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ICv2's Anime and Technology Panel
Major manga companies are all taking an experimental approach to digital delivery systems.
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Deck Your Store with Cool New Comics
From Sunday Press's lovingly preserved, full-size reprint of Frank King's classic strips from the 1920s to Sam Ita's ingeniously designed Moby-Dick Pop-up Book, today's comics come in all kinds of formats. These days it's even become fashionable to say we're in the midst of a new golden age of comics.
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Big Fun At First New York Anime Fest
The first annual New York Anime Festival, held at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan December 7-9, started slowly, but NYAF officials estimated that about 15,000 attendees visited the Javits Center for the inaugural event.
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Marvel, Del Rey Team for Manga X-men
Marvel Comics and Del Rey Manga are teaming up to create manga styled and formatted versions of the X-Men and Wolverine.
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Bandai Acquires CODE GEASS Licenses
Anime distributor and part-time publisher Bandai Entertainment has announced that they have the anime, manga, and light novel licenses for CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion.
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Lime Studios Brings New Twist to Global Manga
With two series under way in Germany and another in France, New Jersey-based artists David Boller and Mary Hildebrandt, put the “global” in “global manga.”
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Faust Editor Katsushi Ota Speaks
In August, 2008, Del Rey Manga will publish Faust, a four year old Japanese literary anthology with a circulation of 65,000 featuring excerpts from light novels, manga and stories by cutting edge Japanese writers and mangaka, in the U.S.
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Around the Floor at NYAF
While fans engaged in cosplay and went to J-Pop concerts, nearly all the major players in manga publishing were on hand to make announcements and talk to fans.
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Comics Briefly
Marjane Satrapi Signing; Dramacon and Zombies Calling at The Beguiling; NYAF on PW The Beat; American Elf Archive Now Free; BOOM Studios Holiday Party; and CBLDF Holiday Parties
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Photo Mania
Photos from the 2007 New York Anime Festival at the Javits Center in New York City.
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New Report Finds Manga Sales Up; Anime DVD Down in '07
Manga sales are estimated to have increased 10% in 2007, but sales of anime on DVD have declined due to piracy and high price, a report issued at yesterday's ICv2 Anime and Mange conference found. The conference is the kick-off event for the first annual New York Anime Festival which runs today through Sunday.
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Tor Books, Seven Seas Ink Joint Manga Venture
Science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor Books announced plans to enter the U.S manga market by creating a new manga imprint with Seven Seas Entertainment, an independent publisher of original and licensed manga, manga-inspired prose titles and illustrated juvenile fiction based in Los Angeles.
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Z-Cult FM Shutdown Spotlights Downloading Issues
Marvel and DC have acted together to force popular comics BitTorrent site Z-Cult FM to remove their comics.
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Crime Novelist Swierczynski Tries Comics
Novelist Duane Swierczynski is working on two comics series for Marvel
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Facing Fear with Drew Rausch
Drew Rausch has several moody projects coming out including a collection of his Sullengrey mini-series later this month.
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True Stories of an Airship on the Arctic
Ben Towle's new graphic novel explores the real-life drama of the crash of an Italian airship at the North Pole.
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Comics Bestsellers December
Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes the #1 slot and is joined by Naruto (#2), Stephen King's Dark Tower (#3) and Buffy's The Long Way Home (#10)
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Comics Briefly
New Zuda Winner; Party with the CBDLF; Comic Book Idol at NYCC; Cosplay and Gaming at NYAF; Women, Todd Klein at The Beat; Comic Book Club Discussion; Fundraiser for Bill Mantlo; and Jason Thompson Speaks
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Panel Mania: Wonton Soup
In this 10 page preview of James Stockoe's quirky Wonton Soup: A Space Trucker Cooking Opera, a cook turned space rig driver, stops for R&R on a remote planet and does a little intergalactic cooking. The book will be published by Oni Press this month.
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NYAF’s John McGeary Talks Anime
PWCWtalks with the show manager of the New York Anime Fest about the intersection of anime and manga and what will make NYAF different from other anime conventions.



