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  • Marvel Illustrated Adapts Literary Classics

    Marvel Comics is courting the literary and educational crowd with Marvel Illustrated, a new imprint devoted to adapting classic literature into comic books.

  • WGA Strike Affects Comics Creators

    As the WGA strike continues, it is affecting many writers who cross over between comics and the screen.

  • Comics Briefly

    Eisner Awards Submissions; Graphix’s David Saylor Promoted; IDW, Gold Eagle Ink Pact; Check Out PW The Beat; Time’s Top Graphic Novels of 2007; CCS Debuts Satchel Paige Site; Papercutz on Cell Phones; Charles Burns Signs in NYC; Eyeshield 21 Goes Broadband; and Fresh Ink on G4TV

  • DC Trade Book Collections Go Deluxe

    Beginning in spring 2008, DC is introducing a new line of collections: Deluxe Editions, trade hardcovers with a trim size a bit larger than a standard comic book or paperback, but not quite as large as DC’s high-end, oversized Absolute Editions.

  • Aimee Steinberger Talks About Japan Ai

    Aimee Major Steingerger’s manga-influenced travel journal, Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventure in Japan, uses drawings, comics and journal-like entries to recount a trip she took to Japan along with two friends. The book is published by Go! Comi.

  • ICv2's Anime and Technology Panel

    Major manga companies are all taking an experimental approach to digital delivery systems.

  • Deck Your Store with Cool New Comics

    From Sunday Press's lovingly preserved, full-size reprint of Frank King's classic strips from the 1920s to Sam Ita's ingeniously designed Moby-Dick Pop-up Book, today's comics come in all kinds of formats. These days it's even become fashionable to say we're in the midst of a new golden age of comics.

  • Big Fun At First New York Anime Fest

    The first annual New York Anime Festival, held at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan December 7-9, started slowly, but NYAF officials estimated that about 15,000 attendees visited the Javits Center for the inaugural event.

  • Marvel, Del Rey Team for Manga X-men

    Marvel Comics and Del Rey Manga are teaming up to create manga styled and formatted versions of the X-Men and Wolverine.

  • Bandai Acquires CODE GEASS Licenses

    Anime distributor and part-time publisher Bandai Entertainment has announced that they have the anime, manga, and light novel licenses for CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion.

  • Lime Studios Brings New Twist to Global Manga

    With two series under way in Germany and another in France, New Jersey-based artists David Boller and Mary Hildebrandt, put the “global” in “global manga.”

  • Faust Editor Katsushi Ota Speaks

    In August, 2008, Del Rey Manga will publish Faust, a four year old Japanese literary anthology with a circulation of 65,000 featuring excerpts from light novels, manga and stories by cutting edge Japanese writers and mangaka, in the U.S.

  • Around the Floor at NYAF

    While fans engaged in cosplay and went to J-Pop concerts, nearly all the major players in manga publishing were on hand to make announcements and talk to fans.

  • Comics Briefly

    Marjane Satrapi Signing; Dramacon and Zombies Calling at The Beguiling; NYAF on PW The Beat; American Elf Archive Now Free; BOOM Studios Holiday Party; and CBLDF Holiday Parties

  • Photo Mania

    Photos from the 2007 New York Anime Festival at the Javits Center in New York City.

  • New Report Finds Manga Sales Up; Anime DVD Down in '07

    Manga sales are estimated to have increased 10% in 2007, but sales of anime on DVD have declined due to piracy and high price, a report issued at yesterday's ICv2 Anime and Mange conference found. The conference is the kick-off event for the first annual New York Anime Festival which runs today through Sunday.

  • Tor Books, Seven Seas Ink Joint Manga Venture

    Science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor Books announced plans to enter the U.S manga market by creating a new manga imprint with Seven Seas Entertainment, an independent publisher of original and licensed manga, manga-inspired prose titles and illustrated juvenile fiction based in Los Angeles.

  • Z-Cult FM Shutdown Spotlights Downloading Issues

    Marvel and DC have acted together to force popular comics BitTorrent site Z-Cult FM to remove their comics.

  • Crime Novelist Swierczynski Tries Comics

    Novelist Duane Swierczynski is working on two comics series for Marvel

  • Facing Fear with Drew Rausch

    Drew Rausch has several moody projects coming out including a collection of his Sullengrey mini-series later this month.

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