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New York Comic-Con 2008: Comics, Books and Kids
The third annual New York Comic-Con, to be held April 18—20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, opens next month with a record of impressive growth that suggests the ongoing mutual embrace of comics publishing and traditional book publishing is even more apparent and more inevitable than ever.
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Q&A with 'Hotlanta' Authors
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller, co-authors of
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Life in Comics #1: An Outside Hope
Acclaimed columnist Jennifer de Guzman joins the PWCW staff and starts out talking about the most hopeful path for comics' continued success.
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Skim: Tales of a Teenage Wicca
This month, Canadian children’s publisher Groundwood Books will make its first foray into the world of graphic novels when it publishes Skim, a nuanced coming-of-age story written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki
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March Comics Bestsellers
Abram’s Rodrick Rules is in the top spot; followed Viz’s Bleach Vol. 22 and Graphix’s Bone: Ghost Circles. Ultimate X-Men: Sentinels is at #8; and Savage Sword of Conan at #10.
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Action Historians: Making Comic Book History
In their new series, Comic Books Comics, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey embark on an attempt to tell the complete history of the comic book industry in the comics medium itself.
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Friedman’s More Old Jewish Comedians
Drew Friedman returns with more scabrously endearing portraits in More Old Jewish Comedians.
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Comics Briefly
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie: Nana Screenings; Blue Dragon Debut; NYAnime Fest 2008 Dates; Lapham’s Young Liars; Stumptown Comics Fest; Unterzakhn in The Forward ; February Zuda Winner; Chris Claremont Podcast; RabagliatiSigning; Signing at Midtown Comics; and G4TV's Fresh Ink
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Busiek and Bagley’s Weekly Trinity
Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley are teaming up for a new weekly comic book which will focus on DC's top three characters.
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Collected Consciousness
Poets are the nomads of literary publishing. Poetry books are rarely money-makers for their publishers; they get published because of a particular house or editor's personal commitment to poetry, to shore up the literary end of a list, or because a nonprofit, indie or university press is passionately invoved in poetry.
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New Life for RFK Photos
It was meant to be merely a slightly expanded edition of an out-of-print classic of photojournalism, Paul Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train, first published in September 2000 by Umbrage Editions. Fusco, a photographer for Look magazine in the 1960s, had been assigned to ride the train carrying the body of Robert F.
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The Poets' Poet
How is it that an accomplished poet and scholar, beloved by generations of students, whose work has enjoyed the praise of no less than Harold Bloom, remains, at 76, something of a poet's poet, a secret hero to a few rather than an enthusiasm widely shared? Allen Grossman's reputation, such as it is, may be owing in part to his difficult-to-classify poems.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008
This week: lies (regarding oil independence), liars (influential pre-invasion war proponent Ahmed Chalabi), myths (of small-business ownership) and financial ruin (at the hands of lenders). Also: a definitive new biography of Marcus Garvey, a piercing look at America's "securtiy-industrial complex," Hemingway and Heston finally drop a CD, and more.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008
Picture Books Minutka: The Bilingual Dog/ La Perra Bilingüe Anna Mycek-Wodecki , trans. from the Spanish by Diana Abt. Milet (IPG, dist.), $9.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-84059-509-3 Minutka, a tiny spotted dog, dances about the gray pages of this small, black-and-white square book, chatting about herself in English and Spanish: “Look at me!” read the words at the top of the page; &...
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008
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'Little Vampire' Rises Again
Mark Siegel, editorial director at Roaring Brook’s First Second imprint, hopes that resurrecting a series by French comic book creator Joann Sfar can help the author find the same popularity here that he does abroad. This April, the imprint will release Little Vampire, a compilation of three graphic novels by Sfar, the first two of which had been published individually by Simon & Schuster five years ago.
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Terry Brooks Makes Manga Magic
With Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks takes his best-selling series to comics for the first time.
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Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic in the Ocean
Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published environmental comic for kids that examines the destructive impact of plastic on the world’s oceans.
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Life Sucks: Vampires Work the Late Shift
Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece have collaborated for a fresh and comedic new take on the vampire tale.
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