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Dark Horse Expands Web Comic Collections
Wondermark, The K Chronicles and Achewood are joining Dark Horse's burgeoning line of Web comics collections.
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New York Comic-Con 2008: Comics, Books and Kids
The third annual New York Comic-Con, to be held April 18—20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, opens next month with a record of impressive growth that suggests the ongoing mutual embrace of comics publishing and traditional book publishing is even more apparent and more inevitable than ever.
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Life in Comics #1: An Outside Hope
Acclaimed columnist Jennifer de Guzman joins the PWCW staff and starts out talking about the most hopeful path for comics' continued success.
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Skim: Tales of a Teenage Wicca
This month, Canadian children’s publisher Groundwood Books will make its first foray into the world of graphic novels when it publishes Skim, a nuanced coming-of-age story written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki
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March Comics Bestsellers
Abram’s Rodrick Rules is in the top spot; followed Viz’s Bleach Vol. 22 and Graphix’s Bone: Ghost Circles. Ultimate X-Men: Sentinels is at #8; and Savage Sword of Conan at #10.
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Action Historians: Making Comic Book History
In their new series, Comic Books Comics, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey embark on an attempt to tell the complete history of the comic book industry in the comics medium itself.
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Friedman’s More Old Jewish Comedians
Drew Friedman returns with more scabrously endearing portraits in More Old Jewish Comedians.
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Comics Briefly
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie: Nana Screenings; Blue Dragon Debut; NYAnime Fest 2008 Dates; Lapham’s Young Liars; Stumptown Comics Fest; Unterzakhn in The Forward ; February Zuda Winner; Chris Claremont Podcast; RabagliatiSigning; Signing at Midtown Comics; and G4TV's Fresh Ink
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Busiek and Bagley’s Weekly Trinity
Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley are teaming up for a new weekly comic book which will focus on DC's top three characters.
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'Little Vampire' Rises Again
Mark Siegel, editorial director at Roaring Brook’s First Second imprint, hopes that resurrecting a series by French comic book creator Joann Sfar can help the author find the same popularity here that he does abroad. This April, the imprint will release Little Vampire, a compilation of three graphic novels by Sfar, the first two of which had been published individually by Simon & Schuster five years ago.
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Terry Brooks Makes Manga Magic
With Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks takes his best-selling series to comics for the first time.
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Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic in the Ocean
Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published environmental comic for kids that examines the destructive impact of plastic on the world’s oceans.
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Life Sucks: Vampires Work the Late Shift
Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece have collaborated for a fresh and comedic new take on the vampire tale.
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WonderCon ‘08: New Frontier; King Kirby Bring Out Fans
This year’s WonderCon, held in San Francisco Feb. 22-24, drew more than 22,000 comics fans to the Moscone Center.
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Udon Takes Over Murata’s Robot
The first three volumes of Range Murata’s experimental manga anthology Robot were published by Digital Manga Publishing. Now Udon Entertainment has taken over English language publication of the series beginning with the fourth volume. Robot, volume 5, will be released in March.
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Comics Briefly
Shooting War Optioned; New PW Video Channel; NYCC Tabs Kubert, Simon; Glyph Award Nominees; Dark Tower Midnight Release; New Naruto; Viz Down Under; Bionicle GN from Papercutz; Berberian, Dupuy at Housing Works; Japanamerica at Kinokuniya; Hotwire Signing Reslated; Tank Girl Prose Novel; and DIY Amulet Comic
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Exclusive: Read Jonathan Lethem's Omega the Unknown #1
In recent years Marvel has added a number of stellar novelists to its list of comics contributors, including Stephen King, George R.R. Martin and now, Jonathan Lethem.
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Diamond, Retailers Eye Graphic Novel Remainders
Graphic Novels are gaining traction in the bargain book business and Diamond Book Distributors, is also getting in the remainder business and will exhibit for the first time at the Spring Book Show, the largest remainder book show in the South, held in Atlanta at the end of March.
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Rogue Wolf Acquires Cold Cut
Chicago-based Rogue Wolf Entertainment has acquired Cold Cut Distribution, the 14-year-old California wholesaler of independent comics, and will move the company to Chicago.
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Flash Gordon Returns Via Ardden Entertainment
A new comics startup, Ardden Entertainment, is relaunching theFlash Gordonseries with plans to publish other licensed properties and original creations from a number of novelists and comics writers.