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Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/23/2009 @ 10:08PM

DC Launches Wednesday Comics Weekly; New Leadership at CBLDF; Viz Takes Entire NYT List; US, Japan Synch Anime Release; Morning Manga Winners; Spider-Girl Returns Online; Star Trek Movie Comic Goes Mobile; Humbug Comes to The Strand and First Cosplay Party At Japan Society
Panelmania: Planet of Beer

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 03/23/2009 @ 10:07PM
Bringing Comics to the Amazon Kindle

By Ada Price | 03/17/2009 @ 09:30PM

Since the release of the Kindle, Amazon’s popular digital reading device, a few publishers have started to experiment with converting their comics to Kindle editions.
Sava Fills Shelves With Kids' Graphic Novels

By Brigid Alverson | 03/17/2009 @ 09:28PM

Scott Christian Sava is best known for his web and print comic The Dreamland Chronicles, but this year he is branching out in a new direction: He has just published four new children’s graphic novels, and he expects to have four more out by midyear and still more after that.
One of the World’s Best: Secret Headquarters

By Judith Rosen | 03/17/2009 @ 09:27PM

In 2005 when Dave Pifer and David Ritchie were casting about for a retail venture in Los Angeles, they initially settled on a skateboard shop. But at the last minute they switched the store’s focus to incorporate a different childhood passion: comics.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/17/2009 @ 09:20PM
Panelmania: Adventures in Cartooning

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 03/17/2009 @ 09:19PM

A cartooning elf helps a princess learn the secrets of good cartooning, in this 5 page previews of the instruction book/story book for younger readers by James Sturm, Alexis Frederick-Frost and Andrew Arnold. Adventures in Cartooning is due in April from First Second.
Norton’s Mandela Comics Bio Offers New Info

By Calvin Reid | 03/17/2009 @ 07:29PM

In celebration of the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela on July 18, W. W. Norton is publishing Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book, a book collection of a series of biographical comics on the life and accomplishments of the former South African president.
The New York Times Debuts Comics Bestseller List

By Calvin Reid | 03/10/2009 @ 06:42PM

The New York Times has launched a weekly Graphic Books bestseller list that tracks the bestselling comics and graphic novels.
Beacon Plans Graphic Adapt of Kindred; Nonfiction Comics Line

By Calvin Reid | 03/10/2009 @ 04:45PM

Beacon Press, a 155 year-old Boston-based nonprofit publisher with a mission driven by social justice, will publish a graphic adaptation of the late Hugo-award winning science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler’s much-praised novel Kindred, the latest comics work to be acquired by Beacon.
Fantagraphics Brings Tardi to the US

By Heidi MacDonald | 03/10/2009 @ 04:44PM

Legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi is finally coming to the US with two grphic novels due this summer from Fantagraphics.
Secret Identities Revealed

by Anne Ishii | 03/10/2009 @ 04:43PM

The author looks at the new anthology Secret Identities which examines superheroes, Asian artists and racial stereotypes through comics.
March Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 03/10/2009 @ 04:29PM

Jeff Kinney's Last Straw settles in for a long run at #1; Naruto holds slots #2,3,4,5, and 10; Bone: Crown of Horns is at #6 and Walking Dead at #7.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 03/10/2009 @ 03:46PM

DC Comics Launches After Watchmen Promotion; Japanese Spidey on Marvel.com ; Death Note Film Event; Inoue Wins Manga Prize; Anime Day at Kinokuniya; IDW Offers Obama Sequel; Hillary Comic 2nd Printing; Charity Auction For Moore Book; AOTS Watchmen Spoof; Physicist on Watchmen and Two Comics Exhibits
DC Comics Launches After Watchmen Promotion

By Calvin Reid | 03/10/2009 @ 02:54PM

DC Comics announced plans to launch After Watchmen, a marketing campaign intended to highlight and support a wide range of its titles in the wake of the opening of the Watchmen movie
Panelmania- Pixu: The Mark of Evil

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 03/09/2009 @ 09:29PM

A mysterious marking in an apartment building slowly leads to madness and horror for five tenants in this exclusive 17-page preview of Pixu: The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, and Fábio Moon. Pixu will be released by Dark Horse in July.
From Web to Print: Dark Horse’s Applegeeks

By Ada Price | 03/09/2009 @ 09:13PM

Dark Horse is publishing a print collection of the popular online comic Applegeeks, a tech and geek oriented story about four college friends
WonderCon Capitalizes on the ‘Fantasy Economy’

By Douglas Wolk | 03/03/2009 @ 10:30PM

This year's WonderCon, held February 27-March 1 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, was an acid test for what a mid-size convention could be like in the new and gloomy economy.
French Publisher Soleil Finds Success at Marvel

By Laura Hudson | 03/03/2009 @ 10:29PM

Since the 2008 launch of Soleil Productions’ partnership with Marvel Comics, the French publisher has introduced American audiences to bestselling European sci-fi and fantasy comics like Sky Doll, an adult-oriented title about a female android by W.I.T.C.H. creator Barbara Canepa which was recently released as a trade paperback.
Life in Comics: Another Comics Convention Where Reality Need Not Apply

by Jennifer de Guzman | 03/03/2009 @ 10:28PM

The author finds the down economy didn't affect the enjoyment of comics at last weekend's WonderCon in San Francisco.

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