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Betty and Veronica Make a Move to Realism—and India
Archie Comics expands their classic characters' appeal with updated art styles, interactive blogs and outreach to foreign markets.
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More Gore: Tokyopop’s Ultimate Battle Royale
Tokyopop plans an Ultimate edition of the explicit and violent Battle Royale series that will collect three volumes of the original manga in a single hardcover edition.
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Comics Briefly
Nee Rises at DC Comics; New York Anime Festival Guests; Demo Rights Revision; 30 Days of Night Movie To Open; Zuda Contracts Online; Wieringo Tribute Raises $4K; 24 Hour Comics Day 2007; Top Comics of the Year 5767; and David Heatley on Canadian Radio
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Panel Mania: Common Foe
In this preview of Common Foe, written by Keith Giffen and Shannon Denton with art by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski and Federico Dallocchio, WWII American and German squads fighting during the Battle of the Bulge desperately join forces to fight a fiendish, bloodthirsty enemy. The book will be published in October by Desperado.
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Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings
Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings is a lacerating falling-out-of-love story and an irresistible gem of a graphic novel.
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Rock Star Comics: Gerard Way and Umbrella Academy
Dark Horse is launching Umbrella Academy, a new miniseries conceived and written by Gerard Way, lead Singer for the band My Chemical Romance.
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Jonathan Hickman: The Design of Things to Come
Jonathan Hickman’s The Nightly Newsis both an indictment of the modern media and a startling fusion of sequential art and graphic design.
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Abadzis Launches Laika
Nick Abadzis's new graphic novel explores the poignant story of Laika, the first dog in space, and the only living creature ever launched with no plan for survival.
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New Manga From CMX, Flex Comics
DC Comics' manga imprint, CMX, announced new titles from Japanese publisher MediaWorks, and the first titles from Flex Comics, the Japanese manga and digital comics venture DC announced in June
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Comics Briefly
Ignatz Award Nominees; Mike Wieringo Tribute; Naruto Movie Sweepstakes; Zannel.com, Top Cow Team Up; and Beto, Malkasian at Book Soup
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Schulz and Peanuts Unshelled
Schulz and Peanuts is also a groundbreaking work in the growing field of biographies of comics creators, as David Michaelis analyzes Schulz’s comics as a guide to understanding his psyche.
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Panel Mania: Legend of The Dark Crystal Vol. 1: The Garthim Wars
In this preview of Barbara Randell Kesell, Heidi Arnhold and Max Kim's Legend of The Dark Crystal Vol. 1: The Garthim Wars, a young herder discovers the sole survivor of a village pillaged by the brutal Garthim. Based on the Jim Henson film Dark Crystal, the book will be published by Tokyopop in November.
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Self-Pub Pickup
Indie Monkfish Book Publishing of Rhinebeck, N.Y., publisher of science, spiritual and metaphysical titles, celebrated its fifth anniversary last month. A milestone, for sure, but six months before, when publisher Paul Cohen and his partner, Georgia Dent, who handles design and publicity for the press, entertained ways to generate more revenue, the idea of self-publishing came up.
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Diamond Summit Marks Industry in Transition
At its annual Retailer Summit, Diamond Comics Distributors presented a new point-of-sale software system that could revolutionize the comics shop market.
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Hyperion, CCS Add New Biographies
Hyperion Books for Children and the Center for Cartoon Studies will add titles on Amelia Earhart and Helen Keller to its line of graphic biographies
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DMP to Co-Brand Japanese Publishers
L. A. manga publisher DMP has entered into a deal with three Japanese publishers under which all titles licensed from the three by DMP will carry the original Japanese publisher's logo and DMP’s logo.
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Chronicling Caniff
Fantagraphics Books has just published Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff by Robert C. Harvey, the longtime comic strip historian and scholar.
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Matt Fraction Works Hard For the Genres
Despite writing high-profile Marvel titles like Immortal Iron Fist, Punisher War Journaland theCivil Warspinoff,The Order, Fraction is still hard at work onCasanova, his creator-owned series from Image Comics.
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Comics Briefly
Harvey's Honor Best Comics; Making Comics Wins Quill Award; MoCCA Book Club; Webcomics at MoCCA; New Cancer Vixen Website; G4’s Fresh Ink Online and The Comics Reporter on Comics Shops
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DC Comics, Random House Ink Distribution Pact
After being distributed to the book trade for 20 years by Warner Books/Hachette, DC Comics will move its bookstore distribution to Random House next spring. Among the benefits of the switch, DC executives hope Random will be able to expand sales of graphic novels and comics into independent bookstores.



