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Transforming IDW
The comic book license for the Transformers property has changed publishers more often than the robots have changed shape. But now it's in the hands of IDW Publishing, a company with a track record for licensed properties.
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Civil War and Dark Tower Lead Marvel
Revenue in Marvel's publishing segment rose 15% in the first quarter, to $27.5 million, and operating income jumped 29%, to $11.5 million.
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First Kids Comic-Con a Big Hit
Kids' interest in comic books is healthy and strong if the first annual New York City Kids Comic Con was any indication.
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Shojo Beat Marks Second Year
Shojo Beat, Viz Media's monthly shojo anthology magazine, will celebrate its second birthday in July with a special present for its readers: an excerpt from legendary manga-ka Osamu Tezuka's 1954 manga Princess Knight, which has never been available in the U.S. before.
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Anjali Singh Loves Comics and Prose
After publishing a string of acclaimed graphic novels at Pantheon, Anjali Singh moved to Houghton Mifflin last year. Singh, a senior editor specializing in international literary fiction and nonfiction as well as comics, revealed plans to publish a new comics work in early 2008 by Frederik Peeters as well as prose novels by Rudolph Delson and by Samantha Hunt.
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Brandon Graham tours King City
King City is a sprawling metropolis, where a criminal underground has planted roots and grown to be as inextricable as the pavement in the streets.
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Comics Bestsellers: April
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Comics Briefly
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Grave Robbing with Richard Sala
What scares frightmaster cartoonist Richard Sala? Well, judging by his work, normalcy.
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Kirby's Fourth World Lives—at DC
Jack Kirby was one of the most imaginative and visionary creators in the history of American comic books. His Fourth World story, originally serialized in DC Comics' Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, The Forever People, New Gods and Mister Miracle, had some of his most important character creations.
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Panelmania: Korgi
In this 8-page preview of Christian Slade's irresistible fantasy tale Korgi, Ivy and her dog Scout are about to make a strange and frightening discovery. Korgi will be available in May from Top Shelf, which will introduce the series with an original story in Owly & Korgi, Top Shelf's Free Comic Book Day giveaway issue on May 5.
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Viz Media and Manga in the U.S.
With the success of the wildly popular Naruto and Death Note, Viz Media is at the head of the game in manga publishing.
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Your Uncle Feininger's World
Of all the giants of comics art, Lyonel Feininger had the shortest career, lasting a mere 10 months at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Octavia Butler: Graphic Novelist?
Agent Merrilee Heifetz is shopping the late sci-fi writer's works to comics publishers. She says the writer was a comics fan and collector who would have wanted to see her work go graphic.
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Panel Mania - March 20, 2007
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Kirkman Offers Budget Friendly Comics
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Comics Briefly - March 20, 2007
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Abrams to Republish Comics Adaptation of M
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Abrams Reviving Classic M Adaptation
Publisher plans to introduce a new generation to Fritz Lang's classic thriller with the release of a graphic novel and DVD combination next year.
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Aya Comes to America
Drawn and Quarterly has published the English-language version of Aya, a charming, award-winning graphic novel written by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Clément Oubrerie, that follows a group of young people coming of age in Ivory Coast in the 1970s.



