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Archie Comics Names Adam Tracey Director of Publicity, Marketing
Archie Comics has named Adam Tracey, director of publicity and marketing, replacing Alex Segura, who left the company recently to return to DC Comics.
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SPX Smashes Sales Records
The biggest Small Press Expo ever was hailed as one of the most profitable as well, with sales of indie and literary comics smashing records across the board. Held this past weekend in North Bethesda, MD, the 2012 edition of SPX was billed as a never before seen meeting of six of literary comics’ greatest figures.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 9/17/2012
9/17-9/23 Brooklyn Book Festival and Bookend Events in Brooklyn, NY; 9/18-9/23 "Love & Rockets" 30th Anniversary Tour in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia & Brooklyn; 9/28-9/30 MorrisonCon with Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Gerard Way and more in Las Vegas, NV.
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iVerse Unveils a Comics Crowdfunding Site and Enters the DRM-Free World
New things are percolating at iVerse, the Waco, Tex., company behind the ComicsPlus digital comics app. iVerse is looking to steal some of Kickstarter’s marketshare, as well as venture into DRM-free digital comics, with ComicsAccelerator, a new crowdfunding platform specifically for comics projects.
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Strong August at DC; New ‘Earth One’, ‘Zero’ Graphic Novels Coming
DC's Batman Earth One marked its second month as the top selling graphic novel to comics shop retailers and announced plans to release a new Superman Earth One graphic novel in October, as well as book collections of its New 52 “Zero” issues by the end of the year and into 2013.
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Carol Lay’s Story Minute Strips Get a New Life in ‘Illiterature’
Since Carol Lay gave us The Big Skinny in 2008, a very funny account of her successful struggle to lose weight, the prolific creator has stayed largely out of the limelight in the publishing world. But in October she’ll be back with Illiterature, a brand new hardcover collection of her well-known Story Minute cartoons.
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Gary Panter's ‘DalTokyo’: Strip-Mining on Mars
Considered one of the only true punk cartoonists, Gary Panter is a tremendously influential underground cartoonist best known for a ragged, aggressive line and the wildly imaginative formal experimentation in his Jimbo graphic novels. This month Fantagraphics Books will release DalTokyo, a serial comic strip first produced by Panter in the 1980s, now collected in a handsome, horizontal-format, oversized hardcover edition.
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Panel Mania: Nao of Brown
Nao Brown struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and urges to harm others. However, she wants to overcome these issues and get her design and illustration career off the ground. Her boyfriend dumps her, yet she meets a washing machine repairman and an art teacher at the Buddhist Center. The Nao of Brown is created by Glyn Dillon and will be released by SelfMadeHero, an imprint of Abrams in September.
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Upcoming Comics Events: 9/10/2012
9/10 Raina Telgenmeier, Doug Tennapel and James Burks Discuss Graphic Novels in San Francisco; 9/12 Greg Pak "Doctor Strange" Release with Signing and Discussion in New York; 9/14-9/23 "Love & Rockets" 30th Anniversary Tour in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia & Brooklyn.
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Comics Reviews: September 2012
It's non-fiction comics season, with books on economics, philsophy and the original Tea Party. Plus Mark Siegel's Sailor twain and new books by Matthew Inman and Carol Lay.
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Abel and Madden Delve Further into “Mastering Comics”
Mastering Comics by Matt Madden and Jessica Abel is an instructional book intended for people who already have a solid background in producing comics. Taken with their previous Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, they've created two invaluable textbooks for teaching comics creation.
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Berkley Launching Graphic Novel Imprint, InkLit
Penguin's Berkley/NAL division is starting a graphic novel line called InkLit to be directed by Rich Johnson, co-founder of Yen Press and former v-p of trade book sales at DC Comics.
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Panel Mania: The Hive
The Hive is the second volume of Charles Burns' new trilogy following X'ed Out. In Burns’ latest nightmarish alternate reality world, Doug, the Tintin-like hero, seeks answers about the mysterious incident that shattered his life and about his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend and her menacing ex-boyfriend.
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Panel Mania: Prince of Cats
Prince of Cats is a hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in Brooklyn and focuses on Tybalt and his crew of Capulets as they battle the Montagues. Written and illustrated by Ronald Wimberly, Prince of Cats is written entirely in iambic pentameter. Prince of Cats will be released by Vertigo in comic stores on September 5th and in book stores on September 11.
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Archaia, DBD Ink Graphic Novel Distribution Pact
Graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment has reached an agreement to switch its domestic and international bookstore distribution to Diamond Book Distribution, effective August 2012. New Archaia titles will begin appearing in the DBD catalog beginning in February 2013
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Upcoming Comics Events: 9/04/2012
9/6 MADison Avenue Party at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco; 9/8-9/9 Baltimore Comic Con in Baltimore, MD; 9/10 Raina Telgenmeier, Doug Tennapel and James Burks Discuss Graphic Novels in San Francisco.
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Taking on the Vote
Armed with sarcasm and independence, journalist Greg Palast pounds the pavements of America—however ugly they are—like the hard-boiled PIs of pulp novels, searching for truth and justice. His practices are unconventional in today’s journalism, not to mention in investigative reporting. His newest book is Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps (Seven Stories) with a 50-page comics section by Ted Rall.
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WonderCon Returns to Anaheim in 2013—but Could Go Back To the Bay Area, Too
For months a huge question mark has loomed over the location of 2013’s WonderCon, one of the largest comics conventions in the United States.
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Alex Segura Named Executive Director of Publicity at DC Comics
Alex Segura, v-p publicity and marketing at Archie Comics, has been named executive director of publicity at DC Entertainment effective immediately. Segura has directed publicity and marketing at Archie since 2010 and returns to DC Comics where he was a publicity manager.