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  • Photo Mania

  • More Crowds, More Comics at San Diego

    Giant crowds and movie stars eclipsed some of the comics news at the 2008 Comic-Con International in San Diego

  • Let The Madness Begin: Comic-Con Preview Night 2008

    Hordes of pre-registered fans crowded the floor of Comic-Con during the three hour Preview Night.

  • Joe Kubert: A Busy Man

    Though he'll turn 82 later this year, Joe Kubert maintains the schedule of a hungry, young artist. As many as seven days a week, Kubert will go to his School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in New Jersey to either teach a class or work on an overflowing slate of projects.

  • The Fabulous Freak Brothers Return

    This August, the U.K. comics publisher, Knockabout Comics will publish a massive 40th anniversary Freak Brothers Omnibus, a 624-page leviathan of laughs, straight from the mind of creator Gilbert Shelton.

  • DC Finally Finishes Eisner’s The Spirit

    For followers of Will Eisner's The Spirit, it's a bittersweet time: 1952 all over again. After eight years, DC Comics has completed a mammoth-scale archival project that none of Eisner's other publishers had even attempted: they've reprinted—in color restored to Eisner's specifications—the entire 12-year run of the character's groundbreaking newspaper-strip adventures.

  • Prophecy Fighters: Nostradamus and The Foundation

    One-part Da Vinci Code and two parts X-Files, The Foundation is a story about the prophet Nostradamus and a secret organization founded to prevent his predictions from coming true. The book will be published by Boom! Studios in September.

  • Comics Briefly

    Viz Film Company; Attack of the Show SDCC Panel; Vertigo Creators Blog; Foreign GN’s on NPR; Paul Sizer Online Comic; New A.D. Chapter; and Vertigo Myspace Spotlight

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/21/2008

    This week on the Web: Behind the scenes of Communist China and Ukraine democracy, Obi Wan on the road, a plague of deer ticks, a lost Las Vegas legend, a strong argument for the samaritan state and an even stronger argument for fat (with recipes). Plus: organizing, improvising, dog training, and What Happened—now with that smooth Scott McClellan delivery.

  • Financial Challenge: A Close Look at Platinum Studios

    Despite years of mounting financial losses, creator complaints and skepticism about its business plan, Platinum Studios continues to sign new comics

  • Funny Business #5: The Good Kind of Audit

    A look at the BPA's circulation audits for comics reveals some interesting information about sales patterns.

  • Image Comics and Tori Amos Ink Comic Book Tattoo

    Image has teamed up with popular singer-songwriter Tori Amos to publish Comic Book Tattoo, a 480-page, full-color book in which various comics artists adapt the concepts behind Amos's songs into graphic vignettes.

  • Norton Acquires Nelson Mandela Graphic Bio

    W.W. Norton plans to publish a graphic biography of former South Africa president Nelson Mandela.

  • Image and Dynamite Finally Raise American Flagg!

    Four years after announcing plans to copublish a new edition of Howard Chaykin’s influential sci-fi comics series, American Flagg, Image Comics and Dynamic Forces are finally publishing the book this month. Turns out it was huge pain to produce.

  • Return to the Perry Bible Fellowship

    After the success of last year's The Trials of Colonel Sweeto, Nicholas Gurewitch is planning an even bigger and broader compilation of his cult web comic favorite, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack.

  • Comics Briefly

    SDCC Programming; PW The Beat: Xeric, Manga; More; Taiyo Matsumoto Interview; Boom! Free Webcomics; World Cosplay Summit at NYAF; Superman on NPR; and Horror Guild Award Nominees

  • Panel Mania: Too Cool to be Forgotten

    In this exclusive 10-page preview from the upcoming Alex Robinson book, Too Cool to be Forgotten, a middle-aged man named Andy Wicks tries hypnosis to quit smoking, and wakes up back in 1985 as a high school sophomore. Too Cool to be Forgotten will be released by Top Shelf Comix on July 29th.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/14/2008

    This week: American dreams get analysis, archaeology shines a new light on the Dark Ages, a professional wrestler's murder-suicide, behind the scenes of the world's wine market, and a dazzling tour of historical Chinese art. And for the rockers: the Beatles in America and No Wave in New York.

  • July Comics Bestsellers

  • A Mother's Story

    An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir Elizabeth McCracken . Little, Brown , $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-02767-0 In this stunning memoir of the death in utero of her first child only days before his birth, McCracken has succeeded in writing a beautiful, precise and heartbreaking account without sentimentality or pity.

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