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Interview: TCAF from the Indy Publisher’s perspective

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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I’ve never been fortunate enough to make it over to Toronto for TCAF yet, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it, not just from general reports but also first hand from some of our writer and artist friends in the Brit comics community who make the long trip over to Canada and love [...]

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Singapore Comics Special: Big Interview: Sonny Liew

Monday, February 4, 2013

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I’ve been a fan of Sonny Liew’s ever since I saw his illustrations for Tommy Kovac’s comic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, for which he was Eisner-nominated.  He is perhaps best known for his work on the Vertigo series My Faith in Frankie with Mike Carey and Marvel Universe comics. Personally, I think his frankly excellent Xeric award-winning [...]

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Drawn and Quarterly to publish Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts

Monday, January 21, 2013

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Coincidence is a funny thing. Last week I finally managed to order a copy of Sarah Glidden’s 2011, Ignatz award-winning book ‘How to understand Israel in 60 days or less,’ Glidden’s recounting of her ‘Birthright Israel’ tour, an Israeli government-sponsored trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Masada and other locations and the subsequent [...]

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News, views and oddities #5

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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News, Views and Oddities, where we link to various bits and bobs which have grabbed our attention, encompassing comics, books, illustration, design and film. Clicking fingers at the ready.                   Lucy Knisley’s Down the Who Hole I find it really interesting when comics are used outisde of [...]

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Events: Do we need comics publishers?

Thursday, September 13, 2012

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Graphic Scotland has news of an upcoming discussion evening at the University of Glasgow’s Boyd Orr building entitled “Do we need comics publishers?”. From the description: “The typical self-published prose novel is still considered a very poor relation to formal publishing. But in the comics and graphic novel industry, self-publishing is an established, respected way [...]

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Publishing: Chip Kidd on book design

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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This isn’t specifically comic-related, but it’s always worth hearing Chip Kidd discussing design in the publishing trade. This video from Bonnier (recorded at GRID in Stockholm) makes a nice companion to the TED lecture Kidd gave earlier this year (see here on the blog for that one): Chip Kidd: Failing Better │GRID12 from Bonnier on [...]

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On crowdfunding

Friday, August 10, 2012

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Over on the always-excellent Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has decided to follow up some online discussions about the pros and cons of crowdfunding comics publications with his own segment looking at what makes a good crowdfunding project, where, as you’d expect from Tom, he gives the matter some serious thought, and also pulls in some [...]

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Kickstarter – now a major comics publisher?

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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The Guardian runs an article based on analysis from Publisher’s Weekly in the US which crunches numbers and comes to the conclusion that the crowdfunding organisation Kickstarter has become the fourth largest publisher of graphic novels, with amounts raised by the crowdfunding varying from a few thousand for small projects to tens of thousands of [...]

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Comics make New Writing Scotland

Thursday, May 3, 2012

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New Writing Scotland is a fairly prestigious anthology in Scottish publishing circles which acts as a showcase for the best of new and emerging talent, with the first professional appearance of works, taking in both prose and poetry. And now, I am told, for the first time in it’s 30 annual edition history, it has [...]

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Improper Books launches

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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For quite a while we used to bemoan a lack of independent comics publishers in the UK; now we have Blank Slate, Nobrow and SelfMadeHero and as we blogged just a couple of weeks ago they have been joined by Adam Cadwell and Marc Ellerby’s the Great Beast imprint. And now, today, we get welcome [...]

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