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Orson Scott Card's Ender Comics
Marvel Comics and renowned science fiction writer Orson Scott Card announced at last weekend’s New York Comics Convention a new series of comics based on Ender's Game.
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NYCC Is Manga Country
There were big announcements by manga houses Viz Media and Del Rey; plans for a new line of color graphic novels by Tokyopop and a new content deal between Japanese publisher Square Enix and Yen Press.
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Abel and Madden Study the Panels
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden is an essential addition to any library of graphic novel how-tos.
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Memories and Movies at NYCC
An award for Stan Lee, a tribute to the late Steve Gerber, and a preview of The Spirit movie provided highlights of NYCC 2008.
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NYCC; ICv2 Briefs
NYCC, ICv2 Briefs:Comics for Girls; More Minx; Haspiel Joins Zuda; Mobile Comics; Tokoyopop In the House; Zot! Returns; Selling Emily; Tween Comics; Buyers Aware; and Talent Fight
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Big NYCC Crowds Enjoy Good Mood, Weather, Comics
The 2008 New York Comic-Con drew an estimated 64,000 fans and professionals in what everyone agreed was a strong show that spotlighted the many facets of the world of graphic novels.
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Kids' Comics: Publishers Jump In
The market for kids' comics is growing, but publishers and creators agree that it's still in its early stages.
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Signature Review: America America
America America Ethan Canin . Random , $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-679-45680-3 Signature Reviewed by Jerome Charyn Ethan Canin's new novel is a powerful lament that haunts us like a latter-day ghost of The Great Gatsby. Like Gatsby, it deals with an orgiastic rupture in the American dream. If F. Scott Fitzgerald anatomized the Jazz Age and delivered its own corrupt and luscious poetry, Canin giv...
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Barefoot in Manhattan
In a move that could push Barefoot Books further up Inc. magazine’s list of the top 5,000 fastest-growing private businesses (which it made for the first time last year), the Cambridge, Mass./Bath, England, children’s book publisher has reached an agreement with FAO Schwarz to create a dedicated Barefoot Books boutique in FAO’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Comics Go Wide at New York Comic-Con; Gordon Lee Charges Dismissed
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Ender's Game Comics Coming from Marvel
Marvel is adding Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game universe to its stable of comics adaptations.
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Tokyopop Debuts Line of Color Graphic Novels
Next year, American manga publisher Tokyopop will launch Tokyopop Graphic Novels, a line of full-color books featuring manga-influenced art and stories by artists from all over the world.
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Vertigo Announces Push to Acquire Graphic Novels
DC's Vertigo imprint is dedicating two editors, Jonathan Vankin and Joan Hilty, to the job of acquiring new original graphic novels in a broad range of genres.
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ICv2’s Annual Graphic Novel Conference
ICv2’s third annual Graphic Novel Conference will kick-off on April 17—the day before New York Comic-con opens—at the Javits Convention Center in New York, with a day of facts and figures about the state of the business.
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ICv2 Confab Reports 2007 Graphic Novel Sales Rise 12%
In 2007 graphic novel sales in the U.S. and Canada were $375 million, a 12% rise from 2006 and quintuple the sales number from 2001.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
This week: a war correspondent's love story; the cost of misunderstanding Muqtada; Swiss banking behind the scenes; the madness of Zelda and Marilyn; and the new graduation gift-book to beat. Plus: leadership for ladies, marketing's magic bullets and a fittingly over-the-top Top Chef cookbook.
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Wyoming Crime
Another Man's Moccasins Craig Johnson . Viking , $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-01861-1 At the start of Johnson's stellar fourth mystery to feature Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire (after 2007's Kindness Goes Unpunished), Walt responds to a call that leads to the discovery of the body of a young Vietnamese woman, Ho Thi Paquet, along an Absaroka County highway.



