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Viz Media Owners Revamp Licensing Unit

By Kai-Ming Cha | 06/25/2008 @ 04:32PM

Shueisha and Shogakukan—the two Japanese publishers that own the American-based manga publisher Viz Media—have entered into a new partnership to expand the company’s licensing and mechandising arm.
A New Love & Rockets In a New Format

By Sam Thielman | 06/24/2008 @ 10:54PM

Fantagraphics will relaunch the Hernandez brother’s acclaimed series, Love and Rockets, calling the series Love and Rockets: New Stories, and publishing it as a 112-page trade paperback collection starting in September.
Koontz’s Odd Thomas Goes Graphic

By Brigid Alverson | 06/24/2008 @ 10:53PM

Dean Koontz’s character Odd Thomas makes the leap from paragraphs to panels in the new graphic novel In Odd We Trust, published on June 24 by Del Rey.
ADV Manga Is Still in the Picture

By Brigid Alverson | 06/24/2008 @ 10:52PM

Despite a lack of new releases and continuing rumors about its future, ADV Manga is still alive and keeping its books in print, according to Chris Oarr, the ADV sales account manager who oversees the manga line.
‘Turning Them into Movies Is Just an Added Benefit’: Kingdom Comics at Disney

by Kate Culkin | 06/24/2008 @ 08:55PM

Ahmet Zappa and Christian Beranek are launching a new line of graphic novels at Disney to be distributed via Disney Worldwide Publishing
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/23/2008 @ 06:49PM

2008 Harvey Awards; PW The Beat: Didio, Heroes Con; EW’s 100 Best Books; Brian K. Vaughan at Midtown Comics; Guests at NYAF; Vanguard at SDCC; Transfuzion at Wizard World Chicago; and Don Parent at Wizard World Chicago
Miami Book Fair Adds Graphic Novel Focus

by Calvin Reid | 06/23/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Miami Book Fair International, which attracts more than 250,000 visitors over eight days, is partnering with Diamond Comics Distributors to expand the comics and graphic novel presence at the 25th annual fair set for November 9—16 on the campus of Miami-Dade College. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will be a featured guest and will create this year's poster.
Nee Reported Out at DC Comics

By Calvin Reid | 06/20/2008 @ 08:29PM

According to a report on the comics news website Comic Book Resources, John Nee, DC Comics senior v-p of business development, is leaving the company.
The Amazing Remarkable Eddie Campbell

by Van Jensen | 06/18/2008 @ 04:30AM

Eddie Campbell's latest opus takes on cowboys and circuses and takes him and his creative muse in even more daring directions.
It’s a Big Manga World After All

By Ed Chavez | 06/16/2008 @ 08:39PM

Literary agent Yukari Shiina and her agency, World Manga, aim to make the manga world more of a two-way street.
Funny Business #4: Ignoring the Direct Market

By Todd Allen | 06/16/2008 @ 08:35PM

Companies like SLG and Kenzer & Co. have gone outside the direct sales market to sell their books.
Byrne’s Next Men Returns

by Van Jensen | 06/16/2008 @ 08:34PM

13 years after the series ended, John Byrne is reviving his superhero series, Next Men, which will be published by IDW
Fluffy: A Bunny in Denial

By Wil Moss | 06/16/2008 @ 08:04PM

In June Dark Horse will release Simone Lia's Fluffy, a cute but emotionally complex graphic novel about a talking bunny (who denies that he’s a bunny) and his “daddy,” a grown man named Michael.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/16/2008 @ 08:03PM

Shuster Award Winners; New David B. from NBM; PW The Beat: Tokyopop, San Diego, More; Hotwire Comics Show; June Zuda Competition; and MediaBistro Comics Class
Comics Keep Their Cool in the Heat at MoCCA

By Heidi MacDonald, Kate Culkin and Kai-Ming Cha | 06/10/2008 @ 06:30PM

In spite of a local heat-wave, a cartoonist passing out and an evacuation by the fire dept., this year's MoCCA Art Festival was as busy and as vibrant as sever.
Medical Manga in the House

By Anne Ishii | 06/10/2008 @ 06:28PM

Prepare yourself, America, for a new wave of Japanese manga focused, more or less, on the medical profession.
Life, Sex, Art--Whatever

By Jordan Foster | 06/10/2008 @ 12:00AM

Xeric award-winner Karl Stevens's Whatever, a graphic novel set in a Boston suburb amongst the young bar and bed-hopping post-collegiate crowd, has been published by Alternative Comics
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 06/09/2008 @ 02:35PM

NetComics’ First American Title: Friends of Lulu Winners: Kikuchi at NYAF; Anime Expo 2008 Guests; Lynda Barry in Chicago; New A.D. Chapter; and Quesada’s Cup of Joe on Myspace
Photo Mania

| 06/09/2008 @ 02:34PM

Photographs from the MoCCA Art Festical 2008 at the Puck building in New York City.
Tokyopop Revamps; Cuts Titles, Lays Off 39

by Calvin Reid | 06/04/2008 @ 11:35AM

The persistent rumors during BEA about the state of Tokyopop turned out to be mostly right. The Los Angeles manga publisher announced a major restructuring that will create two separate divisions—the Tokyopop Inc. publishing unit and Tokyopop Media, a digital and comics-to-films unit—under the Tokyopop Group’s holding company. The moves will result in the layoffs of about 39 Tokyopop staffers.

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