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April 30, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

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April 30, 2012 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

The digital comics distributor iVerse Media will launch a digital comics service for libraries in July, and I interviewed account director Josh Elder (also the creator of Mail Order Ninja) about the details. Besides offering what looks like a deep list of graphic novels, the service has a model that libraries may find more attractive than current e-book services. Martha Cornog has more at Library Journal.

Elder is also spearheading a Kickstarter drive to raise funds for a graphic textbook. Elder has lined up an impressive array of talent, including Chris Schweizer (Crogan adventures), Mike Lee and Janet Lee (The Return of the Dapper Men), and Roger Langridge (Snarked, The Muppet Show) to work on the book, and the Kickstarter, while ambitious, offers an impressive set of awards to donors, from copies of the book to portfolio reviews and the opportunity to have themselves drawn into a comic. For a bit more background, I talked to him about it for Publishers Weekly.

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“Popeye, whatever else you might say about him, never had the handicap of cuteness holding him back,” says Roger Langridge, who is writing IDW’s new Popeye comic (see multiple reviews below). USA Today’s Brian Truitt talks to him about the challenges of resurrecting the venerable—yet timeless—character.

Variety has the details of the new DC Nation magazine which is based on the Cartoon Network animated cartoon, and DC Nation app that is sort of one-stop shopping for DC’s kid-friendly comics.

Jason Cipriano has a pretty detailed conversation with Mega Man artist Ben Bates about how he draws the comic.

Comics Alliance has a generous preview of Play Ball, the new girl-plays-baseball graphic novel from veteran comics writers Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir.

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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