Comic Book News Page 4

This is page 4 of the comic book news archives.

Comic Book Heroes Get Their Own Stamps (2006-07-22): This is amazing.

HarperCollins and Fox Atomic Join Forces For Graphic Novels Launch (2006-07-19): HarperCollins has joined forces with Fox Atomic to create and distribute a line of graphic novels.

Marvel Revives The Eternals (2006-06-12): Marvel is reviving a comic series originally created by Jack Kirby in 1976 called the Eternals.

Lionsgate Drops Marvel's Black Widow (2006-06-07): IGN is reporting that Lionsgate has dropped plans to make a film based on Marvel Comics' Black Widow.

Marvel Publishes Graphic Novel Based on Halo Game (2006-06-04): Halo is one of the most popular game franchises ever.

X-Men: The Last Stand Makes Box Office History (2006-05-29): The opening numbers for X-Men: The Last Stand set a record, making $107 million in three days, which is the largest ever film opening for Memorial Day weekend.

Scholastic to Publish Amulet By Kazu Kibuishi (2005-11-21): Scholastic has acquired signed a book deal with 27-year-old graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi.

Captain America Eyes the Silver Screen (2005-09-07): E! reports that Marvel Entertainment is planning on producing up to 10 new films based on 10 characters from its comic books.

Frank Miller's 300 Graphic Novel Being Made Into a Film (2005-08-24): Coming Soon reports that Warner Bros.

Dark Horse to Publish Aeon Flux Comics (2005-07-17): Dark Horse Comics have announced that they will be publishing a series of Aeon Flux comic books.

Pixar Artists Launch Comic Book Imprint (2005-07-12): Several artists from Pixar Animation Studios have launched an imprint called E-Ville Press Comics in Emeryville, California to market and publish their comic books.

New War of the Worlds Books in Stores (2005-06-27): USA Today reports that three new illustrated versions of H.

Pratchett on Short-list for Comic Prize (2005-06-01): Author Terry Pratchett's novel Going Postal is on the short-list for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.

The Rock Meets Buffy in Richard Kelly's World (2005-05-05): Dwayne Johnson, better known to wrestling fans as The Rock, will meet up with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott to star in Southland Tales, a science fiction thriller about the apocalyptic state of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008.

Graphic Novel Will Debut With Trailer (2005-04-28): Next month, the War of the Worlds graphic novel will debut in bookstores across the nation -- and in Sin City style it will be promoted with a 90-second trailer on the publisher's website.

Name Neil Gaiman's Cruise Ship (2005-03-13): Bestselling author Neil Gaiman is auctioning off for charity the chance to name a cruise ship in his next book, Anansi Boys (William Morrow), which is due out in September, 2005.

Illegal Garfield Books in China (2004-08-28): The BBC reported that Paws Incorporated, which licenses Garfield in the United States and bills itself as the worldwide headquarters of the wisecracking comic strip cat, is going after three China firms for publishing illegal Garfield books.

The Manga Boom (2004-05-12): Sales of manga comics are exploding in the United States and surprisingly the largest demographic reading the Japanese comics are teen and tween girls.

More Films From Comic Books (2004-03-15): Lions Gate Entertainment plans film releases based upon two more popular Marvel properties -- Iron Fist and Black Widow.

New Comic Books Based on Online Game (2004-02-24): NCsoft Corporation, a developer of online computer games, and Blue King Studios have announced plans to publish a monthly comic book based on NCsoft's online computer game, City of Heroes.