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Life in Comics: Publishers on the Prowl - We Want Your Comics!
At SLG, it seems that fewer submissions arrive every week, and what we do get is not appropriate for us, either because the style or content is just not what we publish, or the work is of beginners who aren't quite ready for publication.
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November Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney's Rodrick Rules takes the #1 slot followed by Naruto vol. 31. Jim Butcher's Welcome to the Jungle is #3, Stephen King's The Long Road Home is at #5 and Brian Azzarello's 100 Bullets: Dirty (#9) also make this list this month.
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A Small MangaNext Con Grows in Somerset, N.J.
MangaNext is a small con in it's third year and draws a young crowd to the Doubletree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Somerset, New Jersey.
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Comics Briefly
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Panelmania: Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation
A young girl named Antimony attends a boarding school where magic and
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Marvel Publishing Sales Slip
Trade paperback sales were off in Marvel's third quarter, leading to a 3% decline in revenue in the period while profits fell 15%.
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Comics Go to the Ivy League
Academic Librarian Karen Green has successfully made the case for the literary legitimacy of comics at one of the most elite schools in the nation, and transformed Columbia’s collection of graphic novels from a paltry few to over 800 books and climbing.
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Bill Willingham Recreates the Fables
Besides the ongoing Jack of Fables spin-off title, written by BBill Willingham's frequent collaborator Matthew Sturges, and an upcoming book collecting artist James Jean's covers for Fables itself, there are three more Fables-related projects coming in 2009.
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Bat-Manga: Go Go Go!
Thie Chip Kidd-edited and designed anthology of an obscure Janapanese Batman manga is a vivid, primal take on the character
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This American Elf
James Kochalka celebrates the 10th anniversary of his daily diary strip, American Elf
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Comics Briefly 10/28
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Panelmania: World of Quest
World of Quest, Jason Kruse's kid-oriented sword and sorcery Web comic, which recently made the leap to both print and television animation, hits stands with its second volume this December. In our exclusive 6-page preview, Quest faces the wrath of The Hive.
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Fat Is a Laughing Matter
Meeting author-artist Carol Lay in the flesh is wonderfully disconcerting. So closely does she resemble the cartoon version of herself in her whimsical cartoon memoir about dieting, The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude (Villard)—tall, brunette, with black horn-rimmed glasses and, yes, a slender figure—that shaking Lay's hand becomes an almost metaphysical experience.
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Art Spiegelman Breaks It All Down For You
With Breakdowns, Maus, and In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman taught his fellow artists about what he calls the "grammar" of comics, and he taught the larger book world about a new kind of literature that could grab national attention, illustrate painful and personal subjects, and win a Pulitzer Prize.
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The Mainstreaming of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiyais a cult favorite among anime fans, so it makes sense that Yen Press is launching the Haruhi manga this month with a strong pitch to anime and manga fans.
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Funnies Business: Abandon All Revenue, Ye Who Enter
Several publishers are exploring Web comics, but their revenue stream isn't always clear.
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Panelmania: Alan's War
French creator Emmanuel Guibert writes and illustrates the true story of former American G.I. Alan Cope in his new graphic novel, Alan's War, out on Oct. 28th from First Second Books. In this six-page preview, Cope observes the strange days in Prague before the German surrender at the end of WWII.
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Otsuichi's Goth: Nancy Drew meets Dexter
Just in time for Halloween, Tokyopop is releasing the English translation of the light novel Goth by Otsuichi. A manga adaptation of Goth was released in September, and a Japanese live-action adaptation of Goth is slated for release in Japan in December.
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When the Gift is a Graphic Novel
This year's crop of graphic novels comes in editions from bare bones to deluxe, but there's something for everyone on your list. Collected editions of the medium's historical best—Bill Mauldin and Osamu Tezuka—bump up against clever collage and pop-up books, and oddities like a Japanese Batman manga.
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The Joker's On Azzarello
This month writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo return to the DC Universe with Joker, an original graphic novel that turns its spotlight on Batman's archnemesis.