PW Comics Week
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New Publishers, More Titles at Yaoi-Con 2006
Yaoi mangaka Asia Watanabe. |
Tokyopop's Blu Manga imprint and a newly recovered Central Park Media were joined by newer publishers like DramaQueen, Iris Print and 801 Media at the sixth annual Yaoi-con, held this past weekend at the Westin and Clarion Hotels in Millbrae, Calif. Official attendance figures have not been released, but while neither the panels nor the floor were crowded, overall attendance looked healthy for a convention focused on a niche genre.
Yaoi manga is focused on stories about beautiful boys in intense relationships with other boys. But while yaoi's popularity continues to grow, the problems of publishing and distributing yaoi with explicit sexual content was a major topic of discussion. Blu Manga, an imprint of Tokyopop specializing in bawdier yaoi, has the widest distribution and consistently maintains a $9.99 price point for its books. During the Blu Manga panel, Tokyopop editor Lillian M. Diaz-Przybyl spoke of the greater challenges faced by publishers offering explicit content.
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 Seven Seas Launches Yuri Line
Manga house Seven Seas Entertainment has announced plans for a line of yuri titles, a genre of Japanese manga focused on girl/girl relationships.
 Unshelved: Laughter in the Stacks
Unshelved's Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum are Web comics' patron saints of the library
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Set in a new ice age a thousand years in the future, Nicolas De Crecy’s Glacial Period explores a strange future world. In this 12-page preview, a group of archeologists discover a forgotten grand building buried under the ancient ice and snow. The building is the Louvre and they examine the art that remains, spinning a series of absurd interpretations about just what it all means. The book is produced with the cooperation of the Louvre and is due from NBM this week.
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Blab!’s Odd Couple
Blab!, the venerable comics/art anthology edited by Monte Beauchamp, has long been the epicenter of the low-brow art movement. In recent years, Beauchamp began expanding the line with the Picto-Novelette series: handsome hardcover storybooks by some of the finest artists of the movement. The latest duo of Blab! Picto-Novelettes, Drew Friedman's Old Jewish Comedians and Camille Rose Garcia's The Magic Bottle, are on opposite sides of the Blab! spectrum.
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Abraxas and the Earthman
RICK VEITCH. King Hell (Diamond) , $16.95 paper (88p) ISBN 0-9624864-8-5
This first collected edition of the seminal graphic novel published in serial form during the early 1980s brings a powerful psychedelic journey into print. Veitch (The Maximortal; Can’t Get No) astounds with a heartfelt tale that is equal parts Herman Melville, consciousness expansion, environmental treatise and gripping sci-fi adventure replete with space battles and all manner of exotic extraterrestrials. The story follows cetologist John Isaac, who is shanghaied from a naval research mission, along with the submarine’s commanding officer. The pair is thrust into the thick of mad Captain Rotwang’s interstellar vendetta
against Abraxas, a space-faring crimson leviathan who cost the captain his leg and, arguably, much of his sanity. As both earthmen are put through horrific physical alterations, Isaac discovers to his shock—and dawning fascination—that he may be the nexus between humanity and a great cosmic truth of staggering proportions. A lush and thought-proving narrative is seamlessly expressed through a script that veers between extremes of wide-eyed wonder and outright horror. The febrile illustrations disgust—Isaac loses his skin early on—without losing the essential humanity of this powerful tale. (Nov.) |
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Ivan Brunetti’s Idiosyncratic "Best-of"
Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo put aside his pen and paper for a while and embarked on a journey to put together an anthology for Yale University Press that gathers works from R. Crumb to Lynda Barry and everything in between. The criteria for inclusion was essentially his personal taste. The result is a terrific primer for people new to the medium, a textbook for teaching comics and a nice collection of all the greats in one place for the seasoned comics fan.
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October 24, 2006
- American Virgin: Head (DC/Vertigo)
- Black Panther: The Bride (Marvel)
- Cartoon America (Abrams Books)
- Clive Barker's The Great And Secret Show (IDW Publishing)
- Daredevil: Devil Inside And Out (Marvel)
- Let Us Be Perfectly Clear (Fantagraphics)
- Liberty Meadows: Cover Girl (Image)
- Lisey's Story (Simon & Schuster)
- Red Sonja (Dynamite Entertainment)
- Rin Vol. 1 (Digital Manga Publishing)
- Samurai Elf: Set Apart (Iberian Press)
- Street Magik (Dynamite Entertainmant)
- Supermarket (IDW Publishing)
- Twin Signal (Anime Works Publications)
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- Corto Maltese returns from Heavy Metal
- Pope Does FF Anniversary Ish
- Fantagraphics Sells Out
- Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland this weekend
- Naruto Goes on the Road
- Blair Butler's Friday Reviews on G4TV
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