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  • Comics Briefly

    Vertigo to Publish Demo; Amazon Picks Dark Tower; ‘Unseen Peanuts’ Exhibition; RH Signs Iron Man Novels; NYAF Unveils Programming; The Spirit Movie Website[ Rivkah on PBS; PW's Best Comics 2007; Del Ray Debuts Blog; Anime on Starz; and New York Previews Shooting War

  • Viking Clash Pits Old Against New in Northlanders

    Acclaimed writer Brian Wood’s new Viking epic Northlanders mixes the modern sensibilities of his DMZ and Demo with the appeal of a colorful pre-modern era, as in 300. P

  • Panel Mania: Dan Dare

    In this 6-page preview of the first issue of Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine's Dan Dare, Britain's greatest space commander, Danel McGregor Dare, comes out of retirement to fight a new and terrible threat from Outer Space. The first issue was released this month by Virgin Comics.

  • Judge Declares Mistrial in Gordon Lee Case

    A mistrial was called in the trial of Rome, Ga. comics retailer Gordon Lee, after the prosecutor reneged on an agreement not to mention previous legal actions against Lee.

  • Robert Kirkman: Hardest Working Writer in Comics?

    Besides working on a screenplay for Paramount, Robert Kirkman is involved with a staggering number of comics projects for Marvel, DC and Image.

  • AudioBooks: The New Sound of Comics

    Given the trend to franchise intellectual property in different media—from movies and TV to the Internet and books—it is no wonder that the superhero genre is turning up in the form of audiobooks. Indeed the Bethesda, Md., Audiobook producer Graphic Audio released an audiobook production of DC Comics’ crossover series Infinite Crisis in June and has just released an audiobook version of 52: The Audiobook, Part 1, DC’s groundbreaking weekly comics series from 2006.

  • Shooting War Aims for Print Success

    Originally a webcomic, the new graphic novel Shooting War follows the trials and travails of a cocky young video blogger who finds himself reporting on the front lines of the Iraq war

  • Whedon Can’t Get Enough Serenity

    In November Dark Horse is releasing a hardcover collection of theSerenity: Those Left Behindminiseries Joss Whedon co-wrote in 2005, and he’s already got another miniseries in the works for early 2008.

  • November Comics Bestsellers

    Naruto continues its domination of the list and is joined by Marvel Zombies and Get Fuzzy.

  • Comics Briefly

    Fall 2007 Xeric Winners; Jimbo’sWins American Book Award; 2008 MoCCA Applications; Viz Licenses Shojo Movies; and Dinosaurs Across Americain NYC

  • From Prose to Manga

    This fall, Digital Manga Publishing, an independent manga publisher in Southern California, will release its first original manga, an adaptation of Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi's popular prose novel series, Vampire Hunter D, which will be published simultaneously in the U.S., Japan and Europe.

  • Tezuka’s Black Jack Returns

    Vertical Inc. will publish Black Jack, legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s popular series about a genius surgeon, in fall 2008.

  • Your Friendly Neighborhood Icon

    This month Titan Books publishes Spider-Man: The Icon, a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book tracing the history of Marvel’s flagship character through the comics and other media, including extensive licensing and merchandising programs.

  • Uclick Phones Home

    Last summer, uclick released Thunder Road, the first U.S. comic created specifically for cell phones. Now the company is preparing to bring cell phone comics to the internet.

  • Comics Briefly

    PW Hosts Graphic Novel Panel; NYCC Tabs Alex Ross, Mike Mignola; Shortcomings Second Printing; Zuda Comics Launch; Aurora Launches Luv Luv; Paul Pope Diesel Party; and NYAF Cosplays at Kinokuniya

  • Yaoi-Con and BL, No Longer “Niche”

    This weekend's Yaoi-Con in San Mateo, Calif., drew more than 1,500 fans and showed that the "boys’ love" genre is still in growth mode, as publishers announced a shower of new books.

  • McKelvie Finds Glamour

    Artist Jamie McKelvie follows up Phonogram with a book all his own, the fantasy Suburban Glamour.

  • CBLDF: Ready For War or Peace

    Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, divides the organization's activities into “peacetime and wartime,” and right now, he said, the CBLDF is on a war footing. Since 2004, the CBLDF has spent nearly $100,000 defending Gordon Lee, a Rome, Ga., comics retailer charged with distributing materials harmful to minors, who faces a year in jail and $1...

  • Buffy Season 8—the Shape of Things to Come?

    The popularity of Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 is making other publishers look for comics with famous authors or with TV tie-ins.

  • Matsumoto’s Mashup

    Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, is an avant-garde masterpiece. But what the hell is a “tekkon kinkreet”?

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