Graphic novel news

Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - The Filth by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston and Gary Erskine.

Sandman fans who've been waiting for the release of Endless Nights in paperback haven't got long to wait now, with the UK edition from Titan Books slated to be released on the 23 August. US fans can get their copy a few days earlier, from 11 August.

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Fantasy wargame publisher Games Workshop is expanding its BL Publishing line of books to include graphic novels based around its gaming worlds. The books will be pocket-sized, 100-150 pages and retail for around $10 (about £6). [via Thought Balloons/ICv2]

Titan Books has released Mister Sun, the second in its series of Modesty Blaise books, collecting the classic story originally printed in the London Evening Standard.

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Scott McCloud has revealed that he's going to be writing and drawing another book to accompany his previous works about comics - Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. The Beat revealed that the third book would be called Making Comics and is due to be published by Harper Collins.

The presigious Eisner awards have been announced, with winners including Alan Moore (Best Writer) and Neil Gaiman (The Sandman: Endless Nights won Best Short Story and Best Anthology). For the full results try The Pulse. [via Thought Balloons]

Marvel has announced its line-up of graphic novels for October, including the collection of Neil Gaiman's historical heroes mini-series in the hard back edition of 1602. Other highlights see Jack Kirby get the Marvel Visionaries treatment, Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's Punisher: Born, loads of X-Men titles and more. Comics Continuum has the full listing. [via Thought Balloons]

The creative team that brought us Orbiter is working on another sci-fi graphic novel, Stealth Tribes, due out later this year. Artist Colleen Doran discusses the project on Newsarama.

Titan Books has a selection of new titles available now or over the next few days. The UK version of Vertigo's Fables: Storybook Love and Dark Horse's Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 4 - Light and Dark hit the book stores late last month. Due in on the 23rd of July are Batgirl: Fists of Fury and Terra Obscura, an alternative Earth set in the same universe as Alan Moore's Tom Strong. Click on the relavant links below to order from Amazon.
 
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Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Criminal Macabre by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith.

The original visual adaptation of Ian Fleming's James Bond is on its third volume. On Her Majesty's Secret Service reprints the classic daily newspaper strip by Henry Gammidge and John McLusky from 1967. As a special bonus, it also includes their adaptation of You Only Live Twice. Out on the 23 August from Titan Books, you can pre-order from Amazon via the country links below.

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Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark.

UPDATE:
Scholastic has issued a press release detailing its plans for republishing Bone.

Original report: 3 July
Comics 212 reports via Publishers Weekly that Scholastic Press is on the verge of producing graphic novels, starting with Jeff Smith's Bone.

All 13 issues of Grant Morrison's monthly comic The Filth have been collected into a single volume, to be published in the UK on 23 July by Titan Books. Billed as a "tripped out peek beneath the thin veneer of reality," this isn't a book that any Morrison fan will want to miss, with art provided by Chris Weston and Gary Erskine.

The Filth is published in the US by DC Comics. Click on the appropriate link below to order, or wait for our review, coming soon.

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Read Grovel's latest graphic novel review - Mobile Suit Gundam Seed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate and Masatsugu Iwase.

Neil Gaiman has won a collection of Locus Awards for various works, including The Sandman: Endless Nights. [via Neil Gaiman's Journal]

Oni Press has a nice looking handful of books available over the next month or so. Closer by Antony Johnston, Mike Norton and Leanne Buckley is a horror story about a bitter scientist who discovers the secret of teleportation but find his experiments covered up by the establishment. Next Wednesday sees the release of The Tomb by Christina Weir, Nunzio DeFilippis and Christopher Mitten. It's a modern Indiana Jones style adventure with a female lead, digging into the mysteries surrounding an unkown archeologist who helped discover the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Due a week later, Scott Morse's Spaghetti Western sees two men with a love of westerns don cowboy outfits and hold up a bank. Click on the links next to the images below to order from Amazon.

Those interested in such things will also find a brief history of Oni Press in the June issue of Sequential Tart.

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