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Comics Briefly
Angouleme Coverage, Winners; Pre-Selling at Cons; Harvey Awards' Ballots; Shojo Beat Music Edition; IDW Offers Rogue Angel; Quesada on The Colbert Report and Viz Anime Via Amazon
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Marvel, Soleil Bring Euro-Comics to U.S.
Marvel and French comics publisher Soleil have announced a partnership that will bring four of the French publisher's book series to the U.S. in new editions produced by Marvel. Marvel consulting editor C.B. Cebulski and Soleil managing editor Olivier Jalabert and editor-in-chief Jean Wacquet negotiated the deal.
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Jeff Smith: Let’s get ready to RASL
Jeff Smith talks about his new series, RASL, which follows the adventues of a dimension hopping art thief.
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NYCIP Hosts Comics Confab in March
The New York Center for Independent Publishing is hosting SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium, a conference scheduled for March 15 devoted to comics and graphic novels featuring Scott McCloud and such notable creators as Kyle Baker, Nick Bertozzi, Rainer Telgemier and Dean Haspiel
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Flight Editor Shows Off Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi creates a dark fantasy in Amulet, the tale of two children trying to rescue their mother.
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Comics Briefly
YALSA Lists Teen Comics; Guests At NYCC 2008; NBM’s Boneyard on Hiatus; ComicsPRO Decries Con Sales; and Spidey, Mary Jane Break up
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Top Shelf Moves into Year 11
Indie Top Shelf moves into 2008 with new kids comics, Alan Moore and a movie deal.
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Conan Keeps Conquering
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian remains an iconic character, with a relaunch of his comic, a book retrospective and a new movie announcement.
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Delano's New Narcopolis at Avatar
Veteran Brit writer Jamie Delano is back with a new series about a city where people dazed by recreational narcotics and apathy.
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Comics Briefly
EW Tabs PW The Beat; Natsume Does Batman Manga; Comic Book “History”; New from NBM; Virgin’s Dan Dare Online; Fantagraphics Comix Show; New Reed Show Blogs; Selznick Wins Caldecott; and January Zudacomics Contestants
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Nickelodeon Mag: Green Slime and Comics
Nickelodeon magazine, the monthly periodical of the children’s TV programming juggernaut, covers a variety of kids’ subject matter, including comics.
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Shakespeare Meets Manga at John Wiley
Science and educational publisher John Wiley & Sons release manga adaptations of four Shakespeare plays—Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar—in February in a tankoubon, graphic novel book-format.
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Tor Books, Seven Seas Together at Last
The new joint venture between New York City sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books and L.A.-based manga publisher Seven Seas to create a manga imprint is a match made in pop culture heaven.
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Burns and Palmiotti Explore the Docks
Inside Dock Walloper, filmmaker Edward Burns's foray into the comics-to-movie track in Hollywood.
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Genshiken: Kio Shimoku and the Otaku Soul
Kio Shimoku is the manga-ka of the beloved Japanese geek-culture series Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. The 9 volume series from Del Rey Manga completed its publication this month. The series revolves around a college visual media club where a small group of otaku gather to obsess about their favorite anime, manga, videogames and related activities.
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Disney’s Haunted Mansion Hardcover
Originally published as an anthology comic series by SLG Publishing, the first six issues of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Vol. 1: Welcome, Foolish Mortals is being collected in an attractive limited edition hardcover.
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January Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid stays on top followed by Naruto and Stephen King’s Dark Tower.
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Washington’s Big Monkey Encourages Debate
Big Monkey Comics in Washington DC succeeds by acting as a social center for its customers.
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Pilgrim, Exit Wounds Top Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll
Two very different books about young men at a changing point in their lives topped the Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll for 2007.
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Top 10 Manga for 2007
Kai-Ming Cha counts down the top manga for 2007 and looks forward to 2008.