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Top Shelf Debuts Two Comics Apps; Launches on Google eBooks, Graphicly
Independent comics publisher Top Shelf Productions is expanding its digital program with the release of two dedicated apps--the Top Shelf Productions App, with its full lineup of titles, and the Top Shelf Kids Club App, offering a selection of Kids’ and all-ages comics.
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X-Men Writer Chris Claremont Donates Archive to Columbia University
Renowned comics writer and novelist Chris Claremont, best known for his many years writing Marvel’s X-Men and Uncanny X-Men series, has reached an agreement to donate his archives to Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Comics Events: 11/08/2011
MAD Magazine comic creators in Savannah, Warren Ellis premiere and more.
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More To Come 11: Charlie Hebdo, Doujinshi and Susie Cagle under fire
In this podcast, Charlie Hebdo gets bombed, doujinshi faces copyright problems, Susie Cagle's arrested at Occupy Oakland, the a Buck for Jack program and much, much more.
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Building a Better Bible with Legos
Brendan Powell Smith’s new The Brick Bible: A New Spin On The Old Testament transforms the holy book into a colorful graphic novel through the use of Legos by way of his digital camera’s macro setting. Smith has long posted these adaptations to his website but now he’s spreading the Gospel of Lego in printed form.
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Luz Helps Children See the Light in Environmental Series
It can be difficult to blend educational value and entertainment in children’s books, but writer and illustrator Claudia Dávila is having success with Luz Sees the Light, the first graphic novel in a series about the environment, published by Kids Can Press.
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The Resurrection of Gahan Wilson’s 'Nuts'
Fantagraphics has done readers a great favor by releasing the first full collection of Nuts, the hilarious cult strip by famed Playboy and National Lampoon cartoonist Gahan Wilson.
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Graphicly Acquires Digital Comics Reader, Double Feature
Digital Comics vendor Graphicly has acquired Double Feature, a mobile comics reader application, from the Chicago comics studio, Four Star Studios and added Double Feature developer Josh Emmons to its development team.
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Mr. Natural Returns with ‘R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection’
This month W.W. Norton is publishing R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection, a revised, deluxe hardcover edition of a book originally published in Europe that collects—or attempts to collect—every record cover illustration ever done by Crumb.
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Ducks and Disney: The Enduring Humanity of Carl Barks
With the December publication of Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes, Fantagraphics will bring the classic comics stories of cartoonist Carl Barks (1901-2000) to bookstores in a comprehensive collection of handsome, durable hardcovers.
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Comics Reviews November 2011
Intriguing new works by Matthew Thurber and Olivier Schrauwen, a heartbreaking manga by Takashi Murakami and a long lost collection of 60's themed comics round out this month's reviews.
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How Many Digital Comics Formats Are Too Many?
With Barnes & Noble announcing a partnership with Marvel Comics for their Nook Tablet and Amazon rolling out an exclusive graphic novel deal with DC Comics for the Kindle Fire, consumers now have more choices for digital comics formats than ever before…but is more choice really better?
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Manga Publishers Find Success with Artbooks
Manga artbooks might not be as well-known as manga itself, but they create a lucrative business for their publishers. The artbooks go along with a series, a single manga, or other entertainment, like movies or video games, offering extra artwork and behind-the-scenes glimpses into their worlds.
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Panel Mania: Marzi
Marzena Sowa presents Poland under the Soviet Union on the brink of revolution in her memoir Marzi, illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Sylvain Savoia. Arranged into a sequence of vignettes, the stories are told from young Marzi’s perspective, as she struggles to make sense of the soviet-controlled and adult world.
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Graphicly Offers Comics via Facebook, Apple’s Newsstand and More
Digital comics distributor and software vendor Graphicly has launched a Facebook app offering Facebook users access to a complete list of its comics; released a widget offering access via blogs and websites and debuted on Apple’s Newsstand, a new iOS5 service that allows subscriptions and automatic downloads for monthly comics and other periodicals.
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More to Come 10: News from NYCC and Layoffs at Marvel
In this podcast, layoffs at Marvel, digital manga announcements and news and books from the recent New York Comic Con.
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Viz Media To Launch SuBLime, Digital/Print Yaoi Line in December
Viz Media is partnering with Japanese anime/manga retailer Animate and Yaoi publisher Libre Publishing, to launch SuBLime, a new manga graphic novel line specializing in Yaoi or Boys Love, that will release titles in digital and print formats beginning in December.
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Hachette Licenses App Development Platform to Round Table Companies
Round Table Companies has reached an agreement with the Hachette Book Group to get access to HBG’s digital content management system in order to develop an app that will feature a variety of RTC content.
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Cost Cutting at Marvel Comics Leads to Lay-offs
In what was described internally as a cost-cutting move, Marvel Comics laid off 11 employees last week, including three editors, four in production, two in the collections department and two from digital compositing.
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‘Kill Shakespeare’ Invited To Sundance
In July 2009, PW met two former film producers at the San Diego Comic-Con to hear about a comics project with the provocative title of Kill Shakespeare. Kill Shakespeare—a comics/graphic novel series from IDW that cleverly reshuffles characters from across the plays of the Bard into one big swashbuckling adventure tale—has found an audience.
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