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Funnies Business: Les Humanoides Cuts a Deal with the Devil

by Todd Allen | 09/09/2008 @ 02:28PM

European adventure comics are coming back to America via new deals at Devil's Due and Marvel.
Kevin O'Neill and Pat Mills Enforce Marshal Law at Titan

By Sam Thielman | 09/09/2008 @ 02:26PM

On September 2,
Titan Books
is putting out a new paperback, Marshal Law: Origins ($12.95) collecting in black and white (with new artwork) two out-of-print Marshal Law novellas.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/09/2008 @ 02:24PM

New DC V-P, Ad Sales; Howl! Comics Panel; PW The Beat: Batman Recalled and More; Ben Katchor at SPX; Dark Tower, The Stand Midnight Signing; Death Note Day at Kinokuniya; Runaways Free Online; Middleman Collected Edition; Comics In the Media; and Spurge Talks to John Pham
Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder

by Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

Joshua Beckman, 36, and Matthew Zapruder, 40, met in 1998 when Beckman passed through Amherst, Mass., on a tour for his debut poetry collection, Things Are Happening. Zapruder was an M.F.A. student at the University of Amherst and went to see Beckman's reading: “I was blown away,” says Zapruder.
Children's Book Reviews

| 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Dinosaur vs. Bedtime Bob Shea . Hyperion , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1335-5 Shea (New Socks) makes a hilarious commentator as his hero, a small red dinosaur, elevates everyday encounters into a series of matches worthy of the WWF. “Dinosaur versus... a bowl of spaghetti!” announces Shea and, with a trio of bold typographic roars (and two chomps), the bowl is vanq...
Fiction Reviews

| 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Book of the Unknown Jonathon Keats . Random , $13 paper (236p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7897-1 Keats (The Pathology of Lies) re-imagines Jewish folklore in his collection of stories about the Talmudic idea of the Lamedh-Vov, 36 righteous souls who must exist at all times in order for humanity, and the world, to sustain itself.
Wowio: Good for Prose; Bad for Comics?

by Van Jensen | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

For comics and prose publishers, Wowio.com seemed almost too good to be true. The Web site allowed publishers to post their books online so readers could download them for free, with publishers earning a set fee per download. But since the site was acquired in July by Platinum Studios, an online comics and entertainment licensing firm, changes in Wowio's terms may have undermined the value of t...
Art Books in a Booming Art Market

by Charles Dee Mitchell | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

When discussion of the market for contemporary art makes its way into the popular press, it often centers on how immune the market seems to be to broader financial trends. Last fall, as the latest round of art auctions concluded, Carol Vogel stated it plainly in the New York Times: “Never mind the gyrations on Wall Street or the subprime mortgage and equity crisis.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara . Columbia Univ. , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-231-13960-1 Kara, a former investment banker and executive, uses theoretical economics and business analysis to propose measures that could eradicate sex trafficking by undermining the profitability of the illegal activities associated with the crime.
Oni and 60Frames Meld Web Videos, Comics

by Wil Moss | 09/02/2008 @ 07:58PM

Recently Oni Press announced it has joined with 60Frames Entertainment, an online video distribution company, to create interlocking web videos and comic books.
Alan's War: A Conversation Becomes a Book

by Kate Culkin | 09/02/2008 @ 06:00PM

First Second will release the English-language version of Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, by French artist Emmanuel Guibert, in October.
Life in Comics: Skimming the Ocean or Digging a Well: Analysis on Comics Blogs

by Jennifer de Guzman | 09/02/2008 @ 01:09PM

Editor de Guzman questions whether reading blogs about comics has any bearing on creating or marketing comics.
September Comics Bestsellers

by Calvin Reid | 09/02/2008 @ 01:08PM

Diary of Wimpy Kid continues at #1 on the list, with Batman: The Killing Joke (#2), Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures (#5), Y the Last Man vol. 10 (#8) and Ultimate X-Men Vol. 18 (#10) following.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/02/2008 @ 01:06PM

Politics at SPX; Kids’ Comic-Con 2009; PW The Beat: Google Comic; Otaku Politician; South East Asian Comics; Comics on the iPhone; Final Chapter of A.D.; and PictureBox Back To School Sale
Zombies, Mayhem and Martial Arts

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/02/2008 @ 11:07AM

Last Gasp is publishing Tokyo Zombie, an absurd and grotesque work by manga-ka Yasunaka Hanakuma in the art style of heta uma, which literally means, "bad but good."
Twisted Classsics: The Work of Posy Simmonds

By Jordan Foster | 09/02/2008 @ 12:00AM

British cartoonist Posy Simmonds's Tamara Drewe, due out from Houghton Mifflin, is a contemporary graphic novel update of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd
Nonfiction Reviews

| 09/01/2008 @ 06:00AM

Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley Stephan Faris . Holt , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8779-6 The latest communiqué from the emerging genre of traveling the world in the footsteps of climate change is an intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ...
Fiction Reviews

| 09/01/2008 @ 06:00AM

Miles from Nowhere Nami Mun . Riverhead , $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-854-2 Mun's first novel is a 1980s urban odyssey in which Joon-Mee, a 12-year-old Korean-American, leaves her troubled Bronx family for the life of a New York City runaway. The novel follows Joon over six years, as she lives in a homeless shelter, finds work as an underage escort and a streetwalker, succumbs to drug add...
Children's Book Reviews

| 09/01/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Welcome to the Zoo Alison Jay . Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3177-6 Working in the burnished, crackle-varnished surfaces that are her signature, Jay (1-2-3: A Child's First Counting Book) takes the idea of a cageless zoo to the extreme, imagining humans and animals mingling with all the privileged coolness of habitués of a five-star resort.
A Cubano Huck Finn

| 09/01/2008 @ 06:00AM

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos . Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $16.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4804-9 Hijuelos, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has said that his first YA novel is a novel he wished he'd read as a teen. His themes are classic—alienation, the search for identity—but his approach is pure Hijuelos: Cuban-American, musical an...

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