Manga/Graphic Novels


Sea Lion Books to publish Anne Elizabeth's The Pendulum
News > Book & Novel Sales
The Pendulum follows Tia Stanton, a stock girl in a sentient supernatural store, off-world and into an alien civil war...

IDW Graphic Novels Debut on Apple iBooks
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Comics publisher IDW is the first major comics publisher to offer iBook graphic novels and comics for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch...

The Top Shelf Massive $3 Sale
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Top Shelf Comix is having a two-week sale on more than 100 titles, open to both consumers and retailers...

In Aron Warner's Pariah, the Vitros are on the run
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Sea Lion is launching a new comic series, Pariah, set fifteen years in the future, in which artificially produced teenage geniuses suddenly become the target of hatred and fear...

VIZ Manga debuts seven volumes of Naruto in seven days
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Release promotion culminates in Naruto volume 52 debuting same day as print counterpart on September 6th...

Biggest Baddest Gun in Town Just Got Cheaper: Warlords: Brotherhood digital download is now $.99
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Warlords: Brotherhood is set in a postapocalyptic world, at pre-apocalyptic discounted prices...

New Horror Series Undead Evil Creeps Onto Shelves in October
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Undead Evil will tell the story of a family curse reignited by an undead voodoo priest in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...

VIZ media dominates the latest New York Times manga bestseller list
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
The top 10 titles on the 20 August New York Times manga bestseller list were all published by VIZ Media...

Death and the Superman: A Look at the DC Comics New 52 Reboot
News > Book Reviews
DC Comics reboots its entire superhero universe, and it looks like it's off to a roaring start...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes prequel comic available online for free
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Boom! Studios is offering the graphic prequel of the forthcoming motion picture Rise of the Planet of the Apes online for free...

Fanboys vs. Zombies launches at, and defends, Comic Con
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Boom! Studios is debuting Fanboys vs. Zombies, in which the zombie apocalypse takes place at San Diego Comic Con, during this weekend's San Diego Comic Con...

DC revamps, reboots, and relaunches entire superhero universe, and modifies selling concept
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
DC Comics is retooling its entire superhero universe of comic books, to the point of resetting all the issue numbers to 1 starting in September. At the same time, they'll be offering electronic editions at the same time as the print books...

The cartoon guide to hunting witches, coming this August
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Mike Rosen has adapted the 15th century Malleus Maleficarum—a guide to witches—into the 21st century's graphic novel format...

Nicholas Cage's stolen Superman comic recovered
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
A copy of Action Comic #1, reportedly stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago, has been found in a storage locked in southern California...

Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush to be graphic novel from Sea Lion
News > Subsidiary Rights
Sea Lion Books has bought comic book and graphic novel rights to Becca Fitzpatrick's debut bestseller, Hush, Hush. The YA psychological thriller will appear late this year...

Charlton Heston's 1968 Planet of the Apes is now getting a comic-book addition, courtesy of Boom! Studios
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
BOOM! Studios is debuting a new comic book series in April. Planet of the Apes is based on the 1968 movie series...

The Comics Journal relaunches TCJ.com with a new editorial team
News > Publishers
The Comics Journal will offer the entire magazine to subscribers online on the relaunched TCJ.com, under the editorial direction of Dan Nadel and Tim Hodler...

Top Shelf acquires graphic novels on hackers and God
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Top Shelf will publish Ed Piskor's webcomic Wizzywig as a complete graphic novel, and also bring into print Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler's God is Disappointed in You...

Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing buy Vertical, Inc.
News > Publishers
Small manga publisher Vertical has sold itself to Japanese publisher Kodansha and Japanese printer Dai Nippon...

Sea Lion to publish film producer Aron Warner's Pariah graphic novel series
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Film producer Aron Warner (Shrek, Independence Day) has sold a 12-volume graphic novel series, Pariah, to Sea Lion Books...

Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer returning from SLG Publishing
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Writer Van Jensen and artist Dustin Higgins continue the tale of Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer in this October's The Great Puppet Theater...

Gagging on new Wonder Woman costume, Ranker ranks her rank forebears
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
In, well, recognition of the new Wonder Woman look, Ranker.com presents comic fashion misfires of the past...

DC's Zudacomics.com is closing
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
DC Comics is shutting down its online publishing/competition/submission portal Zudacomics.com, and folding its activities into their newer initiatives...

Karen Marie Moning sells new "Fever" trilogy to Delacorte, and linking graphic novel to Del Rey
News > Book & Novel Sales
Karen Marie Moning sold a new three-novel "Fever" spin-off series to Delacorte Press, and a graphic novel linking the old and new series to Del Rey...

After 14 years of self-publishing, Carla Speed McNeil sells Finder to Dark Horse
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
Carla Speed McNeil has been self-publishing her Finder comic since 1994, in print and on the web. Now she's signed with Dark Horse to publish in full color with real distribution...
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