Monday, May 12, 2014

Comic Round-Up: May 12, 2014

Ame-Comi Team by Santi Casas


Interview: A Look Into "The Bunker" with Joshua Hale Fialkov

Merchandise: The first volumes of Invincible and The Manhattan Projects and the second volume of Saga have been added to the Humble Image Comics Bundle (more than 33,000 of the bundles have been sold since April 29). A portion of the proceeds from the pay-what-you-want sale of the digital collection will benefit The Hero Initiative.

Going to a comics or zine festival this summer? Robyn Chapman of Paper Rocket Minicomics has some suggestions on what not to say to micropublishers (as well as some insights into what a micropublisher’s life is like).

Josh Centers provides a thorough introduction to DRM-free digital comics, including the different formats, where to get them (legally) and how to read them.
On the eve of the 11th Toronto Comic Arts Festival, The Japan Times looks at both the growing presence of manga, and Dork Shelf talks with festival director Christopher Butcher about its Comics vs. Games 3 showcase. Meanwhile, the National Post is running a series of conversations between artists attending TCAF, beginning with Georgia Webber and Seo Kim, and RĂ©al Godbout and Nick Abadzis. You can read more of its festival coverage at the National Post.

PC Magazine offers a brief snapshot of the digital landscape, and recommends 10 comics worth downloading.

Publisher's Weekly's Heidi MacDonald recommends Eight Great Books About Comic Books, all of them recently published, just this year.

The Wall Street Journal writes about a day in the life of Dilbert creator Scott Adams.

Who’s Killing the Great Comics of New York? The New York Post abruptly dropped its comics page on Tuesday, with no notification to its readers or the syndicates whose seven strips the newspaper carried. The Post, which has yet to release an official statement about the decision, had published Garfield, The Wizard of Id, Rhymes With Orange, Mallard Fillmore, Heart of the City, Non-Sequitur and Dennis the Menace.


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