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Mike Richardson Gets Back on the Horse
When he's not presiding over the Dark Horse empire, publisher Mike Richardson writes and publishes his own comics.
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Tokyopop Grabs Dropped ADV Manga
Tokyopop has acquired the licenses of three titles dropped by ADV last year and plans new translations.
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Lat's Malaysian Memories
The popular Malaysian cartoonist Lat is gaining an American following with a series of graphic novels from First Second.
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Hembeck: Court Jester of Comics
Comics humorist Fred Hembeck is back with a 900-page omnibus covering 30 years of his work.
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Comics Briefly
Panelists, Sponsors Join ICv2 Confab; KCC, NYCC Join Forces; Yen Press Offers Boys Love; Movie Screenings at NYAF; Takehiko Inoue In NYC; and G4TV Reviews New Comics
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Toon Books: Comics for Kids
Françoise Mouly, New Yorker art director and wife of acclaimed cartoonist Art Spiegelman, announced plans to launch a new line of book format comics called Toon Books, aimed at readers ages four and up.
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Fall 2008: New Comics from Pantheon
Pantheon is gearing up for a big fall season in 2008 with plans to release five comics-related titles, including much anticipated works by Art Spiegelman, David Mazzucchelli and David Heatley.
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The Return of the King
Mark Evanier's long-awaited biography of comics great Jack Kirby promises to be one of the big publishing events of 2008.
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The Many Series of Steve Niles
Prolific 30 Days of Night author Steve Niles has a dizzying array of projects waiting in the wings, both prose and comics.
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MangaNovel Offers Digital Access, User Translations
Toshiba's recently launched online manga service may revolutionize worldwide digital distribution of manga
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IDW to Publish Umezu Horror Manga
This month, IDW is releasing its first manga, Reptilia by Japanese horror master Kazuo Umezu
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Comics Briefly
Vertigo to Publish Demo; Amazon Picks Dark Tower; ‘Unseen Peanuts’ Exhibition; RH Signs Iron Man Novels; NYAF Unveils Programming; The Spirit Movie Website[ Rivkah on PBS; PW's Best Comics 2007; Del Ray Debuts Blog; Anime on Starz; and New York Previews Shooting War
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Viking Clash Pits Old Against New in Northlanders
Acclaimed writer Brian Wood’s new Viking epic Northlanders mixes the modern sensibilities of his DMZ and Demo with the appeal of a colorful pre-modern era, as in 300. P
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Panel Mania: Dan Dare
In this 6-page preview of the first issue of Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine's Dan Dare, Britain's greatest space commander, Danel McGregor Dare, comes out of retirement to fight a new and terrible threat from Outer Space. The first issue was released this month by Virgin Comics.
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Gordon Lee Case
A mistrial was called in the trial of Rome, Ga. comics retailer Gordon Lee, after the prosecutor reneged on an agreement not to mention previous legal actions against Lee.
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Robert Kirkman: Hardest Working Writer in Comics?
Besides working on a screenplay for Paramount, Robert Kirkman is involved with a staggering number of comics projects for Marvel, DC and Image.
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AudioBooks: The New Sound of Comics
Given the trend to franchise intellectual property in different media—from movies and TV to the Internet and books—it is no wonder that the superhero genre is turning up in the form of audiobooks. Indeed the Bethesda, Md., Audiobook producer Graphic Audio released an audiobook production of DC Comics’ crossover series Infinite Crisis in June and has just released an audiobook version of 52: The Audiobook, Part 1, DC’s groundbreaking weekly comics series from 2006.
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Shooting War Aims for Print Success
Originally a webcomic, the new graphic novel Shooting War follows the trials and travails of a cocky young video blogger who finds himself reporting on the front lines of the Iraq war
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Whedon Can’t Get Enough Serenity
In November Dark Horse is releasing a hardcover collection of theSerenity: Those Left Behindminiseries Joss Whedon co-wrote in 2005, and he’s already got another miniseries in the works for early 2008.
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November Comics Bestsellers
Naruto continues its domination of the list and is joined by Marvel Zombies and Get Fuzzy.



