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Kids, Comics, Reading and Fun In the Bronx

By Calvin Reid | 04/21/2009 @ 08:29PM

Founded in 2007 by Alex Simmons, a veteran comics writer, young adult novelist, playwright and educator, the annual Kids’ Comic Con continues to attract kids, parents and educators to a day of presentations, comics workshops and lots of free stuff.
Sex and Science and Scott Morse: Ancient Books Show Modern Designers

by Johanna Draper Carlson | 04/21/2009 @ 08:28PM

Artist/designer Scott Morse has a bunch of projects coming out this year, including The Ancient Book of Sex and Science, featuring fellow animation designers Lou Romano, Don Shank and Nate Wragg.
Yoshihiro Tatsumi: A Heroic Life in Manga

By Anne Ishii | 04/21/2009 @ 08:27PM

Published by Drawn & Quarterly, A Drifting Life is not only the story of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s coming of age as a manga artist and creator of the gritty style of manga known as Gekiga, but a detailed history of the manga industry in post-WWII Japan.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/21/2009 @ 08:26PM
Photomania: Stumptown 2009

By Laura Hudson | 04/21/2009 @ 08:25PM

This year's Stumptown Festival was a gathering of cartoonists and cartoons and over 2500 local indie comics fans and readers. Local Portland cartoonists celebrated with guests including Gail Simone, Jeff Smith and Carla Speed McNeil, and Saturday night's Stumptown Trophy Awards gave everyone the chance to cut loose.
Simultaneous Pub for Takahashi Manga

By Calvin Reid | 04/15/2009 @ 05:36PM

U.S. manga publisher Viz Media and Japan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday will join forces to present Rin-Ne, a brand new series by international manga superstar Rumiko Takahashi, simultaneously in the U.S. and Japan beginning April 22.
Math, Philosophy, Comics and Bertrand Russell’s Search for Truth

By Calvin Reid | 04/14/2009 @ 08:45PM

In October Bloomsbury will publish Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with the art team of Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna, a work of serious nonfiction that, among other things, is a biography of the noted mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Comic Books, Fetish Art and the Co-Creator of Superman

by Steve Bunche | 04/14/2009 @ 06:44PM

Craig Yoe’s new book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster, sheds light on a seminal comics creator while unearthing illegal works that played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Comics Code Authority
Top Shelf Gets Sweded

By Laura Hudson | 04/14/2009 @ 06:43PM

Top Shelf is helping to bring Sweden's blossoming comix scene to the US.
CTL+ALT+DEL Moves to Bookstores

by Stephanie Mangold | 04/14/2009 @ 06:42PM

Already collected in self-published form, the popular webcomic CLT+ALT+DLT is getting a new bookstore push via a series of new editions.
April Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 04/14/2009 @ 05:30PM

Jeff Kinney’s Last Straw rules the top slot; Naruto takes slots 2-6; Bone: Crown of Horns is #10 and Watchmen tops backlist.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/14/2009 @ 05:07PM

Secret Identity Caught in #amazonfail; CBLDF, Stumptown Benefit; New York Anime Festival Registration; Green Lantern Movie Release; Marvel Marketing Tool; Viz Unveils Virtual Merchandise; and Smith Comic Goes Melville
DC Takes Jeremy Love’s Bayou from Web to Print

By Ada Price | 04/07/2009 @ 09:30PM

Zuda.com is releasing a print version of Jeremy Love’s Bayou in June—the first printed book-format work to be released by the online site.
Emerald City Brings In the Green

By Douglas Wolk | 04/07/2009 @ 09:29PM

Emerald City ComiCon, held at Seattle's Washington State Convention Center April 4 and 5, is rapidly becoming one of the staples of the comics convention circuit.
Superman, Super Teacher: Using Comics to Teach Reading

by Jennifer de Guzman | 04/07/2009 @ 09:27PM

Once in a while, you meet someone whose pure enjoyment of comic books is so uncomplicated that you're both delighted and envious. For me, one of those people is Gary Shapiro, who was a fellow student in the San Jose State University graduate creative writing program.
Colorful Kim Dong Hwa is A Big New Voice in American Comics

by Kate Culkin | 04/07/2009 @ 07:28PM

When first published in 2003, The Color of Earth was a milestone in manhwa (Korean comics). The initial volume of Kim Dong Hwa’s trilogy tracing the life of a young girl in nineteenth-century Korea was noteworthy for its complex portrayal of women and its popularity with both male and female readers.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/06/2009 @ 10:04PM

2009 Eisner Award Nominees; Vertigo Crime Arrives in August; Swamp Thing Reviewed on NPR; Winick’s Pedro and Me Reissued; 60’s Spidey Toon Free Online; Free Naruto Preview; Comics 101 Primer; YA Author Goes Graphic; Bristol Comic Expo and Small Press Expo; New Geary Treasury of Murder; and Vampire D3 Contest
Yen Press Launches Toxic Planet Comic Online

By Calvin Reid | 04/06/2009 @ 02:28PM

Yen Press, Hachette Book Group’s graphic novel imprint, will first unveil French cartoonist David Ratte’s satirical/environmental graphic novel, Toxic Planet, as a webcomic in effort to build an audience for the book’s English-language publication in August.
Failing Diamond Minimum, Asylum Press Offers Title Direct

By Calvin Reid | 04/06/2009 @ 01:27PM

Indie comics publisher Asylum Press has been forced to distribute the latest issue of its tongue-in-cheek adventure comic, Fearless Dawn, direct to retailers after the issue failed to meet Diamond Comics Distributors’ new minimum order.
The Boys Blow up at Dynamite

by Sam Thielman | 03/31/2009 @ 08:45PM

The Boys and writer Garth Ennis have found a happy home at Dynamite Entertainment, with 100,000 copies of various Boys collections in print.

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