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DC Takes Jeremy Love’s Bayou from Web to Print

Launched in October 2007 by DC Comics to solicit and introduce original comics material online, Zuda.com is releasing a print version of Jeremy Love’s Bayou (with color by Patrick Morgan) in June—the first printed book-format work to be released by the online site. And while Bayou is the first Zuda webcomic to make it to print, it won't be the last: DC plans to release more print versions of original Zuda webcomics later this year.

Zuda is planning to release Bayou in three volumes, with around 500 pages in all. The second volume is slated to come out in early 2010, according to Love. Nominated this year for five Glyph awards—the Glyphs honor the best African American characters created in a variety of comics formats—Bayou follows a young African-American girl in 1930’s segregated Mississippi, who sets off on an adventure in a fantastical South to save her father, who is wrongly accused of a crime.

Ongoing Zuda comics are generally chosen via a monthly competition between ten original online comics in which users comment and vote on their favorite comics, acting as a kind of virtual reader/editor/contest judge. After a comic wins, the creators are offered a contract to continue the winning work as an ongoing series on Zuda.com.

Emerald City Brings In the Green

Emerald City ComiCon is taking shape as a smaller-scale, lower-pressure version of New York or San Diego's conventions.

Colorful Kim Dong Hwa is A Big New Voice in American Comics

Kim Dong Hwa’s trilogy tracing the life of a young girl in nineteenth-century Korea was noteworthy for its complex portrayal of women and its popularity with both male and female readers.
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A shy young woman lost in the corporate machine tries to escape her anonymity in this exclusive 16-page preview from The Eternal Smile, a graphic novel containing three short stories produced by American Born Chinese creator Gene Luen Yang and Same Difference author Derek Kirk Kim. The Eternal Smile will be published by First Second on April 28th.
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Superman, Super Teacher: Using Comics to Teach Reading

If I had to choose a Facebook-style status for my relationship with comics, it would be "It's complicated." I imagine it's the same for many of us who work in the comic book industry. But once in a while, you meet someone whose pure enjoyment of comic books is so uncomplicated that you're both delighted and envious. For me, one of those people is Gary Shapiro, who was a fellow student in the San Jose State University graduate creative writing program.

Far Arden
KEVIN CANNON. Top Shelf, $19.95 paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-60309-036-0

In this fanciful tale set in arctic Canada, disparate characters struggle to find a mythic paradise island, Far Arden. Despite far-fetched aspects like the evil, bureaucracy-controlled Royal Canadian Arctic Navy, a half-man/half–polar bear and a conniving university professor of psychology, the story becomes mundane through the intertwining character relations and attention to detail in constructing the world. The protagonist, a stoic, rugged arctic pirate, Army Shanks, searches for the island to reunite with his mentor, Simon Arctavis, but is hindered by old acquaintances and ill-fortune. Slowly, the reader becomes immersed in this alternate arctic world. Commonplace and strange are fused, as rants on the dangers of global warming transition into a battle with a polar bear. The thick crosshatched backgrounds and simple fluid characters further ground the story. As the entwined pasts of Army, his ex, her current husband, a college couple and an orphan bent on revenge for his father’s murder are revealed, entwining pasts become clear and the full range of this engrossing story is revealed. (May)
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"I was tired of repeating my story over and over again, so I put it in a book. It's the best way to tell a story without being interrupted."

—Marjane Satrapi quips about her inspiration for creating Persepolis during a visit to the University of Pennsylvania. From The Daily Pennsylvanian.


April 8, 2009
  • Alan Moore: Light of Thy Countenance (Avatar)
  • The Color of Earth Vol. 1 (First Second)
  • The Dylan Dog Case Files (Dark Horse)
  • Hellblazer Presents: Chaz – The Knowledge (DC)
  • Marvel Illustrated: Moby Dick (Marvel)
  • Popgun Vol. 3 (Image)
  • Top Ten Vol. 1 (DC)
  • Wolverine: Prodigal Son Vol. 1 (Del Rey)
  • X-Men: Misfits Vol. 1 (Del Rey)
  • Yuri Monogatari Vol. 6 (ALC)

  • 2009 Eisner Award Nominees
  • Vertigo Crime Arrives in August
  • Swamp Thing Reviewed on NPR
  • Winick's Pedro and Me Reissued
  • 60's Spidey Toon Free Online
  • Free Naruto Preview
  • Comics 101 Primer
  • YA Author Goes Graphic
  • Bristol Comic Expo and Small Press Expo
  • New Geary Treasury of Murder
  • Vampire D3 Contest

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