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Naruto, Vol. 33
Sales charts | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen slips 10 spots to No. 39 in its 26th week on USA Today’s list of the Top 150 books. The 33rd volume of Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto, meanwhile, falls 72 places to No. 140.
And the latest installment of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Last Straw, debuts at No. 121, joining previous books The Diary of a Wimpy Kid (No. 98) and Rodrick Rules (No. 91). [USA Today]
Politics | Apparently President-elect Obama isn’t the only world leader/comic-book stars. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni appeared in two separate comics in 2007 and 2008. The first sold more than 200,000 copies, the second 100,000 and counting. [Top News]
Creators | Jamie Smart talks about working on Beano and The Dandy, reveals the return of Bear is “unlikely.” [Den of Geek]
Retailers | Rapper/comics writer Percy Carey chats with Ryan Liebowitz, owner of Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles, about the climate of the comics market. [Complex]
Publishing | Image Comics teases an intriguing ninth-century crime series by Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein called Viking. [Newsarama, Ivan Brandon]
Art and design | Letterer Nate Piekos has compiled a nice guide to comics-lettering “grammar and tradition.” [Blambot]
Art and design | Brian Wood walks through the logo treatment for John Paul Leon’s cover to DMZ #41. [Standard Attrition]
Contests | The Project: Rooftop website is playing host to a contest for artists to redesign the costume of Batman’s likely successor Dick Grayson. Prizes for “Batman 2.0: The Dynamic Do-Over” are being provided by Rogues Gallery of Round Rock, Texas. [Project: Rooftop]
- January 15, 2009 @ 06:15 AM by Kevin Melrose
3 Comments
Pedro Bouça
January 15, 2009 at 10:32 am
That article over the Sarkozy book doesn’t give much info, but in fact that Sarkozy “series” is three albums long now, all three very sucessful commercially.
Besides that, there is a wealth of other comics about Sarkozy. Most are political cartoon collections, of course, but during the presidential election both him and his opponent Ségoléne Royal had multiple comics about them (similar to the recent IDW series).
So, yeah, the french beat US on that specific field. Bill Willigham will be sad to hear that…
Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)
Kevin Melrose
January 15, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Kurt Busiek: I accidentally deleted your comment correcting me on Nate Piekos’ name. (Sorry about that.) I knew it was Nate Piekos when I wrote it, but I typed “Nat Gertler” anyway. Thanks for the catch.
Kurt Busiek
January 15, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Nat’s pushy like that.