Manga/Graphic Novels
| Stan Lee to create three new superhero comic series for BOOM! Studios | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 2, 2010 |
| Stan Lee is creating three new superhero comic series which BOOM! Studios will publish, starting later this year... | |
| Batman's comic debut eclipses Superman's recently set price standard | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 26, 2010 |
 Like Superman earlier this week, the debut comic of Batman sold for more than $1 million, breaking his stable-mate's record...
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| Superman's debut sells for ten million times cover price | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 23, 2010 |
 A Very Fine copy of Superman's debut, in Action Comics #1, sold for a record-shattering $1 million...
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| Main Enterprises bringing back the complete Holiday Out | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 22, 2010 |
 The complete run of the 1980s' satiric comic strip Holiday Out is finally to be available in a series of collections from Main Enterprises...
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| Screenwriter Scott Milam writing comic for Arcada | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | January 28, 2010 |
| Screenwriter Scott Milam is developing a new comic book for Arcana Studios. Killing Machine takes pieces from The Six Million Dollar Man and Taken... | |
| Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper | |
| News > Subsidiary Rights | January 22, 2010 |
| Sookie Stackhouse coming in limited leatherbound edition, book club edition, and audio books, while Harper Connelly will be graphically adapted... | |
| Young Kim's graphic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight coming | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | January 20, 2010 |
 Yen Press's graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, by Young Kim, will publish with a 350,000-copy first printing this March...
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| Zack Whedon to write new six-issue Terminator comic for Dark Horse | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | November 24, 2009 |
| Dark Horse Comics' new Terminator series, written by Zack Whedon, will follow Kyle Reese in the Resistance, before he becomes the father of the future... | |
| Del Rey to serialize Stephen King & Peter Straub's The Talisman as a comic book | |
| News > Subsidiary Rights | November 10, 2009 |
 Del Rey's comics imprint debuts with a 24-issue serialization of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman...
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| Bluewater Productions will turn S.E. Hinton's novels into graphic novels | |
| News > Republication | November 3, 2009 |
| S.E. Hinton's Taming of the Star Runner and The Puppy Sister will be the first of her books to become graphic novels, but she'll also be writing a new YA title exclusively for Bluewater Productions under the deal... | |
| Two new Radical comics: Aladdin and Legends | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | October 30, 2009 |
  Radical Comics is debuting two new series in January: Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost will be a three-volume series, while Legends: The Enchanted Issue will be an abbreviated comic book introduction...
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| Greg Sadowski to produce six collections of classic comic material for Fantagraphics | |
| News > Book & Novel Sales | October 28, 2009 |
 Former Fantagraphics editor (and now freelancer) Greg Sadowski will produce a six-volume series of classic comic book material, focusing on early horror...
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| Studio 407 Comics to be available for iPhone via Comics by comiXology | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | October 22, 2009 |
 Indy comics publisher Studio 407 Comics has signed a distribution deal with comiXology to make three of their titles available through the Comics by comiXology app for the iPhone...
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| Indy Comic Book Week to take over otherwise vacant December week | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | October 15, 2009 |
| Indy Comic Book Week aims to take the new release slots in Comic Shops nationwide at the end of December, when Diamond Comic Distributors takes the week off for the mainstream titles... | |
| Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead appearing in "director's cut" hardcover edition | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | September 25, 2009 |
 Radical Publishing is producing a "director's cut" hardcover edition of the first four issues of Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead. The series follows detective exorcist Alice Hotwire, and this new version includes new pages, art...
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| San Jose's Winchester Mansion to be the setting for SLG's new comic | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | September 22, 2009 |
 SLG's new comic series, Winchester, will feature the odd mansion in San Jose, California, its owner/builder Sarah Winchester, and the ghost of Harry Houdini...
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| Warner Brothers makes DC Comics its own division, with eyes to expansion | |
| News > Publishers | September 9, 2009 |
| Corporate parent Warner Brothers has recreated DC Comics as its own division, to be called DC Entertainment, to be presided over by Warner insider Diane Nelson, while current President Paul Levitz returns to the creative side... | |
| Disney to buy Marvel, moving the superheroes into the House the Mouse Built | |
| News > Publishers | August 31, 2009 |
| Mickey Mouse in a cape? Swing with Spider-Man above Main Street USA? Probably not, but with the Walt Disney Company's announced acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, some unexpected synergies are sure to emerge... | |
| Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee follows messengers across a dark steampunk landscape | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | August 24, 2009 |
 VIZ Media will publish Horoyuki Asada's Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee in North America. In the steampunk/action manga storyline, messenger risk their lives crossing a pitch-black wilderness infested with Gaichuu...
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| One-shot comic Deadlocke ties in with Christopher Krovatin's Venomous | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | August 24, 2009 |
 Christopher Krovatin's new YA novel Venomous is the basis for a feature film now in pre-production, following a young man's struggle with the dark comic character taking over his life. Now Dark Horse is publishing a comic tie-in called Deadlocke...
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| 2009 Eisner Award Winners | |
| News > Awards | July 28, 2009 |
 This year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Award winners were announced at the San Diego Comic-Con. The winners in 26 categories, plus the Hall of Fame inductees, are...
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| Del Rey to graphically adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | |
| News > Subsidiary Rights | July 28, 2009 |
 Del Rey is going to publish a graphic novel adaptation of the unexpectedly best-selling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, to be written by Tony Lee and illustrated by Cliff Richards...
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| Len Wiseman signs to direct film adaptation of Shrapnel | |
| News > Film & Television | July 23, 2009 |
 Len Wiseman, who most recently directed Live Free or Die Hard, will direct and produce the live-action adaptation of Mark Long and Nick Sagan's comic miniseries Shrapnel...
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| Comics Journal #299 to tell the story of the greatest comic book that never was | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | July 21, 2009 |
 The August 2009 issue of The Comics Journal will feature an in-depth interview and retrospective of Michel Choquette's planned-but-never-finished comics anthology that, in 1970, was to be the greatest review of the 1960s...
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| Comic series Vincent Price Presents to be trade paperback collection | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | July 16, 2009 |
 Bluewater Productions' Vincent Price Presents monthly anthology comic has garnered enough attention to warrant a trade paperback collection of the spooky stories...
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