New York Comic Con Gets Bigger; Marvel's Untold Story Gets Told

News New York Comic-Con gets bigger Comic conventions have become the circus of the Internet era, and the circus is coming to town: New York Comic-Con, the second largest nerdapalooza in North America, will be held October 11–14 in New York's Javits Center. more Tr!ckster Settles in Berkeley Following a successful run as a pop-up store, Tr!ckster is opening a permanent base in Berkeley. more ICv2 Conference Kicks Off New York Comic Con This year's New York Comic Con will kick off next week at the Javits Center on Wednesday, October 10, with the ICv2 Conference on Comics and Digital II, a gathering of top executives in the comics and pop culture industries. more Marvel Smash! Sean Howe on Marvel's Hectic History of Heroes Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story separates fact from fiction and controversy from concord in charting the history of the company that has risen from the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to creating billion dollar franchises for Disney. more A Life in A Box: Invention, Clarity and Meaning in Chris Ware's 'Building Stories' Chris Ware, the author of Building Stories, a new graphic novel to be published by Pantheon in October, is likely the most famous literary comics artist—graphic novelist if you prefer—that isn't Art Spiegelman. He is the author of such works as The Acme Novelity Library, a critcally acclaimed continuing series of hardcover graphic anthologies he often uses to introduce characters and stories that eventually evolve into larger standalone graphic novels. He also the author of the equally critically acclaimed 2000 graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). Both Acme Novelty Library and Jimmy Corrigan have received numerous prizes and awards including winning Eisner awards, the National Book Awards of the comics industry. more Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel Produced over the course of nine years of research, writing, and drawing, Sailor Twain, the story of mysterious doings on a 19th-century steamboat plying the Hudson River, is a debut graphic novel by Mark Seigel, author of graphic nonfiction as well as children's books, and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan's graphic novel imprint. more How 'A Wrinkle in Time' Was Made Into a Graphic Novel Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most beloved children's books out there. The editor and illustrator of A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Ferguson and Hope Larson, shared their thoughts on adapting the classic and its enduring message. more Comixology Drives the E-comics Market Comixology, a digital comics distributor and marketplace, marks its fifth anniversary this year as it emerges as the clear leader in the digital comics space. The company's Guided View technology, a much imitated function on its Comics by Comixology app, which allows readers to read digital comics easily on mobile devices, is widely available across all platforms, including iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and the Web. The company has also made strategic deals with most of the comics industry's heavyweight publishers, including Marvel, DC, and Image, to help it attain a market share that significantly dwarfs the efforts of its competitors, such as iVerse and Panelfly. more PW Announces Webcast on How Comics are Evolving in the Digital World PW looks at how digital is shaping the future of comics in the latest PW webcast. On October 30th join Publishers Weekly Senior News Editor Calvin Reid as he hosts a panel of industry experts from Ingram, Graphic Universe, Viz Media and Papercutz to explore the future of comics and graphic novels. more Today's Job Western Independent Rep Group is seeking a Publishers Rep - Southern California. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. Archie Comics Names Adam Tracey Director of Publicity, Marketing Archie Comics has named Adam Tracey, director of publicity and marketing, replacing Alex Segura, who left the company recently to return to DC Comics. Tracey previously managed editorial for ToyFare magazine and has directed programming for Wizard World Conventions. more SPX Smashes Sales Records The biggest Small Press Expo ever was hailed as one of the most profitable as well, with sales of indie and literary comics smashing records across the board. Held this past weekend in North Bethesda, MD, the 2012 edition of SPX was billed as a never before seen meeting of six of literary comics' greatest figures. more More To Come: The PW Comics World Podcast More To Come 33: Amazon Gets In The Game In this week's podcast the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss Amazon and Penguin entering comics publishing, Jim Starlin's rights deal with Marvel Studios, Dave Sim's publishing woes and much more on PWCW's More to Come. More Reviews Saga, Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Image (Diamond, dist.), $9.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-60706-601-9 Eisner-winner Vaughan (Y the Last Man) teams up with veteran illustrator Staples (North 40) in the epic, galaxy-spanning war story of a star-crossed couple protecting their infant daughter. The story opens with the narrator's birth, in the middle of a machine shop on a war-torn planet. Her parents, Alana, a winged soldier from the planet Landfall, and Marko, a horned former prisoner of war from Landfall's moon, have been on the run from both of their militaries. more The Voyeurs Gabrielle Bell. Uncivilized Books (www.uncivilizedbooks.com), $24.95 (156p) ISBN 978-0-9846814-0-2 Autobiographical cartoonist Bell combines comic charm, obsessive self-examination, and an oddly entertaining touch of self-pity ("I've pretty much spent my life trying to be a cartoonist, and what do I have to show for it? A wikipedia page and arrested development") in a new series of full-color vignettes that document her life as part of a free-floating community of indie comics artists drifting between the neighborhood bars of Brooklyn and L.A. and an international and domestic circuit of comics conventions. Add to those attributes a vividly depicted sense of the surreal, evoked through a methodical six-panel-a-page grid and panels crowded with Bell's whiny (but funny) self-critical text and detailed, stylishly schematic drawings of her life, lovers, friends and neurotic obsessions. more Graphic Preview Panel Mania: August Moon In the town of Calico, the townspeople believe you can see the "Soul Fires" of the dead in the night sky. When young Fiona Gan and her father move to the town, she discovers the depths of the town's mysteries including a boy who claims to be from the moon and a rabbit creature in an alley. However, as the Soul Fire festival approaches, a creepy corporation starts to bulldoze the nearby forests. August Moon is written and drawn by Diana Thung and will be released by Top Shelf in October. more	Comics Events Upcoming Comics Events 10/11-10/14 New York Comic Con in New York, NY 10/13 Charlie Adlard's Walking Dead Party and Gallery Show in Portland, OR 10/17 Ex Sanguine Release Event with Tim Seeley and Josh Emmons in Chicago, IL more On Sale Calendar Adventure Time Vol. 1 (Boom!) Barbara by Osamu Tezuka (DMP) Blood Crime (Del Rey) Death Deluxe Edition (DC Comics) The Great Showdowns (Titan Books) The Hive (Pantheon) How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You (Andrews McMeel) Legends of the Dark Knight: Alan Davis (DC) Love and Rockets New Stories Vol. 5 (Fantagraphics) Saga Vol. 1 (Image)

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