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Gaiman’s Sandman At 20
On Sunday November 9, the twentieth anniversary of DC Comics’ Sandman series was marked at one of Manhattan’s leading cultural centers, the 92nd Street Y, when creator Neil Gaiman was interviewed onstage by acclaimed graphic designer (and comics enthusiast) Chip Kidd.
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Books About Comics: Encyclopedic Wonders
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Comics Briefly
Miami Book Fair Embraces Comics; 2009 Eisner Judges ; Steve Geppi Speaks; NYCC Sign-up, Casting Call; Death Note II Canadian Screening ; Abel on NPR; Fan Questions on MyCup o' Joe; Spotlight on Comics; and This Week In The Beat
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November Rain and Ergot at APE
The final stop on the 2008 comics convention circuit, the Alternative Press Expo was held at the Concourse in San Francisco on November 1 and 2—a big change for a show that's usually taken place in April. APE is always a laid-back sort of show, with spacious corridors and, thanks to its Bay Area location, connections to the old school of underground comix. (First-wave veteran Spain Rodriguez even came by the Last Gasp booth to sign copies of Che: A Graphic Biography.)
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Yen Press in Orbit: Manga and the Hachette Reorg
In the wake of the Hachette ororganization, Yen Press publishing director Kurt Hassler chatted with PWCW about the future of Yen Press, the future of manga in the U.S. and the importance of strong properties to any publishing category.
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A Visit to Paul Pope's World
The iconoclastic creator of such acclaimed original comics works as 100%, Heavy Liquid and Batman: Year 100, is at work on multiple book projects—including a new series aimed at kids and even turns his attention to the world of fashion.
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Life in Comics: Publishers on the Prowl - We Want Your Comics!
At SLG, it seems that fewer submissions arrive every week, and what we do get is not appropriate for us, either because the style or content is just not what we publish, or the work is of beginners who aren't quite ready for publication.
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November Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney's Rodrick Rules takes the #1 slot followed by Naruto vol. 31. Jim Butcher's Welcome to the Jungle is #3, Stephen King's The Long Road Home is at #5 and Brian Azzarello's 100 Bullets: Dirty (#9) also make this list this month.
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A Small MangaNext Con Grows in Somerset, N.J.
MangaNext is a small con in it's third year and draws a young crowd to the Doubletree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Somerset, New Jersey.
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Comics Briefly
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Panelmania: Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation
A young girl named Antimony attends a boarding school where magic and
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Marvel Publishing Sales Slip
Trade paperback sales were off in Marvel's third quarter, leading to a 3% decline in revenue in the period while profits fell 15%.
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Comics Go to the Ivy League
Academic Librarian Karen Green has successfully made the case for the literary legitimacy of comics at one of the most elite schools in the nation, and transformed Columbia’s collection of graphic novels from a paltry few to over 800 books and climbing.
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Bill Willingham Recreates the Fables
Besides the ongoing Jack of Fables spin-off title, written by BBill Willingham's frequent collaborator Matthew Sturges, and an upcoming book collecting artist James Jean's covers for Fables itself, there are three more Fables-related projects coming in 2009.
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Bat-Manga: Go Go Go!
Thie Chip Kidd-edited and designed anthology of an obscure Janapanese Batman manga is a vivid, primal take on the character
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This American Elf
James Kochalka celebrates the 10th anniversary of his daily diary strip, American Elf
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Comics Briefly 10/28
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Panelmania: World of Quest
World of Quest, Jason Kruse's kid-oriented sword and sorcery Web comic, which recently made the leap to both print and television animation, hits stands with its second volume this December. In our exclusive 6-page preview, Quest faces the wrath of The Hive.
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Fat Is a Laughing Matter
Meeting author-artist Carol Lay in the flesh is wonderfully disconcerting. So closely does she resemble the cartoon version of herself in her whimsical cartoon memoir about dieting, The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude (Villard)—tall, brunette, with black horn-rimmed glasses and, yes, a slender figure—that shaking Lay's hand becomes an almost metaphysical experience.
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Art Spiegelman Breaks It All Down For You
With Breakdowns, Maus, and In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman taught his fellow artists about what he calls the "grammar" of comics, and he taught the larger book world about a new kind of literature that could grab national attention, illustrate painful and personal subjects, and win a Pulitzer Prize.
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