Condé Nast may have tried to break the iPad app market before, but a new release may suggest a new way of doing things for the well-known publisher. Instead of being a digital version of an existing print publication, new app Best of Italy: Condé Nast Traveler combines existing articles on Italy into a new, [...]
One surprise announcement that broke this afternoon at Comic-Con–because, apparently, it had been finalized barely hours before–is that Fantagraphics Books has made an agreement with Disney to publish the complete run of Floyd Gottfredson’s “Mickey Mouse.” Gottfredson drew the “Mickey Mouse” daily comic strip from 1930 (a few months after its inception) to 1975. Its [...]
The Norwegian cartoonist Jason specializes in comics that take the premises of high-tension thrillers–zombies, assassins, time travel, bank robberies–and transform them into deadpan, reserved domestic comedies. (Also, almost all of his characters have animal heads, just because.) Werewolves of Montpellier, out today, concerns a bored young jewel thief who dresses up as a werewolf for [...]
