GNARP! The Graphic Narrative Academic Reference Project

In the Gateway to Comics feature, Stephen Aryan focuses on reviewing/recapping a "gateway" trade or issue to a genre, series, or character. Meaning you will be able to pick it up without having read any other comic before, and with no prior knowledge of the characters. This is the golden rule. (A lot of these gateway picks will be first volumes of trades, but not always.) He tackles a range of genres, such as western, sci-fi, slice of life, horror, adventure, biography, comedy, history, and many more.

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The mission is: "To serve as a professional endeavor to create, make, and deliver to the public professional grade comic books and/or graphic novels. The HTH Graphic Novel Project produces stories that consciously serve the community in a positive way. We seek to encourage the help, support, and critique of professionals in related industries to the project in order to create the best products possible. The project is free to join. We, the members, recruit and encourage membership based on enthusiasm and seriousness towards meeting project goals and deadlines. We do not discriminate towards any person based on age, gender, race, or handicap."

Interesting: changing the name from "manga" to "comics" to reflect the desired scope of submissions. "While this is the fourth time that this competition has been held, it is the first since its name was changed from the Morning International Manga Competition (M.I.M.C.) to the Morning International Comic Competition (M.I.C.C.). Throughout the previous three competitions, we found ourselves keenly noticing something. While in Japan the word "manga" (マンガ) encompasses many broad genres and is still home to innovation and freshness, the term "manga" abroad refers to works of fantasy that are drawn in a specific style, and further confined to a small genre. This time, we saw an immediate change resulting from the contest's revised name, as we received many submissions that could be classified as "seinen manga," the genre that our magazine Morning primarily publishes. Not only that, we also received many highly exciting works with stories and visual designs that we could not imagine ever seeing from creators within the Japanese industry. We value this quality, as seen by the prize-winning works."

SPX 2010 will be held the weekend of September 10 and 11, 2010 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, MD, just one mile outside the nation's capital, Washington DC. In its fifteenth year SPX now serves as the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comic books and the discovery of new creative talent.

Don Jackson teaches "the art of sequential storytelling" as a constructivist pedagogical method to help students develop higher-order thinking skills. His "Cognitive Comics" approach grew from Jackson's original enterprise of developing interactive multi-media comics for promoting literacy in teaching English comprehension.

The stage version of The Intergalactic Nemesis projects the comic book artwork panel-by-panel while three actors perform the voices, one foley artist creates the sound effects, and one keyboardist plays the score, all live.

Over the last twenty years or so comic books and video games have been adapted in to movies. Novels have been adapted into comic books. Many of these products have been licensed as toys. Indeed two Singaporeans are actively engaged in such adaptations: Sonny Liew is working on a comic book version of Jane Austin's novel Sense and Sensibility for Marvel Comics, and Eric Khoo is doing a film adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi comic A Drifting Life. Increasing there are convergences between media forms and products. This conference held in conjunction with the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention examines the issues involved in these developments from a scholarly perspective with a focus on Asia.

Article outlining some problems with the Japanese animation industry.

NEWW 2 - November 6-7, 2010. Webcomics Weekend is back in 2010 for another year of webcomics-themed festivities. Set in Easthampton, Massachusetts, NEWW is the premiere webcomic event in the United States.