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Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 06/01/2009 @ 10:20PM

IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection; Tezuka’s Swallowing the Earth; The Original Human Torch; IFC, Dash Shaw Web Animation; Alan Moore's Future Shocks on iTunes; Madman Atomic Comics to End; Cartoon Art Museum Classes; Comics @ Impact University; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids; Gerberg Wins; Reuben; and This Week @ The Beat
PhotoMania: BookExpo America 2009

Photos by Calvin Reid and Jody Culkin | 06/01/2009 @ 10:14PM

BookExpo America 2009 received and enthusiastic response from comics publishers and here are a few photographs of comics artists and publishers at the show..
BookExpo America 2009: IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection

By Heidi MacDonald | 05/30/2009 @ 08:53PM

Continuing its efforts in literary/graphic novel crossovers, IDW Publishing has announced a major licensing agreement with the estate of acclaimed author Robert Bloch. IDW has the rights to develop 100 of Bloch’s short stories for various formats, to be known as the Robert Bloch Collection.
Eckhart Tolle and MUTTS Creator Become Co-Authors

By Lynn Andriani | 05/27/2009 @ 01:16PM

Three years ago, MUTTS comic strip creator Patrick McDonnell became interested in the work of Power of Now author Eckhart Tolle, and modeled one of his Sunday color comics on the cover of Tolle’s book Stillness Speaks. The comics artist decided to approach Tolle about working on a project together, and in October, Tolle’s publisher, New World Library, will release Guardians of Being, coauthored by Tolle and McDonnell.
BookExpo America 2009: Despite No-Shows, Many Comics, Graphic Novels at BEA

By Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald | 05/26/2009 @ 09:30PM

This year BEA will have fewer attendees, fewer galleys and reduced booth space for many giant publishers, but graphic novel publishers will still be there.
Anime Boston Brings Out Manga Publishers, Fans

by Erin Finnegan | 05/26/2009 @ 09:29PM

Held last weekend, Anime Boston attaracted more than 15,000 people, an increase over last year's attendance.
EW's Jeff Jensen Examines the Green River Killer

By Van Jensen | 05/26/2009 @ 09:28PM

Jeff Jensen is widely known as an Entertainment Weekly reporter, but his father, Tom Jensen, was the primary investigator into the Green River Killer, who murdered more than 40 women in the Seattle area in the 1980s and 1990s.
Underground Comix and the Transformation of the American Comic Book

by Steve Bunche | 05/26/2009 @ 09:27PM

This revolutionary era of underground comics is preserved and celebrated with great aplomb in Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix by co-authors James Danky and Denis Kitchen, published this month by Abrams ComicsArts.
Panelmania: Anime Boston 2009

| 05/26/2009 @ 08:05PM

This past weekend, PWCW roamed the floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston to bring back lively photographs of the exhibitors and attendees at this year’s Anime Boston convention. Photos are by Erin Finnegan.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 05/26/2009 @ 07:51PM

Carol Burrell to Draw Kindred GN; CBLDF Membership Drive; Guilty Plea on Manga Obscenity Case; 2008 Reuben Awards; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids and This Week @ The Beat
Viz Media Launches IKKI, New Online Magazine Venture

By Kai-Ming Cha | 05/21/2009 @ 02:15PM

In the wake of the cancellation of its print Shojo Beat manga fan magazine, manga and anime publisher Viz Media will launch IKKI, a new online magazine venture that will be used as promotional vehicle and to launch new works and to solicit feedback on whether to release some titles in print.
Viz Cancels 'Shojo Beat' Manga Teen Mag

By Calvin Reid | 05/20/2009 @ 04:28PM

Viz Media has cancelled Shojo Beat, a 3 year-old manga fan magazine that doubled as marketing vehicle for Viz manga titles, and the July issue will be the last.
Fantagraphics to Publish Lincoln Butterfield Graphic Novel

by Calvin Reid | 05/19/2009 @ 09:28PM

Seattle-based indie comics publisher Fantagraphics Books and animation developer Lincoln Butterfield have agreed to collaborate on the publication of a graphic novel based on RIP, M.D., an animated cartoon series in development by Lincoln Butterfield.
New Venue for ECBACC ’09; Same Good Vibe

By Terri Heard | 05/19/2009 @ 07:30PM

The venue was new and the main speaker, filmmaker Kevin Grevioux, had to cancel but the spirit of conviviality was undimmed at the 20009 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention held May 16 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia.
Comics Publishers Turn to Discounted Single Issues

by Chris Murphy | 05/19/2009 @ 07:29PM

DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment are two publishers that are using the comics shop specialty market to offer specially discounted promotional periodical issues that they hope will appeal to consumers looking for a bit more value for their comics dollar.
A New Century; A New Publisher for Alan Moore’s LOEG

by Peter Sanderson | 05/19/2009 @ 07:26PM

The first two volumes of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, chronicled a world in which characters out of 19th century fiction are real people. In the third volume, they turn to the 20th century.
Panelmania: Far Arden

Compiled by Ada Price | 05/18/2009 @ 04:22PM

In his search for the mythic artic paradise Far Arden, Army Shanks fights off numerous obstacles such as the half polar bear man in this preview of Far Arden by Kevin Cannon. The book will be released Top Shelf on May 29th.
Papercutz to Publish Disney Fairies Graphic Novels

Calvin Reid | 05/18/2009 @ 01:17PM

Papercutz, a New York City-based graphic novel publisher focused on teen readers, has reached an agreement to produce a series of graphic novels based on Disney Fairies, a series of bestselling prose chapter books drawn from the novels of Gail Carson Levine and constructed around the well-known Disney fairy character Tinker Bell.
Webcomics, Storytelling and Books from 'Smith' Online Magazine

by Ada Price | 05/12/2009 @ 09:30PM

Launched as a website specializing in “personal passionate storytelling,” the online magazine Smith has managed to become a platform for a series of webcomics based on eccentric and personal narratives.
Toronto Comic Arts Festival Emphasizes the Arts

by MK Reed | 05/12/2009 @ 09:29PM

Cartooning legends from around the world mingled with enthusiastic readers at the fourth Toronto Comics Arts Festival, held May 9-10 at the Toronto Reference Library. The biannual show drew crowds estimated to be in excess of the previous year’s 6,000 attendees, though official numbers will not be available until the end of the week.

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