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Panel Mania: Legend of The Dark Crystal Vol. 1: The Garthim Wars
In this preview of Barbara Randell Kesell, Heidi Arnhold and Max Kim's Legend of The Dark Crystal Vol. 1: The Garthim Wars, a young herder discovers the sole survivor of a village pillaged by the brutal Garthim. Based on the Jim Henson film Dark Crystal, the book will be published by Tokyopop in November.
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Self-Pub Pickup
Indie Monkfish Book Publishing of Rhinebeck, N.Y., publisher of science, spiritual and metaphysical titles, celebrated its fifth anniversary last month. A milestone, for sure, but six months before, when publisher Paul Cohen and his partner, Georgia Dent, who handles design and publicity for the press, entertained ways to generate more revenue, the idea of self-publishing came up.
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Diamond Summit Marks Industry in Transition
At its annual Retailer Summit, Diamond Comics Distributors presented a new point-of-sale software system that could revolutionize the comics shop market.
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Hyperion, CCS Add New Biographies
Hyperion Books for Children and the Center for Cartoon Studies will add titles on Amelia Earhart and Helen Keller to its line of graphic biographies
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DMP to Co-Brand Japanese Publishers
L. A. manga publisher DMP has entered into a deal with three Japanese publishers under which all titles licensed from the three by DMP will carry the original Japanese publisher's logo and DMP’s logo.
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Chronicling Caniff
Fantagraphics Books has just published Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff by Robert C. Harvey, the longtime comic strip historian and scholar.
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Matt Fraction Works Hard For the Genres
Despite writing high-profile Marvel titles like Immortal Iron Fist, Punisher War Journaland theCivil Warspinoff,The Order, Fraction is still hard at work onCasanova, his creator-owned series from Image Comics.
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Comics Briefly
Harvey's Honor Best Comics; Making Comics Wins Quill Award; MoCCA Book Club; Webcomics at MoCCA; New Cancer Vixen Website; G4’s Fresh Ink Online and The Comics Reporter on Comics Shops
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DC Comics, Random House Ink Distribution Pact
After being distributed to the book trade for 20 years by Warner Books/Hachette, DC Comics will move its bookstore distribution to Random House next spring. Among the benefits of the switch, DC executives hope Random will be able to expand sales of graphic novels and comics into independent bookstores.
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For the Love of Tezuka; Vertical To Publish MW
In October, Vertical will continue its program of publishing classic manga with the release of Osamu Tezuka’s MW in an omnibus edition collecting the entire multivolume work.
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Women SVA Grads Quickly Rise
Recent grads from the cartooning program at the School of Visual Arts are quickly getting hired, and many of them are women, a contrast from days past.
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Lucha Libre: To Live and Wrestle in L.A.
Drawing on superhero comics and Mexican pop culture, Lucha Libre tells the story of the Luchadores Five, ordinary guys in Mexican wrestling masks who fight car stereo-hungry werewolves and evil Elvis impersonators.
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Comics Briefly
Baltimore Comic-con; Howl! Fest 2007; SPX 2007 Guest List; New Shows On Kid’s WB! and Back to Press For Anita Blake Vol. 1
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Sex & Silliness: Maki Murakami’s Gravitation
PWCW talks with the creator of the boys love hit Gravitation about getting started and working in the Japanese manga business
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September Comics Bestsellers
Bleach Vol. 20 moves into the #1 slot, while Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Baker hardcover (at #5) returns to the list for the second month and DC’s 52 is at #11.
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Indie Outreach and More for NYCC 2008
New York Comic-Con 2007 drew nearly 50,000 attendees, said show organizer Greg Topalian, who outlined plans for an expanded NYCC 2008, scheduled to be held April 18-20 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
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Viz to Publish Collected Tekkonkinkreet
In September, Viz Media will release an omnibus edition of Taiyo Matsumoto’s acclaimed 3 volume manga series Black and White.
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A New Halo from Marvel
Marvel Comics has launched Halo: Uprising, a new monthly comic book series based on the bestselling Bungie Studio videogame.
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Kyle Baker Goes to War
In the spring of 2006, many Americans were surprised to find the U.S. Army had recruited an 18-year-old boy with autism. Cartoonist Kyle Baker quickly saw the humor in the situation and the Eisner award-winning cartoonist used that story as the basis of a new satirical miniseries on the Iraq war called Special Forces.
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Comics Briefly
B&T Español Inks Marvel Pact; Andrew Steven Harris Joins IDW; Phil Yeh’s Dinosaurs Fall Tour; Top Cow Launches Wanted Website; Kim Deitch, Megan Kelso at Fantagraphics Store; New York Anime Festival Sponsors Contests; Undead Gunslingers; and DragonCon