Tag Archive | "publishing"

Gollancz is 50

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the UK’s most famous major science fiction publishers, Victor Gollancz, which has published some truly brilliant work by some fantastic writers as diverse as Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, Pierre Pevel, Ian McDonald, Ben Aaronovitch, John Bruner, Sheri S Tepper, Joe Abercrombie, Michael Moorcock, Robert Holdstock, Joe [...]

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Secret Acres and 2010

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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The guys at respected small comics press Secret Acres blog about some tips and suggestions for small press publishing (which they acknowledge they haven’t always followed themselves!) and their own personal ups and downs. It’s interesting reading (via Top Shelf and Dirk Deppey): (Only Skin #5 by and (c) Sean Ford, published Secret Acres) “Recently, [...]

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“The Clash of British publishing”

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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The always interesting Rod McKie pulled himself away from his massive Green and Black’s chocolate hamper over the recent holidays to pen a great post on Blank Slate Books and the state of comics publishing in the UK. As with many of us he had worried in the past that we were continually producing some [...]

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Blank Slate’s new slate of books or Hope For the Future

Monday, December 13, 2010

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Kenny has been posting on the Blank Slate Books blog, mostly announcing the slate of graphic novels he’s planning to publish in 2011, but also talking optimistically about the state of comics publishing in the UK. As Kenny notes we’ve gone from despairing about the lack of independent comics publishers here, which has been a [...]

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Chalk Marks – new from Blank Slate

Thursday, November 18, 2010

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Kenny has announced an exciting  new project for Blank Slate Books – with a busy slate of releases for 2011 and more interesting artists worthy of publication than there is time or money to publish in a year he’s decided to take a leaf out of Fantagraphics’ book (which is indeed a good book to [...]

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Buenaventura Press closed

Friday, June 11, 2010

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I’d deeply saddened to learn that the excellent independent comics publisher Buenavenutra Press has ceased trading: “In January of 2010, I closed the doors at Buenaventura Press in Oakland, California. I was forced to let go of the dedicated employees who had worked so tirelessly for so little money in order to create art that [...]

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DC Thomson to shed 350 jobs

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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Famed Scottish publisher DC Thomson – home to the Beano and Dandy and Commando Books among many other publications – has announced that it is to shed some 350 jobs and close one of its printing works in their long-time home of Dundee. BBC Reporting Scotland commented that the print works due to close took [...]

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Comics at the London Book Fair

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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The Nuge from the excellent Geek Syndicate podcast was at the recent London Book Fair and took in their newly added comics section: “It was a pretty small set up, well smaller than I was expecting, although I did hear that some companies/individuals  couldn’t attend due to the flight ban. The Pavilion, which was in [...]

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DC Thomson says the BBC is muscling on their act

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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This Is Money site reports that Scottish publishing and comics giant DC Thomson has accused the BBC of competing unfairly with independent companies, specifically a BBC magazine about animals, aimed at younger readers, had, according to chief executive Andrew Thomson, taken a chunk out of sales for DCT’s own Animals And You publication. Some may [...]

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Boom! to launch new imprint

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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Robot 6 (via Publisher’s Weekly) notes that indy comics publisher Boom! Studios is to launch a new imprint, Boom! Town, with “which they plan to publish and market “literary comics,” selective reissues of out-of-print works and merchandising.” Well known industry figures Denis Kitchen and Shannon Wheeler are also involved – a set of Robert Crumb [...]

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E-readers, comics and art books

Monday, January 4, 2010

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Drawn (via John Freeman’s Twitter) has this interesting video from publisher Bonnier on possible forms of E-readers and their implications for comics and art books: Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

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Don’t get married to an idea

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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Rod McKie ponders the investment in time and emotion (and possible financial repercussions) of the cartoonist creating something they like themselves but which doesn’t work for publishers or readers and how a canny cartoonist can sometimes rework it to suit when its a single cartoon but how much more difficult it is if they have [...]

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Publishing your own comics

Monday, July 20, 2009

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You might remember a few weeks back Eagle award winning creator Tom Humberstone posted up some advice on how to go about selling your small press comics (see here). Now Tom’s followed it up with an article on printing your own comics: “You know that famous illustration that appeared in a punk fanzine (Sideburns I [...]

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