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Upcoming Comics Events: December 30, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 12/30/2013 @ 12:00PM

12/29-12/31: Comic Market Tokyo 2013 in Tokyo, Japan; 1/1: Christos Gage in Worcester, MA.
Marvel Halts Sales of Periodical Comics in Bookstores

by Calvin Reid | 12/30/2013 @ 10:00AM

Marvel has ended sales of print single-issue periodical comics through trade bookstore channels. This will not affect the sales of book format graphic novels through those retailers.
Frederator Books Launches Catbug E-book Series

By Calvin Reid | 12/27/2013 @ 10:00AM

Frederator Books, the e-book imprint of Frederator, the YouTube cartoon producer, is launching a new e-book series starring Catbug, an animated character spun off from Frederator’s wildly popular YouTube cartoon show Bravest Warriors.
Melville House, Dan Clowes Plan Response to Labeouf Plagiarism

By Calvin Reid | 12/23/2013 @ 10:00AM

Hollywood star Shia Labeouf faces legal action from both Dan Clowes and indie publisher Melville House, after admitting plagiarizing a Clowes comic for his short film and after lifting chunks of novelist Benoit Duteurtre’s novel The Little Girl and the Cigarette for his mini-comics.
Comixology Brings French Digital Comics to U.S., Canada

By Calvin Reid | 12/19/2013 @ 03:00PM

Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is releasing 700 French comics in the North American marketplace.
DC, Madefire Partner For New Motion Book Starring Batman

By Todd Allen | 12/19/2013 @ 10:00AM

DC Entertainment has entered into a partnership with Madefire to produce all-new "motion comics" a hybrid format that adds sounds and limited motion to comics, while giving the reader a choice in how the story plays out. The first release will be Batman: Arkham Origins – A DC2 MultiVerse Graphic Novel.
Columbia Acquires Kitchen Sink Press Comics Archive

By Calvin Reid | 12/18/2013 @ 09:30AM

Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library has reached an agreement with comics artist, historian, publisher and literary agent Denis Kitchen to acquire the archive of Kitchen Sink Press, the legendary publisher of underground comics that Kitchen directed between 1969 and 1999.
Laphams’s ‘Stray Bullets’ Is Back in Print and Digital

By Heidi MacDonald | 12/17/2013 @ 12:00PM

Stray Bullets, David Lapham’s enigmatic, brutal and heartbreaking comic about the web of crime, murder and abuse that surrounds several generations of lowlifes, is back. Now coming out from Image, the first 40 issues of the book are available today digitally via the Image Comics website, Comixology, the Image Comics iOS app, and Android, Android, Google Play, iBooks and Kindle
Upcoming Comics Events: December 16, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 12/16/2013 @ 12:00PM

Jesse Reklaw Signing in Portland, OR; Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner in Tampa, FL.
New Paradigm’s Black Sherlock, ‘Watson and Holmes’

By Maurice Boyer | 12/11/2013 @ 01:00PM

New Paradigm Studios, a new comics publisher, is offering a fresh take on genre material, launching with Watson and Holmes, an African American recreation of literature’s greatest detectives.
Yang Tops 2013 PW Comics World Critics Poll with 'Boxers and Saints'

By PW Comics World Editors | 12/11/2013 @ 11:00AM

Gene Luen Yang's historical graphic novel 'Boxers and Saints' added to its rack of laurels by topping PW Comics World's eighth annual Critics Poll, in another year of stunningly varied books.
New Graphic Novels, New Deals from Hansen Literary Agency

By Calvin Reid | 12/11/2013 @ 10:00AM

Bryan Lee O’Malley, Raina Telgemier, Hope Larson and Gene Luen Yang are just a few of the comics artists represented by the Hansen Literary Agency. Here's an update of new works negotiated by the agency.
Panel Mania: The Bojeffries Saga

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/11/2013 @ 10:00AM

While Jobremus Bojeffries may seem like any other father, his family is not. The uncles are a vampire and a werewolf, Grandpa is in the last stages of organic matter, and the baby puts off enough thermonuclear energy to power England and Wales. Written by Alan Moore, with art by Steve Parkhouse, The Bojeffries Saga spans decades of the family, with one chapter written as a light opera and featuring a Christmas episode. Top Shelf will release The Bojeffries Saga in February 2014.
Panel Mania: Monsters! and Other Stories

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/10/2013 @ 08:00AM

Monsters! and Other Stories is a collection of wordless comics by newcomer Gustavo Duarte, featuring tales about oversized monsters in the tradition of King and Godzilla, told with humor as well twisted horror. It will be published by Dark Horse in January 2014.
Panel Mania: B+F

Compiled by Ada Price | 12/09/2013 @ 12:00PM

B+F by Gregory Benton explores an otherworldly forest with a woman and a dog as they meet the forest's inhabitants, both benevolent and malicious. B+F won the MoCCA Award of Excellence earlier this year. It will be released by AdHouse Books in July 2014.
Upcoming Comics Events: December 9, 2013

Compiled by Matt White | 12/09/2013 @ 12:00PM
Top Shelf Donates ‘March Book One’ to Members of Congress

By Calvin Reid | 12/03/2013 @ 04:00PM

Top Shelf publisher Chris Staros is donating a digital edition of March Book One, the bestselling graphic memoir of Civil Rights legend Rep. John Lewis, to every member of the U.S. Congress.
PictureBox to End Frontlist Publishing

by Calvin Reid | 12/03/2013 @ 10:00AM

In something of a surprise, Dan Nadel, publisher of the much-lauded art and literary comics house PictureBox Inc., is ending the company’s frontlist publishing operations effective December 31, 2013.
Papercutz Launches Super Genius Imprint

by Calvin Reid | 11/27/2013 @ 02:00PM

Children's comics publisher Papercutz is launching Super Genius, a new imprint that will publish graphic novels for older readers.

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