DC Comics to Launch Zudacomics.com

DC Comics has announced plans for Zudacomics.com, a Webcomics imprint and online community that will solicit original Web comics from fans for Web serialization and possible print publication. The majority of the comics published by the site will be selected by the Zudacomics community, which will vote in monthly competitions to pick the best comics submitted to the site. Winners will be published online for a year and published in print.

Zudacomics.com will begin soliciting comics for the site July 9 and begin promotions during the upcoming San Diego Comic-con in preparation for the site’s official launch in October. The site will be directed by Ron Perazza, DC director of creative services, Kwanza Johnson, DC Comics online editor, and Richard Bruning, DC senior v-p, creative director.

Perazza said the new imprint will use the Web to find new comics talent and to publish original comics in a wide variety of styles and genres. He called the process "like a portfolio review," and emphasized "this is not for the DC Universe; it’s not a place to submit your Batman story." According to Perazza, DC will be"open to any genre; biography, romance, whatever. We will support a variety of art styles, display the work well and give everyone who submits material a fair shake."

The Man with No Name Rides to Dynamite
Dynamite Entertainment has announced a new monthly comics series based on western movie hero The Man with No Name.

Comics Bestsellers July 2007
Tite Kubo's Bleach Vol. 19 takes over the top spot in this month's list, but Abrams, DC and Marvel also chart.

Kodansha to Publish Megatokyo in Japan
Kodansha will publish a Japanese language edition of Megatokyo, the American original manga Web comic and book series created by Fred Gallagher.
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In this 9-page preview of G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker's Cairo, the book's hero comes into possession of a genie in a hookah, in a story that brings the Egyptian city vividly to life. PWCW interviewed Wilson in July 2006. Cairo will be published by DC/Vertigo in November.
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Looking for a Few Good Stories
By James A. Owen
There's an interesting shift happening in publishing regarding comic books and graphic novels, which I was able to observe firsthand while attending one of the two comics-oriented conventions that took place recently in Toronto. More than ever, readers, retailers and the book publishing industry in general are unconcerned about the published form a story takes. It can be a prose novel, an illustrated novel or a graphic novel—no one cares as long as it's a good story.

Arf Forum
EDITED BY CRAIG YOE. Fantagraphics, $19.95 paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-56097-832-9

Readers will find this book doing strange and wonderful things to their minds. Imagine someone going through old magazines and stopping whenever an unusual picture or story catches his attention. Then imagine this reader taking the time to cut out the oddities and stick them in a file folder. And finally imagine someone selecting the most unusual, striking things out of a drawer filled with such folders and printing them in an elegantly designed, lovingly printed anthology. Arf Forum features Max Ernst's surrealist collages (a man with the head of an Easter Island statue cavorting in various melodramatic scenes) as well as a sleazy photo story from the early 1940s about a visit to a comics studio where girls pose in their underwear. Yoe's warm memoir of a meeting with cartoonist Bill Holman (Smoky Stover) shows the modern audience how dazzling this comic strip was, while a piece about ultra-obscure artist William Ekgren (known only for three covers) offers a tantalizing glimpse of an unfulfilled talent. Yoe fills this volume to the gills: Stan Lee on irate readers, Italian cartoonist Kremos's girly cartoons, a photo of Elvis reading a Betty and Veronica comic. There's no overall theme here except "Isn't this cool!" but that's enough; it is cool. (July)
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Anita Blake Stakes Out Comics

Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the bestselling Anita Blake series of urban fantasy novels, sexually charged, plot-driven thrillers set in a world where vampires are real. Marvel is adapting her first three novels—Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse and Service of the Damned—as comic books that Hamilton is writing with Stacie Ritchie. In this exclusive interview she talks about taking her fearless vampire hunter to comics for the first time.
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July 11 2007
  • Flight Vol. 4 (Random House)
  • Spent (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Silverfish (DC/ Vertigo)
  • Stop Forgetting to Remember (Random House)
  • X-Men Phoenix Warsong (Marvel)
  • Rex Libris (Amaze Ink/ Slave Labor Graphics)
  • Black Sun Silver Moon Vol. 2 (Go! Comics)
  • Clubbing (DC/ Minx)
  • Run Bong-Gu Run (NBM)
  • Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence Vol. 1: After the long Goodbye
  • Bone Vol. 6: Old Mans Cave (Graphix)
  • Nightfall (Image)


  • San Diego Comic-Con Programming
  • Kuper, Pyle Events in NYC
  • New Yaoi Convention

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