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M.F. Grimm Turns His Life Around
Better known to the hip-hop world as MF Grimm, Percy Carey has documented the joys and pain of his life in a new graphic novel called Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm from Vertigo.
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Comics Bestsellers for October
Despite an accelerated schedule that will release 3 Naruto titles a month through the end of the year, Naruto sales continue to soar and the three Sept. Volumes 18, 17 and 16 took the top three slots of this month’s list.
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Maintenance: From the Web to Hollywood
In a few short years, Jim Massey has gone from comics fan to creator with his comedic series Maintenance.
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New Yorker Festival Spotlights Superheroes
The New Yorker Festival brought together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the superhero.
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Comics Briefly
SPX 2007 Opens; Imaginova Acquires Newsarama; Brawl Release Party; Rutu Modan Book Tour; Seven Seas' Otaku Contest; Juicy Mother Release Party; and Superheroes in Society Panel.
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Perry Bible Fellowship Collection a Pre-order Hit
The first print collection of the online comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship has already racked up impressive orders.
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Bookazine to Add Manga to 900 Stores
Bookazine is developing a manga section that it will install in 900 stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, whose holdings include F.Y.E., Planet Music and Sam Goody.
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Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King
We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.
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ADV Manga Wakes Up
Despite layoffs, cutbacks and long delays between some volume releases, ADV Manga has managed to persevere and regain some of its footing in the marketplace this past summer.
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Comics Briefly
Kids Comic-Con Set for March; ICAF Meets at LC; Rall Elected to Head AAEC; Williams Directs NYCC Programming; Little, Brown Cancels Congo Tintin; Rotterdam to Head Sales at DC; Shableski Joins Diamond; and Viz: Death Note; Naruto DVD; Halloween
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Web Comic Creators Take Charge
As Web comics continue to grow in popularity, the online comics industry is evolving into a nearly completely self-made realm, where creators enjoy complete artistic freedom, and self-determined licensing and merchandising.
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Panel Mania: Town Boy
In this 8-page preview of Town Boy, the second volume of acclaimed cartoonist Lat’s memoir of growing up in Malaysia, the teenaged Lat works up the nerve to ask the prettiest girl in town to go to a movie. Town Boy will be published by First Second this month.
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Rude and Baron’s Nexus Returns
A burst of new creative energy when it was launched in 1981, Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus takes the science fiction and superhero genres and infuses them with their own personal styles
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Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest Grows
This year's Stumptown Comics Fest, held September 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. (its fourth venue in four years of existence), featuring a focus on self-publishers and the first festival Trophy Awards, was easily the biggest to date.
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Harper to Reprint Scott McCloud’s Zot!
Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback edition in July 2008.
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Myth, the Bible and Image’s Mice Templar
Artist Michael Avon Oeming and writer Bryan J.L. Glass have created Mice Templar, a funny-animal medieval fantasy adventure series ten years in the making.
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Betty and Veronica Make a Move to Realism—and India
Archie Comics expands their classic characters' appeal with updated art styles, interactive blogs and outreach to foreign markets.
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More Gore: Tokyopop’s Ultimate Battle Royale
Tokyopop plans an Ultimate edition of the explicit and violent Battle Royale series that will collect three volumes of the original manga in a single hardcover edition.
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Comics Briefly
Nee Rises at DC Comics; New York Anime Festival Guests; Demo Rights Revision; 30 Days of Night Movie To Open; Zuda Contracts Online; Wieringo Tribute Raises $4K; 24 Hour Comics Day 2007; Top Comics of the Year 5767; and David Heatley on Canadian Radio
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Panel Mania: Common Foe
In this preview of Common Foe, written by Keith Giffen and Shannon Denton with art by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski and Federico Dallocchio, WWII American and German squads fighting during the Battle of the Bulge desperately join forces to fight a fiendish, bloodthirsty enemy. The book will be published in October by Desperado.



