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American Born Chinese Wins Best Album Eisner
Gene Yang, Bill Willingham, Paul Pope, Darwyn Cooke and Alison Bechdel all took home awards at the 2007 Will Eisner Comics industry Awards ceremony held at the San Diego Comic-con.
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San Diego Comic Con Photo Mania
Photos from SDCC.
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CLAMP Inks Dark Horse Deal
CLAMP, Japan’s superstar all-female manga team, has signed a groundbreaking deal with Dark Horse Books to produce an original manga series beginning in 2009.
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Kodansha Wants More Global Manga
In light of the success of their first international manga contest, Kodansha, one of Japan’s biggest publisher of manga, has decided to hold a second competition, making their international competition a twice yearly event.
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Vertigo Plans Neil Young Graphic Novel; New Minx Titles
DC Comics will publish a graphic novel created by acclaimed musician Neil Young through its Vertigo imprint and also released plans for new graphic novels from Minx, its comics imprint for teenage girls.
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Manga in San Diego
Viz Media has big plans for their Shonen Jump anthology magazine including launching the serialization of the popular ongoing series Bleach in November.
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San Diego Comic-Con Sold Out; Dark Horse Presents Launches on MySpace
At a soldout Comic-con, Dark Horse announced it had reached a deal with MySpace to launch a new digital comic venture. The project will officially begin in September.
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Fans Jam Comic-con Preview
Comic-con opened to the usual mob scene last night, with fans clamoring for books and industry people unveiling several movie and graphic novel deals.
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Comics Briefly
Slate To Serialize Reagan Graphic Bio; CBLDF San Diego Auction; Virgin Comics on Myspace; DC To Publish WoW Comic; Hollow Fields Goes Back to Press; PW The Beat On SDCC ‘07 and PW Comics Weekat San Diego
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Yen Press Hires Lee, Adds ICE Kunion List
Yen Press is absorbing manhwa publisher ICE Kunion's licenses and will begin publishing them in spring 2008.
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Fans Turnout for Otakon ’07 Despite Early Date
Despite awkward timing, this year's Otakon fan attendance was up, although publisher attendance was down.
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Josh Simmons’s House of Horror
House is Josh Simmons’s first full-length graphic novel, and throughout this work of horror he conveys a deep sense of dread without a single line of dialogue.
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Panel Mania: Elephant Men: Wounded Animals
Genetically engineered to be super-soldiers, powerful mutant animals—called Elephant Men no matter their species—must now live uneasily among humans. In this preview, Miki the cab driver visits agents Hip Flask and Ebony Hide in the hospital. Elephant Men: Wounded Animals by writers Richard Starkings and Joe Kelly, will be published by Active Images in August.
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Karin Slaughter Launches Graphic Novel Imprint at Oni
International bestselling thriller writer Karin Slaughter is launching a new graphic novel imprint at Oni Press, starting with her own The Recidivists, slated to appear in spring 2009.
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Elfquest Creators Go Solo
Elfquest creators Wendy and Richard Pini decided not to renew their contract with DC Comics earlier this year.
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Comic Book Novels
Classic superheroes like Batman and Spider-Man are the subjects of the biggest blockbuster films, but the genre has had an impact on prose fiction as well. Here are four novels, two for adults and two for younger readers, that transport the reader to a comic book world of superheroes and fantastic deeds.
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San Diego Comic-con Still Packing Them In
Despite hotel room shortages, ticket sell-outs and threats of vast crowds, this week's Comic-Con International in San Diego will be just as busy as ever. In fact, the demand to enter the three-ring circus of cartoonists, authors, movie stars, toys, videogames and Stormtroopers is greater than ever this year, and has led to a first: four-day passes sold out a full two weeks before the opening ...
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Turning Civilians into Comic Book Geeks
Comics serials like Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stephen King’s Dark Tower are bringing first-time comics readers to comics shops and turning them into regular customers
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Neil Gaiman at the Movies
Book tie-ins abound for two Neil Gaiman written films opening this summer: Stardust, based on his illustrated novel, and Beowulf, a CGI adaptation of the classic.
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