Ware's 'Building Stories' Tops PW Comics World's 2012 Graphic Novel Critics' Poll

News Ware's 'Building Stories' Tops PW Comics World's 2012 Graphic Novel Critics' Poll File under the totally expected: Chris Ware's amazing Building Stories has topped the seventh annual PW Comics World Critics' Poll for best graphic novels of 2012. more Titan Books To Launch Titan Comics Imprint U.K. comics and pop culture publisher Titan Books is launching Titan Comics, a new comics and graphic novel imprint, featuring both original creator-owned material and classic reissues published as both monthly periodicals, complete and collected graphic novels and digital editions. Titan Comics will launch in July 2013 at the San Diego Comic-Con offering at least eight series this year including the first complete publication of The First Kingdom, Jack Katz's legendary 1970s epic sci-fi/fantasy graphic novel. more ShiftyLook Uses Free Web Comics and Games to Build an Audience The standard Web comics model is to post a comic for free and make money selling ads and related merchandise. That works fine for a handful of individual creators, but now the Japanese videogame giant Namco Bandai is giving the freemium model a try with their new Web comics site, ShiftyLook. more Remembering David: A Graphic Tribute: James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook It's been difficult at times, emotionally, to continue to revisit a good friend's death and have it in your life all the time," says Marguerite Van Cook, who, with her husband, James Romberger, created the graphic memoir 7 Miles a Second (Fantagraphics), about their friend, the late artist David Wojnarowicz. more Diamond Releases Top Graphic Novels Charts for 2012 Diamond Comics Distributors released its annual figures ranking the top performers in the direct market in 2012. more Lerner Names Karre, Hinz Interim Directors of Graphic Universe Lerner Publishing Group announced that Andrew Karre, editorial director of the Lerner imprints Carolrhoda Books and Darby Creek, and Carol Hinz, editorial director of Lerner's Millbrook Press, have been named interim co-directors of Graphic Universe, Lerner's graphic novel imprint. more Today's Job Grey House Publishing is seeking a Book Production Assistant. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. DC Comics Names Shelly Bond to Head Vertigo DC Entertainment has promoted longtime Vertigo editor Shelly Bond to executive editor of its Vertigo imprint, succeeding former senior v-p and executive editor Karen Berger, who is stepping down after directing Vertigo for nearly 20 years. DC has also promoted Will Dennis to group editor at Vertigo and Mark Doyle, who has been promoted to editor, Vertigo. All three have worked for years at Vertigo under the leadership of Berger and their appointments seem aimed to reassure fans and artists that Vertigo will have some level of editorial continuity. more Nobrow Press to Launch Children's Imprint in 2013 U.K.-based indie graphic novel publisher Nobrow Press is launching Flying Eye Books, a children's book imprint that will debut in the U.K. in February and in March in the U.S. "We've always been great fans of children's books," Nobrow's Sam Arthur says. "We felt that some of our Nobrow books could benefit from being part of a dedicated children's imprint. So with Flying Eye we would like to create the kind of books that inspired us as kids for our children's generation." more DC Comics Promotes Harras and Kanalz DC Entertainment has promoted Bob Harras to senior v-p, editor-in-chief, DC Comics and he will continue to over see all editorial operations at the comics house. In addition, Hank Kanalz, formerly senior v-p of digital at DC Comics, has been promoted to senior v-p of Vertigo and integrated publishing and will oversee the publishing operations of DC's Vertigo imprint in addition to continuing to manage DC Comics' digital publishing program. more New Wimpy Kid Crosses 1 Million Copies Sold Book seven of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, has passed the million mark in physical copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan. The book will end the year as the #6 bestselling book of the year, placing behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. more More To Come: The PW Comics World Podcast More To Come 40.2: 2012 Year-End Special, Part 2 In the second half of PW Comics World's Year-End Special podcast, the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the people that shaped the biggest comics news of 2012, the wackiest moments in comics and much more. More More To Come 40.1: 2012 Year-End Special, Part 1 In the first half of PW Comics World's Year-End Special podcast, the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the biggest comics news stories of 2012 from the diversifying impact of the digital boom to Image Comics' huge year and much more. More More To Come 39: Berger leaves Vertigo In this week's podcast the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss Karen Berger's departure from Vertigo and her storied career there, Image Comics' controversial decision not to reprint consistent bestsellers, Carol Burrell's Move to Abrams, Gail Simone's abrupt firing from Batgirl, Ditko's Spider-Man memories and much more on PWCW's More to Come. More Reviews Last Days of an Immortal Fabien Vehlmann and Gwen de Bonneval. Archaia Entertainment, $24.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-936393-44-2 Subtle, mature, and inventive, French team De Bonneval and Vehlmann deliver deliberate science fiction that evokes the classic books of the 1950s and 1960s, with a particular kinship to Michael Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time series. On the future Earth, populated by humans who choose to be immortal through cloning bodies and mirroring minds, the Philosophical Police are charged with ensuring that all the alien races around the universe figure out how to get along and not kill each other over misunderstandings of local customs. more Fairest, Vol. 1: Wide Awake Bill Willingham, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Matthew Sturges and Shawn McManus. DC/Vertigo, $14.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3550-5 This spinoff series of Fables, Willingham's hit fairy tales in the modern world saga, begins with an imaginative reinterpretation of the Sleeping Beauty story mixed with a second chance for one of the series' longest-running foes. This volume puts the focus on the many fair princesses and queens of Fables, beginning with a tale of Briar Rose being rescued from her magical slumber by the prince of thieves, Ali Baba. But Briar's returns also means the waking of the Snow Queen, the trusted lieutenant of the evil empire that Briar had been used, as a living weapon, to subdue. more Beta Testing the Apocalypse Tom Kaczynski. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (136p) ISBN 978-1-60699-541-9 Several of the pieces in this collection (many of which were originally published in MOME) amount to familiar meanderings about society as a construct, emotions as manufactured, and human beings as marionettes/husks manipulated by unseen and uncontrollable institutional forces. Other stories, such as "Music for Neanderthals," a satire of filmmakers and filmmaking, are hilariously sharp. Kaczynski's range is wide, and in these chronologically arranged stories, we can trace an artistic development that begins as self-satisfied (the earlier stories have a slight "know-it-all" flavor) and becomes more searching and curious (the final story, "The New," is an ambitious parable about corporate greed). I more Graphic Preview Panel Mania: 7 Miles a Second 7 Miles a Second was written by the legendary East Village artist David Wojnarowicz during the last years of his life before his AIDS related death in 1992. It was originally published by DC's Vertigo imprint in 1996 and follows his childhood hustling on the streets of Manhattan, through his adult life with AIDS, and his anger with the indifference of the government and health agencies. 7 Miles a Second is illustrated by James Romberger and colored by Marguerite Van Cook and will be released by Fantagraphics in February. The new edition offers new pages; it has been published in hardcover in the oversized format originally intended and Van Cook's original watercolors have been restored. more Panel Mania: Curses! Foiled Again Curses! Foiled Again is the sequel to Foiled (2010), written by the bestselling YA prose writer Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro. Aliera Carstairs is the hereditary defender of the fairy kingdom Seelie, which is under attack and only Aliera and her cousin Caroline can save it. Curses! Foiled Again was published by First Second in January. more Panel Mania: Wonder Woman Vol. 2 Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Guts collects the New 52 storyline of Wonder Woman. Hades kidnaps Zola and traps her in the underworld, and Wonder Woman, with the help of the God of Love and the God of Smiths, is determined to break her out. Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Guts is written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Cliff Chiang; it will be released by DC Comics on January 15. more Panel Mania: Northlanders Vol. 7 In Northlanders Vol. 7: The Icelandic Trilogy, writer Brian Wood weaves together the decades spanning crime drama of the Hauksson clan with Ulf Hauksson taking over his clan's settlement in a new land and a violent civil war years later. This is the final story arc in the series which explores the bloody origins of Iceland. Northlanders Vol. 7 is illustrated by Massimo Carnevale and will be released in January by Vertigo Comics. more	Comics Events Upcoming Comics Events 1/9 Brian Wood "Star Wars #1" Release Party and Trivia Game in New York, NY 1/12 Center for Cartoon Studies Portfolio Day at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA 1/18 Ryan Stegman Signs "Superior Spider-Man #1" in Orlando, FL more On Sale Calendar Cherubs (Dark Horse) Reset (Dark Horse) Wonder Woman Vol 2 Guts (DC) Ninjettes Vol. 1 (Dynamite) Popeye Vol 1 T (IDW) Guardians Of The Galaxy Tomorrows Avengers Vol 1 (Marvel) Oz Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz (Marvel) Harbinger 1 Omedga Rising (Valiant) Beta Testing The Apocalypse (Fantagraphics) Captain America Land Of The Free T(Marvel)

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