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DrMaster: Publishing Manga Small Scale
DrMaster is hoping a small, independent manga house can compete with larger publishers
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery
Cartoonist Mort Gerberg brings together 26 New Yorker cartoonists to take an amusing look at the big topics—including the big D—of our senior years.
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Comics Briefly
BEA ’08:Comics All Day Saturday;APE Moves to November; ICv2 Confab For NYAF; Auction for Disabled Vets; TV Grabs The Middleman; DMP Club Otakie Contest; Matt Groening on TCM; NBM Debuts Trondheim Blog; First Second Creators Blog; and OSU Cartoon Fest
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Topalian Promoted; Fensterman Joins NYCC
Reed Exhibitions promotes Greg Topalian to senior v-p and BEA director Lance Fensterman joins the staff of New York Comic-Con as show manager.
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Monkey Business at SPX 2007
SPX, the annual celebration of small press and self-published comics, drew hundreds of exhibiting artists, even more fans and this year's Ignatz Awards featured a cartoonist in a gorilla suit.
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Army@Love Goes to War
Rick Veitch’s bawdy Iraq war satire is pretty close to the absurdity level of the real thing.
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Thinking, Writing and Making Comics in China
Chinese comics and illustration artist Rain (Ru An) is one of the most popular comics artists in China today.
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Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay
Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.
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Sergio Aragonés’ Groo Turns 25
Aragonés’s dimwitted barbarian returns with a special anniversary issue and much more.
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Comics Briefly
New Yorker Laughs; Lookin’ Good Cap; Harper Gets Strange; Monsters at MoCCA; Marvel in Spanish and Special Edition Palestine
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Norton Acquires Graphic Work by Small
A graphic memoir by award-winning children's book author and illustrator David Small has been acquired by Norton.
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From Spidey to King
They call him “The Karate Kid.” Soft-spoken comics veteran Ralph Macchio shares a name with the lead actor of the 1980s martial arts classic, but he's never seen the movie, although he still receives fan mail asking whether he's the star. “Depending on my mood, I'll either say yes or no,” Macchio says, laughing.
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Colfer’s ‘Artemis Fowl’ Goes Graphic
Hyperion is simultaneously releasing hardcover and paperback editions of a graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s popular prose novel series.
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M.F. Grimm Turns His Life Around
Better known to the hip-hop world as MF Grimm, Percy Carey has documented the joys and pain of his life in a new graphic novel called Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm from Vertigo.
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Comics Bestsellers for October
Despite an accelerated schedule that will release 3 Naruto titles a month through the end of the year, Naruto sales continue to soar and the three Sept. Volumes 18, 17 and 16 took the top three slots of this month’s list.
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Maintenance: From the Web to Hollywood
In a few short years, Jim Massey has gone from comics fan to creator with his comedic series Maintenance.
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New Yorker Festival Spotlights Superheroes
The New Yorker Festival brought together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the superhero.
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Comics Briefly
SPX 2007 Opens; Imaginova Acquires Newsarama; Brawl Release Party; Rutu Modan Book Tour; Seven Seas' Otaku Contest; Juicy Mother Release Party; and Superheroes in Society Panel.
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Perry Bible Fellowship Collection a Pre-order Hit
The first print collection of the online comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship has already racked up impressive orders.
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Bookazine to Add Manga to 900 Stores
Bookazine is developing a manga section that it will install in 900 stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, whose holdings include F.Y.E., Planet Music and Sam Goody.