Miscellaneous News

Acuality Press

What's Up Geek Girl?

The comic book series Geek-Girl has three big announcements after only one issue: the series now has it’s own website and is being distributed for $2.50 in Regular and Variant Editions. There is also a Digital Edition for $1.00 at www.geekgirlcomics.com. Quite a bargain – but what’s the series about?

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Amigo Comics

Amigo Comics Coming in October 2013

Amigo Comics is an independent publisher that publishes creator-owned comic books – usually of the horror, fantasy and science-fiction variety. This October, Amigo will be adding three issues to their series Rogues! and Arcane Secrets and their newest title, Gargantuan, will begin.

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ComixTribe

ComixTribe SCAM Ultimate Collection on Kickstarter

What a better place to have superpowers than in Vegas? That’s what ComixTribe’s mini-series SCAM was about, but now you can find out all about it in their Ultimate Collection!

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Oxymoron: The Loveliest Nightmare Announced

“Imagine the Joker came to a Gotham WITHOUT Batman?” writer John Lees declares. Yes, Oxymoron: The Loveliest Nightmare promises to be a thrilling crime/horror story reminiscent of Hannibal and Se7en. It is a sequel to ComixTribe’s previous Oxymoron mini-series about a contradiction-obsessed serial killer.

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Darby Pop Publishing

Get into the Mind of a Machine with Darby Pop Publishing

Darby Pop Publishing, who made headlines several months ago when they partnered up with IDW Publishing, will be releasing a new science-fiction title. This new series, City: The Mind in the Machine, will be written by Eric Garcia (Matchstick Men) and drawn by Javier Fernandez.

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Deaf Power Publishing

Deaf Power Publishing House Launches Signs and Voices

Deaf Power Publishing has launched a new comic book series, Sign and Voices. I’m honored to be able to cover a series that doesn’t just have an intriguing premise, but also has a powerful purpose: teaching deaf individuals valuable life skills and helping to raise their confidence in their identities in the mainstream community.

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Devil's Due

Devil's Due is Back

Devil's Due Publishing was a huge licensing publisher ten years ago, bringing back G.I. Joe - which is still going thanks to IDW Publishing. The company was also responsible for launching the first HACK/SLASH series, a great horror title that's supposed to have been made into a movie since the beginning. Now, after a two year long hiatus, Devil's Due Publishing is back – and they're not alone.

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eR Studios

First Look: Saint Chaos #1

Saint Chaos is a new comic book written by Noah Dorsey (co-creator and co-writer of Non-Humans) and penciled, inked and lettered by Hungarian artist Zsombor Huszka (check out his official website here). Simon Monroe’s “death day” is almost upon him. He has hired a hitman to kill him. He only has four days left, so Monroe decides to create an alter-ego for himself, Saint Chaos, so he can do some good before he dies. Unfortunately, Monroe discovers he needs more time to live but the hitman doesn’t like to wait.

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Icon Comics

Kick-Ass Creator Fights Off Twitter Bully

Cyberbullying has already entered the comic book world with a vulgar twitter user who's been bullying the comic book community for two years now spewing racist and sexist comments with an array of "colorful" language, until a famous comic creator decided to step up to the plate and take legal action to stop him.

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Liquid Comics

Masters of Horror Wes Craven and Steve Niles Team-Up

This year masters of horror Steve Niles and Wes Craven are teaming up for the first time ever. The duo have scared many people with their work (mostly in a good way) and are coming together this year to create a graphic novel, Coming of Rage.

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MonkeyBrain Comics

MonkeyBrain Goes to Print

MonkeyBrain began as a digital-first comic book publisher back in 2012 that was liked by readers and critics alike. They released creator-owned comics on the comiXology platform, which is the most popular digital comics website. However, if you don't want to get MonkeyBrain comics for your phone, tablet, digital reader or computer this summer of 2013 you will no longer have to worry – because some of MonkeyBrain's comics are making the jump to print! These titles include:

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New World Comics

New World Comics Launching This February!

On February 26th, a new comic book company will be launching on the iPad and then will continue to take over digitally on the iPhone, then Android, then the web. This comic book company? New Worlds Comics. The first two comics from New Worlds Comics will become available on their iTunes page the same day the company launches.

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Recondite Pictures

KRAK Kickstarter

The writer of Barbarian, Scott Amundson, and the artist of Milt, Joie Simmons, are coming together for their latest venture, and they need their readers help!

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Sea Lion Books

Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana Second Graphic Novel Adaptation

Anne Rice, acclaimed writer of The Vampire Chronicles books which featured Lestat, probably the most well-known vampire (next to Dracula, of course). But Anne Rice, after years of atheism, returned to Catholicism after nearly dying from diabetes. She went on to write Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, which has just been announced is being turned into its second graphic novelization... but not without some help.

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Uproar Comics

Uproar Comics Launches Interactive Comic Book

On July 31st the Derry/Londonderry based media studio and comic book publisher Uproar Comics will be releasing the DEC (Digital Experience Comic), an app the publisher claims will bring comic books to life.

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Valiant Entertainment

Valiant Entertainment Changes Forever in The Valiant Prestige Mini-Series

Best-selling writers Jeff Lemire (Green Arrow, Justice League Dark, Sweet Tooth) and Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Unity) will be writing Valiant Entertainment’s prestige limited series The Valiant. The artwork will be provided by Eisner winner Paolo Rivera (Daredevil). The mini-series will be four issues long and feature numerous characters in the Valiant Entertainment universe.

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Valiant Entertainment Returning to Comics

After a long decade hiatus from the comic book world, Valiant Entertainment will be returning to the realm of comics. The company announced they were bringing back several of their popular 90s’ titles including Bloodshot and Harbinger. Valiant will also be taking on a new name: Diamond Book Distributor, its global comic book distributor.

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Zenescope Entertainment

Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends

Fans of Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales have a new ongoing series to look forward too, with more scantily-clad women and big bad wolves gracing it's covers. The series takes place after the events in Grimm Fairy Tales #50. Raven Gregory (writer of the Wonderland trilogy) & artist David Miller take on the first story arc in the series, returning to characters from the first issue of the original series. This includes Brittany, returning from the first issue of Grimm Fairy Tales, with something coming for her in the arc "Red Riding Hood." It will be a five issue long story arc, a similar number to how long the rest of the arcs in the series will be.

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Other

Amazon Acquires comiXology

The website comiXology, considered your number one stop for digital comics, with 50,000 comics from major publishers like Marvel and DC Comics and others, has just been purchased by Amazon.

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Anonymous Donor Helps University of Oregon’s Comics & Cartoon Studies

I really want to hug the anonymous donor who invested $200,000 to help keep the Comics & Cartoon Studies program. This is a minor about comic strips and graphic novels that can you can get by going to the University of Oregon (UO). The program was launched about a year ago and is the first of its kind. Not only does this donation help keep the program alive, it also will allow students in the minor to go to comic-related art exhibitions located at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

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College Student Seeks to Ban Comics Required by Her English Class

Did you hear the one about the college student who wanted to get her textbook banned? I wish there was a punch line, but this is true. I generally don’t support book banning; it reminds me too much of the stories about the Nazis burning books. But the fact that this story is about an English class, which used four graphic novels as its text books, and an English major who is advocating the banning of books, well, that just blows my mind.

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Comic Buyer's Guide Ends with #1699

For over 30 years Comic Buyer's Guide provided comic book fans with quick reviews of comics and in-depth pieces by a slew of veteran comic book buffs. As of Comic Buyer's Guide #1699 in March 2013, Comic Buyer's Guide is over.

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Dan Slott vs. Rich Johnston Twitter War

Rich Johnston, whose popular website Bleeding Cool features comic book news and rumors, has been engaged in a twitter war with Dan Slott, the writer of Superior Spider-Man.

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Face Value Comics Partners Up with Project Lifesaver International

Face Value Comics is partnering up with Project Lifesaver International. Both groups are non-profit organizations that are trying to help make the world a better place.

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Issues for Free Comic Book Day 2011

The first Saturday in May this year (May 7th, 2011) will be Free Comic Book Day. The comics and their sponsors have been announced! This year you will be treated to reprints of classic and new comics. What free comics will you be able to get your hands on this May?

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Learn Real-Life Survival Tips from a Zombie Comic

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) recently released an online graphic novel following the success of their blog post in May which featured zombies. Their new zombie graphic novel, appropriately called Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic, is being used to teach people how to survive in the real-world during such real-life terrors as floods and hurricanes with some help from the undead.

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Legendary Pictures Comes to Comics

Box-office hit production company Legendary Pictures (which produced such titles as The Dark Knight, 300 and Watchmen) is about to try their hand at comic book production! They will begin marketing graphic novels in 2011 and become Legendary Comics. But will the comics be stuff made of legends, or is this just another company looking to make another quick buck?

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No More Heroes Gains Pirate Popularity

No More Heroes is a small, not-well known or well publicized project written by Gordon Mclean and drawn by Gaio Oliveira. The series was a first attempt for Mclean, who sold his Playstation games collection to hire an artist and make his dream to create a comic come to life. The comic is ranked among Batman and The Walking Dead. Unfortunately, this is not on sales charts, but the pirate downloads.

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OGR Fairwell

Sites don’t always last forever – even the great ones. Old Game Reviewer was one of those great ones.

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Outrage Against Amazon's Handling of comiXology

Remember when Amazon acquired comiXology (the most popular online digital comic book store) and I said I was optimistic about it?

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Peter David's Stroke

While on vacation in Florida, Peter David, a fantastic writer who’s penned both comics and novels, suffered a stroke. In a post made on David’s website by his wife, she mentioned he had trouble sleeping before the accident, had blurry vision in his right eye, drooping of one side of his face, loss of feeling in his hand and was unable to move his right leg correctly, which are all early warning signs of a stroke. He was taken to the sadistically (if unintentionally) named Celebration Hospital and was then transferred to Florida Hospital in downtown Orlando.

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R.E.M. Debuting at NYCC

R.E.M. is a psychological thriller written by Ryan Colucci (Harbor Moon) and drawn by Zsombor Huska (Saint Chaos). It’s a hardcover graphic novel that is 176 pages long. This original graphic novel stars Michael Letto, a genius neuroscientist who lost the love of his life and has grown extremely paranoid. His fears are about to get worse after he invents a chair that can allow the user a full-night of sleep in mere minutes (can I have that?). Now, the military and a religious group are after his invention.

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Way of the Sax Kickstarter

Started by our own Entertainment Fuse audio engineer Philip Bradbury, Way of the Sax is a three part interactive graphic novel. Not only will it be a three part story, but readers will be treated to some very innovative features including smooth fade in/out screen transitions, items to be clicked on and "collected" for an achievement system, a save option, music tailored for each panel, pseudo animation, mini-games, extra scenes, and multiple endings. Even without knowing the story I'm intrigued by these new features. It may not appeal to all comic fans who are more into the traditional comic format, but the idea that I could play mini-games while reading a comic book is surreal.

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