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Delano's New Narcopolis at Avatar
Veteran Brit writer Jamie Delano is back with a new series about a city where people dazed by recreational narcotics and apathy.
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Comics Briefly
EW Tabs PW The Beat; Natsume Does Batman Manga; Comic Book “History”; New from NBM; Virgin’s Dan Dare Online; Fantagraphics Comix Show; New Reed Show Blogs; Selznick Wins Caldecott; and January Zudacomics Contestants
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Nickelodeon Mag: Green Slime and Comics
Nickelodeon magazine, the monthly periodical of the children’s TV programming juggernaut, covers a variety of kids’ subject matter, including comics.
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Shakespeare Meets Manga at John Wiley
Science and educational publisher John Wiley & Sons release manga adaptations of four Shakespeare plays—Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar—in February in a tankoubon, graphic novel book-format.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/14
This week on the web we feature some urgent presidential concerns: Israelis and Pelestinians working together! An abortion doctor reports from the field! El Caballo speaks! And perhaps the last financially solvent 20-something in America tells his tale! Plus: Alice in Cubicleland, irrational happiness and an autobiography writ very, very small.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Ditlow Joins Brilliance
Tim Ditlow, former publisher of Listening Library and publisher at large for Random House Audio, has joined Grand Haven, Mich.-based Brilliance Audio.
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Tor Books, Seven Seas Together at Last
The new joint venture between New York City sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books and L.A.-based manga publisher Seven Seas to create a manga imprint is a match made in pop culture heaven.
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Burns and Palmiotti Explore the Docks
Inside Dock Walloper, filmmaker Edward Burns's foray into the comics-to-movie track in Hollywood.
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Genshiken: Kio Shimoku and the Otaku Soul
Kio Shimoku is the manga-ka of the beloved Japanese geek-culture series Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. The 9 volume series from Del Rey Manga completed its publication this month. The series revolves around a college visual media club where a small group of otaku gather to obsess about their favorite anime, manga, videogames and related activities.
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Disney’s Haunted Mansion Hardcover
Originally published as an anthology comic series by SLG Publishing, the first six issues of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Vol. 1: Welcome, Foolish Mortals is being collected in an attractive limited edition hardcover.
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January Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid stays on top followed by Naruto and Stephen King’s Dark Tower.
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Washington’s Big Monkey Encourages Debate
Big Monkey Comics in Washington DC succeeds by acting as a social center for its customers.
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Children’s Book Reviews
Picture Books Monkey and Me Emily Gravett . Simon & Schuster , $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5457-6 With a lot of imagination and some creative contortions, a little girl pretends that she and her adored stuffed monkey fit right in with tribes of penguins, kangaroos, bats, elephants and... monkeys.
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Fiction Reviews
More Than It Hurts You Darin Strauss . Dutton , $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95070-7 The third novel from the author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy is an often satiric page-turner that tracks a Long Island family crisis. Josh Goldin is a happily married TV airtime salesman with an eight-month-old son.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/7
This week: the Bomb, WorldCom, the Holocaust, DNA evidence, lost baggage, dubious imperatives, reggae madness and an all-new, all-star fiction anthology edited by Zadie Smith. Plus: now you can write, write, write your way to a flatter stomach!
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 1/7/2008
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio Alec Foege . Faber and Faber , $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-571-21106-7 Journalist Foege (Confusion Is Next) brings objectivity and insight to this exploration of Clear Channel, one of the most reviled media conglomerates in the U.
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Pilgrim, Exit Wounds Top Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll
Two very different books about young men at a changing point in their lives topped the Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll for 2007.



