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It’s a new week and boy was this past weekend was full of fireworks. Will this upcoming week also? We’ll see! While you get settled for the week, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

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Comichron – Some improvement in March 2017 comics orders; $9.99 Amazing Spider-Man #25 tops charts – If you want THE take on March’s numbers.

NPR – Beyond The Pale (Male): Marvel, Diversity And A Changing Comics Readership – NPR takes a look at the state of comics.

Deseret News – How English students are discovering classics through comics – Any way is a good way.

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: Rasl #1 by Jeff Smith – A free comic. Go read it.

The Beat – A year of free comics – The Adventurers by Kelly Tindall – More free comics. Go read it.

 

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Comic Attack – Baltimore: The Red Kingdom #3

Talking Comics – The Circle #4

Talking Comics – Green Arrow #20

Talking Comics – Royals #1

Herts Advertiser – Spider-Gwen: Weapon of Choice

Herts Advertiser – The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Head of MODOK

Cartoon Books Renews with ComiXology, Expands to Amazon’s Kindle Store

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Bone Out From BonevilleCartoon Books, comiXology and Amazon have announced an expanded and renewed distribution agreement to sell Cartoon Books’ digital comics and collections, including the award-winning Bone, on the comiXology platform and expand the distribution of Cartoon Books’ library to Amazon’s Kindle Store. Cartoon Books publishes Jeff Smith‘s New York Times bestselling and fan-favorite titles Bone, Rasl and more. Cartoon Books catalog is available today on comiXology and will be available on Amazon’s Kindle Store in the near future.

This is the latest in a string of announcements by comiXology that renews distribution through the digital comics platform and also expands it to Kindle.

SPX 2013: Works by Ed Piskor, Seth and Jeff Smith Lead Debuting Books

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Small Press Expo has announced that a record 183 titles (as of this posting) will make their first public appearance at SPX 2013, which will be held September 14 and 15. Showing the range and depth of the over 600 creators that will be at the show, this years debuts include:

  • Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1 by Ed Piskor from Fantagraphics
  • Palookaville 21 by Seth from Drawn & Quarterly
  • Delusional by Farel Dalrymple from Adhouse Books
  • RASL (Complete Hardback Color Edition) by Jeff Smith from Cartoon Books
  • World Map Room by Yuichi Yokoyama from Picturebox
  • Softcore #1,#2,#3  self published by Box Brown
  • The Fez #2 self published by Roger Langridge
  • Little Tommy Lost: Book No. 1 by Cole Closser from Koyama Press
  • The Big Wet Balloon by Liniers from Toon Books

Here’s a full list of the debuts along with descriptions and links to the books’ web sites.

The Small Press Expo is a fantastic convention just outside of Washington, DC that spotlights independent creators and publishers, they hold the Ignatz Award festival which recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show.

Profits from the SPX go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals.

SPX also supports the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress, which preserves the history of both the artistic output of the creators who come to SPX, as well as the art that SPX itself generates as part of its yearly festival. It the first program of its type by a major institution in the United States to preserve the works of the indie comics community.

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It’s the weekend, which just means it’s quiet and slow enough I can read this week’s comics and hopefully catch up on the back log that’s built up to read and write reviews.  Here’s the news that kept us entertained in the last 24 hours.

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ICv2 – Dynamite Lands ‘Voltron’ Comics License – Having just discussed Voltron with a friend the day before the timing is weird.  I can only conclude I was the reason this deal went through.  I accept thank you checks made out to “cash.”

Arts Beat – Graphic Books Best Sellers: Life on the Reservation – We could do a best sellers list for this blog, but I only know what I purchased.  And that’s only ever one copy of each book.  So there’d be a massive tie for first and the list would be worthless.   Here’s hoping the methodology behind this one is better.

The Gamers Hub – Bethesda and Dark Horse Announce RAGE Comic Books – Think if I metroed over to Bethesda, MD they’d chat with me about the comic?

The Beat – Jeff Smith’s RASL in development with Wigram – Another day, another comic book series getting the big screen treatment.  Which Jeff Smith property makes it to the big screen first, Bone or RASL?

Newsarama – TV Creator Makes His Comic Book Debut with INSURRECTION V3.6 – Blake Masters has written for some decent television series.  We’ll see how that translates to comics.

Hurriyet Daily News – ‘Bayan Yani’ puts a female face on Turkish humor magazines – Women are breaking into the Turkish comic book industry.

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Karissa’s Reading Review – The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

Big Shiny Robot – Ultimate Spider-Man #155

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