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Comics Review: 8/23/2010
Diana Gabaldon's first graphic novel; a collection of Richard Thompson's beloved Cul-de-Sac strip and a comics history of the indigenous people of North America highlight this week's reviews..
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Comics Briefly: 8/17/10
Stan Lee Sued for Copyright Infringement; Delayed Batwoman Arriving This November; Read Comics In Public Day is August 28; Inkwell Awards Open for Voting; Comixology 2-Day Anniversary Sale; Zenescopes' Charmed Sells Out; Last 'Wonderland' Hardcover; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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The Good Book
I often credit Neil Gaiman for drawing me into the world of comics, but on a recent visit to my mom's house, I realized that the true origin of my comics reading was--shall we say a higher power? On the shelf at my mom's house was a fat red-bound hardcover book--The Picture Bible by Iva Hoth and Andre LeBlanc, first published in 1978. The first graphic novel I ever read.
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Panel Mania: A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories collects short stories spanning the career of Moto Hagio, an innovative Shojo manga artist. This collection includes 10 stories ranging from 1970 to 2007, and in this preview there are excerpts from four stories: "A Drunken Dream," "The Child Who Comes Home," "Iguana Girl," and "The Willow Tree." A Drunken Dream and Other Stories will be released by Fantagraphics on September 27th.
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Killing Shakespeare for Fun and Profit
Created and written by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery with art by Andy Belanger, 'Kill Shakespeare' is a clever reshuffling of the Bard's epic plays to create a fictional universe populated by characters from across his works all featured in one big mystery, romance and adventure narrative.
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Comics Reviews: 8/16/2010
Two best-selling novelists--Audrey Niffenegger and Janet Evanovich--turn to writing graphic novels, as underground pioneer Joyce Farmer returns with a touching portrait of her aging parents, and Darren White and Eddie Campbell paint a wry portrait of a damaged playwright.
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Image Comics Has New Kirkman Imprint, and Two Others
Reinforcing once more the increasingly interconnected worlds of Hollywood and comics publishing, Image Comics has announced several new imprints with varying degrees of Hollywood connections. Making the biggest splash is Skybound, a new division by Image partner Robert Kirkman, who's funding the line with some of the profits from the upcoming AMC Walking Dead TV show based on his zombie apocalypse comic.
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Comics Briefly 8/10/2010
Scott Pilgrim Arriving in Theaters, On Adult Swim; Larry Marder Elected CBLDF President; All Vertigo Comics Go Adults-Only on iPad App; Wizzywig Goes Live Online; See The Cubs with Azzarello for Charity; Haaretz Asks Why Aren't Superheroes Big in Israel?; Indian Graphic Novel Boom and Sarnath Bannerjee at The Times of India;; Motley Fool Praises Comics Company Stocks; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids and This Week @ The Beat
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Worley Goes All-Ages with 'Scratch9'
Scratch9 is an all-ages comic with a story worthy of Saturday morning cartoons: Scratch, a mischievous cat, runs away from home and winds up as the subject of a science experiment, which accidentally liberates his other eight lives, starting with a sabertooth tiger. Written by Rob Worley and illustrated by Jason Kruse, the four-issue miniseries debuts in August from Ape Entertainment.
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Who Are These Lapsed Comics iPad Readers Anyway?
Digital comics have been big news for a while, but the iPad is currently getting all the attention, with even DC Comics finally jumping into the fray with their app store. Retailers fret about losing customers. Publishers dream of new readers, or at least getting lapsed ones back. PWCW talked to one such lapsed comics reader to find out about their digital comics buying habits.
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Panel Mania: The Unsinkable Walker Bean
After his grandfather falls ill due to a cursed pearl skull, mild and meek Walker Bean must go on a high-seas adventure to return the skull to the witches who created it. The witches, who sunk Atlantis, are imprisoned in a deep trench near an uncharted island. The Unsinkable Walker Bean, written and illustrated by Aaron Renier, will be released by First Second on August 17.
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New Manga Projects from 'AX' Editor Sean Michael Wilson
Sean Michael Wilson is a comics rennaissance man. He's the editor of the Top Shelf's AX Alternative Manga anthology, unveiled at the recent San Diego Comic-Con International, and has two manga adaptations in the works. His original graphic novel, The Story of Lee is forthcoming from NBM in February of 2011 and his adaptations for Classical Comics (which include Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, Dickens's Christmas Carol, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Sweeney Todd) come out beginning this month.
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Comics Should be Fun: Mark Chiarello and 'Wednesday Comics'
Besides being an artist, Mark Chiarello is the art director at DC Comics as well as an editor. Chiarello's most recent project is Wednesday Comics, an unusual and vivid homage to the history of color Sunday newspaper comic strips.
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Prose to Graphic Novel: Audrey Niffenegger & Diana Gabaldon Make the Leap
Novelists known for their time-traveling abilities (or at least their characters') are making a different move in the fall--to graphic novels. Audrey Niffenegger's The Night Bookmobile will be published by Abrams, while Ballantine will release Diana Gabaldon's The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel.
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Comics Reviews: 8/9/10
Mat Johnson, Kim Deitch and a sociological take on the Big Bad wolf highlight this week's graphic novels.
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Marder Elected President of Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of comics artists, publishers, retailers, and librarians, announced that comics retailer Chris Powell is stepping down as president and that cartoonist Larry Marder has been elected to succeed him. In addition, Dale Cendali, an intellectual property lawyer and partner at the firm Kirkland & Ellis, has been named to the CBLDF board.
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Baltimore's Otakon Draws 28,000 Anime, Manga Fans
Despite a false fire alarm that forced an evacuation of the convention center, the 17th annual Otakon convention, held at the Baltimore Convention Center this past weekend, attracted more than 28,000 anime and manga fans along with about 1230 staff and dealer/exhibitors.
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Space Opera With Teeth: Jim Starlin's 'Dreadstar'
Dynamite Entertainment is reissuing Jim Starlin's philosophical space opera Dreadstar in a library of handsome hardcover editions, appropriately launching with "The Beginning." This inaugural volume contains the "Metamorphosis Odyssey" and "The Price" and "Dreadstar," from which the ongoing comics series spun off.
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Milo Manara at Comic-Con
Italian cartoonist Milo Manara is internationally known for erotically rendered graphic novels. The author of both slyly and blatantly sexual works such as Click, Butterscotch, Indian Summer and Trip to Tulum (with Frederico Fellini), Manara was visiting this year's San Diego Comic-Con to announce that Dark Horse is publishing his works in a complete multi-volume edition.
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Panel Mania: AX Vol. 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga
Top Shelf's collection of AX, a Japanese magazine of alternative comics, features works from 33 artists taken from over 10 years of the magazine's history, including such manga luminaries as Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The collection offers a comprehensive selection of styles and themes available outside of mainstream manga. In this preview, Shinya Komatsu's story "Mushroom Garden", the protagonist's obsession with mushrooms begins to take over his life; the first half of the story is excerpted here. AX Vol. 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga will be released in August.
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