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New Day at Archie Comics, Despite Internal Strife
Archie Comics Publications, the home of the iconic American red-headed teenager and his Riverdale High School buddies, is reshaping its longstanding brand and revitalizing its publishing program. In recent years Archie Comics has implemented a combination of new publishing formats and provocative new content aimed at keeping the classic Archie brand youthful and relevant to a new generation of Archie fans.
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Kids Comic Con 2012: The Show Moves to New Bronx Location
Forced to move to a new location, this year the Kids Comic Con will be held Saturday May 5 from 10 am until 6 pm at the Church of the Mediator, 260 West 231st Street in the Bronx.
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Archie Plans Jinx Graphic Novel Sequel for 2013
A sequel to Jinx, an updated graphic novel version of Archie Comics’ original 1940 Li’l Jinx comic, will be released in April 2013. The new Jinx series has been created by writer J. Torres and artist Rick Burchett.
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Dark Horse Releases ‘Mogworld’ e-Book with Sequel Excerpt
Comics publisher Dark Horse, which released the bestselling 2010 prose novel Mogworld by popular rapid-fire videogame reviewer Yahtzee Croshaw, is publishing the first chapter of Jam, a sequel, in the new digital edition of Mogworld.
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Viz Media Tabs Gagan Singh to Head New Viz Labs Tech Unit
manga and anime publisher/distributor Viz Media, is launching Viz Labs, a new division at the company that will consolidate its engineering and digital business platforms into a single unit.
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Super Folk: DC Comics In The Fall, Marvel’s New Titles, Free Comic Book Day
This week in Super Folk, PW Comic World’s look at the goings-on of the superhero industry, what’s down the pipeline at DC Comics, Marvel’s creators offer some details on their upcoming titles, Dark Horse on The Goon and Xerxes, Free Comic Book Day orders, and Valiant’s new logo.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 04/23/2012
4/23, 4/28-4/29 The Story of Rock 'N' Roll Comics Release Party and Screenings in New York, NY 4/28-4/29 Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR, 5/5 Free Comic Book Day
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DC Comics' Before Watchmen Prequels Under Scrutiny at L.A. Times Book Festival
DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee sat down to discuss the controversial upcoming Before Watchmen prequel series on a panel at The LA Times Festival of Books this weekend.
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Reading with Pictures Launches Kickstarter Project
Cartoonist Josh Elder is spearheading a project to raise funds for The Graphic Textbook, a Kickstarter project featuring a dozen short stories that are coordinated with the Common Core Standards that teachers use nationwide.
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iVerse to Launch Digital Comics Library Service
The digital comics distributor iVerse is breaking new ground with a service that will allow libraries to offer digital comics to their patrons to read on just about every digital device.
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Journey Into Mystery – Where Am I Getting My Comics This Week?
Every Wednesday, comics readers across the nation go to their shops for their weekly purchases. But it isn't always easy to pick things up off the rack, as one man's quest shows.
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David Hyde To Leave DC Comics
After nearly nine years directing publicity, DC Comics v-p of publicity David Hyde, is leaving the company.
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Alvin Lu Promoted at Viz Media
Alvin Lu, formerly senior v-p and general manager, has been promoted to executive v-p of publishing of Viz Media, the largest North American publisher and distributor of manga and anime.
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Super Folk: C2E2 2012
This week Super Folk, PW Comics World's one stop superhero destination, covers the deluge of news from the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) including lots of big news from the Big Two, IDW, Archaia, Mark Waid and more, as well as some news from outside the convention.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 4/16/2012
4/19 Toonseum Fundraiser Party with Doug Sneyd in Pittsburgh, PA, 4/23, 4/28-4/29 The Story of Rock 'N' Roll Comics Release Party and Screenings in New York, NY, 4/28-4/29 Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR
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Attendance Way Up at Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo
ReedPOP finally seems to have cracked the code on getting wary Midwesterners to venture into Chicago's McCormick Place for a comics and entertainment festival. Attendance for this year's C2E2 Expo—held April 13-15—was "way up," said show runner Lance Fensterman.
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Materfamilias: Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel—creator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of the lauded 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home and now the new biocomic Are You My Mother?—doesn’t know what to call herself. “I know I’m a cartoonist. The drawing is completely inextricable from my writing,”she says from her home in Vermont. “I do feel, since Fun Home came out, I’ve had to sort of reimagine myself a little bit.”
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DC Comics Switches U.K. Book Distribution to Diamond Book Distributors
With the London Book Fair fast approaching, DC Entertainment announced plans to move its U.K. book trade distribution to Diamond Book Distributors U.K from its longtime partner Titan Books.
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Comics Retailers Upbeat Despite Digital Competition at Diamond Summit
The mood among retailers was generally upbeat even in the face of digital competition at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Chicago. Held April 11-13 in conjunction with the C2E2 comics/entertainment expo, the meeting drew nearly 400 retailers for several days of focus groups and presentations on the state of comics retailing.
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Daniel Clowes on his New Exhibition and Monograph and Lee Marvin
To his own surprise, Daniel Clowes is currently working on ten projects. And now, the first retrospective museum exhibition of his work, “Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes” is about to open in his adopted hometown at the Oakland Museum of California on April 14. Accompanying the exhibition is a beautifully-produced monograph from Abrams ComicArts.