Manga/Graphic Novels
| New York Comic Convention announces ICv2 conference and Stan Lee appearance/award | |
| News > Organizations & Conferences | March 27, 2008 |
| Details on the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference (which will be held in conjunction with NYCC) and on Stan Lee's appearance to accept the first New York Comics Legend Award... | |
| Bleach the manga to be a feature film | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 26, 2008 |
| VIZ Media, North American publishers of Bleach, will be the distributor of Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody, which will be released this Winter... | |
| All of Elfquest soon to be available on-line | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 21, 2008 |
| The entire Elfquest ouevre, stretching back thirty years, will soon be available on-line for free... | |
| Dynamite Entertainment to revive Buck Rogers as a comic book | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 18, 2008 |
| New comics creator Dynamite Entertainment has licensed Buck Rogers for a new comic series and other... | |
| VIZ Media announces nine new manga series | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 12, 2008 |
| VIZ Media's nine new manga series debuting in the next few months will deal with vampires, fairies, monsters, the wild west, and more... | |
| New York Comic Con's Artist Alley Line-Up | |
| News > Organizations & Conferences | March 7, 2008 |
| The Artist Alley at the 2008 New York Comic Con will have scores of artists and other "pop culture creators" showing their work, demonstrating how they do it, talking with fans... | |
| Dark Horse serializing manhwa Shaman Warrior online | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 7, 2008 |
| Dark Horse is serializing the Korean manhwa title Shaman Warrior for free on its web site... | |
| Blue Dream Studios now an imprint of IDW | |
| News > Publishers | March 5, 2008 |
| IDW Publishing is absorbing Scott Christian Sava's Blue Dream Studios as an imprint, hoping to play off recent successes by both companies, including... | |
| Eisner Award Judges Named | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | March 4, 2008 |
| The judges for this year's Eisner Awards, who will create the final ballot from which the winners will be voted, are... | |
| Jonathan Lethem writing relaunched Omega the Unknown | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 26, 2008 |
| Marvel Comics has hired Jonatham Lethem, who was influenced by the 1970s' comic Omega the Unknown to reimagine it... | |
| VIZ Media signs Madman Entertainment to distribute in Australia and New Zealand | |
| News > Bookselling | February 25, 2008 |
| VIZ Media has signed Australia's Madman Entertainment to distribute many of their titles in Australia and New Zealand, starting with... | |
| New York Anime Fest moving to September | |
| News > Organizations & Conferences | February 20, 2008 |
| The second annual New York Anime Festival will be in September, a departure from last year's December debut... | |
| Zombie Tales to be monthly from BOOM! | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 15, 2008 |
| BOOM! Studios is reinvigorating its Zombie Tales as a monthly anthology series. The first issue, in April, will feature the work of... | |
| Terminator comic omnibus volumes coming from Dark Horse | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 8, 2008 |
| Dark Horse Comics is collecting all of its Terminator comic books into two large trade paperbacks. The first 352-page volume... | |
| Dracula, Vampirella, and RPGs: it just may be a war | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 8, 2008 |
| Digital Webbing Press's Sword of Dracula/Vampirella: Extended and Dangerous is the story of what happens when Dracula loses... | |
| Captain America Returns | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 1, 2008 |
| In a comics story that made it all over mainstream media, Captain America was assassinated last March. Now comes word that Cap is back... | |
| The Dreamland Chronicles marks two years with four million readers | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | January 15, 2008 |
| Scott Christian Sava's The Dreamland Chronicles marked its second anniversary of daily online serialization with its four millionth reader... | |
| Free comics workshop in Berkeley, California | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | January 9, 2008 |
| Friends of Lulu is starting a free, monthly comics workshop: "come and bring a sketchbook," they say... | |
| VIZ to launch new imprint with larger-format manga omnibus editions | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | January 4, 2008 |
| VIZ Media's new VIZBIG imprint will publish larger-format collections of Rurouni Kenshin, Dragon Ball... | |
| James Patterson's Maximum Ride to be manga series | |
| News > Subsidiary Rights | December 14, 2007 |
| James Patterson's young adult science fictional thriller series (which debuted in 2005), will see new life as a manga serial in Yen Plus... | |
| Tor Books and Seven Seas team up to publish manga | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | December 7, 2007 |
| Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment are joining forces to launch a new imprint and bring wider distribution... | |
| Anime-focused theatre to open in San Francisco | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | November 28, 2007 |
| VIZ Pictures, the US distributor of much Japanese anime and live-action films, is opening its own art-house movie theatre... | |
| Boom! times three in time for Thanksgiving (plus January previews) | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | November 20, 2007 |
| Boom! Studios three series, Fall of Cthulhu, Hunter's Moon, and Left On Mission all have impressive installments... | |
| Del Rey signs to distribute Dabel Brothers' graphic novels | |
| News > Bookselling | November 16, 2007 |
| Del Rey has agreed to give Dabel Brothers' graphic novels much wider distribution... | |
| Strange & Stranger to be retrospective of comic artist Steve Ditko's career | |
| News > Books | November 9, 2007 |
| Blake Bell is writing, and Fantagraphics will publish, Strange & Stranger, a retrospective on the career of artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and... | |
