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Tokyopop, Harper Team To Release ‘Shutter Island’ Graphic Novel

By Calvin Reid | 09/25/2009 @ 06:30PM

Graphic novel publisher Tokyopop is working in conjunction with HarperCollins to release a comics adaptation of bestselling novelist Dennis Lehane’s psychological thriller Shutter Island in January 2010 in time for the February release of a new Martin Scorsese film based on the novel.
Toon Treasury: Open Sesame

By Brigid Alverson | 09/22/2009 @ 08:32PM

With The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics, published this month by Abrams, Art Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly, are bringing comics classics to kids of a new generation. “Comic books were considered the most disposable ephemera, yet clearly those who grew up with them cherished them,” Spiegelman says. “It seems like some of the most important literature for children in the middle of the 20th century is in these comic books.”
An Anime Canon for All

by Erin Finnegan | 09/22/2009 @ 08:31PM

In June, the Penguin Group released The Rough Guide to Anime by Simon Richmond. The book establishes a canon of 50 must-see films and TV anime series, as well as reviews of 150 notable titles, and a brief history of anime.
Conspiracy, Comics and a ‘Red Herring’

By Ben McCool | 09/22/2009 @ 08:30PM

Written by David Tischman and drawn by Philip Bond, Wildstorm’s new six-issue mini-series, Red Herring, concentrates on an intriguing and complex tale of conspiracy, betrayal and murder.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/22/2009 @ 04:03PM
Capstone to Add Kids' Nonfiction Graphic Novel Line

By Calvin Reid | 09/21/2009 @ 01:14PM

Capstone Press, a nonfiction imprint of Capstone Publishers, plans to add a new line of kids' nonfiction graphic novels to its fast growing comics and graphic novel publishing program. This fall the house is launching Graphic Expeditions, a nonfiction line of graphic novels that will debut with six titles that aim to introduce young readers to social studies, history and world cultures. The new line will feature the archaeologist Dr. Isabel “Izzy” Soto...
Panel Mania: Refresh, Refresh

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/20/2009 @ 05:57PM

In Refresh, Refresh three teenage boys come to age in a small Oregon town where all the men, including their fathers, are away fighting in Iraq. While waiting for their fathers—and hitting the refresh button on their email—the boys fight, drink and discover that the world is not as simple as they thought. Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff will be released by First Second in October.
DC Comics Reorganizes as DC Entertainment

by Heidi MacDonald | 09/15/2009 @ 08:30PM

The winds of change once again blew over the comics industry last week, as Warner Bros. announced a major restructuring and executive changes at DC Comics. The home of Superman and Batman will become part of a larger division called DC Entertainment, to be run by WB branding veteran Diane Nelson.
Ed Brubaker: Crime, Superheroes and Comic Book History

By Kiel Phegley | 09/15/2009 @ 08:29PM

Comics writer Ed Brubaker's body of work stretches beyond the superhero genre and into gritty crime dramas and dark espionage tales. This November, two of his series, Criminal and Incognito, will ship new book collections—a debut trade paperback for Incognito and an oversized hardcover omnibus for Criminal, which will feature a new story arc called "The Sinners."
R. Sikoryak’s Comics Masterpiece

by Bill Kartalopoulos | 09/15/2009 @ 08:28PM

R. Sikoryak's dead-on recreations of historical cartooning styles—utilized to adapt canonical Western literature—were immediately striking as witty, smart, and intensely well-crafted manifestations of the postmodern impulse within the comics form.
Jewish Life and Comics in ‘The Big Kahn’

by Sasha Watson | 09/15/2009 @ 08:27PM

Superheroes, action comics and horror stories—comics writer Neil Kleid does it all. But in an unusual twist, two of Kleid’s recent books, have pointed their story-telling lens at Jewish life and history. Brownsville, which came out in 2006, is set in 1930’s Brooklyn in the world of the Jewish mob, and his newest book, The Big Kahn, is a family drama that takes place in a contemporary Orthodox Jewish community
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/15/2009 @ 05:24PM

Reed Combines NYCC, NYAF at Javits Center; Stitches Online Video; SPX Programming Listing ; A Day for the Bookstores; Seven Seas Manga For Kindle; Archie, Veronica Wed; Old Characters Return; Full House Comes To Netcomics; and Picture Box; Top Shelf Offer Book Sales;
Panel Mania: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/14/2009 @ 02:51PM

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is an examination of the life and ideas of the mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, which surveys both his increasingly messy personal life and the intellectual issues that motivated his groundbreaking work in mathematics and logic. Logicomix is written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna, and will be released by Bloomsbury in October.
The Shows Go On with Lance Fensterman

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/08/2009 @ 08:30PM

Lance Fensterman is increasingly running an empire of his own. As v-p at Reed Exhibitions, not only is he the show runner for BookExpo America and the four-year-old New York Comic Con, but a growing portfolio of consumer shows, including the just-concluded video game show PAX (in partnership with founders Penny Arcade), the New York Anime Festival (to be held Sept. 25-27), and next April's C2E2 comics show in Chicago.
Tokyopop: Good News, Bad News

by Brigid Alverson | 09/08/2009 @ 08:29PM

The past week was a mixed bag for manga publisher Tokyopop: They revealed they would no longer be doing business with the Japanese publisher Kodansha but also announced a handful of new licenses and put several stalled series back on schedule.
ADV Shuts Down; Assets, Staff Shift to New Companies

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/08/2009 @ 08:28PM

U.S. anime distributor and manga publisher AD Vision is no more. The company's assets (and an undetermined number of its employees) have been divided up among four separate companies: AEsir Holdings, SXion 23 (Section 23) Films, Valkyrie Media Partners, and Seraphim Studios. Section 23 will continue to service former ADV accounts.
September Comics Bestsellers

by Calvin Reid | 09/08/2009 @ 08:27PM

Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid: Last Straw continues its long run at the top, followed by Viz’s Vampire Knight vol. 7, Naruto and Tokyopop’s Fruits Basket, Vol. 23. Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader is #5 and just below the Top Ten are Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter, David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp and David Petersen’s Mouse Guard: Winter 1152.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 09/08/2009 @ 04:34PM

Del Rey Hosts New York Anime Fest Party, ‘Action Philosophers’ Collected, Jaime Hernandez Book Signing in L.A., Spiegelman, Mouly Sign in New York City; Ben Katchor In Concert; and This Week @ Good Comics for Kids
Costumes and Comics at Dragon Con

By Kate Fitzsimons | 09/08/2009 @ 12:27PM

Dragon Con, North America's largest fan-run pop culture convention, was held in downtown Atlanta over the Labor Day weekend. Now in its twenty-second year, Dragon Con is remarkable not merely for its size—the annual show generally attracts more than 30,000 fans—but for its remarkable variety.
Panel Mania: Beast

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/04/2009 @ 07:23PM

In Beast, the first solo graphic novel by Marian Churchland, Colette, a struggling young sculptor, is commissioned by the mysterious man to carve his portrait in marble. Over the course of the job, Colette discovers it is more sinister than it seemed. Beast, published by Image Comics, will be in stores on September 23rd.

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