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Comics Briefly
Fall 2007 Xeric Winners; Jimbo’sWins American Book Award; 2008 MoCCA Applications; Viz Licenses Shojo Movies; and Dinosaurs Across Americain NYC
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From Prose to Manga
This fall, Digital Manga Publishing, an independent manga publisher in Southern California, will release its first original manga, an adaptation of Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi's popular prose novel series, Vampire Hunter D, which will be published simultaneously in the U.S., Japan and Europe.
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Tezuka’s Black Jack Returns
Vertical Inc. will publish Black Jack, legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s popular series about a genius surgeon, in fall 2008.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Icon
This month Titan Books publishes Spider-Man: The Icon, a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book tracing the history of Marvel’s flagship character through the comics and other media, including extensive licensing and merchandising programs.
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Uclick Phones Home
Last summer, uclick released Thunder Road, the first U.S. comic created specifically for cell phones. Now the company is preparing to bring cell phone comics to the internet.
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Comics Briefly
PW Hosts Graphic Novel Panel; NYCC Tabs Alex Ross, Mike Mignola; Shortcomings Second Printing; Zuda Comics Launch; Aurora Launches Luv Luv; Paul Pope Diesel Party; and NYAF Cosplays at Kinokuniya
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Yaoi-Con and BL, No Longer “Niche”
This weekend's Yaoi-Con in San Mateo, Calif., drew more than 1,500 fans and showed that the "boys’ love" genre is still in growth mode, as publishers announced a shower of new books.
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McKelvie Finds Glamour
Artist Jamie McKelvie follows up Phonogram with a book all his own, the fantasy Suburban Glamour.
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CBLDF: Ready For War or Peace
Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, divides the organization's activities into “peacetime and wartime,” and right now, he said, the CBLDF is on a war footing. Since 2004, the CBLDF has spent nearly $100,000 defending Gordon Lee, a Rome, Ga., comics retailer charged with distributing materials harmful to minors, who faces a year in jail and $1...
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Buffy Season 8—the Shape of Things to Come?
The popularity of Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 is making other publishers look for comics with famous authors or with TV tie-ins.
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Matsumoto’s Mashup
Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, is an avant-garde masterpiece. But what the hell is a “tekkon kinkreet”?
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DrMaster: Publishing Manga Small Scale
DrMaster is hoping a small, independent manga house can compete with larger publishers
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery
Cartoonist Mort Gerberg brings together 26 New Yorker cartoonists to take an amusing look at the big topics—including the big D—of our senior years.
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Comics Briefly
BEA ’08:Comics All Day Saturday;APE Moves to November; ICv2 Confab For NYAF; Auction for Disabled Vets; TV Grabs The Middleman; DMP Club Otakie Contest; Matt Groening on TCM; NBM Debuts Trondheim Blog; First Second Creators Blog; and OSU Cartoon Fest
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Topalian Promoted; Fensterman Joins NYCC
Reed Exhibitions promotes Greg Topalian to senior v-p and BEA director Lance Fensterman joins the staff of New York Comic-Con as show manager.
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Monkey Business at SPX 2007
SPX, the annual celebration of small press and self-published comics, drew hundreds of exhibiting artists, even more fans and this year's Ignatz Awards featured a cartoonist in a gorilla suit.
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Army@Love Goes to War
Rick Veitch’s bawdy Iraq war satire is pretty close to the absurdity level of the real thing.
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Thinking, Writing and Making Comics in China
Chinese comics and illustration artist Rain (Ru An) is one of the most popular comics artists in China today.
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Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay
Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.
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Sergio Aragonés’ Groo Turns 25
Aragonés’s dimwitted barbarian returns with a special anniversary issue and much more.



