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Titan Solicitations for July 2013

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Good morning, hungover Brits and Americans who are staying up far too late. And, of course, hello to all our other friends across the...

Let’s put on a show: Larry’s Comics to host impromptu gathering Mass. tomorrow

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With the extraordinary events in Boston today shutting down the Boston Comic Con that was planned for this weekend, local Retailer Larry Doherty of...

Boston Comic Con cancelled

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Despite attempting to put on a much anticipated show this weekend, the Boston Comic Con showrunners have had to cancel it in light of the massive manhunt and lockdown gripping the Boston area.

PREVIEW REVIEW: Shipwrecked with BREAKERS

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It’s a strange guide to a mysterious treasure, this tome launching April 25th at Desert Island (eerily appropriate venue name!) from So What? Press,...

San Diego Comic-Con Car-parkinglypse underway

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Hotels, badges...can there be yet another San Diego Comic-Con-related lottery? Why yes. Parking. Ace Parking offers pre-sale parking at the convention center for $12...

But if you are trying to buy Eisner Award nominated book in a comics...

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In a note to his fellow retailers giving them Diamond codes for this year's Eisner nominees, Brian Hibbs made a rather interesting discovery: Diamond has only 59% of the 101 individual SKUs in stock.  Meanwhile, Baker & Taylor, the world's biggest book distributor, has 83% of them in stock.

Eisner Awards Nominations Fallout, 2013 edition

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We can't all be winners, folks —we can't even all be nominees. The Eisner Awards nomination always ignite a debate wth one saide or another feeling snubbed and dissed, because the choices are particularly dependent on each year's jury—its makeup can skew this way or that. The 2013 edition skewed towards....well, if you really look at the list it didn't so much skew towards anything as skewing AWAY from superhero comics. But even there, Marvel's Hawkeye TIED with Chris Ware's epochal Building Stories for second most nominations -- I wouldn't exactly call that a superhero snub, would you?

Cartoonists visit Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, stand in stunned wonder

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The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is the largest collection of comics and comics art in the world. In this charming video by Julie Sokolow, curator Caitlin McGurk leads lucky cartoonists Ed Piskor, Jasen Lex, and Jim Rugg on a magical history tour as they gasp in awe at Bushmiller, Schulz and Kubert originals...as who would not. Along the way the joyous news that the facility will be moving from it's current 7000 sq. ft. to a massive 40,000 sq. ft. facility this fall. Not that's progress.

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 4/19/13: Image had a very good year

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§ Amazon has released the Kindle Comic Creator—pretty much you just dump in your comics and Bam! Out comes something you can load onto...

Marvel Month-to-Month Sales March 2013

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The Marvel Now launches rumble on in March, with the first issues of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and the relaunched WOLVERINE, not to mention the long-awaited AGE OF ULTRON event. Meanwhile, as the first wave of Marvel Now launches start to settle into their runs, we're beginning to get a clearer idea of which ones are working. (And which ones, well, not so much.)

Matt Fraction and Jonathan Hickman to write for Da Vinci’s Demons

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David S. Goyer's Starz TV series Da Vinci's Demons has recently been confirmed as getting a second season, which has led the writer to...

Mini-Review: New Territory for HE-MAN and the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #1

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I could pretend that I wasn’t slightly baffled by this comic, and try to be objective about its visually appealing art and its rather...

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