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Comics Bestsellers July 2007
Top 10 comics for July
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Looking for a Few Good Stories
I’m not the only creator crossing the boundaries with this kind of hybrid approach, either. Who else do you think the readership for the profusely illustrated Baltimore book by Mike Mignola and Chris Golden will be? And more importantly, what will those readers be looking to buy next? Hellboy? Golden’s other novels?
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The Man with No Name Rides to Dynamite
Fans of nihilistic Western adventure will cheer the announcement that Dynamite Entertainment will add a monthly title based on the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Man with No Name series of movies.
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Comics Briefly
San Diego Comic-Con Programming; Kuper, Pyle Events in NYC; New Yaoi Convention
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Panel Mania: Cairo
In this 9-page preview of G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker’s Cairo, the book’s hero comes into possession of a genie in a hookah, in a story that brings the Egyptian city vividly to life. PWCW interviewed Wilson in July 2006. Cairo will be published by DC/Vertigo in November.
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Fans Mob AnimeExpo 2007
Held this year at the Long Beach (Calif.) Convention Center, AnimeExpo, an annual fan festival celebrating anime, manga and cosplay, opened to crowds of 20,000 on the first day and peaked at around 30,000 on the second day.
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Eddie Campbell's Black Diamond, Part 2
Last week in part 1 of our interview with Eddie Campbell about his new graphic novel, The Black Diamond Detective Agency, the cartoonist discussed his thoughts on adapting a screenplay into a comics work, serializing versus original graphic novels and his attraction to American-style detective writers like Raymond Chandler.
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NetComics Adds Yaoi Press, Japanese Manga
Korean manhwa publisher NetComics is expanding its offerings with a new copublishing agreement to offer Yaoi Press titles online.
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Comics Briefly
VIZ Releases The Taste of Tea; nner with Joss Whedon; Hong Kong Artist wins Manga Nobel; Ellison, Fantagraphics Suit Resolved
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Scratching the Niche: Erotic Manga
Before Tokyopop’s Sailor Moon led the way to today’s shojo manga boom almost 10 years ago, a high percentage of independent U.S. manga publishers were in the business of publishing pornographic manga, or ero manga, the industry’s term.
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Rosen Offers Comics Interview Series
Rosen Publishing, a nonfiction book publisher that caters to libraries and educational markets, will release four books this fall collecting a series of interviews with acclaimed comics creators Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, George Perez and Michael Avon Oeming.
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Harper Offers a Summer of the Simpsons
Aiming to satisfy the countless fans of the longest-running prime-time show in television history, this summer HarperCollins is publishing three Simpsons titles to coincide with the release of the show's first feature film, slated to open July 27.
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CMX Brings Back Gon
"The little dinosaur with the big attitude." That's how CMX editor Jim Chadwick described the title character in Gon, the classic manga that CMX will be releasing in a new edition beginning next month.
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Return to Gasoline Alley
Golden Age comic strips make a comeback.
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Lerner Launches Graphic Universe Trade Line
Midwest educational and library publisherLerner Publishing has added a trade line to Graphic Universe, an imprint specializing in educational hardcover and paperback comics aimed at ages 9—12.
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Transforming IDW
The comic book license for the Transformers property has changed publishers more often than the robots have changed shape. But now it's in the hands of IDW Publishing, a company with a track record for licensed properties.
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Civil War and Dark Tower Lead Marvel
Revenue in Marvel's publishing segment rose 15% in the first quarter, to $27.5 million, and operating income jumped 29%, to $11.5 million.
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First Kids Comic-Con a Big Hit
Kids' interest in comic books is healthy and strong if the first annual New York City Kids Comic Con was any indication.
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Shojo Beat Marks Second Year
Shojo Beat, Viz Media's monthly shojo anthology magazine, will celebrate its second birthday in July with a special present for its readers: an excerpt from legendary manga-ka Osamu Tezuka's 1954 manga Princess Knight, which has never been available in the U.S. before.
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Anjali Singh Loves Comics and Prose
After publishing a string of acclaimed graphic novels at Pantheon, Anjali Singh moved to Houghton Mifflin last year. Singh, a senior editor specializing in international literary fiction and nonfiction as well as comics, revealed plans to publish a new comics work in early 2008 by Frederik Peeters as well as prose novels by Rudolph Delson and by Samantha Hunt.



