Word: comicbooks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Slow News Day" will be collected into a paperback in July and will be available, as the individual issues are now, at better comicbook stores. "Dumped" can likewise be found there...
Pity the 'tween-agers. Abandoned by the mainstream comicbook industry, American boys under 12 and every kind of girl have been left with just Archie and Disney. They must lie awake at night thinking about that far away paradise where children get their own targeted comicbooks. Luckily a pair of smart, fun books from this land, called Japan, have been brought over here. "Marmalade Boy" (Tokyopop; 200pp; $9.99) swoops down and entertains all those sad little 'tween girls while "Astro Boy" (Dark Horse Comics; 224pp; $9.95) has arrived to delight the boys...
...Marmalade Boy," and "Astro Boy" should be available at better comicbook stores. "Marmalade Boy" and the other right-to-left titles can also be found through the Tokyopop website
...Trashed," and "My Friend Dahmer," can be found at better comicbook stores or through Derf's website...
...with many comix clients filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Topnotch publishers such as Drawn and Quarterly, Oni, and Highwater Books, who exist on very slim margins, found themselves suddenly unable to collect monies owed them by LPC. Top Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia-based publisher of "From Hell," the comicbook inspiration for the Johnny Depp movie of last year, was compelled to release an extraordinary electronic plea for $20,000 in direct purchases to save it from going under...