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Comics Briefly: 12/14/2010
Japan’s Top Ten Manga Publishers Quit Tokyo Anime Fair in Protest, Mark Waid Leaves Boom! to Return to Writing, New Venom Ongoing Comic from the Creators of FrankenCastle, Paul Levitz, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee Speak at UCLA's Hammer Gallery, Jim Lee at Midtown Comics, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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Motel Art Improvement Service goes from Web to print
With a new graphic novel that is the result of several years serialization as a webcomic, cartoonist Jason Little is finally able to move onto the next step in his character Bee’s life--but he's currently savoring her existence in the present. His book Motel Art Improvement Service has just been released by Dark Horse.
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Jeff Lemire On Why Superheroes and Boys with Antlers are Equally Great
Eisner and Harvey award nominated comic writer/illustrator Jeff Lemire, author of the three-part Essex Country series from Top Shelf, hails from a small town in Essex County, Ontario and has his surroundings, in part, to thank for his success.
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Kodansha Comics Announces New Titles
Newly launched Kodansha Comics was at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in New York City to announce its Summer list of new manga properties as well as which series they will take over from their former licensee Del Rey Manga. Look for new stories based on Shirow Masamume's Ghost in the Shell series and such former Del Rey Manga series as Air Gear and Fairy Tails.
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Emotional Content Inks Bio-Manga Deal with Penguin
After signing a new distribution agreement with Penguin and working on an animation series on human rights in North Korea, Eiji Han Shimizu, filmmaker and publisher of independent manga house Emotional Content, has a reputation for creating commercially viable projects focused on humanitarian values and activism.
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Panel Mania: Who is Jake Ellis?
A spy for hire in the European criminal world, Jon Moore has an unseen ally in his work, Jake Ellis. Invisible to everyone else but Moore, Ellis advises him in dangerous situations, such as when to dodge incoming bullets. Who is Jake Ellis? is written by Nathan Edmondson with art by Tonci Zonjic. Image Comics will release the first issue on January 5th.
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Comics Reviews: 12/13/10
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Life in Comics: The Comics Network
Comics is a social industry, more social than any other I can think of. Ever since I’ve been in the industry, writers, artists, editors, and fans have interacted on message boards, forums, blogs, and now Facebook and Twitter. The co-mingling of creators and consumers is unique in creative industries, and it is one of the aspects of the comics world that makes it so much fun to work in. It’s also frequently a source of major dramaz, as the kids say.
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DMP Launches the Digital Manga Guild
In an aggressive move to digitize and electronically distribute manga to as vast and wide an audience as possible, Southern California based manga publisher, Digital Manga Publishing, has launched Digital Manga Guild, a new online project aimed at both lowering the cost and speeding up the translation of Japanese manga into English.
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BCGF: A Comics Show Grows in Brooklyn
Saving the best for last, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival wrapped up a busy year in New York comics shows with a bustling day devoted to small press, indie and literary comics and illustrated books. An estimated 3,200 fans jammed Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a day stuffed with panels and comics.
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Comics Briefly: 12/07/2010
High Level Promotions At DC, Segura Heads to Archie Comics, Marvel Pulls Fantastic 4 from Newsstands to Prevent Spoilers, DC's Teen Titan Raven Gets a TV Show,Don Rosa's Donald Duck to be Collected by Boom, Spider-Man Musical on SNL, Mike Mignola Video Interview, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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Zenescope, Discovery Create Comic For Shark Week
Zenescope is teaming up with the Discovery Channel to release Top 10 Dealiest Sharks, a tie-in to the network’s popular Shark Week. It’s the first graphic novel tie-in for the Discovery Channel
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Panel Mania: Zita the Spacegirl
After finding a remote control in a meteoroid, Zita opens a portal through which her best friend, Joseph, is abducted by aliens. Written and drawn by Ben Hatke, who has contributed to acclaimed color comics anthology Flight, Zita the Spacegirl follows Zita's adventures through alien worlds as she looks for her lost friend. First Second will release Zita the Spacegirl in February 2011.
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Comics Reviews: 12/06/10
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Comics Briefly 11/20/2010
Mark Millar Announces Kapow! Comic Con, Glyph Comics Awards Call for Submissions, Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Novel Festival, Kids Comics LA, Bent Con
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Tara Books Brings Bengali Art to the Civil Rights Movement
South Indian-based Tara Books' I See the Promised Land, an unusual graphic work based on the life of Martin Luther King, is the inaugural title in their new line of graphic novels that link the Bengali scroll art tradition with contemporary texts.
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A Cardboard Valise In A Digital World: The Comics of Ben Katchor
Cartoonist and MacArthur Fellow Ben Katchor is back with a new book, The Cardboard Valise, his first book in ten years. Pantheon will release the book in February along with an e-book version.
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The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival Is Back
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival returns for its second year on December 4 at the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church on North 8thStreet in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While shows like this are a familiar platform for small press and self-published comics and other graphic works, the BCGF is a bit different. Exhibiting at this show is by invitation only—a practice that has generated a few bruised feelings—and admission is free to the public.
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Panel Mania: Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity
Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity is written and drawn by Jeff Lemire, the creator of the award winning graphic novel trilogy Essex County. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the main character Gus is a human-animal hybrid, and in this volume he is held captive with other hybrids in a militia camp. In this preview, Gus meets his fellow captives and learns the severity of his situation. Sweet Tooth Vol. 2 will be released by Vertigo in comic stores on December 8 and in general bookstores on December 14.
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Comics Reviews: 11/29/10