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ComicBook: Here is a guide to Marvel "Moon Knight" character for new readers.
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Newsarama: Here is a preview of Jim Lee's "Supergirl" pages in "Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium."
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Newsarama: Coming on the heels of the announcement that "Black Knight" will appear in the 2020 film, "Eternals," Marvel is apparently a big 2020 for the character.
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Fandango: Andy Muschetti, director of "IT," says that he is the new director of Warner Bros. DC Comics' planned "Flash" film.
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Deadline: Hulu has ordered a full season of "Woke," an animation/live-action comedy based on the life of cartoonist Keith Knight. Knight is best known for his comic strips, particularly "The K Chronicles."
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Newsarama: Longtime DC Comics staffer, Tom Pattison, at the age of 64. Pattison, who worked for DC from 1984 to 2011, worked in the division that dealt with royalty and participation payments.
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Newsarama: Tomorrow, Wed., Aug. 28th sees the release of a new trailer for Todd Phillips' "The Joker."
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Newsarama: At Disney's annual D23 Expo, Marvel Studios announces Moon Knight, She-Hulk, and Ms. Marvel TV series for Disney+.
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics" "Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland" has won one of 13 American Book Awards - and is the only comic book to receive the honor this year.
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BleedingCool: Bryan Talbot will begin a third volume of "Luther Arkwright" graphic novel in 2022.
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ComicArtsFestival: In an interview, Garth Ennis announces two new Punisher-related miniseries. One is "The Punisher: Soviet" and the other "The Punisher: Get Fury," which also features Nick Fury.
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THR: Frank Miller has film production company, "Frank Miller Ink." Silenn Thomas has been named CEO.
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THR: Spider-Man is apparently out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Disney and Sony could not come to an agreement over a devision of revenue in future films. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will no longer produce Spider-Man films, for the time being.
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Newsarama: The Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center is planning a walking tour of the historical places in the late Jack Kirby's life in celebration of what would have been his 102nd birthday. The date is August 28, 2019.
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Newsarama: The late comic book creator, Darwyn Cooke, is being considered for having a street named after him. Cooke, who died in 2016, was born in Toronto in 1962.
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ShadowandAct: The 2004-05 comic book series, "Cannon Busters" which features Black/African-American characters, is now an American anime series on Netflix.
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics' "Captain Justice and the J-Team" is apparently a teen superhero group as revealed via a video.
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Newsarama: "Krypton" showrunner Cameron Welsh says the show, which Syfy recently cancelled, is too expensive for Syfy.
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BleedingCool: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and "Monstress" are among the winners at the 2019 Hugo Awards, which were announced at the 2019 World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland. The Hugo Awards are considered to be the premiere awards for science fiction and fantasy literature.
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Newsarama: Marvel Comics teases the arrival of "Captain Justice and the J-Team."
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THR: Director Chad Stahelski ("John Wick") is helming action-oriented reshoots on the Warner Bros.' DC Comics' film, "Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn)."
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Newsarama: Cartoonist and comics creator, Art Spiegelman, is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning comics/graphic novel, "Maus." He had contributed an essay to British publisher, Folio Society's "The Golden Age of Marvel Comics 1939-1949," but his reference in the essay to President Trump was deemed too political. So Spiegelman say he withdrew it.
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Deadline: Syfy has cancelled its Superman universe TV series, "Krypton" with the recent Season Two finale being the series finale. Syfy is also passing on developing the planned "Lobo" spinoff series.
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BleedingCool: Those DC Comics 100-Page Giants will be relaunched. They will no longer be exclusive to Wal-Mart or to Target. But the Wal-Mart and Target versions will have exclusive covers and will arrive "a couple of weeks" before they hit comic book stores. The amount of original content will increase from 24 to 36 pages.
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Newsarama: The CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earth" infinite will loom throughout the entire season of the upcoming Season 6 of "Flash."
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Newsarama: In October (2019), The Visual Effects Society (VES) will induct Stan Lee into the VES Hall of Fame, along with Walt Disney and Stanley Kubrick.
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Newsarama: The Harvey Awards have announced the nominees for the 2019 edition of the awards. The winners will be announced October 4th during New York Comic Con.
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Newsarama: Marvel New Media and podcast service, Stiticher, will present a podcast adaptation of the classic Marvel miniseries, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross' "Marvels." Rapper-actor, Clifford "Method Man" Smith, will be one of the podcast actors.
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BleedingCool: For his new comic book company, Terrific Productions Inc., Andrew Rev is desparately chasing celebrity and "superstar" comic book creators to work for him. How'd that work out for Virgin Comics?
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BleedingCool: Joe Madureira has a history of not keeping the promises he makes to his fans and customers. The latest letdown is that the "Battle Chaster Anthology" trade paperback (due in September) will have fewer pages than the promised 344 because the "never-before-seen sketches," "new artwork," and the "fold-out poster" are being dropped.
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Newsarama: Fox's "New Mutants" film is also in trouble with its new owner, Disney.
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Newsarama: Disney has cancelled the "Lumberjanes" films, based on the comic book, that Fox had planned before Disney bought the studio.
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Deadline: TV series mastermind, Noah Hawley, says that his movie based on Marvel Comics' "Doctor Doom" is likely not going to happen. It was one of the projects 20th Century Fox greenlit before Disney bought the studio.
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Newsarama: Robert Kirkman's imprint, Skybound, has signed a first look deal with with Audible to produce audio content based on Skybound properties.
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THR: Comic book artist, Alitha E. Martinez, talks about the first issue, "Omni." It is the latest release from H1, the shared superhero universe from indie publisher Humanoids. Created with writer Devin Grayson, "Omni" focuses on a doctor with the ability to think at superspeed.
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Deadline: Jeph Loeb, executive vice-president of Marvel TV, talks to Deadline about future TV series from the television arm of Marvel Entertainment.
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ANN: Police in Fukuoka, Japan arrested 37-year-old Wataru Adachi on suspicion of uploading unauthorized images from Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga to the Japanese manga piracy website "Mangamura" in May 2017.
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Newsarama: Greg Capullo signs a new contract with DC Comics and promises more event comics.
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BleedingCool: No, Chris Claremont has not written a lot of X-Men stories lately. His last ongoing series was "Nightcrawler" (2014-15).
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YahooEntertainment: Tiffany Haddish would like to play Wonder Woman's sister, Nubia (originally debuted in Wonder Woman #204). The character is no longer portrayed as Wonder Woman's sister.
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Newsarama: The long-time comic book artist and editor, Ernie Colon, has died at the age of 88. Colon co-created the DC Comics' characters, "Arak, Son of Thunder" and "Amethyst Princess of Gemworld" in the 1980s. He began his career with Harvey Comics (drawing "Richie Rich"), Gold Key (drawing "Solar, Man of Atom"), and Warren Publications (contributing to "Vampirella," "Creepy," and "Eerie"). For Marvel, he co-created the comic book, "Damage Control," with the late Dwayne McDuffie.
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THR: Jim Lee thinks DC Comics needs to reinvent or respond to the flat digital comics market.
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BRNow: The PTC (Parents Television Council) has issued a study stating that TV shows based on "children's comics" contain "rampant gore, obsenity." "Arrow" and "Riverdale" are amongst the offenders according to the PTC.
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BecauseofThemWeCan: Artist Bart Cooper reimainges famous Black women as superheroes, like Harriet Tubman as Superman.
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ETOnline: Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro explains why he will never make another comic book movie.
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Newsarama: "The Resistance" a teen superhero comic book from writer J. Michael Strazcynski and artist Mike Deodato, Jr., will launch publisher Artists, Writers and Artisan's shared universe.
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Newsarama: Direct Market comic books sales for July 2019 are a little better than they were for July 2018.
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BleedingCool: Star comic book artist Mike Deodato, Jr. is moving to former Marvel Comics' publisher, Bill Jemas' comics start-up, Artists, Writers and Artisans.
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ICv2: Part 1 of a two-part interview with DC Comics co-publishers, Jim Lee and Dan Didio.
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ICv2: Part 2
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Newsarama: The estate of the late Stan Lee is looking to sever ties with the owner of Lee's former company, POW! Entertainment.
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Marvel: Nadia Pym/Van Dyne - "The Unstoppable Wasp" will return in 2020 via a young adult novel written by Sam Maggs.
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YahooFinance: The X-Men movie, "Dark Phoenix," was a box office bomb that hurt Disney's third quarter earnings.
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BleedingCool: The site talks to Andrew Rev about his plans to revive classic 80's comic book series, "Elementals," and also to publish new "Youngblood" comics.
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Variety: Viacom has entered into an agreement with Jim Davis, the creator of the long-running comic strip, "Garfield," to purchase, Paws, Inc. This is the entity that holds all global intellectual property rights to both “Garfield” and “U.S. Acres,” another Davis comics strip creation. The deal will close in the next few weeks, although financial terms have not been disclosed. "Garfield" will join the Nickelodeon portfolio. David will continue to produce the comic strip.
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Newsarama: It is official. DC Comics has hired Jonah Weiland as its new "Vice President of Marketing & Creative Services." Weiland was the founder of "Comic Book Resources," now known as "CBR."
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YahooEntertainment: American novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88, Monday, August 5, 2019. Among her best known novels were "Beloved" (1987, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner) and "Song of Solomon (1977). In 1993, Morrison was awarded the "Nobel Prize for Literature."
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BleedingCool: Marvel Comics has produced a commercial to promote "House of X" and "Powers of X." This article includes the video.
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Newsarama: DC Comics promotes Marie Javins to Executive Editor of New Publishing Initiatives.
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Newsarama: Beloved Batman voice actor, Kevin Conroy ("Batman: The Animated Series"), will actually play Batman in The CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover of its superhero TV series.
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KansasCityStar: Comic book writer Jai Nitz has been banned from the University of Kansas after being accused of sexual assault.
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ComicBook: "My Hero Academia" celebrates its 5th anniversary with a music video.
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Vox: Site says that "House of X" makes the X-Men great again.
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ComingSoon: CBS All-Access' "Star Trek: Picard" will have a prequel novel and comic book series.
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BleedingCool: Dynamite Entertainment and Andrew Rev are fighting over the trademark for the term "The Elementals."
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BleedingCool: It's Alive has begun a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for its color publications of "Breathers," which was originally published as a black and white mini-comics.
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Collider: In a video interview at Comic-Con 2019, DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio talks about DC Comics' future plans.
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HuffPost: A 1968 column Stan Lee wrote denouncing racism and racists.
AUGUST 2019 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: August 2019 comics solicitations for all publishers on one page.
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Newsarama: AC Comics for August 2019
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BleedingCool: Oni Press for August 2019
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Newsarama: Yen Press for August 2019
SEPTEMBER 2019 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: September 2019 comics solicitations for 24 publishers on one page
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Newsarama: AfterShock Comics for September 2019
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Newsarama: Antarctic Press for September 2019
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Newsarama: Insight for September 2019
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Newsarama: Mad Cave Studios for September 2019
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Newsarama: VIZ Media for September 2019
OCTOBER 2019 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: AC Comics for October 2019
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BleedingCool: Ahoy Comics for October 2019
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BleedingCool: Albatross Funnybooks for October 2019
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BleedingCool: Antarctic Press for October 2019
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Newsarama: BOOM! Studios for October 2019
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BleedingCool: Dark Horse Comics for October 2019
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BleedingCool: Image Comics for October 2019
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BleedingCool: Keenspot Entertainment for October 2019
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Newsarama: A Wave Blue World for October 2019
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Newsarama: Yen Press for October 2019
HALLOWEEN COMICFEST 2019:
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Newsarama: 28 comic book titles for the industry's fall event taking place Saturday, October 26, 2019 at participating comic shops worldwide.
DC's HILL HOUSE COMICS Debut Solicitations:
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Newsarama: These are the solicitations for DC Comics' "Hill House Comics" group overseen by Joe Hill. The line is scheduled to kick off October 30, 2019 with "Basketful of Heads #1."
NOVEMBER 2019 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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BleedingCool: Ablaze for November 2019
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BleedingCool: Action Lab for Novmeber 2019
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BleedingCool: Aftershock Comics for November 2019
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Newsarama: Archie Comics for November 2019
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BleedingCool: Dynamite Entertainment for November 2019
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BleedingCool: Image Comics for November 2019
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Newsarama: Lion Forge for November 2019
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BleedingCool: Oni Press for November 2019
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BleedingCool: Source Point Press for November 2019
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BleedingCool: Titan Comics for November 2019
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Newsarama: VIZ Media for November 2019
NOVEMBER 2019 "ADVANCED" COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
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Newsarama: DC Comics advanced solicitations for November 2019 (for acetate covers)
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Newsarama: "Dawn of X" for November 2019
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BleedingCool: DC Comics for 2019 with some guessing on the site's part
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