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  • Fantagraphics Plans Special Edition of Palestine

    Fantagraphics will publish a special hardcover edition of Joe Sacco's acclaimed nonfiction work Palestine, complete with new supplemental material.

  • Cold Cut Offered for Sale

    Cold Cut Distriibution, a 13 year-old wholesale distributor of small press and independent comics in Salinas, California, is soliciting offers to buy its operations.

  • Tom Beland Reveals his True Story

    The shamelessly romantic story of Beland and wife Lily continues in a new collection from Image.

  • Anita Blake Stakes Out Comics

    Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the bestselling Anita Blake series of urban fantasy novels, sexually charged, plot-driven thrillers set in a world where vampires are real. Marvel is adapting her first three novels—Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse and Service of the Damned—as comic books that Hamilton is writing with Stacie Ritchie.

  • Kodansha to Publish Megatokyo in Japan

    In a move that marks the growing stature of non-Japanese manga, the Japanese house Kodansha will publish a Japanese-language edition of Megatokyo, the American original manga Web comic and book series created by Fred Gallagher.

  • Comics Bestsellers July 2007

    Top 10 comics for July

  • Looking for a Few Good Stories

    I’m not the only creator crossing the boundaries with this kind of hybrid approach, either. Who else do you think the readership for the profusely illustrated Baltimore book by Mike Mignola and Chris Golden will be? And more importantly, what will those readers be looking to buy next? Hellboy? Golden’s other novels?

  • The Man with No Name Rides to Dynamite

    Fans of nihilistic Western adventure will cheer the announcement that Dynamite Entertainment will add a monthly title based on the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Man with No Name series of movies.

  • Comics Briefly

    San Diego Comic-Con Programming; Kuper, Pyle Events in NYC; New Yaoi Convention

  • Panel Mania: Cairo

    In this 9-page preview of G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker’s Cairo, the book’s hero comes into possession of a genie in a hookah, in a story that brings the Egyptian city vividly to life. PWCW interviewed Wilson in July 2006. Cairo will be published by DC/Vertigo in November.

  • Fans Mob AnimeExpo 2007

    Held this year at the Long Beach (Calif.) Convention Center, AnimeExpo, an annual fan festival celebrating anime, manga and cosplay, opened to crowds of 20,000 on the first day and peaked at around 30,000 on the second day.

  • Eddie Campbell's Black Diamond, Part 2

    Last week in part 1 of our interview with Eddie Campbell about his new graphic novel, The Black Diamond Detective Agency, the cartoonist discussed his thoughts on adapting a screenplay into a comics work, serializing versus original graphic novels and his attraction to American-style detective writers like Raymond Chandler.

  • NetComics Adds Yaoi Press, Japanese Manga

    Korean manhwa publisher NetComics is expanding its offerings with a new copublishing agreement to offer Yaoi Press titles online.

  • Comics Briefly

    VIZ Releases The Taste of Tea; nner with Joss Whedon; Hong Kong Artist wins Manga Nobel; Ellison, Fantagraphics Suit Resolved

  • Scratching the Niche: Erotic Manga

    Before Tokyopop’s Sailor Moon led the way to today’s shojo manga boom almost 10 years ago, a high percentage of independent U.S. manga publishers were in the business of publishing pornographic manga, or ero manga, the industry’s term.

  • Rosen Offers Comics Interview Series

    Rosen Publishing, a nonfiction book publisher that caters to libraries and educational markets, will release four books this fall collecting a series of interviews with acclaimed comics creators Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, George Perez and Michael Avon Oeming.

  • Harper Offers a Summer of the Simpsons

    Aiming to satisfy the countless fans of the longest-running prime-time show in television history, this summer HarperCollins is publishing three Simpsons titles to coincide with the release of the show's first feature film, slated to open July 27.

  • CMX Brings Back Gon

    "The little dinosaur with the big attitude." That's how CMX editor Jim Chadwick described the title character in Gon, the classic manga that CMX will be releasing in a new edition beginning next month.

  • Return to Gasoline Alley

    Golden Age comic strips make a comeback.

  • Lerner Launches Graphic Universe Trade Line

    Midwest educational and library publisherLerner Publishing has added a trade line to Graphic Universe, an imprint specializing in educational hardcover and paperback comics aimed at ages 9—12.

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