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Feed Your Head with 21 Trippy Comics
The comics listed here are unabashedly strange, their visuals outlandish, and they often explore existential concepts, inviting readers to tune in, freak out, and enhance their consciousness. No substances required.
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Publishers Weekly’s Top Comics Stories of 2016
Here are the ten most popular stories about graphic novels and comics published on publishersweekly.com in 2016.
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Goosebumps Author R.L. Stine to Write Series of Marvel's Man-Thing Comics
Stine is achieving a "lifelong dream" by writing the comics, a five-issue series that debuts in February and will feature plenty of interdimensional weirdness.
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BookWalker Offers Digital Manga And Light Novels in English
The e-book retailer has added Kodansha Comics and Vertical Comics to its client list, and now has a comprehensive offering of titles from major U.S. manga publishers.
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Comic Arts Brooklyn Scales Down Size, Not Sales
Despite doubts that it would be held at all, this year’s Comic Arts Brooklyn, an annual indie comics festival held in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, turned in another successful year.
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Photo Mania: Comic Arts Brooklyn 2016
Publishers Weekly was on the scene at Comic Arts Brooklyn, an annual festival of independent and self-published comics and graphic novels, to capture images of the artists and their works.
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Sales of Walking Dead Graphic Novels Higher Than Ever
Sales of the Walking Dead graphic novels keep climbing, driven by the hugely popular TV show adaptation.
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Insight Editions Launches a Comics Imprint
The publisher of lavishly illustrated art and coffee table books is getting into the graphic novel game with an inaugural list of 12 titles starting in March 2017.
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Kids' Comics at New York Comic Con: Super Hero Girls to Big Nate
This year's New York Comic Con featured plenty of children's comics – and plenty of children.
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New York Comic Con: Pokémon Go, Attack on Titan Drive Manga Sales
The U.S. manga market marked its third straight year of sales growth and optimism about the category was reflected at New York Comic Con in programming and artist appearances offered by publishers such as Viz Media, Kodansha and Yen Press.
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Vivek Tiwary: Telling Stories Any Way You Like
After producing award-winning works in music, musical theater and comics, Vivek Tiwary is now writing an illustrated YA novel and working to turn Dave Roman's children's graphic novel 'Astronaut Academy' into a TV series.
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Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2016
PW hit the floor at the Jacob Javits Convention Center to capture the 180,000-fan strong event.
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East Meets West in Kodansha’s ‘Attack on Titan Anthology’
Kodansha Comics is about to release the 'Attack on Titan Anthology', a first-of-its-kind collection of original stories by Western comics creators based on Hajime Isayama’s global manga publishing phenomenon. PW talked with the publisher and a contributor about the book.
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New York Comic Con: 2016 Sales Creep Up, ICv2 Surveys Retail Disruption
At New York Comic Con, Diamond Comics Distributors report 2016 sales are up slightly; and industry analyst and ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp surveyed 40 years of retail disruption in the comics market and speculated on the possibility of a 'Fifth Disruption."
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Comixology Debuts Line of Exclusive Original Comics
The Amazon-owned digital comics marketplace is launching a program to release original digital comics. The titles will be available exclusively via Comixology and the Kindle platform.
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'Night of the Living Dead' Lives Again, as a Graphic Novel
The latest act for comics publishing legend Bill Jemas is the launch of a comics and graphic novel publishing division for videogame developer Take Two interactive that bases its storytelling on the horror classic 'Night of the Living Dead.'
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Fantagraphics’ Stars Shine at Small Press Expo 2016
The groundbreaking Seattle indie house marked its 40th anniversary at the annual showcase for independent and self-published comics.
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The Legacy of 'Watchmen' in 13 Comics
For the thirty-year anniversary of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 'Watchmen' and its deconstruction of superheroes, here are 13 comics that carry the torch.
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DC Taps Pop Star Gerard Way to Launch New Comics Imprint
Looking to revitalize its comics for a new generation of readers, DC is launching Young Animal, a new imprint of edgy superhero titles under the direction of pop music star Gerard Way.
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Spanish Graphic Novel Boom Reaches America
The graphic novel boom in Spain that began with Paco Roca's 'Wrinkles' in 2007 hasn't slowed down, and titles imported to the U.S. are finding a rabid readership.