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Comics Briefly: 12/21/2010

| 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

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
Panel Mania: Memoir

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Marvel Revives CrossGen with New Creators, New Stories

By Calvin Reid | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Comics Reviews: 12/20/2010

| 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM
Kids Can Press Grows a Graphic Novel Line

By Brigid Alverson | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
The Wonderfully Scabrous World of Lurid Comics

By Steve Bunche | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Archaia Sells Out 'Dapper Men' and 'Mouse Guard'

By Rich Schivener | 12/21/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Comics Briefly: 12/14/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 12/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

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
Motel Art Improvement Service goes from Web to print

By John Seven | 12/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Jeff Lemire On Why Superheroes and Boys with Antlers are Equally Great

By Jill Pantozzi | 12/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Kodansha Comics Announces New Titles

By Calvin Reid | 12/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

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.
Emotional Content Inks Bio-Manga Deal with Penguin

By Kai-Ming Cha | 12/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

After signing a new distribution agreement with Penguin and working on an animation series on human rights in North Korea, Eiji Han Shimizu, filmmaker and publisher of independent manga house Emotional Content, has a reputation for creating commercially viable projects focused on humanitarian values and activism.
Panel Mania: Who is Jake Ellis?

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/14/2010 @ 12:00AM

A spy for hire in the European criminal world, Jon Moore has an unseen ally in his work, Jake Ellis. Invisible to everyone else but Moore, Ellis advises him in dangerous situations, such as when to dodge incoming bullets. Who is Jake Ellis? is written by Nathan Edmondson with art by Tonci Zonjic. Image Comics will release the first issue on January 5th.
Comics Reviews: 12/13/10

| 12/13/2010 @ 12:00AM
Life in Comics: The Comics Network

by Jennifer de Guzman | 12/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Comics is a social industry, more social than any other I can think of. Ever since I’ve been in the industry, writers, artists, editors, and fans have interacted on message boards, forums, blogs, and now Facebook and Twitter. The co-mingling of creators and consumers is unique in creative industries, and it is one of the aspects of the comics world that makes it so much fun to work in. It’s also frequently a source of major dramaz, as the kids say.
DMP Launches the Digital Manga Guild

By Kai-Ming Cha | 12/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

In an aggressive move to digitize and electronically distribute manga to as vast and wide an audience as possible, Southern California based manga publisher, Digital Manga Publishing, has launched Digital Manga Guild, a new online project aimed at both lowering the cost and speeding up the translation of Japanese manga into English.
BCGF: A Comics Show Grows in Brooklyn

by Heidi MacDonald | 12/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Saving the best for last, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival wrapped up a busy year in New York comics shows with a bustling day devoted to small press, indie and literary comics and illustrated books. An estimated 3,200 fans jammed Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a day stuffed with panels and comics.
Comics Briefly: 12/07/2010

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 12/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

High Level Promotions At DC, Segura Heads to Archie Comics, Marvel Pulls Fantastic 4 from Newsstands to Prevent Spoilers, DC's Teen Titan Raven Gets a TV Show,Don Rosa's Donald Duck to be Collected by Boom, Spider-Man Musical on SNL, Mike Mignola Video Interview, This Week @ Good Comics For Kids, This Week @ The Beat
Zenescope, Discovery Create Comic For Shark Week

| 12/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

Zenescope is teaming up with the Discovery Channel to release Top 10 Dealiest Sharks, a tie-in to the network’s popular Shark Week. It’s the first graphic novel tie-in for the Discovery Channel
Panel Mania: Zita the Spacegirl

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/07/2010 @ 12:00AM

After finding a remote control in a meteoroid, Zita opens a portal through which her best friend, Joseph, is abducted by aliens. Written and drawn by Ben Hatke, who has contributed to acclaimed color comics anthology Flight, Zita the Spacegirl follows Zita's adventures through alien worlds as she looks for her lost friend. First Second will release Zita the Spacegirl in February 2011.

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