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More from TokyoPop + Image on King City's return

Earlier this month Brandon Graham announced on his blog that King City, the first volume of which was published by TokyoPop, would return as an over-sized 12-issue comic series from Image Comics this August.

That first volume will be reprinted as the first six issues in the series, followed by six issues that would have made up the second volume. While it's fairly common to see comics collected into trades nowadays, King City is essentially doing the opposite -- starting as a collection and becoming a series. Not by design, of course, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Comic Book Resources spoke with Graham about the title (as well as his Oni title, Multiple Warheads). I followed up with TokyoPop and Image on the deal itself.

According to TokyoPop, this licensing deal came about because all three parties -- Graham, TokyoPop and Image -- really wanted it to happen. Image will manufacture, sell and promote the individual issues, while TokyoPop will direct the creation of the comic and retain graphic novel rights.

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King City to return

King City #1

This is great news -- Brandon Graham's King City, which was caught up in the Tokyopop implosion last year, is returning to print in August.

Graham writes on his LiveJournal that Tokyopop and Image Comics will release King City as a 12-issue comic series starting Aug. 19. It will be printed in the same, larger format as Image's recent Viking comic.

The first six issues will reprint volume one, which Tokoyopop released last year, with "some cool extra shit to try to make it interesting even if you've got the TP book."

The last six issues showcasing what would have been volume two. "Needless to say I'm fucking thrilled," Graham said.

I hope this means that similar deals are in the works for some of the other "Original English Language" books that Tokyopop started but never finished, like Becky Cloonan's East Coast Rising and Dan Hipp's Gyakushu. It would be great to see them wrapped up as well.

What Are You Reading?

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5

Welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading. This week I'm pleased to announce that our special guest star is Dash Shaw, who wowed the critics last year with his doorstop family drama Bottomless Belly Button and was just nominated for an Eisner for his recently completed Webcomic Bodyworld (soon to be published in book form by Pantheon).

To see what Shaw and the rest of us are reading, click on the link below.

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Thin wallets, fat bookshelves: Random House's outlook for 2009

X-Men: Misfits

Continuing our ongoing look at what various publishers have planned for the coming year, here's a look at Random House's line-up.

I should note this includes this list includes the Ballantine, Villard and Del Rey imprints. I am not including Del Rey Manga here, as I hope to list their offerings as a separate post in the near future.

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