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  • Comics Briefly

    New Yorker Laughs; Lookin’ Good Cap; Harper Gets Strange; Monsters at MoCCA; Marvel in Spanish and Special Edition Palestine

  • Norton Acquires Graphic Work by Small

    A graphic memoir by award-winning children's book author and illustrator David Small has been acquired by Norton.

  • From Spidey to King

    They call him “The Karate Kid.” Soft-spoken comics veteran Ralph Macchio shares a name with the lead actor of the 1980s martial arts classic, but he's never seen the movie, although he still receives fan mail asking whether he's the star. “Depending on my mood, I'll either say yes or no,” Macchio says, laughing.

  • Colfer’s ‘Artemis Fowl’ Goes Graphic

    Hyperion is simultaneously releasing hardcover and paperback editions of a graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s popular prose novel series.

  • M.F. Grimm Turns His Life Around

    Better known to the hip-hop world as MF Grimm, Percy Carey has documented the joys and pain of his life in a new graphic novel called Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm from Vertigo.

  • Comics Bestsellers for October

    Despite an accelerated schedule that will release 3 Naruto titles a month through the end of the year, Naruto sales continue to soar and the three Sept. Volumes 18, 17 and 16 took the top three slots of this month’s list.

  • Maintenance: From the Web to Hollywood

    In a few short years, Jim Massey has gone from comics fan to creator with his comedic series Maintenance.

  • New Yorker Festival Spotlights Superheroes

    The New Yorker Festival brought together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the superhero.

  • Comics Briefly

    SPX 2007 Opens; Imaginova Acquires Newsarama; Brawl Release Party; Rutu Modan Book Tour; Seven Seas' Otaku Contest; Juicy Mother Release Party; and Superheroes in Society Panel.

  • Perry Bible Fellowship Collection a Pre-order Hit

    The first print collection of the online comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship has already racked up impressive orders.

  • Bookazine to Add Manga to 900 Stores

    Bookazine is developing a manga section that it will install in 900 stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, whose holdings include F.Y.E., Planet Music and Sam Goody.

  • Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King

    We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.

  • ADV Manga Wakes Up

    Despite layoffs, cutbacks and long delays between some volume releases, ADV Manga has managed to persevere and regain some of its footing in the marketplace this past summer.

  • Comics Briefly

    Kids Comic-Con Set for March; ICAF Meets at LC; Rall Elected to Head AAEC; Williams Directs NYCC Programming; Little, Brown Cancels Congo Tintin; Rotterdam to Head Sales at DC; Shableski Joins Diamond; and Viz: Death Note; Naruto DVD; Halloween

  • Web Comic Creators Take Charge

    As Web comics continue to grow in popularity, the online comics industry is evolving into a nearly completely self-made realm, where creators enjoy complete artistic freedom, and self-determined licensing and merchandising.

  • Panel Mania: Town Boy

    In this 8-page preview of Town Boy, the second volume of acclaimed cartoonist Lat’s memoir of growing up in Malaysia, the teenaged Lat works up the nerve to ask the prettiest girl in town to go to a movie. Town Boy will be published by First Second this month.

  • Rude and Baron’s Nexus Returns

    A burst of new creative energy when it was launched in 1981, Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus takes the science fiction and superhero genres and infuses them with their own personal styles

  • Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest Grows

    This year's Stumptown Comics Fest, held September 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. (its fourth venue in four years of existence), featuring a focus on self-publishers and the first festival Trophy Awards, was easily the biggest to date.

  • Harper to Reprint Scott McCloud’s Zot!

    Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback edition in July 2008.

  • Myth, the Bible and Image’s Mice Templar

    Artist Michael Avon Oeming and writer Bryan J.L. Glass have created Mice Templar, a funny-animal medieval fantasy adventure series ten years in the making.

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