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 SXSW 2013: Marvel, Comixology and the Growth of Digital Comics Comics were easy to spot at this years SXSW with high profile appearances by Comixology and Marvel as well as cartoonists Matthew Inman delivering a keynote address and Ted Rall offering a short presentation on models of syndication for political cartoonists. more    SelfMadeHero Leading the New British Invasion of Graphic Novels Although it may not quite be the contemporary equivalent of the British Invasion, the UK graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero is certainly proof that the global comics market is growing in both size and range. Along with NoBrow and Blank Slate, and smaller publishers like Great Beast, SelfMadeHero is putting the UK indie graphic novel scene on the map. more  Make That Thing Offers Kickstarter Fulfillment and Management If you follow news surrounding crowdfunding, you'll likely have heard a story or two about a project getting funded and the creators getting absolutely overwhelmed trying to fulfill orders for several thousand people. There's a new company, Make That Thing, which aims to help creators navigate the crowdfunding scene and fulfill those pledge orders. more  Society of Illustrators Gives MoCCA, MoCCA Fest a New Start Annelle Miller, executive director of the Society of Illustrators talks to PW about taking over the The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and MoCCA Fest, its annual festival of indie comics. more  Comics Crowdfunding Picks Up In 2012 Crowdfunding was good to comics in 2012. Kickstarter reports 542 projects were funded out of 1,170 launched, for a success rate of 46.3%—the fifth highest category in terms of successful funding on Kickstarter. 34 of the top 35 most funded comics projects on Kickstarter were run from May through the end of the year. 35 Kickstarter projects had pledges of $50K or greater in 2012. more  Scholastic Grabs New Graphic Novels from Gownley, Sturm, Widjaja, Maihack Scholastic's Graphix imprint has acquired 5 new graphic novels from a variety of artists in a series of new deals negotiated with the Judy Hansen Literary Agency. The books are slated to be released beginning in 2014. more  Viz Launches Kids' Comics App with Pokemon Manga and More Manga publisher Viz rolled out a new digital comics service last week that takes advantage of the publisher's kid-friendly licensed properties—not all of them Japanese. The sticky DOT comics app (for the iPad and iPad Mini only, at least for the moment) is the first digital comics service to carry the Pokemon manga, and it also features several of the licensed graphic novels that Viz has been developing under its VizKids imprint. more
 More To Come 45.2: SXSW 2013 Special, Part 2 In the second half of PW Comics World's SXSW 2013 Special podcast, Calvin Reid has a special exclusive interview with Comixology's David Steinberger while Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons discuss newly announced books and the comics news of the day. More  More To Come 45.1: More To Come 45.1: SXSW 2013 Special, Part 1 In the first half of PW Comics World's SXSW 2013 Special podcast, the More to Come Crew - Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the new Comixology Submit, comics on the Kindle Fire, controversial decisions at DC Comics, Kickstarter's Sullivan's Sluggers controversy, Emerald City Comic Con and much more while Calvin Reid interviews Erin Polgreen of Symbolia. More
 Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes Matt Kindt. First Second, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59643-662-6 The unusual title might leave readers a bit unsure what to expect from the latest effort by Kindt (Revolver, Super Spy). As it turns out, however, the book is nothing short of exceptional. Featuring a series of what at first seem to be unrelated crimes that take place in the fictional town of Red Wheelbarrow, the narrative slowly begins to reveal that these strange offences are, in fact, connected. Detective Gould, the investigative genius of the story, must deal with (among other things) a compulsive chair hoarder, a brilliant art thief, and an elevator repairman with a disturbing penchant for photography; but he can never be sure who is ultimately behind the surge in criminal activity. more  Letting It Go Miriam Katin. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-77046-103-1 Animator Katin's incomparable graphic memoir, We Are On Our Own, followed her childhood flight across Hungary with her mother, fleeing the Nazis in the last days of World War II. In this, her long-awaited and only slightly lesser follow-up, we find Katin as a neurotic middle-aged procrastinator battling cockroaches and her husband's clarinet playing in their New York apartment. Their son Ilan has decided to move to Berlin and wants Miriam to use her Hungarian ancestry to help him apply for E.U. citizenship. more  The One Trick Rip-Off / Deep Cuts Paul Pope. Image, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60706-718-4 This collection of the earliest published works of Pope (Heavy Liquid, Batman 100) reveals a young cartoonist already "nearly fully formed." At 22, Pope's bravado was matched by an actual ability that is rare at that age. These short stories, which were created between 1993 and 1996, were created at the same time Pope's THB was capturing attention, and they highlight the confidence that he employed in his work. The offerings range from gritty slacker crime drama to mysterious illustrated poetry, as well as the comedic, girlie grossness of "Super Trouble," which may be the most successful story in the book, thanks to its mix of all the elements that define Pope. more  Hellraisers Hellraisers Robert Sellers and JAKe. Abrams/SelfMadeHero, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-906838-36-2 "If you're going to hear my confession," actor Richard Harris says to a hospital priest, "prepare to be here for days." He might well have been blurbing this graphic novel biography of Harris, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed—not only stars at the crest of 1960s British new-wave cinema, but fast-living, hard-partying icons of the decade. Sellers adapts his own prose celebrity biography of the same name into this graphic novel by enveloping it with the stars' cautionary Christmas Carol-style visitation to the fictional Martin, a serial drunk and rabble-rouser in the making. It's the adventures of Burton et al., however, that kick the narrative into bleakly hysterical and over-the-top sagas of extreme debauchery and decadence. more  Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume Two Michael Kupperman. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60699-615-7 "Some say the bathtub was invented in hell by the Devil himself! Others believe that it represents a subconscious desire of man to submerge himself in his own excrement." Welcome to "Scary Bathtub Stories" just one of the multiple worlds within this sidesplitting second collection of Kupperman's droll and imaginative satirical comics. While perhaps a teeny bit less revelatory than the first volume, there's plenty of fun, as with "Saint Peter Comics"—he teams up with Quincy, M.E.—or the ongoing adventures of Mark Twain and Albert Einstein, drawn to look nearly identical, who venture into space only to have to fight pesky ghosts in their spaceship. more
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3/15-3/17 MegaCon 2013 in Orlando, FL 3/16 New Narrative Art Exhibit with Lilli Carre and Craig Thompson in San Francisco, CA 3/29 Becky Cloonan "Demo Vol. 2" Discussion and Signing in New York, NY
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