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BookExpo America 2009: IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection
Continuing its efforts in literary/graphic novel crossovers, IDW Publishing has announced a major licensing agreement with the estate of acclaimed author Robert Bloch. IDW has the rights to develop 100 of Bloch’s short stories for various formats, to be known as the Robert Bloch Collection.
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R.L. Stine Visits Chinese Fans
Published in the U.S. by Scholastic, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels have sold more than five million copies in China since 2002, when Jieli Publishing House launched the series there. Stine spent two weeks touring five cities across the country.
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Barron’s Scores with ‘Museum’
Barron's novelization of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is the top seller this week for the reference and educational publisher.
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Eckhart Tolle and MUTTS Creator Become Co-Authors
Three years ago, MUTTS comic strip creator Patrick McDonnell became interested in the work of Power of Now author Eckhart Tolle, and modeled one of his Sunday color comics on the cover of Tolle’s book Stillness Speaks. The comics artist decided to approach Tolle about working on a project together, and in October, Tolle’s publisher, New World Library, will release Guardians of Being, coauthored by Tolle and McDonnell.
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Phoenix Books Launches Children's Line
California publisher Phoenix Books is launching a children’s division. The first book, published under the already existing Dove imprint, will be released in September, with Carl Reiner’s Tell Me Another Scary Story... But Not Too Scary! The line will also include a series for tweens called I (heart)..., about celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Robert Pattinson, Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers.
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BookExpo America 2009: Despite No-Shows, Many Comics, Graphic Novels at BEA
This year BEA will have fewer attendees, fewer galleys and reduced booth space for many giant publishers, but graphic novel publishers will still be there.
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Anime Boston Brings Out Manga Publishers, Fans
Held last weekend, Anime Boston attaracted more than 15,000 people, an increase over last year's attendance.
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EW's Jeff Jensen Examines the Green River Killer
Jeff Jensen is widely known as an Entertainment Weekly reporter, but his father, Tom Jensen, was the primary investigator into the Green River Killer, who murdered more than 40 women in the Seattle area in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Underground Comix and the Transformation of the American Comic Book
This revolutionary era of underground comics is preserved and celebrated with great aplomb in Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix by co-authors James Danky and Denis Kitchen, published this month by Abrams ComicsArts.
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Panelmania: Anime Boston 2009
This past weekend, PWCW roamed the floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston to bring back lively photographs of the exhibitors and attendees at this year’s Anime Boston convention. Photos are by Erin Finnegan.
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Comics Briefly
Carol Burrell to Draw Kindred GN; CBLDF Membership Drive; Guilty Plea on Manga Obscenity Case; 2008 Reuben Awards; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids and This Week @ The Beat
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Bruni’s Departure and Memoir Publication: Coincidence?
Two weeks ago, the New York Times announced restaurant critic Frank Bruni was stepping down from his post. The food world was aflutter debating who will take his spot. but Bruni’s exit raises another question: can a restaurant critic publish a memoir while he or she still has the job? Coincidentally—or not—Penguin Press is publishing Bruni’s memoir, Born Round, in August, which is when Bruni plans to officially vacate his post at the NYT.
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Short Order: May 26
This issue's installment shares details about a dinner at Bouley restaurant for Tom Standage's An Edible History of Humanity; a link to news about Artisan's legal scuffle with Tavern on the Green; and a slideshow of images of cookbook authors hamming it up.
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Review: New Classic Family Dinners
Mark Peel of Los Angeles’s Campanile restaurant elevates the common vernacular of comfort food —veal scaloppine, grasshopper pie—to refinement, using ingredients like smoked mozzarella and homemade vanilla ice cream, respectively. He also gives tips for extra-mile techniques, like running a pureed potato leek soup through a sieve, or toasting and grinding spices for a shrimp boil.
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Meredith to Promote Cookbooks on Social Networking Site
In January, Meredith Corporation quietly launched Mixing Bowl, a social networking site about cooking. Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages. Now, Meredith is beginning an aggressive marketing campaign for Mixing Bowl, start a companion print magazine—and start launching cookbook authors through the site.
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Cooking the Books with the Neelys
Pat and Gina Neely co-own two Neely's Bar-B-Que restaurants in Memphis and one in Nashville, and star in Down Home with the Neelys on the Food Network. Knopf published their first book, Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, earlier. They stopped in New York on their 13-city tour, and squeezed in a few minutes to talk to PW and offered a few tips for summertime grilling: have fun and don’t forget the cocktails.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009
Among this week's reviews are picture books from George McClements, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Bob Barner; novels from Susane Colasanti, Adam Rapp and Blake Nelson; and an Iraq war memoir from a young soldier.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009
This week on the Web: Robert Kiyosaki explores the new reality of real estate, Arianne Cohen gives the tall their own book, Patrick Allitt recovers the history of conservatism, Tasha Blaine explores nannyhood, Janice Lieberman helps smart shoppers find husbands, and Jane Green returns with her latest beach novel. Plus: Toni Morrison compiles essays on writing from Orhan Pamuk, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer and others.
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Viz Media Launches IKKI, New Online Magazine Venture
In the wake of the cancellation of its print Shojo Beat manga fan magazine, manga and anime publisher Viz Media will launch IKKI, a new online magazine venture that will be used as promotional vehicle and to launch new works and to solicit feedback on whether to release some titles in print.
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Viz Cancels 'Shojo Beat' Manga Teen Mag
Viz Media has cancelled Shojo Beat, a 3 year-old manga fan magazine that doubled as marketing vehicle for Viz manga titles, and the July issue will be the last.
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