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News

• Attendance Up at New York Anime Fest Despite Costs
  Although the anime and manga markets have had a mixed year in 2009, with consolidation and downsizing, it was belied by the enthusiastic fan participation at this years New York Anime Festival, held Sept. 25-27. With an attendance of 21,388 people, a 16% increase over last year, NYAF 2009 was precisely that, an anime festival with less of a manga focus than in previous years.
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• Small Press Expo Feels the Love
  Indie cartoonists, web comickers and the fans who love them once again mingled in a weekend of camaraderie and appreciation at this weekend's Small Press Expo, held in North Bethesda, MD. This year's edition lived up to its well-deserved reputation as one of the year's mellowest and enjoyable comics fests.
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• Tokyopop, Harper Team To Release ‘Shutter Island’ Graphic Novel
  Graphic novel publisher Tokyopop is working in conjunction with HarperCollins to release a comics adaptation of bestselling novelist Dennis Lehane’s psychological thriller Shutter Island in January 2010 in time for the February release of a new Martin Scorsese film based on the novel.
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Reviews

• The Squirrel Machine
  HANS RICKHEIT. Fantagraphics, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-60699-301-9
  This darkly disturbing, brilliantly drawn story is the first major publication from cartoonist Rickheit, whose earlier works garnered him a Xeric award and a cult following. Brothers William and Edward are odd-ball inventors who raise the ire of New England townspeople when they make elaborate and stomach-turning musical instruments using animal carcasses. B&w pen and ink drawings elucidate complex machines and Victorian-era architecture in baroque detail, while surrealist imaginings take turns for the truly repugnant. more » » » 
• The Marquis: Inferno
  GUY DAVIS. Dark Horse, $24.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-59582-368-7
  In this morality adventure set in a starkly rendered 17th-century France, the eponymous protagonist dons a carnival mask and hunts escaped souls of the damned. The twist is that behind the marquis's mask is no dashing hero but a geriatric church inquisitor named Vol de Galle who is pious, fearful and uncertain of himself. He has good reason for doubt; the escaped souls inhabit the bodies of lowly French sinners who look like regular townsfolk and only de Galle can perceive their true beastly forms. The marquis leaves a trail of corpses that soon has the authorities, religious and secular, hot on his heels.
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• The Color of Heaven
  KIM DONG HWA. First Second, $16.99 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59643-460-8
  Seventeen-year-old Ehwa bids good-bye to the man she wants to marry as the final volume of this delicate and poetic Korean historical trilogy opens. Her mother is simultaneously full of angry concern and understanding sympathy—each woman must wait, tending flowers and hoping to see their loves again. It's fascinating to see such a female-centered generational story, but it's a shame that, due to the time period, the women can take no action. They are passive, waiting, because "that is the heart of a woman"; their lives are incomplete without a man.
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Photo Mania

• Photo Mania: NY Anime Festival and Small Press Expo
  It was a crowded weekend for comics, as the New York Anime Festival and Small Press Expo took place concurrently. PWCW's photographers were there to catch both scenes.
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