released by Image Comics on October 10. more	Comics Events Upcoming Comics Events 9/10 Raina Telgenmeier, Doug Tennapel and James Burks Discuss Graphic Novels in San Francisco 9/12 Greg Pak "Doctor Strange" Release with Signing and Discussion in New York 9/14-9/23 "Love & Rockets" 30th Anniversary Tour in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia & Brooklyn more On Sale Calendar Alien: The Illustrated Story (Titan) Aya: Life in Yop City (Drawn & Quarterly) A Chinese Life (Abrams) The Clockwork Sky, Vol. 1 (Tor) The Crackle of the Frost (Fantagraphics) Drops of God: New World (Vertical) Doctor Strange: Season One (Marvel) Girl Friends Vol.1 (Seven Seas) Ghost of D'Airain Aventure (IDW) Oreimo Vol. 1 (Dark Horse)

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