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Back To The Future: Tor.com Buys Book
Back To The Future: Tor.com Buys Book
Back To The Future: Tor.com Buys Book-Size Webcomics to Serialize This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week November 3, 2009 Sign up now! By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 11/2/2009 4:26:00 PM In an unusual acquisition deal, Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture ...
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THE BEAT — § Calvin Reid reports that Tor.com is acquiring graphic novels for online publication. First up, books by Dan Goldman and Jim Ottaviani. The two works are The Imitation Game, a biography of mathematician Alan Turing by comics writer and science biographer Jim Ottaviani and artist Leland Purvis; and Red Light Properties by Dan Goldman, described as a “paranormal real estate tale” by literary agent Bob Mecoy of Creative Book Services, who represents all the creators and negotiated the deal on their behalf. § It looks like Sandy Bilus is the new Dick ...

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Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Shel Dorf with Warren Beatty in 1990 Passings | Sheldon "Shel" Dorf, who in 1970 co-founded the event that grew into Comic-Con International, passed away Nov. 3 in San Diego's Sharp Memorial Hospital from diabetes-related complications. He was 76. A collector of comics and Dick Tracy memorabilia, Dorf had run Triple Fan Fest in his ...

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Comic Book Resources — Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes Passings | Sheldon "Shel" Dorf, who in 1970 co-founded the event that grew into Comic-Con International, passed away Nov. 3 in San Diego's Sharp Memorial Hospital from diabetes-related complications. He was 76. A collector of comics and Dick Tracy memorabilia, Dorf had run Triple Fan Fest in his native Detroit. After he moved to San Diego in early 1970, he met Ken Krueger of Alert Books in Ocean Beach and the two, together with a group of teen-aged fans, organized first Golden State Comic Con, held Aug. 1-3, 1970, at the U.S. Grant Hotel. Dorf served as president, or chairman, of the convention until the mid-1980s, stepping away ...

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