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Tokyopop Debuts Line of Color Graphic Novels

By Kai-Ming Cha | 04/19/2008 @ 11:12AM

Next year, American manga publisher Tokyopop will launch Tokyopop Graphic Novels, a line of full-color books featuring manga-influenced art and stories by artists from all over the world.
Vertigo Announces Push to Acquire Graphic Novels

By Heidi MacDonald | 04/19/2008 @ 11:11AM

DC's Vertigo imprint is dedicating two editors, Jonathan Vankin and Joan Hilty, to the job of acquiring new original graphic novels in a broad range of genres.
ICv2’s Annual Graphic Novel Conference

By Calvin Reid | 04/18/2008 @ 02:00PM

ICv2’s third annual Graphic Novel Conference will kick-off on April 17—the day before New York Comic-con opens—at the Javits Convention Center in New York, with a day of facts and figures about the state of the business.
ICv2 Confab Reports 2007 Graphic Novel Sales Rise 12%

By Heidi MacDonald | 04/18/2008 @ 12:11PM

In 2007 graphic novel sales in the U.S. and Canada were $375 million, a 12% rise from 2006 and quintuple the sales number from 2001.
New Authors Explore Fantasy and Reality at Fantagraphics

By Heidi MacDonald | 04/14/2008 @ 09:49PM

Fantagraphics has announced several original graphic novels by both returning and new authors.
Big Head Press: Publisher with a Mission

By Trevor Soponis | 04/14/2008 @ 09:48PM

Using a combination of free online serials and print compilations, Big Head Press publishes comics and graphic novels with a libertarian slant.
Alex Robinson Does the Time Warp

| 04/14/2008 @ 09:47PM

Alex Robinson's new grahpic novels features a man sent back to relive high school in 1985.
Crayon Shinchan: Age-inappropriate Humor

By Brigid Alverson | 04/14/2008 @ 09:46PM

CMX is bringing back Crayon Shinchan, a manga aboout a 5-year old mischievous imp who always manages to do something inappropriate.
Funnies Business #2: The Crack Dealer’s Business Model

By Todd Allen | 04/14/2008 @ 09:45PM

Boom! Studio's controversial decision to release their comcis periodical North Wind on MySpace was controversial but appears to have raised sales.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 04/14/2008 @ 09:44PM

Eisner Awards Nominees; NYAF Dates Changed; Lulu Awards at MoCCA; ABC Events At BEA; Villard to Publish Unique; Death Note Movie; and Last Sam and Max Episode
Marvel, Harper Debut Spidey Kids' Books

by Calvin Reid | 04/14/2008 @ 03:01PM

Marvel Comics and HarperCollins Children's Books are teaming up to launch a reading program based around Marvel's popular character Spider-Man. The new line, called simply, Spider-Man, will release its first titles in winter 2009; it will focus on a variety of children's formats, including beginning readers, story books, chapter books, phonics sets and novelty publications.
Anjali Singh

by Calvin Reid | 04/14/2008 @ 12:00AM

Anjali Singh isn't a baseball player, but it can be said that she hit a home run in her first big league at bat. In 2003, before she'd settled into her first editorial job at Vintage Books, Singh managed to acquire an unusual autobiography by a young Iranian woman living in France. Even more unusual the book, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, was a work of comics and told the story of Satrapi's childhood--a young Iranian girl attracted to Western culture growing up under conservative Islamic strictures during the Iranian revolution.
Salt Water Taffy: Tall Tales of Giant Lobsters

By Wil Moss | 04/08/2008 @ 03:16PM

Matthew Loux, the writer-artist of 2006’s Sidescrollers, a video game-themed romp that was named one of the “10 Best Graphic Novels for Teens,” returns to the scene with Salt Water Taffy, an all-ages series from Oni Press about two young brothers battling lobsters in Maine.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 04/08/2008 @ 02:46PM

Movie Previews at NYCC; Toon Books Second Printing; Templesmith IDW Exclusive; Bristol Comic Expo; Desert Peach Online ; Jules Feiffer at the Strand; Karasick and Newgarden Sign; TwoMorrows’ Podcasts ; New A.D. Chapters; and March Zuda Winner
April Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 04/08/2008 @ 02:34PM

Rodrick Rules continues at #1, followed by Naruto vol. 28 at #2 and Fruits Basket vol. 19 at #3. This month there's a new Anita Blake volume, The First Death at # 6,
Viz, Stan Lee Team to Launch New Japanese Series

By Kai-Ming Cha | 04/08/2008 @ 02:00PM

Viz Media and Shaman King creator Hiroyuki Takei are teaming up with the legendary Stan Lee to create a new manga series for the Japanese comics market.
Marvel’s Viral Marketing Invasion

By Laura Hudson | 04/08/2008 @ 02:00PM

Thanks in part to an unprecedented marketing campaign that generated big buzz on the internet, Secret Invasion, the latest Marvel Comics crossover event, launched last Wednesday to strong initial sales.
Johnny Bunko: Manga Takes Care of Business

By Kai-Ming Cha | 04/08/2008 @ 01:59PM

New York Times bestselling business writer Daniel Pink has written TheAdventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need. Johnny Bunko, very likely the first American conceived and illustrated (by artist Rob Ten Pas) business manga.
The Historical Roots of Manga

By Kai-Ming Cha | 04/08/2008 @ 01:58PM

Professor Brigitte Koyama-Richard has written One Thousand Years of Manga, a new history that traces the roots of manga to the 12century.
DramaQueen Relaunches

By Brigid Alverson | 04/01/2008 @ 06:38PM

Houston-based yaoi publisher DramaQueen has not published a title since September 2007. But the house has been reorganized; taken on a new financial investor and plans to release a new batch of titles in May.

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