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Funnies Business: The 2008 Retailers Survey

by Todd Allen | 02/02/2009 @ 09:35PM

Our columnist surveys comics specialty retailers on their sell-through on both periodicals and graphic novels.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/2/2009

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons Rob D. Walker , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Scholastic/Blue Sky , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-93208-4 A sure-fire hit for Mother's Day, this elegantly designed book pairs a series of poems with stunning illustrations to celebrate the bond between mothers and sons.
Fiction Reviews

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

Ugly Man Dennis Cooper . Harper Perennial , $13.99 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-171544-0 The cult novelist's collection of short stories plumbs veins of dark humor amid the sex and gore his fans have come to expect. The contents range from short shorts—a rumination on “The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites” and an abortive episode entitled “One Night in 1979 I Di...
Nonfiction Reviews

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

To Live or Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan Nicholas Schmidle . Holt , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8938-7 Journalist Schmidle offers a gripping, grim account of his two years as a journalism fellow in Pakistan, where his travels took him into the most isolated and unfriendly provinces, and into the thick of interests and beliefs that impede that nation's peace and progress.
Secrets of Statecraft

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy Leslie H. Gelb . HarperCollins , $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-171454-2 Gelb, Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the New York Times, sets out guidelines for stewarding American power through the 21st century in this thoughtful, comprehensive and engaging examination.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 02/02/2009

| 02/02/2009 @ 05:00AM
First Second To Publish Scott McCloud

By Calvin Reid | 01/30/2009 @ 09:28PM

First Second Books announced plans to publish two new books by acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud.
Why Hollywood Loves the Comics

By Calvin Reid | 01/27/2009 @ 09:29PM

PWCW talks to film agent Scott Agostoni, director of the William Morris Agency's comics division, about the ongoing love affair between Hollywood and comics.
Jeff Smith’s Bone Saga Ends—Again

By Kate Culkin | 01/27/2009 @ 09:28PM

Graphix, the Scholastic division focused on comics and graphic novels for children, released the ninth and final color volume of Jeff Smith’s epic fantasy adventure series Bone this month.
What a Girl Wants Is Often a Comic

By Evie Nagy | 01/27/2009 @ 07:30PM

Jane Yolen to Publish Graphic Novel with Dark Horse as Publishers Weigh the Teen Girl Market for American Comics
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/27/2009 @ 04:51PM
The Best Comics You'll (Probably) Never Read

By Sam Thielman | 01/26/2009 @ 08:39PM

Sam Thielman looks back at some of the great unfinished comcis projects of the past 30 years.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/26/09

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

This Week's Web: Israeli and Palestinian writers interviewed in Norweigian; an ancient mechanical artifact of Indiana Jones; Kiyosaki gets spiritual; and more confessions than you require. Plus: literary roundup with books on Ginsberg, Snyder, Richard Matheson, and refugee writers.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

Closing Time: A Memoir Joe Queenan . Viking , $26.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-670-02063-8 Humorist and pop culture writer Queenan (Queenan Country) turns the mirror on himself in this somber and funny memoir about life with father in the projects of Philadelphia. Queenan closes the chapter on his life with a verbally and physically abusive alcoholic father.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/26/2009

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Good Night, Baby Ruby Rohan Henry . Abrams , $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8323-6 Her parents say it’s bedtime, but preverbal Ruby is proving elusive. With her pet cat at her heels, she runs away to play with the newspaper, hide in the closet and make mischief with the flowerpots.
Fiction Reviews

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie . Picador , $14 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-55187-2 Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan.
Layoffs at Diamond, DC Comics, Top Cow

By Heidi MacDonald | 01/23/2009 @ 08:49PM

Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.
Graphic Sales Grow at Denver’s Tattered Cover

By Judith Rosen | 01/20/2009 @ 09:15PM

Graphic novel sales at independent Denver bookseller the Tattered Cover's three stores are bigger than both Romance and philosophy sales.
Life in Comics# 11: What Women Want

by Jennifer de Guzman | 01/20/2009 @ 09:14PM

Do women need superheroes as role mdels? Should they? Our columnist looks at the debate currently raging.
Grant Morrison, Final Crisis, and the Superhero Genre

By Jeffery Klaehn | 01/20/2009 @ 09:10PM

In part 2 of an interview with acclaimed superhero comics writer Grant Morrison, PWCW talks about Morrison’s work on DC’s Final Crisis series, a new Batman series in the spring and new work to be published by Vertigo.

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