First Kindle Fire Exclusive: Superman and His Amazing Friends

It was only yesterday that Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire, but already publishers are making announcements about products that will only be digitally available exclusively on the not-iPad tablet device. First up: DC Comics, which this morning announced 100 graphic novels and collected editions making their digital debut on Fire.

DC Comics to Relaunch Entire Line, Including Day-and-Date Digital

It’s been rumored for months, and now it’s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue’s release in comics stores.

Emanata: Chester Brown Pays for Sex

Chester Brown’s comics memoir Paying For It came out last week, and–as it was designed to do–it’s already been raising some eyebrows. Brown’s a superb cartoonist whose earlier books include the biography Louis Riel, the autobiographical I Never Liked You and The Playboy (the latter revolving around an issue of Playboy he discovered as a [...]

The Comic Book Club: Strange Adventures and Kirby Genesis

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk and Graeme McMillan talk about the Strange Adventures one-shot and Kirby Genesis #0.

Emanata: Just Like Starting Over and Over

The end of the world has happened before, and might be happening again in a couple of months, at least in comics. It’s no big deal.

The Comic Book Club: Rocketeer Adventures and Batman: Gates of Gotham

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: We end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about the first issues of Rocketeer Adventures and Gates of Gotham.

Marvel Comics to Adapt (Imaginary) ‘Castle’ Novel

Marvel Entertainment announced this morning that they’ll be publishing a graphic novel adaptation of Richard Castle’s thriller Deadly Storm in September. On the surface of it, that sounds pretty straightforward: over the past few years, Marvel’s published adaptations of everything from Pride and Prejudice to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Stand.

Emanata: Yuichi Yokoyama’s Garden of Baffling Delights

There are certain things readers tend to automatically anticipate when they open a graphic novel: characters, plot, interactions, emotional paths, a sense that the story inside can somehow maps onto their own reality. One of the things great art does, though, is upend its viewers’ preconceptions about what it can and should do, and very [...]

The Comic Book Club: Flashpoint and Chew

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about Flashpoint #1 and Chew #27.

Emanata: A Guide to Free Comic Book Day 2011

This Saturday, May 7, is the tenth annual Free Comic Book Day–a day when comic book stores across the U.S. offer an assortment of freebies, most of them all-ages-friendly, to anyone who comes in. (There’s a page at the FCBD site to locate a participating store near you; a lot of those stores are also [...]

The Comic Book Club: Moon Knight and Taskmaster

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about Moon Knight #1 and the Taskmaster: Unthinkable collection.