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Gerard Way Unfolds His Second ‘Umbrella’

By Douglas Wolk | 07/26/2008 @ 03:59PM

Dark Horse announced that alt-rocker Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá would be re-teaming for a second Umbrella Academy miniseries, The Scarecrow Blues, beginning in November. And Way's got plans for the project far beyond that.
Boom! Launches Disney Imprint

By Laura Hudson | 07/26/2008 @ 03:58PM

Boom! Studios announced the formation of Zoom, a new children's comic book imprint for licensed Disney properties, at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday. The new line, which launches in spring 2009, will publish original comics based on Pixar films and The Muppet Show.
Darwyn Cooke to Adapt Parker Novels

By Heidi MacDonald | 07/26/2008 @ 03:57PM

Eisner Award-winning artist Darwyn Cooke will adapt the first four Parker novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake, a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America) as graphic novels, IDW announced today. The adaptations will be released at a rate of one every two years, starting in 2009 with The Hunter.
Photo Mania

| 07/25/2008 @ 08:58PM
More Crowds, More Comics at San Diego

by Heidi MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kai-Ming Cha | 07/25/2008 @ 02:51PM

Giant crowds and movie stars eclipsed some of the comics news at the 2008 Comic-Con International in San Diego
Let The Madness Begin: Comic-Con Preview Night 2008

by Douglas Wolk and Calvin Reid | 07/24/2008 @ 11:17AM

Hordes of pre-registered fans crowded the floor of Comic-Con during the three hour Preview Night.
Joe Kubert: A Busy Man

by Van Jensen | 07/22/2008 @ 03:15PM

Though he'll turn 82 later this year, Joe Kubert maintains the schedule of a hungry, young artist. As many as seven days a week, Kubert will go to his School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in New Jersey to either teach a class or work on an overflowing slate of projects.
The Fabulous Freak Brothers Return

by Steve Bunche | 07/22/2008 @ 03:14PM

This August, the U.K. comics publisher, Knockabout Comics will publish a massive 40th anniversary Freak Brothers Omnibus, a 624-page leviathan of laughs, straight from the mind of creator Gilbert Shelton.
DC Finally Finishes Eisner’s The Spirit

By Sam Thielman | 07/22/2008 @ 03:13PM

For followers of Will Eisner's The Spirit, it's a bittersweet time: 1952 all over again. After eight years, DC Comics has completed a mammoth-scale archival project that none of Eisner's other publishers had even attempted: they've reprinted—in color restored to Eisner's specifications—the entire 12-year run of the character's groundbreaking newspaper-strip adventures.
Prophecy Fighters: Nostradamus and The Foundation

By Chris Arrant | 07/22/2008 @ 01:40PM

One-part Da Vinci Code and two parts X-Files, The Foundation is a story about the prophet Nostradamus and a secret organization founded to prevent his predictions from coming true. The book will be published by Boom! Studios in September.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 07/22/2008 @ 01:39PM

Viz Film Company; Attack of the Show SDCC Panel; Vertigo Creators Blog; Foreign GN’s on NPR; Paul Sizer Online Comic; New A.D. Chapter; and Vertigo Myspace Spotlight
Financial Challenge: A Close Look at Platinum Studios

by Van Jensen | 07/15/2008 @ 10:00PM

Despite years of mounting financial losses, creator complaints and skepticism about its business plan, Platinum Studios continues to sign new comics
Funny Business #5: The Good Kind of Audit

by Todd Allen | 07/15/2008 @ 09:59PM

A look at the BPA's circulation audits for comics reveals some interesting information about sales patterns.
Image Comics and Tori Amos Ink Comic Book Tattoo

By Trevor Soponis | 07/15/2008 @ 09:58PM

Image has teamed up with popular singer-songwriter Tori Amos to publish Comic Book Tattoo, a 480-page, full-color book in which various comics artists adapt the concepts behind Amos's songs into graphic vignettes.
Norton Acquires Nelson Mandela Graphic Bio

by Calvin Reid | 07/15/2008 @ 09:09PM

W.W. Norton plans to publish a graphic biography of former South Africa president Nelson Mandela.
Image and Dynamite Finally Raise American Flagg!

By Sam Thielman | 07/15/2008 @ 01:56PM

Four years after announcing plans to copublish a new edition of Howard Chaykin’s influential sci-fi comics series, American Flagg, Image Comics and Dynamic Forces are finally publishing the book this month. Turns out it was huge pain to produce.
Return to the Perry Bible Fellowship

By Laura Hudson | 07/15/2008 @ 01:55PM

After the success of last year's The Trials of Colonel Sweeto, Nicholas Gurewitch is planning an even bigger and broader compilation of his cult web comic favorite, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 07/15/2008 @ 01:54PM

SDCC Programming; PW The Beat: Xeric, Manga; More; Taiyo Matsumoto Interview; Boom! Free Webcomics; World Cosplay Summit at NYAF; Superman on NPR; and Horror Guild Award Nominees
Panel Mania: Too Cool to be Forgotten

| 07/15/2008 @ 01:53PM

In this exclusive 10-page preview from the upcoming Alex Robinson book, Too Cool to be Forgotten, a middle-aged man named Andy Wicks tries hypnosis to quit smoking, and wakes up back in 1985 as a high school sophomore. Too Cool to be Forgotten will be released by Top Shelf Comix on July 29th.
July Comics Bestsellers

by Calvin Reid | 07/07/2008 @ 09:51PM

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