Chicago academic conference lines up biggest names in comics
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Mellon Residential Fellowship Program for Arts Practice…
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Bill Amend talks about self publishing for iPad
FoxTrot Pad Packs FoxTrot creator Bill Amend recently released three short ebooks with about 100 curated FoxTrot strips through the…
Using iBooks Author to create comics collection
Andertoons’ Mark Anderson takes a look at the newly released iBooks Author software from Apple as a way of creating…
Wimpy Kid sues Zombie Kid
Reuters reports that Wimpy Kid, Inc. (Jeff Kinney owned entity that holds the Wimpy Kid copyrights) is suing Antarctic Press…
Profiled: Shannon Wheeler
Tim O’Shea talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler to talk about the various projects he’s released including…
Fantagraphics offers rarities with book purchases
From Fantagraphics Books: We are always grateful to readers who buy books directly from us, so we are pleased to…
Jeff Kinney: a failure for not getting into newspapers
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiled Jeff Kinney about the success of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I think this…
Tom Richmond on why he did self-publishing
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond recently released his new book The Mad Art of Caricature!. It’s a…
New Dr. Suess collection of ‘lost’ stories hitting bookstores
Cory Doctrow over at Boing Boing writes about a new collection of lost, unpublished or early work for Dr. Suess…
Shel Silverstein family to print new collection of unprinted poems, cartoons
Beloved children’s book writer, illustrator Shel Silverstein passed away 1999, but his family is releasing a new book of previously…
Borders to shutter doors for good
From the Wall Street Journal: Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to…
JK Rowling to release ebooks without publisher
There’s a big announcement from Harry Potter author JK Rowling today and quite honestly the scope of everything she’s doing…
Mr. Media interviews Ivan Brunetti
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has posted an interview with Ivan Brunetti, author of the new book, “Cartooning: Philosophy and…
Amazon selling more e-books than paperbacks now
Another sign in the digital shift. Amazon announced during its earnings call that for the first time, it now sells…
Profiled: Jeff Kinney and the impact of Wimpy Kid
Parade Magazine put “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” creator Jeff Kinney on the cover of Parade Magazine and profiled inside…