Sentences with phrase «as comic»

This will be particularly useful to authors and publishers of graphic - rich content such as comic books, children's picture books, and recipe books.

«Full details will be announced soon, but one thing that's true about comics is that sometimes the story of how the comic was created can be just as interesting as the comic itself, and we want to help creators tell that story, and help accelerate the growth of creator owned comics,» said Steve May, iVerse Director of Business Development.

Just a few days before the kick off of of Comic - Con International in San Diego 2014, Dark Horse Comics announced a long - awaited project: Author Chuck Palahniuk's sequel to «Fight Club» as a comic book series.

But we don't want to be pigeonholed as a comic book publisher; I want to continue with novels, poetry, and children's books.

Using only anecdotal evidence from the comics shop I use (which is neither as ridiculously diverse as comic book shops in Manhattan, say, but they do try to keep a lot of different stuff on their shelves), Marvel's efforts aren't selling very well.

As comic culture becomes more and more prevalent in mainstream channels, there are loads of people out there who see comic movies, TV shows, artwork, but who have never picked up an issue.

The press goes on to say, «Readers will experience an expanded storytelling canvas as each comic panel tells a multi-dimensional story through layered artwork and sequences».

If won, these contests can establish your authority and credibility as a comic book artist.

If you found my blogs, stories, cartoons, or other articles on my website useful or entertaining, then please visit my Books page and check out my novels as well as my comic strip compilation and my collection of short stories and cartoons.

This is possibly the single greatest response to the puzzled, blind, doomsayers in the comics industry who are wondering what happened to the multi-thousandaire life they were planning on living as a comic book creator.

Roberson explained that he felt the creator / publisher contracts offered by Monkeybrain were contracts that he would be comfortable to enter as a comic book writer.

IDW Publishing's comic adaptation of HBO's True Blood will arrive in comic shops today and can also be purchased at their booth tonight as Comic - Con International kicks off.

• At Comic Book Resources, Kiel Phegley has a thorough report from the conference, where Milton Griepp of ICv2 shared that industry sales are down in 2010, as comic sales are only slightly up at 1 percent, with a 20 - percent decline in the graphic novel category.

He's worked for such websites as Comic Book Daily, Explore Music, A Journal of Musical Things, and Geek Hard, and interviewed everyone from best selling authors Max Brooks and Andrew Vachss to Rock and Roll Hall of Famer / Guitarist Slash.

Frye takes the reader on a highly accessible journey through the creation of Marvel's expansive universe that weaves between discussions about Marvel's foundational creators and of the individual comics that helped establish Marvel as a comic juggernaut.

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One thing that has frustrated digital reading fans from the start has been the difficulty in finding and enjoying graphics - heavy titles such as comic books and children's books.

New Kindle Store offers over 2 million eBooks sold in Mexican Pesos, including the most Spanish language best sellers, more than 1,500 free books in Spanish, and hundreds of thousands of exclusive titles, including works from authors like José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Sergio Pitol and Carlos Monsivais, as well as comic books from Mafalda and Familia Burrón

I went in and pitched it as a comic series to John Rogers and Mark Waid, and the rest is history.

Readers will experience an expanded storytelling canvas as each comic panel tells a multi-dimensional story through layered artwork and sequences.

It looks like other then ebooks, Pocketbook is working on color multi-media content, such as Comic Books, Videos, and Audio Books.

Angel: At the same time, I never feel inclined to read a «comic» novel, and I think that if Skippy Dies had been presented to me as a comic novel first and foremost, I would have been put off.

The only reason I'm not telling you is because we haven't finalized the schedule with ComiXology just yet as Comic - Con has taken over everyone's lives.

As a comic production technology company it is easier for you to optimize the comics for HD content because you have the same resolution and two different screen sizes.

You will find popular authors such as; José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Sergio Pitol and Carlos Monsivais, as well as comic books from Mafalda and Familia Burrón.

- Booklist «The story is peppered with pop culture references to The Hunger Games, the Kindle Fire, and the X-Men, as well as comic relief in the form of characters like a talking horse that thinks it has a weight problem.

«We make products that we, as comic book fans, want to use.

Known as a writer and reporter, as well as for his King Oblivion books, «Copernicus Jones» marks Wilson's first published work as a comic book writer.

In particular she talks about starting up a network of comic fans back in the 1960s and how that lead to the starting of some key fanzines such as The Comic Buyers Guide and eventually The Comic Reader.

- Kirkus «What begins as comic turns much darker... in this melancholy, yet improbably hopeful novel.»

For fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even - tempered, mild - mannered man: a stay - at - home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college.

It's beautifully drawn, but right away the lack of a landscape mode becomes a problem, as the comic opens with a two - page spread and the only way to read it is to scroll back and forth from one side to the other.

This report takes into account total sales of comics, graphic novels, and magazines as well as comic book specialty stores.

It's just that as a comic book reader (and former collector — there is a difference) I can't say I'm impressed by the value proposition.

As the comic book market has become more specialised, its products have become more expensive, and its audience more elitist.

If a publisher says that they're the only ones who can sell their product starting today, but any other retailer won't have any stock until November, then is the release date today, or are they just making pre-sales (as comic publishers sometimes do at conventions) against a release date in November?

Reaching 1000 issues of the Superman featured comic is amazing but what perhaps will stand out most as comic readers look at the various covers is that DC has chosen to put Superman's red underwear back on the outside of his costume again.

A number of demographics in the publishing business were left out, such as comic book creators, graphic novelists, children's book authors, and more.

I was just reading what I could find online (surprisingly, the first time I'd heard there was such a thing as comic torrents, it was someone telling me so in person).

The debut of the iPad, Apple's tablet computer, in April 2010 brought this buzz to a crescendo: the iPad's screen is almost the same size as a comic book, making it arguably the best vehicle to date on which to view digital comics.

Eiichiro Oda debuted in WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP in 1997 as a comic creator and artist with ONE PIECE.

Hyundai has previously displayed three non-production Hyundai «survival machines» at special events such as Comic - Con, which were dressed up with spikes, battering rams and the like.

If a child is being put off or intimidated by the complexity of language in most books aimed at their age range, don't be afraid to offer them books geared to a younger audience or containing simplified text, such as comic books or graphic novel versions of classic novels.

Aurelie says: «Pupils prepare their conversations as comic strips.

Sadiq — who last week launched London's first social integration strategy - will do this by working with organisations such as Comic Relief and London Sport to promote respect and justice, and engage people at risk of loneliness or marginalisation.

This month's article about finding the eLearning platform of your dreams discusses eLearning and beer - as well as comic books, dating, marriage, and divorce.

The movie hits keep rolling as comic book movies are going to bombard fans this summer, smashing the box office Hulk style.

Jessica Chastain, who made a lasting mark in a dialogue - light turn earlier this summer in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, continues to show great promise as well as some comic charm to her talents as a white trash - y housewife / high society outcast.

Gay characters now turn up regularly in Hollywood movies as comic sidekicks or diversity tokens, but usually take center stage only if they are martyrs (2005's Brokeback Mountain, 2008's Milk).

«The first movie is a love story masquerading as a comic - book movie,» said Reynolds, «and this one is kind of a family film masquerading as a comic - book film again.»