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Panel Mania: Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica, a graphic memoir by GB Tran, follows Tran, who was born and raised in South Carolina, as he travels to Vietnam to attend his grandparents’ funerals and learn of his family’s history. His journey leads to revelations about his parents, who fled Saigon in the last hours of the Vietnam war and struggled to adapt to American life, as well as his grandfather, who was a Viet Cong soldier. Vietnamerica will be released by Villard on January 25.
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Comics Reviews: 1/10/11
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Alonso Named Editor-in-Chief at Marvel
15-year comics veteran Axel Alonso has been named editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, replacing Joe Quesada, who remains at his existing title of chief creative officer. In addition, Tom Brevoort has been named senior v-p Publishing.
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Acme #20 Tops PWCW’s Fifth Annual Critics Poll
It was the return of the masters, as books by acknowledged cartoon giants topped our fifth annual critic’s poll. Topping the list, Chris Ware’s amazing Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint, which follows the life of an average man—a page per year—from birth to death, showing the missed opportunities and bad decisions along the way, and using the comics narrative itself to replicate the experience of life itself.
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Comics Briefly: 1/4/2011
Marvel Gives Free Digital Comics To Veterans, Stan Lee Gets a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, DC Brings Back the Letters Page, Fantagraphics to Reprint All Carl Barks, Duncan the Wonder Dog Gets Second Printing, Muslim "Batman of Paris" Sparks Controversy, The Communist Manifesto Gets Comics Adaptation, The Last Two Weeks @ Good Comics for Kids, The Last Two Weeks @ The Beat
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Rotterdam, Catto Launch The Bonfire Agency
Former DC sr. marketing v-p Steve Rotterdam and marketing veteran Ed Catto have launched the Bonfire Agency, a full service marketing and promotional firm focused on the pop culture sector.
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Critic’s Picks: Manga in 2010
It was simultaneously a year of contraction and expansion for manga as the industry saw a few more of its traditional manga houses fall off the list and indie comics publishers picking up the slack. Go! Comi called, DC Comics shut down CMX and Del Rey Manga was reshuffled into Kodansha Comics.
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Panel Mania: Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark's epic 19th century journey from St. Louis to the Pacific is brought to life in Nick Bertozzi’s comic, Lewis & Clark. Thoroughly researched, Bertozzi's new work focuses on the individual aspect of the adventure as well as the historical, offering both humor as well as deference to the hardships of their journey. Lewis & Clark will be released by First Second on February 15.
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Comics Reviews: 1/3/11
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Comics Briefly: 12/21/2010
World War 3 Retrospective at NYC’s Exit Art, Romberger on Wojnarowicz’s ‘A Fire in My Belly’, Marvel's Alias Comes to ABC, Comixology Comes to the Android Platform, Transmetropolitan Book on Kickstarter for CBLDF, Walking Dead Comic Creators Interviewed by Vice, Free Little Nemo Digital Comic, Girl Genius Novel Hits Print, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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Panel Mania: Memoir
Written by Ben McCool (Choker) and illustrated by Nikki Cook (Girl Comics), Memoir is the story of Lowesville, a small peaceful Midwestern town whose population awakens one morning to discover that they have no memory of who they are, where they are, or what has happened to them. Memoir will be published by Image Comics in January.
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Marvel Revives CrossGen with New Creators, New Stories
Despite offering a complex comics universe featuring a wide variety of genres, CrossGen Comics, an ambitious comics company launched in 2000 by entrepreneur Mark Alessi, was forced into bankruptcy and shutdown in 2004. Now Marvel is launching a new CrossGen imprint that will offer original, all new stories based on the titles first developed by CrossGen.
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Comics Reviews: 12/20/2010
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Kids Can Press Grows a Graphic Novel Line
Kids Can Press has been publishing children's books since 1973 and launched its first graphic novels in 2008: Claire and the Bakery Thief, a fantasy tale, and No Girls Allowed, an anthology of true stories about women who disguised themselves as men. Since then, they have built up a diverse line of graphic novels offering everything from historically based works to fantasy, adventure and mysteries.
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The Wonderfully Scabrous World of Lurid Comics
A hefty celebration of the joys of sleaze, gore and the downright warped world of pre-Comics Code Authority comics, Jim Trombetta's The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read, published by Abrams ComicsArts, serves as an unexpected look into the mindset of post-WWII America.
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Archaia Sells Out 'Dapper Men' and 'Mouse Guard'
After quickly selling through more than 10,000 copies each of, The Return of Dapper Men and Mouse Guard: Legends of the Mouse Guard, two late November hardcover graphic novel releases, indie comics house Archaia is looking carefully at the marketing and promotional strategies used for the two books. And while Archaia publishes both periodical series and original graphic novels, the success of the two titles in the bookstore market is making the publisher consider moving away from releasing periodical issues at all.
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Comics Briefly: 12/14/2010
Japan’s Top Ten Manga Publishers Quit Tokyo Anime Fair in Protest, Mark Waid Leaves Boom! to Return to Writing, New Venom Ongoing Comic from the Creators of FrankenCastle, Paul Levitz, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee Speak at UCLA's Hammer Gallery, Jim Lee at Midtown Comics, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
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Motel Art Improvement Service goes from Web to print
With a new graphic novel that is the result of several years serialization as a webcomic, cartoonist Jason Little is finally able to move onto the next step in his character Bee’s life--but he's currently savoring her existence in the present. His book Motel Art Improvement Service has just been released by Dark Horse.
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Jeff Lemire On Why Superheroes and Boys with Antlers are Equally Great
Eisner and Harvey award nominated comic writer/illustrator Jeff Lemire, author of the three-part Essex Country series from Top Shelf, hails from a small town in Essex County, Ontario and has his surroundings, in part, to thank for his success.
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Kodansha Comics Announces New Titles
Newly launched Kodansha Comics was at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in New York City to announce its Summer list of new manga properties as well as which series they will take over from their former licensee Del Rey Manga. Look for new stories based on Shirow Masamume's Ghost in the Shell series and such former Del Rey Manga series as Air Gear and Fairy Tails.