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  • Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King

    We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.

  • ADV Manga Wakes Up

    Despite layoffs, cutbacks and long delays between some volume releases, ADV Manga has managed to persevere and regain some of its footing in the marketplace this past summer.

  • Comics Briefly

    Kids Comic-Con Set for March; ICAF Meets at LC; Rall Elected to Head AAEC; Williams Directs NYCC Programming; Little, Brown Cancels Congo Tintin; Rotterdam to Head Sales at DC; Shableski Joins Diamond; and Viz: Death Note; Naruto DVD; Halloween

  • Web Comic Creators Take Charge

    As Web comics continue to grow in popularity, the online comics industry is evolving into a nearly completely self-made realm, where creators enjoy complete artistic freedom, and self-determined licensing and merchandising.

  • Panel Mania: Town Boy

    In this 8-page preview of Town Boy, the second volume of acclaimed cartoonist Lat’s memoir of growing up in Malaysia, the teenaged Lat works up the nerve to ask the prettiest girl in town to go to a movie. Town Boy will be published by First Second this month.

  • Rude and Baron’s Nexus Returns

    A burst of new creative energy when it was launched in 1981, Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus takes the science fiction and superhero genres and infuses them with their own personal styles

  • Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest Grows

    This year's Stumptown Comics Fest, held September 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. (its fourth venue in four years of existence), featuring a focus on self-publishers and the first festival Trophy Awards, was easily the biggest to date.

  • Harper to Reprint Scott McCloud’s Zot!

    Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback edition in July 2008.

  • Myth, the Bible and Image’s Mice Templar

    Artist Michael Avon Oeming and writer Bryan J.L. Glass have created Mice Templar, a funny-animal medieval fantasy adventure series ten years in the making.

  • Betty and Veronica Make a Move to Realism—and India

    Archie Comics expands their classic characters' appeal with updated art styles, interactive blogs and outreach to foreign markets.

  • More Gore: Tokyopop’s Ultimate Battle Royale

    Tokyopop plans an Ultimate edition of the explicit and violent Battle Royale series that will collect three volumes of the original manga in a single hardcover edition.

  • Comics Briefly

    Nee Rises at DC Comics; New York Anime Festival Guests; Demo Rights Revision; 30 Days of Night Movie To Open; Zuda Contracts Online; Wieringo Tribute Raises $4K; 24 Hour Comics Day 2007; Top Comics of the Year 5767; and David Heatley on Canadian Radio

  • Panel Mania: Common Foe

    In this preview of Common Foe, written by Keith Giffen and Shannon Denton with art by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski and Federico Dallocchio, WWII American and German squads fighting during the Battle of the Bulge desperately join forces to fight a fiendish, bloodthirsty enemy. The book will be published in October by Desperado.

  • Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings

    Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings is a lacerating falling-out-of-love story and an irresistible gem of a graphic novel.

  • Rock Star Comics: Gerard Way and Umbrella Academy

    Dark Horse is launching Umbrella Academy, a new miniseries conceived and written by Gerard Way, lead Singer for the band My Chemical Romance.

  • Jonathan Hickman: The Design of Things to Come

    Jonathan Hickman’s The Nightly Newsis both an indictment of the modern media and a startling fusion of sequential art and graphic design.

  • Abadzis Launches Laika

    Nick Abadzis's new graphic novel explores the poignant story of Laika, the first dog in space, and the only living creature ever launched with no plan for survival.

  • New Manga From CMX, Flex Comics

    DC Comics' manga imprint, CMX, announced new titles from Japanese publisher MediaWorks, and the first titles from Flex Comics, the Japanese manga and digital comics venture DC announced in June

  • Comics Briefly

    Ignatz Award Nominees; Mike Wieringo Tribute; Naruto Movie Sweepstakes; Zannel.com, Top Cow Team Up; and Beto, Malkasian at Book Soup

  • Schulz and Peanuts Unshelled

    Schulz and Peanuts is also a groundbreaking work in the growing field of biographies of comics creators, as David Michaelis analyzes Schulz’s comics as a guide to understanding his psyche.

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