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The second issue of Comic-Con Magazine, the new official publication of the San Diego Comic-Con International, WonderCon, and APE, the Alternative Press Expo is available now. While those of you on our mailing list have been receiving Comic-Con’s Update magazine for many years, this new incarnation is both a continuation and an upgrade of that publication.

Comic-Con Magazine will still contain the elements that made the Update the official preview of all the Comic-Con events, but now, like never before, this new format gives us space to focus on our mission statement: bringing comics and the popular arts to a wider audience.

We will continue showcasing exclusive interviews with special guests from all three of our shows, plus the latest information that makes all of our conventions not only the leading comics and popular arts events around, but the best attended as well.

Comic-Con Magazine will be the publication to keep you informed on happenings at our three conventions. Printed four times a year, three issues will continue to be sent to everyone on our mailing list and distributed through Diamond Comics Distributors to select comics shops across the country, as well as our own distribution to various coffee shops, art-houses, and alternative locations in the San Diego and Los Angeles area.

Download Comic-Con Magazine, Spring 2008

PDF format, 10.8MB, 52Pages.

Exclusive!
Your first look at SAMUEL L. JACKSON
as The Octopus in "The Spirit"
Written & Directed by FRANK MILLER

Special interview starting on page 10!

On the cover: Samuel L. Jackson brings Will Eisner’s The Octopus to life in The Spirit.

The Spirit of Frank Miller

Just about any comic fan worth his or her salt knows who Frank Miller and Will Eisner are. Miller burst on the scene in the early 1980s with an incredible run on Daredevil, turning the book into a top seller. He went on to create Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and Batman: Year One for DC Comics and Sin City, Give Me Liberty, Hard Boiled, 300, and other titles published by Dark Horse. He’s won numerous awards, including ones named after that Eisner guy, who created The Spirit and was one of comics’ most legendary creators and guiding forces (see page 14 for more on Will Eisner and his seminal comics hero).

In 2006, Comic-Con helped break the news that Frank Miller had signed on to write and direct the big-screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, at the first major panel heralding the start of production for the film. For comic fans everywhere, it was cause for rejoicing. Miller’s own adaptation of Sin City, directed by Robert Rodriguez and using Frank’s original comics as a storyboard, was a huge hit. And Miller’s 300, directed by Zack Snyder, became the sleeper hit of 2007, boasting a $70 million opening weekend. Miller was poised to take on a new job, that of movie director, and the perfect property for him to tackle turned out to be someone else’s comic book hero. ...

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