Tag Kids’ comics
Coming Attractions: Mid-Winter 2012 Library Edition
Here's what I discovered at the recent American Library Association Mid-Winter conference in Dallas, Texas! Librarians are rocking the graphic novels! [read more]
The cover for Raina Telgemeier’s DRAMA is here
2012 sees Telgemeier's next book, DRAMA and it's another bullseye to the interests of middle-schoolers, dealing withe the ever popular school play. On her blog, she just released the cover and it looks like another winner. [read more]
DC launches Hero Factory app with Lego and kids comics
DC and Lego have teamed for an app that offers all new, all free comics.
This could be significant, for reasons explained below. [read more]
The big news: two new Captain Underpants books, and GN e-books
In related and interesting news, Dav Pilkey's two Super Diaper Baby spinoff graphic novels will get e-books on January 31 of this year, each with supplemental material for that e-book/DVD extra format. These have the potential to be among the biggest selling e-comics of the year -- or not since [read more]
Go to DANCE CLASS with Papercutz
With all the popularity of High School Musical/Glee/American Idol and other performance-based media these days, comics have been tiptoeing around this genre. There was Siena and Mark Siegel's To Dance; and Raina Telgemeier's upcoming DRAMA!, due this fall. And here's a new one from Papercutz, Dance [read more]
ADVENTURE TIME comic lands at KaBoom!
Given that creator Pendleton Ward is a huge comics reader and sometime cartoonist and that half the staff consists of folks you would normally se at Stumptown, AND that the cartoon itself is heavily influenced by generations of alt.comix(Ward says Trondheim's Dungeon comics are a [read more]
Courtney Crumrin in color for the first time
While you may be in full-on holiday panic mode, there's always Spring...and Halloween. Next Spring's Courtney Crumrin, Volume 1: The Night Things, Special Edition which will see the sardonic young monster-hunter in color for the first time. Ted Naifeh's all ages gothic waif is one of the first -- [read more]
New Wimpy Kids sells 1 million in first week
The Wimpy Kid is the new Twilight. Over 1 million copies of the latest book in the series, CABIN FEVER, sold over one million hards covers in its first week on sale. Sales were 25% higher than last years November release THE UGLY TRUTH.
RE: the recent sales [read more]
Top Shelf launches app
Top Shelf has just announced a team-up with comiXology that includes their own iOS app, and a separate app for the Kids Club line. Books from LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to OWLY will be available across various platforms.
Interestingly, Top Shelf is the first "alt.comix" type publisher to go whole [read more]
REVIEW: Peanuts #0
While Boom! may be losing their Disney titles, they’ve still got at least one well-established well they can draw from with Peanuts! Peanuts #0 Cover and Classic Peanut Strips by: Charles M Schulz Cover Design by: Iain R Morris “Carnival …... [read more]
Former Nickelodeon editors launch COMIXER iPad app for kids
This is just the news day for comics folks developing their own apps. Former Nickelodeon magazine comics editor Chris Duffy, and his co-workers Laura Galen, and Carmen Morais all had some free time when the magazine was cancelled. And now they've come up with Comixer, an iPad [read more]
Heavenly Bodies in Comics, Redux
Amid all the concern and conversation regarding the “nude52”, we here at the Beat would like to remind our readers of a previous attempt to develop new comics readers by offering comics featuring strong, attractive, empowered female characters engaged in romantic pursuits with male protagonists. [read more]
MICE 2011 (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo)
BY JEN VAUGHN - Boston is home to a lot of things like baked beans, awful one-way streets, MIT and occasional leaf-based riots. This weekend marks the second annual MICE comic convention in Boston at University Hall of Lesley University (yes, that's right). MICE boasts among many things, a smattering [read more]
Little Island Comics announces opening events
Little Island Comics, the first store for kids comics, has announced several opening events with kid-friendly authors like Claudia Dávila and Kean Soo. [read more]
A trip to Little Island Comics, the comics shop for kids
The response to the announcement that the folks behind the Beguiling were opening a comics shops for kids -- Little Island Comics -- has been supportive but baffled. Can such a thing really exist in today's economy? Artist Eric Orchard paid a visit with his family and you can [read more]
Little Island Comics, North America’s first kid-focused comics shop opens tomorrow
Well THIS is big news. The Beguiling, one of Toronto's leading comcis shops, and certainly the one with the biggest supporters of non-super hero comics, has opened a show focusing on kids comics called Little Island Comics. While kid's bookstores are still a small niche of the over all [read more]
Me Want: Space Oddity Picture Book
For those of you out there who feel there’s not enough David Bowie-themed children’s literature you can pick up “Space Oddity” an illustrated book based on the lyrics of the song of the same name. Take the jump for some … ... [read more]
Raina Telgemeioer announces Drama!
On her panel at SDCC, Raina Telgemeier announced some info on her next book: it's called
Drama! [read more]
SHOCK: James Patterson teams with Laura Park
James Patterson is a mega-author franchise, writer of such series as Alex Cross, the Dresden Files and wotch and Wizard -- the latter two series gave also been adapted into graphic novels.
Laura Park is an indie cartoonist from Chicago whose gorgeous work has made her a cartoonist's cartoonist in [read more]
Reminder: Kids like comics
Kids comics remain one of the book segments that is still growing, and certainly for comics publishers, it's a great way to get the younglings hooked so they will grow up reading comics. School Library Journal has a list of Thirty-nine graphic novels that kids can’t resist: [read more]