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Kids, Comics, and Comic-Con International 2011
Comics aren't just for adults at Comic-Con International. Big announcements for children's comics share time with blockbuster movies and roaming hordes of costumed fans.
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Comic-Con 2011: ComicsPRO Retailers Survey the Market
The comics retailer advocacy group ComicsPRO presented a slate of retailer-themed programming at Comic-Con International, starting with a breakfast and a State of the Industry panel with representatives from Marvel, DC Comics, IDW, Dark Horse and Diamond Comics Distributors.
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The 'PW' Comic-Con Panel: Graphic Novels and Comics After Borders
Organized in the wake of the financial implosion of Borders, the Publishers Weekly/PW Comics World panel on Sunday at Comic-Con International brought together a panel of comics publishing professionals to respond to the bankruptcy of the #3 national bookselling outlet in the U.S.
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Photo Mania: San Diego Comic-Con International 2011
The 2011 San Diego Comic-con International offered great comics and graphic novels, movie presentations and more programming than anyone person can attend. A short list of artists on hand would include Dave Gibbons, Craig Thompson, Guilermo Del Toro and Brian K. Vaughan; so many great talents that its impossible to list them all.
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Comics Events: 7/25/11
Denny O'Neil and Danny Fingeroth in New York, Grant Morrison in San Francisco and more
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Comic-Con International Faces The Digital World
Comic-Con International: San Diego wound down Sunday, following four and a half days of pageantry and announcements. Completely sold out since the spring, some 130,000 fans thronged the San Diego Convention Center to hear about the latest comics and graphic novels, watch movie presentations, get freebies and attend an extensive slate of panels and presentations.
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Japanese Publishers Launch Jmanga.com Manga Portal at Comic-Con
Six of Japan’s most prominent manga publishers were on hand at the San Diego Comic-con International to announce the launch of Jmanga.com, an online portal offering access to thousands of manga titles unseen in North America, beginning in August for the U.S. market.
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Viz Media Debuts Online Manga Portal and More from Comic-Con
Digital delivery drove the news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con International as Viz Media launched VizManga.com, an online portal providing for-pay access to 40 different manga series on the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone at the launch.
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Liveright Acquires New David Small Graphic Memoir
Liveright & Co. editor-in-chief Robert Weil has acquired Murphy, a new graphic memoir by David Small, the author's first graphic work since his 2009 graphic memoir, and National Book Award finalist, Stitches.
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ICv2 Report: Graphic Novel Sales Up Slightly in 2011
Despite a tough retail environment, graphic novel sales were up slightly, at 3%, in the first half of 2011, it was reported yesterday at the ICv2 Comics, Media and Digital Conference.
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A Few Good Things To See at Comic-Con International
The San Diego Comic-con International: So big and sprawling and full of of every imaginable layer of pop culture that you can only hope to keep it from overwhelming you. Here, in our humble opinion, is a very short and a very selective listing of events of unusual interest.
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Bryan Lee O’Malley Takes Next Graphic Novel To Villard
Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of the bestselling Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, upon which the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is based, will publish his next graphic novel at Random House’s Villard imprint.
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Morgan Spurlock Produces a Book and Film About Comic-Con
Turns out that academy award-winning documentary film director Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me, is also a huge comic book fan. Spurlock has created Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary about the huge pop culture convention.
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Comics Reviews July 2011
Reviews of new books from Seymour Chwast, Roz Chast, Dave McKean, Jason and the long awaited Habibi by Craig Thompson.
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Comics Events: 7/18/11
Larry Hama, Amy Reeder, Evan Dorkin, Rebekah Isaacs & M.C. Chris in New York, Bill Plympton in San Francisco and more
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Ashley Marie Witter: Bringing Ann Rice’s Vampires to Life
Comics artist Ashley Marie Witter is starting her career with a splash: Her first full-length graphic novel is an adaptation of Anne Rice's best-seller Interview with the Vampire, to be published by Yen Press in 2012.
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More To Come: The PW Comics World Podcast Goes to Comic-Con
In the third episode of the PW Comics World Podcast, Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons prepare for the San Diego Comic-Con the epicenter of pop culture for four and a half days in July. Our panelists talk about what's new this year, what they are looking forward to, big news likely to come out of the show and even a few books they had time to check out.
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Womanthology Project Blows Up on Kickstarter
Looking to address the many talented woman cartoonists who can’t seem to get published, Comics artist Renae de Liz used kickstarter.com to organize Womanthology, a forthcoming anthology of female creators that raised $25,000 in one day.
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Can DC Comics Rebuild Itself This Fall?
In a move to regain lost readers and attract new ones, DC Comics is relaunching their entire slate of superhero comics with brand new first issues and plans to release them in print and digital at the same time.
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Panel Mania: Americus
A book-loving boy from the small Oklahoma town of Americus grapples with the travails of high school and takes a stand when it looks as though his favorite fantasy series, starring a young sorceress who hunts monsters and tyrants, might be banned from the local library. That’s the storyline of Americus, written by M.K. Reed and illustrated by Jonathan Hill. The book will be published by Roaring Brook’s First Second Books in August 2011.