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Funnies Business: Alex Ross Banished to the Back of the Catalogue
Star comics artist Alex Ross has taken a group of public domain superhero characters; updated them with new covers and new stories and created Project Superhero, a new work that will be published by Dynamite Entertainment.
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Where's Waldo? Perth, Australia
Alex Cox, the director of the eccentric 1980s punk sci-fi film Repo Man, has teamed up with artist Chris Bones to create a graphic novel sequel to the cult film.
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Hazed: The Dirt on Sorority Life
Mark Sable’s new original graphic novel, Hazed,is an all-too-real dark comedy that details the sordid reality of sorority life for three young women on an American college campus.
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Comics Briefly
Kids' Comic Con; BEA Graphic Novel Day; Amulet Movie; Dave Stevens Obit; Mark Siegel on ICv2; Harvey Awards Ballots; Ralph Bakshi Exhibit; Cold Cut Now Haven Distribution; Ware, Kirby in Bookforum ; Noir Comics on NPR; Reading at KGB Bar; and Fruits Basket Promotion
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Jeff Lemire's Haunting Essex County Trilogy
Jeff Lemire's 'Tales from the Farm', the first book in his Essex County Trilogy, has gained literary acclaim with its stories of men in emotionally devastating situations.
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The Saga of the Guin Saga
In Japan, the Guin Saga has run for 119 volumes and has been compared to The Lord of the Rings. Now Vertical is bringing the first five novels and three mangas to the US.
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The Crumbs Move to Norton
W.W. Norton executive editor Robert Weil has acquired the publishing rights to two titles by acclaimed underground cartoonist R. Crumb in addition to acquiring a new work from his wife, noted underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky Crumb.
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Dark Horse Expands Web Comic Collections
Wondermark, The K Chronicles and Achewood are joining Dark Horse's burgeoning line of Web comics collections.
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New York Comic-Con 2008: Comics, Books and Kids
The third annual New York Comic-Con, to be held April 18—20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, opens next month with a record of impressive growth that suggests the ongoing mutual embrace of comics publishing and traditional book publishing is even more apparent and more inevitable than ever.
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Life in Comics #1: An Outside Hope
Acclaimed columnist Jennifer de Guzman joins the PWCW staff and starts out talking about the most hopeful path for comics' continued success.
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Skim: Tales of a Teenage Wicca
This month, Canadian children’s publisher Groundwood Books will make its first foray into the world of graphic novels when it publishes Skim, a nuanced coming-of-age story written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki
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March Comics Bestsellers
Abram’s Rodrick Rules is in the top spot; followed Viz’s Bleach Vol. 22 and Graphix’s Bone: Ghost Circles. Ultimate X-Men: Sentinels is at #8; and Savage Sword of Conan at #10.
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Action Historians: Making Comic Book History
In their new series, Comic Books Comics, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey embark on an attempt to tell the complete history of the comic book industry in the comics medium itself.
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Friedman’s More Old Jewish Comedians
Drew Friedman returns with more scabrously endearing portraits in More Old Jewish Comedians.
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Comics Briefly
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie: Nana Screenings; Blue Dragon Debut; NYAnime Fest 2008 Dates; Lapham’s Young Liars; Stumptown Comics Fest; Unterzakhn in The Forward ; February Zuda Winner; Chris Claremont Podcast; RabagliatiSigning; Signing at Midtown Comics; and G4TV's Fresh Ink
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Busiek and Bagley’s Weekly Trinity
Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley are teaming up for a new weekly comic book which will focus on DC's top three characters.
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'Little Vampire' Rises Again
Mark Siegel, editorial director at Roaring Brook’s First Second imprint, hopes that resurrecting a series by French comic book creator Joann Sfar can help the author find the same popularity here that he does abroad. This April, the imprint will release Little Vampire, a compilation of three graphic novels by Sfar, the first two of which had been published individually by Simon & Schuster five years ago.
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Terry Brooks Makes Manga Magic
With Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks takes his best-selling series to comics for the first time.
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Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic in the Ocean
Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published environmental comic for kids that examines the destructive impact of plastic on the world’s oceans.
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Life Sucks: Vampires Work the Late Shift
Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece have collaborated for a fresh and comedic new take on the vampire tale.



