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Your Friendly Neighborhood Icon
This month Titan Books publishes Spider-Man: The Icon, a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book tracing the history of Marvel’s flagship character through the comics and other media, including extensive licensing and merchandising programs.
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Uclick Phones Home
Last summer, uclick released Thunder Road, the first U.S. comic created specifically for cell phones. Now the company is preparing to bring cell phone comics to the internet.
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Comics Briefly
PW Hosts Graphic Novel Panel; NYCC Tabs Alex Ross, Mike Mignola; Shortcomings Second Printing; Zuda Comics Launch; Aurora Launches Luv Luv; Paul Pope Diesel Party; and NYAF Cosplays at Kinokuniya
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Yaoi-Con and BL, No Longer “Niche”
This weekend's Yaoi-Con in San Mateo, Calif., drew more than 1,500 fans and showed that the "boys’ love" genre is still in growth mode, as publishers announced a shower of new books.
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McKelvie Finds Glamour
Artist Jamie McKelvie follows up Phonogram with a book all his own, the fantasy Suburban Glamour.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007
Amalia’s Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice David I. Kertzer . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-55106-4 In this absorbing account, Amalia Bagnacavalli’s tale is a horrific one. An impoverished Italian peasant in the late 19th century, Amalia was hired as a wet nurse and contracted syphilis from the infant assigned her by a Bologna fou...
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CBLDF: Ready For War or Peace
Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, divides the organization's activities into “peacetime and wartime,” and right now, he said, the CBLDF is on a war footing. Since 2004, the CBLDF has spent nearly $100,000 defending Gordon Lee, a Rome, Ga., comics retailer charged with distributing materials harmful to minors, who faces a year in jail and $1...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007
Picture Books Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes Heather Collins . Kids Can , $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55337-881-5 Collins arranges 45 mostly familiar nursery rhymes in a sun-up to sundown romp starring a multi-species stuffed animal family, who made similar appearances in her Traditional Fairy Tales series of board books.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007
The Outcast Sadie Jones . Harper , $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-137403-6 Set in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father, Gilbert, back in the house.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/29
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Buffy Season 8—the Shape of Things to Come?
The popularity of Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 is making other publishers look for comics with famous authors or with TV tie-ins.
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Matsumoto’s Mashup
Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, is an avant-garde masterpiece. But what the hell is a “tekkon kinkreet”?
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DrMaster: Publishing Manga Small Scale
DrMaster is hoping a small, independent manga house can compete with larger publishers
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery
Cartoonist Mort Gerberg brings together 26 New Yorker cartoonists to take an amusing look at the big topics—including the big D—of our senior years.
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Comics Briefly
BEA ’08:Comics All Day Saturday;APE Moves to November; ICv2 Confab For NYAF; Auction for Disabled Vets; TV Grabs The Middleman; DMP Club Otakie Contest; Matt Groening on TCM; NBM Debuts Trondheim Blog; First Second Creators Blog; and OSU Cartoon Fest
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A PW Web-Exclusive Review:
Fair Game by Valerie Plame WilsonPW has obtained a copy of the outed CIA agent's book, which is embargoed until Tuesday. While the author reveals aspects of her personal life and bluntly criticizes prominent media and Republican figures, the heavily redacted book says little new about the events that became known as Plamegate.
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Topalian Promoted; Fensterman Joins NYCC
Reed Exhibitions promotes Greg Topalian to senior v-p and BEA director Lance Fensterman joins the staff of New York Comic-Con as show manager.
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Pinsky Lends His Voice to Alzheimer’s Film
The day his newest collection of poems was released, former poet laureate Robert Pinsky was in Chicago to support a documentary on Alzheimer's.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007
Christmas Books We Three Kings Gennady Spirin . S&S/Atheneum , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82114-1 Opulence befitting royalty characterizes Spirin's (The Tale of the Firebird) lush, jewel-hued watercolor-and-colored-pencil interpretation of the beloved carol about the three wise men (and their extensive entourages) who traverse afar.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007
Resistance Owen Sheers . Doubleday/Talese , $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-52210-6 Poet Sheers takes readers to a small Welsh village during a speculative WWII—featuring a German invasion of Britain—in his auspicious debut novel. It’s 1944 and Sarah Lewis and the women in Ochlon valley are left alone after all the local men disappear one night.



