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Funny Business #4: Ignoring the Direct Market

By Todd Allen | 06/16/2008 @ 08:35PM

Companies like SLG and Kenzer & Co. have gone outside the direct sales market to sell their books.
Byrne’s Next Men Returns

by Van Jensen | 06/16/2008 @ 08:34PM

13 years after the series ended, John Byrne is reviving his superhero series, Next Men, which will be published by IDW
Fluffy: A Bunny in Denial

By Wil Moss | 06/16/2008 @ 08:04PM

In June Dark Horse will release Simone Lia's Fluffy, a cute but emotionally complex graphic novel about a talking bunny (who denies that he’s a bunny) and his “daddy,” a grown man named Michael.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/16/2008 @ 08:03PM

Shuster Award Winners; New David B. from NBM; PW The Beat: Tokyopop, San Diego, More; Hotwire Comics Show; June Zuda Competition; and MediaBistro Comics Class
Comics Keep Their Cool in the Heat at MoCCA

By Heidi MacDonald, Kate Culkin and Kai-Ming Cha | 06/10/2008 @ 06:30PM

In spite of a local heat-wave, a cartoonist passing out and an evacuation by the fire dept., this year's MoCCA Art Festival was as busy and as vibrant as sever.
Medical Manga in the House

By Anne Ishii | 06/10/2008 @ 06:28PM

Prepare yourself, America, for a new wave of Japanese manga focused, more or less, on the medical profession.
Life, Sex, Art--Whatever

By Jordan Foster | 06/10/2008 @ 12:00AM

Xeric award-winner Karl Stevens's Whatever, a graphic novel set in a Boston suburb amongst the young bar and bed-hopping post-collegiate crowd, has been published by Alternative Comics
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/09/2008 @ 02:35PM

NetComics’ First American Title: Friends of Lulu Winners: Kikuchi at NYAF; Anime Expo 2008 Guests; Lynda Barry in Chicago; New A.D. Chapter; and Quesada’s Cup of Joe on Myspace
Photo Mania

| 06/09/2008 @ 02:34PM

Photographs from the MoCCA Art Festical 2008 at the Puck building in New York City.
Tokyopop Revamps; Cuts Titles, Lays Off 39

by Calvin Reid | 06/04/2008 @ 11:35AM

The persistent rumors during BEA about the state of Tokyopop turned out to be mostly right. The Los Angeles manga publisher announced a major restructuring that will create two separate divisions—the Tokyopop Inc. publishing unit and Tokyopop Media, a digital and comics-to-films unit—under the Tokyopop Group’s holding company. The moves will result in the layoffs of about 39 Tokyopop staffers.
BookExpo America Embraces Comics

by Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Ed Chavez | 06/03/2008 @ 09:13PM

This year’s BEA showed off the continuing growth and enthusiasm around comics and graphic novel publishing—despite the rumors swirling around Tokyopop’s restructuring.
Marvel's Iron Man "Invincible" in Comics Shops

by Laura Hudson | 06/03/2008 @ 09:12PM

For nearly a decade, comic book movies have been big business, but unfortunately for comics publishers, translating that big box office to comic book sales hasn’t been easy—at least when it comes to superheroes. But the recently released Marvel Studios film Iron Man is not only earning of hundreds of millions in ticket sales, it’s also pulling off what most superhero movies never found a way to do: Sell a lot of comics.
Marvel To Adapt King’s ‘The Stand’ into Comics

by Laura Hudson | 06/03/2008 @ 12:26PM

This fall, bestselling horror author Stephen King will again team with Marvel Comics to produce a new comics adaptation of one of his most popular novels, The Stand.
June Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 06/03/2008 @ 11:39AM

Abrams Wimpy kid holds steady at #1, followed by DC Comics's Batman: The Killing Joke, while Marvel has 4 titles on this month's list led by Secret Invasion: The Infiltration at #5.
More Nonfiction Comics from Hill & Wang

By Kate Culkin | 06/03/2008 @ 11:37AM

Hill and Wang and its nonfiction comics line, Novel Graphics, will offer two new works that will examine the War on Terror and The U.S. Constitution.
A Japanese Manga-Ka Takes on Batman

By Kai-Ming Cha | 06/03/2008 @ 11:36AM

Japanese manga-ka Yoshinori Natsume made his American comics debut this spring with Batman: Death Mask, a 4-issue miniseries published by DC Comics.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/03/2008 @ 11:35AM

MoCCA Art Festival; Prince of Persia GN Trailer; Comics Symposium at NYU; Cartoonists Discussion in NYC; and Signing at Books of Wonder
Dan Didio Talks Final Crisis and the Future

by Douglas Wolk | 05/27/2008 @ 08:45PM

DC's Senior VP and Executive Editor Dan Didio talks about Final Crisis, this year's mega-event for the DC characters.
Tokyopop Showcases Korea’s Hee Jung Park

By Brigid Alverson | 05/27/2008 @ 08:44PM

Tokyopop published the first volumes of Korean manga artist Hee Jung Park’s Fever and Hotel Africa series in the spring and plan to publish two more series, Martin and John and Too Long, later this summer.
‘Faust’ Comes to the U.S. this Summer

By Brigid Alverson | 05/27/2008 @ 08:43PM

The first volume of Del Rey’s U.S. edition of Faust, the critcally acclaimed Japanese literary anthology, is due out in August and the publication looks to break new ground for American publishers:

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