Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time, Mercury) will be writing a new comic called Goldie Vance. Brittney Williams (who drew the Hellcat relaunch for Marvel) will illustrate the story, about a 16-year-old in the 1960s who wants to become the full-time in-house detective at her father’s Florida resort hotel. Goldie Vance will launch from Boom! in April as a four-issue miniseries. From the interview linked above, it’s clear that this was an editorially-driven project, with Williams and Larson recruited to […]

Toon Books, publisher of elegant hardcover comics for early readers, has announced their five titles coming this spring. The first three are Level 1, which means they’re aimed at kindergarten through first grade readers. The title links go to the publisher’s website, which has preview pages for each. Kevin McCloskey follows up his amusing and educational We Dig Worms! with The Real Poop on Pigeons. It will be out April 19. Just who’s cooing outside? Did you know pigeons can […]

Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie is an excellent case study of the different options over the years for publishing webcomics as the industry (and audience) has changed. There were some early self-published editions, then There Are No Stars in Brooklyn came out from Villard, an imprint of Random House, in 2010. Big book publishers were eager to get in on the graphic novel boom during a time when more traditional lines were struggling, and comics showed huge growth potential. Only the […]

The latest issue of Comic Book Creator, #10, has a couple of interesting announcements tucked in amongst editorial comments. Under the theory that good journalism doesn’t date, I assume, the TwoMorrows publication will be running several pieces planned for magazines no longer with us. The first comment comes in the opening editor’s note. Jon B. Cooke confirms that his 2015 new periodical launch, ACE, All Comics Evaluated, is defunct. As he puts it, it “suffered from low order numbers that […]

I edited my first podcast! While traveling from Virginia back to Wisconsin after the holidays, KC and I stopped off to have lunch with old buddy and comics maven Beau Smith. KC asked him some questions about his creation Wynonna Earp, soon to be a TV show, I recorded them, and the result became a 16-minute audio interview. Find out more at KC’s latest Westfield column, where you can listen to the two of them.

It’s just past Christmas, so time to get people to spend those gift cards! Amazon sent out an email this morning promoting Graphic Novels, and I found their organizational system fascinating. There were six categories listed: Media Tie-In Graphic Novels Religion & Spirituality Graphic Novels Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels Contemporary Women Graphic Novels Romance Graphic Novels Literary Graphic Novels All the superhero, zombie, or science fiction stories lumped into only one “tie-in” category! And that fourth category is a […]

According to a brief mention in Publishers Weekly, Alison Wilgus, author of A Stray in the Woods and Apartment Hunting, will be publishing a new graphic novel called Chronin with Tor. The book is described as “a science fiction historical adventure about a college student named Mirai Yoshida who winds up stranded in 1864 Japan after a project for her time travel–studies class goes awry.” It’s the first book in a two-book deal. Sounds like a great concept — congrats, […]

I first read Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check! when it was a comic book series back in 1997, written by Rikki Simons and illustrated by Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons. (It was self-published, then it ran 12 color issues from Sirius Entertainment.) It’s the story, set in the then-future of 2012, of a boy and his pet cat. When she climbs inside his virtual reality helmet, Catreece becomes a catgirl on the internet. Then they have adventures. It was one of the early […]