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June 30, 2009

In this Issue
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News

  • Diamond's New Minimums Shape a Tough Comics Market
    Earlier this year, Diamond Comics Distributors, the dominant distributor to the roughly 3,000 store comics shop market, raised its minimum sales order and if a comic doesn’t reach the new advance minimum sales order, Diamond will not distribute it. The change sparked an immediate outcry from small comics presses, self-publishers and some retailers, who complained that the new minimum forces them out of the marketplace.
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  • Graphic Novel Lifts Curtain on Modeling Business
    Petite model Isobella Jade has already written a memoir, Almost 5’4”, and now she's written a fictional graphic novel based on her experiences in modeling. Model Life, illustrated by Jazmin Ruotolo, will be published by Soft Skull Press in October.
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  • New ICv2 Confab on Comics and Media Crossovers
    Milton Griepp, longtime comics and pop culture business analyst and CEO of ICv2, a pop culture trade news website, decided to take a closer look at the powerful connections between comics, the Hollywood film industry, TV and the videogame industry and has organized the Comics and Media Conference to be held on July 22, just before preview night at the San Diego Comic-con International. The new conference will focus on the lucrative business of turning comics into other kinds of media.
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Q&A

  • Scars and Stripes Forever: Peter Bagge's Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me
    This July, Fantagraphics Books once more unleashes the works of best-selling Hate comics creator Peter Bagge in Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me (And Other Astute Observations), a decade’s worth of cartoon reporting for Reason magazine. Armed with a Libertarian-leaning viewpoint and his signature bemused approach to his exploration of human foibles, Bagge skewers the early-twenty-first century American zeitgeist.
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The Manga Life

  • Ms. Finnegan Goes to Tokyo: The Manga Taisho Awards
    I'm in Tokyo to be fitted for my zero gravity wedding dress, but that's another story. I meet up with Ed Chavez, an American-born manga translator, freelance writer and now marketing director at Vertical Inc., for the Manga Taisho Award ceremony. We're waiting outside the Nippon Housou Building with a small group of other journalists. It's cold for March in Tokyo, and the sakura (cherry blossoms) have not fully bloomed, much to my disappointment.
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Reviews

  • Detroit Metal City, Vol. 1
    KIMINORI WAKASUGI. Viz, $12.99 paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-4215-2742-0
    Soichi Negishi is a sweet, kind of "soft" young man who loves the bubblegum sounds of Swedish pop music and dreams of creating such treacly tunes himself. But in order to keep a roof over his head, he rocks out hard as the gaudy/ridiculous Lord Krauser II, a demonically styled death metal guitarist and singer whose looks owe an immeasurable debt to both Gene Simmons of Kiss and Danish satanic rocker King Diamond. Fronting the band Detroit Metal City, Soichi sees the group’s popularity soar, but he loathes the unpleasantness of his stage persona and seeks to keep his real vocation from his friends and family while fruitlessly attempting to inject some of his own tender sensibilities into DMC's music.
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  • Goats: Infinite Typewriters
    JONATHAN ROSENBERG. Del Rey, $14 paper (140p) ISBN 978-0-345-51092-1
    The first mass-marketed collection of Rosenberg’s long-running sci-fi geek-comedy Web comic revels in its own weirdness—it plunges straight into a bar discussion between a chicken, a goat and some aliens, and keeps piling absurdity on absurdity. ("There is one steadfast maxim that I hold dear," one character notes: "an immortal super intelligent combat-trained zombie cyborg goldfish with a machine gun can have whatever the hell he wants.") The book’s first sequence ends with human protagonists Jon and Phillip convincing God to turn himself into a pork chop, then eating Him.
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Panel Mania

  • Panelmania: Comics from Sparkplug
    A selection of comics available from the mini-comics publisher and distributor Sparkplug: Reich #6 by Elijah Brubaker, Rock That Never Sleeps by Olga Volozova and Juliacks, and Windy Corner #3 edited by Austin English.
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Worth Repeating


    What I learned is that the checks cash just as well whether the movie is made or not. Whiteout was on and off several times since first being optioned in 2000, and I think the secret to all that not driving us [he and artist Steve Lieber] crazy is that it was never our goal to get a movie deal out of this. A lot of people are writing comics or graphic novels in the hopes of getting it made into a movie. That is a recipe for disappointment.

    —Comics writer Greg Rucka on the making of the Whiteout movie, coming in September. From The Dallas Morning News


Comics Briefly


  • -Quebecor Leaves Bankruptcy
    -Diamond Drops Yen Press Books
    -Asian American Comicon
    -Eisner Awards iPhone; iPod App
    -Netcomics at San Diego; Diamond Deal
    -Frank Frazetta Regains Rights to Art
    -Transformers Comics Top iTunes
    -Runaways Theme Song & Video
    -Bluewater Michael Jackson Comic
    -Archaia Launches Hardcover Promotion
    -Prism Comics Press Grant Call
    -Oni; Viper; Starz Talent Search
    -ICv2 Confab; G4 at San Diego
    -This Week @ Good Comics for Kids

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On-Sale Calendar

  • June 30, 2009

    -Broken Blade Vol 1 (CMX)
    -Daredevil: Father (Marvel)
    -Far Arden (Top Shelf)
    -Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Bandai)
    -Goats Vol. 1: Infinite Typewriters (Dark Horse)
    -Magic Trixie Vol 3 Magic Trixie And The Dragon (Harper Collins)
    -Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book (W.W. Norton)
    -Solomon Kane Vol 1 Castle Of The Devil (Dark Horse)
    -Strange Eggs Jumps The Shark (SLG)
    -Tales Designed To Thrizzle Vol 1 (Fantagraphics)


 
  


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