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Upcoming Comics Events: June 10, 2013
6/14 Way & Cloonan Signing in Anaheim, CA; 6/14-6/16 Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con in Las Vegas, NV; 6/15-6/16 The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo in Chiacgo, IL
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DC Entertainment Introduces DC2 Interactive Comics
With their digital comics sales surging, DC Entertainment announced two new “enhanced” storytelling formats which they hope will offer innovative storytelling possibilities.
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BEA 2013: Comics and Graphic Novels Find New Markets
Much like the overall BookExpo America, the comics and graphic novel presence at the show was smaller than in the past but comics exhibitors also projected a sense of stability and optimism about the future of the industry.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 6/3/2013
6/5 Peter David in New York, NY; 6/5 Neil Gaiman in Cambridge, MA; 6/7-6/10 HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC
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Hocking Begins Digital Release of ‘The Hollowland Graphic Novel’
Novelist Amanda Hocking has teamed with Dynamite Comics to digitally release The Hollows: A Hollowland Graphic Novel, a comics adaptation of her 2010 zombie novel. First Chapter is free.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 5/28/2013
5/29-6/2: Comic Festival München; 5/30-6/2: Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con; 5/31: Scott Snyder & Sean Murphy The Wake Signing; 5/31-6/2: Denver Comic Con.
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Rutu Modan: Family Fictions
Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan, best known for her Eisner Award winning 2008 graphic novel Exit Wounds (D&Q), returns with a new graphic novel called The Property.
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Kindle Worlds: The Economics of Crowdsourcing Media Tie-In Novels
Amazon and Alloy Media have announced a deal to officially license fan fiction via the Kindle Worlds program. How does this new royalty based fan fiction model compare to the traditional media tie-in model for authors?
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Annual ECBACC Festival Honors Indie Black Comics
Indie black comics creators gathered in Philadelphia to showoff new comics to the fans, honor the 20th anniversary of Milestone Media, cosplay and present the Glyph Comics Awards for the best African American characters of the preceding year.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 5/20/2013
5/20 Lisa Hanawalt: My Dirty Dumb Eyes Book Launch and Signing in Brooklyn, NY; 5/23-25 Sixth Annual International Comic Arts Forum in Portland, OR; May 23-26 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, AZ
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Upcoming Comics Events: 5/13/2013
5/22 Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba Signing in Portland, OR; 5/30 Edwin Huang "All New Secret Skullkickers #1" Signing in New York, NY; 6/1-6/2 Third Annual Latino Comics Expo in San Francisco, CA
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Global Comics a Hit at Toronto Comic Arts Festival
A flood of readers filled the Toronto Reference Library for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, as creators from around the world showcased the latest graphic novels.
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Archie Comics Grows Book Side
Like most comics publishers, Archie Comics, home to America’s favorite fictional redheaded teenager, has historically focused its distribution on newsstand sales and the comics specialty market.
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Not Your Parents’ Sex Manual
Originally launched as a print zine that invoked the legacy of 1970s feminist underground comix, Not Your Mother's Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book is a quirky but serious anthology that brings together candid personal commentary in the form of minicomics aimed at educating young people about sex and sexuality.
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Bob Fingerman Talks to Robert Kirkman about ‘Maximum Minimum Wage’
Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman talks with Bob Fingerman about Minimum Wage, his semi-autobiographical comic about the lives of Sylvia and Rob in an ultra-realistic New York City, now republished, in all its hilariously demented glory, in an oversized edition called Maximum Minimum Wage, just out from Image Comics.
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Abrams ComicArts to Publish Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred'
Abrams ComicArts plans to publish a comics adaptation of renowned science-fiction author Octavia Butler’s acclaimed novel, Kindred, and noted that the book will be edited by newly hired senior editor Carol Burrell, who was originally chosen to adapt and draw the adaptation herself for another publisher back in 2009.
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Control Freak: The Prickly, Hostile World of Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge is one of the most striking and popular talents in alternative comics, as evidenced by his two Eisner nominations this year; in conversation with James Romberger, he reveals the secrets of his intense personal world.
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Fantagraphics Books Grows, Looks to Digital
Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books has grown from publishing only The Comics Journal, an often controversial monthly publication focused on news of the comics industry and criticism of the comics medium, into one of the foremost publishers of comics, graphic novels and related works in the world.



