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True Stories of an Airship on the Arctic
Ben Towle's new graphic novel explores the real-life drama of the crash of an Italian airship at the North Pole.
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Comics Bestsellers December
Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes the #1 slot and is joined by Naruto (#2), Stephen King's Dark Tower (#3) and Buffy's The Long Way Home (#10)
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Comics Briefly
New Zuda Winner; Party with the CBDLF; Comic Book Idol at NYCC; Cosplay and Gaming at NYAF; Women, Todd Klein at The Beat; Comic Book Club Discussion; Fundraiser for Bill Mantlo; and Jason Thompson Speaks
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Panel Mania: Wonton Soup
In this 10 page preview of James Stockoe's quirky Wonton Soup: A Space Trucker Cooking Opera, a cook turned space rig driver, stops for R&R on a remote planet and does a little intergalactic cooking. The book will be published by Oni Press this month.
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NYAF’s John McGeary Talks Anime
PWCWtalks with the show manager of the New York Anime Fest about the intersection of anime and manga and what will make NYAF different from other anime conventions.
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Inside the Otaku Marketplace
ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp has organized “The ICv2 Anime and Manga Conference: Inside the Otaku Generation” a conference that will provide analysis and reporting on trends in anime and manga.
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Takehiko Inoue Unveils Mural at New Kinokuniya
Famed mangaka Takehiko Inoue (creator of basketball manga Slam Dunk and the Samurai manga Vagabond ) visited New York City to help celebrate the opening of the new Kinokuniya bookstore
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Comics Briefly
2008 Eisners Judges Named; Vampire Writing Contest; Adrian Tomine at Giant Robot NY; Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hope; Larson Signing;Shooting War Signings ; Fletcher Hanks at Rocketship; Naruto on Direct2Drive; and Comics Holiday Shopping
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Christine Feehan Romances Manga Fans
The popular fantasy-romance novelist is the latest high-profile prose name to crossover to comics.
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Mike Richardson Gets Back on the Horse
When he's not presiding over the Dark Horse empire, publisher Mike Richardson writes and publishes his own comics.
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Tokyopop Grabs Dropped ADV Manga
Tokyopop has acquired the licenses of three titles dropped by ADV last year and plans new translations.
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Lat's Malaysian Memories
The popular Malaysian cartoonist Lat is gaining an American following with a series of graphic novels from First Second.
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Hembeck: Court Jester of Comics
Comics humorist Fred Hembeck is back with a 900-page omnibus covering 30 years of his work.
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Comics Briefly
Panelists, Sponsors Join ICv2 Confab; KCC, NYCC Join Forces; Yen Press Offers Boys Love; Movie Screenings at NYAF; Takehiko Inoue In NYC; and G4TV Reviews New Comics
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Toon Books: Comics for Kids
Françoise Mouly, New Yorker art director and wife of acclaimed cartoonist Art Spiegelman, announced plans to launch a new line of book format comics called Toon Books, aimed at readers ages four and up.
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Fall 2008: New Comics from Pantheon
Pantheon is gearing up for a big fall season in 2008 with plans to release five comics-related titles, including much anticipated works by Art Spiegelman, David Mazzucchelli and David Heatley.
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The Return of the King
Mark Evanier's long-awaited biography of comics great Jack Kirby promises to be one of the big publishing events of 2008.
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The Many Series of Steve Niles
Prolific 30 Days of Night author Steve Niles has a dizzying array of projects waiting in the wings, both prose and comics.
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MangaNovel Offers Digital Access, User Translations
Toshiba's recently launched online manga service may revolutionize worldwide digital distribution of manga
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IDW to Publish Umezu Horror Manga
This month, IDW is releasing its first manga, Reptilia by Japanese horror master Kazuo Umezu