Manga/Graphic Novels


Fantagraphics to bring French graphic novelist Tardi to the US in a big way
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French graphic novelist Jacques Tardi, who's original and adaptation works have garnered numerous awards in France, will be published in an ongoing English-language hardcover series by Fantagraphics Books...

DC using Watchmen to market other comics
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DC Comics is using the box office success of Watchmen to introduce new readers to other classic comic lines...

Farscape #2 sells out; to be reprinted
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As happened with the first comic in the series, the second Farscape sold out, and publisher BOOM! Studios is reprinting...

Moonstone's new Phantom and Green Hornet in the works
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Moonstone Books is launching a new Phantom series, as well as a Phantom series focusing on all 21 prior Phantoms. Additionally, they're starting work on new Green Hornet tales...

Kids Valentine's Day party in Chicago celebrates launch of Tiny Titans
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Chicago's Challengers Comics is hosting a kid-friendly Valentine's Day/release party for the first trade paperback collection of Tiny Titans...

Asylum Press offering free comics for newsletter subscribers
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Asylum Press is offering three free comic books to readers who sign up for their newsletter...

BOOM! to reprint Farscape #1
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BOOM! Studios is repriting the first Farscape comic book after the first printing sold out in less than a week. The reprint will have a modified cover...

First Farscape comic coming in December, with three covers
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The first of the comic book series Farscape, which picks up immediately after the miniseries, will debut on 24 December, with three different covers...

Eisner Award Judges Named
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The judges for next year's Eisner Awards, who will create the final ballot from which the winners will be voted, are...

Dark Horse planning new Terminator comics for the film's 25th anniversary
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The Terminator was released in 1984; the first Dark Horse Terminator comic followed in 1990. To celebrate the film's 25th anniversary, Dark Horse is planning new...

ReelArt to expand from 3-D to 2-D, publishing new comics line
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ReelArt Studios, which has made a name for itself producing collectible statues, will be moving into publishing with comic adaptations of classic pulps...

Bartholomew of the Scissors is a burned, rather than drawn, comic
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Artist Daniel Crosier uses what may be a unique technique with new comic Bartholomew of the Scissors: wood burning...

Ignatz Award Nominees
News > Awards
Nominees for the 12th annual jury-nominated, reader-voted awards for independent cartooning and comics art are...

Next week's Batman and Robin recalled
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Next week's release of All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder #10 has been recalled by publisher DC Comics...

Kim Deitch to launch Pictorama with presentation at The Strand
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Kim Deitch's newest book, a collaboration with his siblings, will be the subject of his Power Point presentation at New York City's The Strand on 18 September. The event will also be webcast...

Help Save Superman's Birthplace
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Superman creator Jerry Siegel's house is the target of a preservation campaign, spearheaded by Brad Meltzer...

Wanted scribe writes small-press horror comic book
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Chris Morgan's feature film has taken in more than $100 million, but his newest project is a complete issue of Boom! Studios' Zombie Tales...

Keith R.A. DeCandido scripting new Farscape comic books
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The previously announced Farscape comic books, which creator Rockne S. O'Bannon likened to a fifth season of the series, are being scripted by Keith R.A. DeCandido from detailed plots by O'Bannon...

Virgin Comics shutting down
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Publishers Weekly is reporting the closure of Virgin Comics' New York City office, and the possible shuttering of the entire two-year-old corporate venture...

Dorling Kindersley plans two big comic retrospectives
News > Books
Dorling Kindersley will be releasing coffee table books covering DC's Vertigo line and the entire Marvel Universe...

Watchmen film trailer pumps book sales
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Watchmen was first published in 1986, but with the impending release of next year's feature film, sales of the graphic novel have skyrocketed...

Rockne S. O'Bannon turning Farscape into Boom! comic book
News > Film & Television
Series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon will be writing Boom! Studios' Farscape comic book...

Cartoon Network turning three comic titles into feature films
News > Film & Television
Cartoon Network is turning Firebreather, Mice Templar, and The Vanishers into feature films...

Boom! Studios and Disney Publishing team up to bring Pixar films to comic books
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Boom! Studios and Disney Publishing Worldwide have teamed up to allow Boom! to publish comic books for kids based on most of Pixar's films, including The Incredibles, Toy Story...

Asylum of Horrors to be new quarterly horror anthology comic
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Frank Forte's Asylum Press will publish his quarterly The Asylum of Horrors, about the mad doctor running the asylum, debuting in September...
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