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Panel Mania: Elephant Men: Wounded Animals

| 07/24/2007 @ 10:00AM

Genetically engineered to be super-soldiers, powerful mutant animals—called Elephant Men no matter their species—must now live uneasily among humans. In this preview, Miki the cab driver visits agents Hip Flask and Ebony Hide in the hospital. Elephant Men: Wounded Animals by writers Richard Starkings and Joe Kelly, will be published by Active Images in August.
Karin Slaughter Launches Graphic Novel Imprint at Oni

By Heidi MacDonald | 07/24/2007 @ 09:30AM

International bestselling thriller writer Karin Slaughter is launching a new graphic novel imprint at Oni Press, starting with her own The Recidivists, slated to appear in spring 2009.
Elfquest Creators Go Solo

By Brigid Alverson | 07/24/2007 @ 06:14AM

Elfquest creators Wendy and Richard Pini decided not to renew their contract with DC Comics earlier this year.
Comic Book Novels

by Calvin Reid | 07/23/2007 @ 06:00AM

Classic superheroes like Batman and Spider-Man are the subjects of the biggest blockbuster films, but the genre has had an impact on prose fiction as well. Here are four novels, two for adults and two for younger readers, that transport the reader to a comic book world of superheroes and fantastic deeds.
San Diego Comic-con Still Packing Them In

By Heidi MacDonald | 07/23/2007 @ 06:00AM

Despite hotel room shortages, ticket sell-outs and threats of vast crowds, this week's Comic-Con International in San Diego will be just as busy as ever. In fact, the demand to enter the three-ring circus of cartoonists, authors, movie stars, toys, videogames and Stormtroopers is greater than ever this year, and has led to a first: four-day passes sold out a full two weeks before the opening ...
Turning Civilians into Comic Book Geeks

By Douglas Wolk | 07/17/2007 @ 10:30AM

Comics serials like Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stephen King’s Dark Tower are bringing first-time comics readers to comics shops and turning them into regular customers
Neil Gaiman at the Movies

by Peter Sanderson | 07/17/2007 @ 10:00AM

Book tie-ins abound for two Neil Gaiman written films opening this summer: Stardust, based on his illustrated novel, and Beowulf, a CGI adaptation of the classic.
Comics Briefly

| 07/17/2007 @ 09:15AM
Fantagraphics Plans Special Edition of Palestine

by Sunyoung Lee | 07/17/2007 @ 09:05AM

Fantagraphics will publish a special hardcover edition of Joe Sacco's acclaimed nonfiction work Palestine, complete with new supplemental material.
Cold Cut Offered for Sale

by Calvin Reid | 07/17/2007 @ 09:00AM

Cold Cut Distriibution, a 13 year-old wholesale distributor of small press and independent comics in Salinas, California, is soliciting offers to buy its operations.
Tom Beland Reveals his True Story

by Chris Arrant | 07/17/2007 @ 09:00AM

The shamelessly romantic story of Beland and wife Lily continues in a new collection from Image.
Anita Blake Stakes Out Comics

by Laurel Maury | 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the bestselling Anita Blake series of urban fantasy novels, sexually charged, plot-driven thrillers set in a world where vampires are real. Marvel is adapting her first three novels—Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse and Service of the Damned—as comic books that Hamilton is writing with Stacie Ritchie.
Kodansha to Publish Megatokyo in Japan

by Calvin Reid | 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

In a move that marks the growing stature of non-Japanese manga, the Japanese house Kodansha will publish a Japanese-language edition of Megatokyo, the American original manga Web comic and book series created by Fred Gallagher.
Comics Bestsellers July 2007

| 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

Top 10 comics for July
Looking for a Few Good Stories

by James Owen | 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

I’m not the only creator crossing the boundaries with this kind of hybrid approach, either. Who else do you think the readership for the profusely illustrated Baltimore book by Mike Mignola and Chris Golden will be? And more importantly, what will those readers be looking to buy next? Hellboy? Golden’s other novels?
The Man with No Name Rides to Dynamite

by Laura Hudson | 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

Fans of nihilistic Western adventure will cheer the announcement that Dynamite Entertainment will add a monthly title based on the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Man with No Name series of movies.
Comics Briefly

| 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

San Diego Comic-Con Programming; Kuper, Pyle Events in NYC; New Yaoi Convention
Panel Mania: Cairo

| 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

In this 9-page preview of G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker’s Cairo, the book’s hero comes into possession of a genie in a hookah, in a story that brings the Egyptian city vividly to life. PWCW interviewed Wilson in July 2006. Cairo will be published by DC/Vertigo in November.
Fans Mob AnimeExpo 2007

by Kai-Ming Cha, PW Comics Week, Publishers Weekly | 07/03/2007 @ 06:00AM

Held this year at the Long Beach (Calif.) Convention Center, AnimeExpo, an annual fan festival celebrating anime, manga and cosplay, opened to crowds of 20,000 on the first day and peaked at around 30,000 on the second day.
Eddie Campbell's Black Diamond, Part 2

by Wil Moss, PW Comics Week, Publishers Weekly | 07/03/2007 @ 06:00AM

Last week in part 1 of our interview with Eddie Campbell about his new graphic novel, The Black Diamond Detective Agency, the cartoonist discussed his thoughts on adapting a screenplay into a comics work, serializing versus original graphic novels and his attraction to American-style detective writers like Raymond Chandler.

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