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  • Life in Comics: The Comics Network

    Comics is a social industry, more social than any other I can think of. Ever since I’ve been in the industry, writers, artists, editors, and fans have interacted on message boards, forums, blogs, and now Facebook and Twitter. The co-mingling of creators and consumers is unique in creative industries, and it is one of the aspects of the comics world that makes it so much fun to work in. It’s also frequently a source of major dramaz, as the kids say.

  • DMP Launches the Digital Manga Guild

    In an aggressive move to digitize and electronically distribute manga to as vast and wide an audience as possible, Southern California based manga publisher, Digital Manga Publishing, has launched Digital Manga Guild, a new online project aimed at both lowering the cost and speeding up the translation of Japanese manga into English.

  • BCGF: A Comics Show Grows in Brooklyn

    Saving the best for last, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival wrapped up a busy year in New York comics shows with a bustling day devoted to small press, indie and literary comics and illustrated books. An estimated 3,200 fans jammed Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a day stuffed with panels and comics.

  • Comics Briefly: 12/07/2010

    High Level Promotions At DC, Segura Heads to Archie Comics, Marvel Pulls Fantastic 4 from Newsstands to Prevent Spoilers, DC's Teen Titan Raven Gets a TV Show,Don Rosa's Donald Duck to be Collected by Boom, Spider-Man Musical on SNL, Mike Mignola Video Interview, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat

  • Zenescope, Discovery Create Comic For Shark Week

    Zenescope is teaming up with the Discovery Channel to release Top 10 Dealiest Sharks, a tie-in to the network’s popular Shark Week. It’s the first graphic novel tie-in for the Discovery Channel

  • Panel Mania: Zita the Spacegirl

    After finding a remote control in a meteoroid, Zita opens a portal through which her best friend, Joseph, is abducted by aliens. Written and drawn by Ben Hatke, who has contributed to acclaimed color comics anthology Flight, Zita the Spacegirl follows Zita's adventures through alien worlds as she looks for her lost friend. First Second will release Zita the Spacegirl in February 2011.

  • Comics Reviews: 12/06/10

  • Comics Briefly 11/20/2010

    Mark Millar Announces Kapow! Comic Con, Glyph Comics Awards Call for Submissions, Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Novel Festival, Kids Comics LA, Bent Con

  • Tara Books Brings Bengali Art to the Civil Rights Movement

    South Indian-based Tara Books' I See the Promised Land, an unusual graphic work based on the life of Martin Luther King, is the inaugural title in their new line of graphic novels that link the Bengali scroll art tradition with contemporary texts.

  • A Cardboard Valise In A Digital World: The Comics of Ben Katchor

    Cartoonist and MacArthur Fellow Ben Katchor is back with a new book, The Cardboard Valise, his first book in ten years. Pantheon will release the book in February along with an e-book version.

  • The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival Is Back

    The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival returns for its second year on December 4 at the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church on North 8thStreet in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While shows like this are a familiar platform for small press and self-published comics and other graphic works, the BCGF is a bit different. Exhibiting at this show is by invitation only—a practice that has generated a few bruised feelings—and admission is free to the public.

  • Panel Mania: Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity

    Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity is written and drawn by Jeff Lemire, the creator of the award winning graphic novel trilogy Essex County. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the main character Gus is a human-animal hybrid, and in this volume he is held captive with other hybrids in a militia camp. In this preview, Gus meets his fellow captives and learns the severity of his situation. Sweet Tooth Vol. 2 will be released by Vertigo in comic stores on December 8 and in general bookstores on December 14.

  • Comics Reviews: 11/29/10

  • Comics Briefly: 11/23/2010

    San Diego Comic Con Sales Crash Again, Angouleme Festival Announces Official Selections, Tokyo Once Again Tries to Ban Hentai, Hit Manga Creator Starts Legal Free Manga Site, Viz Brings Out Unedited Tenjho Tenge, Amy Reeder Batwoman Signing and Art Exhibition, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat

  • After Five Years BOOM! Still Makes Noise

    What do Philip K. Dick, Stan Lee, Roger Langridge, Mark Waid and Darkwing Duck have in common? They're all publishing stars at BOOM! Studios, the LA-based comics publisher that has weathered the economic storms of the last five years to become a company that's consistently in the top seven publishers.

  • Comics Reviews: 11/22/10

  • Panel Mania: Strange Tales II

    Marvel's Strange Tales series has collected a variety of indie comics artists' offering less-than-reverent interpretations of the superheroes of the Marvel Universe. The final issue of the second volume will be released on December 8. This exclusive preview of Strange Tales II #3 includes a page from Dean Haspiel's story, "The Left Hand of Boom," and two pages from Terry Moore’s Thor send-up, "How Mjolnir Got its Strap."

  • DBD's Liang Finds Graphic Novel Growth Abroad

    Just back from a tour of International book fairs in Frankfurt and the Middle East, Kuo-Yu Liang, v-p, sales and marketing at Diamond Book Distributors, is upbeat about the graphic novel market at home and abroad. Despite a tough economy, overall declines in manga sales and the loss of Marvel Comics as a distribution client, Liang says DBD's business is up for the year and he’s even more excited about the growing popularity of graphic novels around the world.

  • Comixology Program Offers Free Access To App Development Tools

    Comics resource site and digital developer Comixology has launched the Guided View Authoring Tools early adopters program, a new venture that will give independent artists and publishers free access to the development tools it uses to prepare comics for digital delivery through its Comixology app and digital retail channel.

  • Comics Briefly: 11/16/2010

    J. M. Straczynski to Quit Monthlies, Write More Graphic Novels, Comics at the Miami Book Fair, Spider-Man Musical Unsafe?, Kirby Krackle Comics Band Signs With Marvel, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Creator to be Graphic Novel, This week @ Good Comics for Kids,and This Week @ The Beat

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