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MoCCA Festival Must Move Again After Successful 2015 Event
Despite having to find new digs for 2016, this year's show was upbeat and crowded, featuring appearances by comics legends Scott McCloud and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, alongside a younger generation that included Jillian Tamaki, Michel Fiffe and Noelle Stevenson.
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Panel Mania: Joie de vivre in Pénélope Bagieu’s 'Exquisite Corpse'
French superstar Pénélope Bagieu’s makes her first English-language appearance with a fresh, breezy tale of a young woman who has never set foot in a bookstore who encounters a reclusive author.
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Photo Mania: MoCCA Arts Festival 2015
This year's MoCCA Art Fest featured comics legends like Aline Kominsky-Crumb and lots of new comers like Kris Mukai, who was awarded a MoCCA Arts Fest 2015 Award of Excellence. Despite having to find a new venue for next year, this year's show was full of enthusiasm and lots of great indie comics and graphic novels.
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Scribd’s Comics Launch Its Most Successful Yet
Comics had an "explosive" launch on Scribd's subscription e-book platform in February. And here's an exclusive look at who's using the service and what they're reading.
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Epic Queer Web Comic 'TJ and Amal' Coming to Print
Chicago indie publisher Iron Circus raised $65k on Kickstarter to fund the mammoth 520-page omnibus edition, coming in 2015.
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Manga for Foodies: 6 Delicious New Titles
Japan, the land of ramen and sushi, also has a thriving subgenre of food and cooking manga. Here is a sampling of recently released comics about cooking and eating.
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Panel Mania: The Heart-Stealing Whimsy of 'The Kurdles'
In this gorgeous debut graphic novel, animator Robert Goodin weaves a magical all-ages tale of a lost teddy bear trying to save her new home.
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14 Great Environmental Comics
For Earth Day, here are 14 environmentally-conscious comics that cover topics from climate change to pollution, deforestation, rising sea levels, and more.
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Manga Publishing Update, Spring 2015
North American manga publishers continue to recover from the double whammy of recession and a market correction in the late 2000s.
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Famous Monsters To Launch Comic Book Line
Veteran comics creators including Paul Tobin and Steve Niles are on board for the debut of the new American Gothic Press line of comics this summer.
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Teenage Artist's Self-Published Graphic Novel Gets Big Time Blurbs
How a teenager got acclaimed comics artists Jeff Smith, Lucy Knisley and Hope Larson to blurb her self-published book.
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Panel Mania: Sophie Goldstein's Dystopian SF in 'The Oven'
A couple hoping to have a child in a society with strict population controls escapes to a renegade community in Sophie Goldstein's 'The Oven.'
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Panel Mania: First Look at Jeffrey Brown’s 'Darth Vader and Friends'
Here's an exclusive first look at Jeffrey Brown's fourth and final take on the Skywalker family's foibles, 'Darth Vader and Friends,' due in April.
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ComicsPRO Elects Dolan as New President
Optimism over rising sales and signs of the diversifying audience for comics set the tone at the annual meeting of the largest organization for comics retailers.
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13 Delicious Comics about Cooking and Eating
From Japanese cooking competitions to fine French restaurants, baking bread and vegetarian dishes, we've put together a tasty list of 13 great comics about all kinds of food and cooking.
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Udon Turns Literary Classics into Manga Adventure
Can manga-style versions of classics like ‘Pride and Prejudice’ become the Cliffs Notes of a new generation of readers?
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Panel Mania: Go 'Ballistic' with Mortimer and Robertson
The futuristic thriller 'Ballistic' by Adam Egypt Mortimer and Darrick Robertson is nonstop craziness and violence. It's also destined to be a classic.
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Dark Horse Moves Three Print Titles to New Digital Imprint
'Ghost Fleet,' 'Resurrectionists,' and 'Sundowners' will be switched to monthly digital editions before being released in print trade paperback collections.
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Panel Mania: The Spectacular World Building of 'The Swords of Glass'
'The Swords Of Glass' by by Sylviane Corgiat and Laura Zuccheri tells a story of a girl's quest for vengeance in an ecologically-influenced fantasy world captured by Zuccheri's award-winning art.
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Inside the Economics of Digital Comics with Todd Allen
Todd Allen has been keeping tabs on digital comics since the mid-aughts, and he's just released a ground-breaking new edition of 'The Economics of Digital Comics' that reveals a wealth of financial details rarely disclosed.