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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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • McKelvie Finds Glamour

    Artist Jamie McKelvie follows up Phonogram with a book all his own, the fantasy Suburban Glamour.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Matsumoto’s Mashup

    Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, is an avant-garde masterpiece. But what the hell is a “tekkon kinkreet”?

  • DrMaster: Publishing Manga Small Scale

    DrMaster is hoping a small, independent manga house can compete with larger publishers

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Army@Love Goes to War

    Rick Veitch’s bawdy Iraq war satire is pretty close to the absurdity level of the real thing.

  • 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.

  • Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay

    Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.

  • Sergio Aragonés’ Groo Turns 25

    Aragonés’s dimwitted barbarian returns with a special anniversary issue and much more.

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