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New Comics Collections from Hang Dai’s Haspiel, Benton, Kushner
Brooklyn comics collective Hang Dai Studios is releasing books by three founding members, including the late Seth Kushner, via a new distribution deal with Alternative Comics.
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Kodansha Launching Subsidiary to Expand Digital Distribution
Japanese manga publisher Kodansha has partnered with a San Francisco startup incubator to create Kodansha Advanced Media, which will handle the digital distribution of its manga and non-manga e-book catalog.
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Manga Resurgent at Comic-Con 2015 and Anime Expo
The North American manga market is back and stronger than ever. And with the summer's biggest shows—Anime Expo and the San Diego Comic-con—being held on successive weekends, Southern California was the best place to measure the category's resurgence.
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First Look: Jason’s Triumphant Return in “If You Steal”
Jason's first story collection since 2013's 'Lost Cat' fuses pop culture, heart break, and surrealism in stories that imagine Frida Kahlo as a hitwoman and thieves straight out of Magritte.
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Growth, Diversity, Uncertainty Mark New Era at Comic-Con 2015
The show is bigger, crowded with fans, events and new venues as well as more diverse offerings of comics targeting kids, women and people of color than ever before. So why are so many comics professionals worried about Comic-con?
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Photo Mania: San Diego Comic-Con International 2015
Tens of thousands of pop culture fans descended on San Diego July 8-12 and PW Comics World was around all weekend at Comic-Con Internattional: San Diego, the biggest pop culture convention in North America.
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San Diego Comic-Con: Children's, YA Take Center Stage
Scholastic celebrated 10 years of its Graphix kids' comics imprint, bestselling author Raina Telgemeier announced a new book, and Rep. John Lewis led a reenactment of his 1965 march in Selma, Ala.
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Comic-Con: Sales and Number of Stores Up, Diamond Reports
Led by sales of comics, revenue at Diamond Distributors rose 10% in the first half of 2015 over the same period in 2014.
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New Books From Telgemeier and Whedon Top Comic-Con Announcements.
The San Diego Comic-Con once again hosted 130,000 avid pop culture fans, and amid the excitement a great deal of publishing news was announced.
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Comic-Con: New Directions for DC, More Graphic Novels for B&N
As the first full day of Comic-Con unfolded in San Diego, one of the biggest stories is the continuing push, from publishers, to release more diverse material for a wider audience.
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Preview Night: Looking for Books At Comic-Con
Despite the hype around blockbuster movies, indie publishers like Baby Tattoo, Top Cow and Top Shelf, manage to launch graphic novels of all kinds at Comic-Con International.
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Boom! to Collect ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’
Tony Parker's serilalized comics adaptation of the Philip K. Dick classic novel will be collected into a complete trade paperback edition and released in December by Boom! Studios.
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French Publisher Strikes Landmark Deal with Comixology
With the release of more than 150 English-language graphic novels, Delcourt takes a major step to raise the profile of French graphic novels in the North American comics market.
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Graphic Novel, Comics Market Rises to $935 Million in 2014
Led by increases in the book trade, 2014 sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in North America rose in every sales channel except the newsstand, where sales of periodical comics declined.
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First Look: 'Dressing' for Success with Michael DeForge
In this exclusive preview of the short story collection 'Dressing,' we present a complete short story by acclaimed cartoonist Michael DeForge.
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Madefire Inks E-Deals with IDW, Kodansha
While Comixology continues to dominate the digital comics marketplace, some publishers are adding their comics to the Madefire digital platform.
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Hoopla, DC Comics Ink Library Digital Pact
Library content service Hoopla Digital is broadening its recently launched comics category with new graphic novel content from DC Comics.
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Image Comics, Trajectory Ink Digital Distribution Deal
Through the deal, Image will expand the availability of its digital comics to retailers and libraries in North America, the U.K., Europe, South America and China.
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Dark Horse Finally Debuts on Comixology
Dark Horse, the last major comics house to withhold its titles from Comixology--the dominant digital comics marketplace--has signed an agreement to start selling its list via the platform.



