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Marvel To Sell The Stand Exclusively Via Comics Shops

Faced with restrictions on the distribution of its much-anticipated comics adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic bestseller, The Stand, Marvel Comics is working to turn them into a plus. After releasing the series in periodical form in the fall of last year, Marvel announced plans to release the hardcover graphic novel, The Stand: Captain Trips, on March 10 exclusively through the comics shop market.

Although the decision to release the book exclusively in comics shops is due to the conditions of the license Marvel received from the book’s publisher—originally Doubleday, which is now a part of Random House—Marvel is nevertheless working aggressively to turn those restrictions into a bonanza for comics shops. The comics shop market, comprised of about 3000 specialty stores around the country that buy inventory on a non-returnable basis at wholesale, has been the primary retail channel for the comics industry since the 1980s. But over the last 10 years the bookstore market—bookstore chains and online retailers—has opened up many new outlets for graphic novel sales.

Crunchyroll Goes Legit to Build Anime, Manga Fandom

In a waning economy, a small social networking start-up focused on Japanese pop cultural material may offer an effective marketing platform for manga and anime aimed at the American market.

Sarah Glidden's 60-Day Crash Course

A young cartoonist's Birthright trip to Israel is the inspiration for an upcoming graphic novel due from Vertigo.




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Kaput and Zosky creator Lewis Trondheim explores everything from volcanos to his own nasal cavities in this 6-page preview of Little Nothings: The Prisoner Syndrome, the latest collection of his engaging observations about everyday life. The Prisoner Syndrome is due out on March 1st from NBM Publishing.
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"Suggested For Mature Readers": Tim Pilcher’s Erotic Comics

Since homo sapiens first picked up a hunk of charred wood and scrawled images across the walls of caves, there has been the undeniable urge to create and view works depicting the myriad expressions of human sexuality. Providing insight into the sexual attitudes, fears and desires of countless diverse cultures, erotic art has been considered both sacred and profane, depending on the beholder.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe
BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY. Oni, $11.95 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-934964-10-1

In the previous four volumes, our slacker hero got the band together, got a job and got the girl. Now he has to learn how to live with "happily ever after" and finds that there is no such thing. The previous four volumes of O’Malley’s cult hit established the world of Pilgrim, a 24-year-old without any actual skills other than presumed awesomeness. To win the hand of the lovely Ramona Flowers, he must defeat her seven "Evil Ex-Boyfriends" in video-game style battles that incarnate millennial anxieties over finding love, holding a job and somehow managing to stay cool all at once. This time out, he’s got to fight the handsome twins Kyle and Ken Katayanagi who are even more awesome than Scott himself. More importantly, now that he and Ramona are cohabiting, they face danger from the jealousies and insecurities of couplehood. O’Malley’s cartooning has gotten better and better, and there are moments of comedy, high action and even poetry, as when Scott and a ball gown–clad Ramona flee an insufferable party in a daring escape. This penultimate chapter of the Scott Pilgrim saga is one of the strongest ones yet and should win new readers in droves, especially with a Pilgrim movie slated for the end of the year. (Feb.)

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"...it's an absolute fact that all comics editors and publishers, myself included, rely on at least one creator who they believe to be sublimely talented but who everyone else rightly knows should be cleaning pools for living. I don't know why this one blind spot exists so relentlessly, but it's so absolutely true that I've come to accept it as some sort of weird Necessary Impurity built into the editorial desk."

 —Comic creator and Boom! Comics editor Mark Waid, on the hazards of editing comics in a post on Kung Fu Monkey


February 25, 2009
  • Dan Dare Omnibus Vol. 1 (Dynamite)
  • Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury (Fantagraphics)
  • In The Flesh (Random House)
  • Humbug (Fantagraphics)
  • Marvel Illustrated Treasure Island (Marvel)
  • Mome Vol. 14 (Fantagraphics)
  • North World Vol. 2 (Oni)
  • Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei Vol. 1 (Del Rey)
  • Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1 (DC)
  • Welcome to Hoxford (IDW)

  • MoCCA Watchmen Benefit Screening
  • DeMatteis Comic Free To Schools
  • Eagle One Brings IDW Backlist Online
  • Middleman Finale Released As Comic
  • Spike: After The Fall Collected
  • Free Donna Barr Downloads
  • Hudson, Walton Blog Cerebus

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