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Panelmania: Noir

Compiled by Heidi MacDonald & Laura Hudson | 05/04/2009 @ 10:51PM

Dark Horse's Fall release, the Noir anthology contains short stories in the crime and mystery genres, by a wide mix of comics luminaries.
Comics Briefly

compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 05/04/2009 @ 10:48PM
Job Moves

| 05/04/2009 @ 09:05PM

Former Scholastic editor Sheila Keenan has been hired by Harry Abrams as a senior editor working on the Abrams ComicsArts imprint.
May Comics Bestsellers

by Calvin Reid | 05/04/2009 @ 05:45PM

Jeff Kinney's Last Straw holds steady at #1; followed by Naruto at #2-3; Fruits Basket at #5; more Naruto after that and Marvel's hardcover graphic adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand: Captain Trips is at #12.
New Look for Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

by Calvin Reid | 04/28/2009 @ 09:30PM

Hailed for its bracing portrait of a future media-addled society victimized by the systematic burning of all books, Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect work to highlight issues of censorship and the freedom to read. And in August, Farrar, Straus & Giroux's Hill and Wang imprint will republish the book to do just that.
Fun Rules the Day at Kids Comic Con

by Brigid Alverson | 04/28/2009 @ 09:29PM

Show director Alex Simmons estimated attendance for the third year of the Kids Comic Con at 750 to 800 people, and he figures about two-thirds of those present were children.
Brian Azzarello’s 100th Bullet

By Laura Hudson | 04/28/2009 @ 07:27PM

With the 100th and final issue of the crime comic released less than a week earlier, Azzarello talked to PW Comics week about letting go of the long-running noir series, and the new work he has on the way from the new Vertigo Crime imprint.
Hill & Wang's Thomas LeBien: Turning History and Fiction into Comics

by Calvin Reid | 04/28/2009 @ 12:00AM

Hill & Wang publisher Thomas LeBien has now turned his attention to the world of fictional adaptation to create a "graphic translation" of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, one the classics of 20th century literature.
Comics Briefly - 4/28/2009

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/27/2009 @ 10:55PM

Free Comic Book Day May 2; Pushing Daisies Now DC Comic; Disney Comics Take On India; Carousel Comics @ Dixon Place; History of Wolverine with Claremont; Death Note Day in New York; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids; ACT-I-VATE Collective Live at Bergen Street Comics; Tokyopop/Pocky Art Contest; World War 3 Illustrated Release Party; SVA’s Fresh Meat and This Week in The Beat
Del Rey Gives Wolverine the Manga Treatment

By Kai-Ming Cha | 04/27/2009 @ 10:46PM

First unveiled during the 2007 New York Anime Festival, Wolverine: Prodigal Son, Del Rey’s manga-style recreation of Marvel’s popular X-Man character, goes on sale this month.
Stumptown Comics Fest: The Con That Refreshes

By Douglas Wolk | 04/21/2009 @ 08:30PM

Portland, Oregon's sixth annual Stumptown Comics Fest, held April 18 and 19, was a raging success by almost all accounts. Final attendance figures weren't yet available by press time, but around 700 people turned up in the first two hours of Saturday alone.
Kids, Comics, Reading and Fun In the Bronx

By Calvin Reid | 04/21/2009 @ 08:29PM

Founded in 2007 by Alex Simmons, a veteran comics writer, young adult novelist, playwright and educator, the annual Kids’ Comic Con continues to attract kids, parents and educators to a day of presentations, comics workshops and lots of free stuff.
Sex and Science and Scott Morse: Ancient Books Show Modern Designers

by Johanna Draper Carlson | 04/21/2009 @ 08:28PM

Artist/designer Scott Morse has a bunch of projects coming out this year, including The Ancient Book of Sex and Science, featuring fellow animation designers Lou Romano, Don Shank and Nate Wragg.
Yoshihiro Tatsumi: A Heroic Life in Manga

By Anne Ishii | 04/21/2009 @ 08:27PM

Published by Drawn & Quarterly, A Drifting Life is not only the story of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s coming of age as a manga artist and creator of the gritty style of manga known as Gekiga, but a detailed history of the manga industry in post-WWII Japan.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 04/21/2009 @ 08:26PM
Photomania: Stumptown 2009

By Laura Hudson | 04/21/2009 @ 08:25PM

This year's Stumptown Festival was a gathering of cartoonists and cartoons and over 2500 local indie comics fans and readers. Local Portland cartoonists celebrated with guests including Gail Simone, Jeff Smith and Carla Speed McNeil, and Saturday night's Stumptown Trophy Awards gave everyone the chance to cut loose.
Simultaneous Pub for Takahashi Manga

By Calvin Reid | 04/15/2009 @ 05:36PM

U.S. manga publisher Viz Media and Japan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday will join forces to present Rin-Ne, a brand new series by international manga superstar Rumiko Takahashi, simultaneously in the U.S. and Japan beginning April 22.
Math, Philosophy, Comics and Bertrand Russell’s Search for Truth

By Calvin Reid | 04/14/2009 @ 08:45PM

In October Bloomsbury will publish Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with the art team of Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna, a work of serious nonfiction that, among other things, is a biography of the noted mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Comic Books, Fetish Art and the Co-Creator of Superman

by Steve Bunche | 04/14/2009 @ 06:44PM

Craig Yoe’s new book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster, sheds light on a seminal comics creator while unearthing illegal works that played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Comics Code Authority
Top Shelf Gets Sweded

By Laura Hudson | 04/14/2009 @ 06:43PM

Top Shelf is helping to bring Sweden's blossoming comix scene to the US.

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