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News

• Back To The Future: Tor.com Buys Book-Size Webcomics to Serialize
  In an unusual acquisition deal, Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture focused on launching original science fiction, fantasy and comics, has acquired web-only publishing rights to two full-length 192 page graphic novels and will serialize them over 6 months through the Tor.com website.
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• Marvel Makes Theirs iPhone
  The growing array of comics available for iPhones got a Hulk-sized addition last week when Marvel Comics, the leading US comics publisher, announced deals with four iPhone applications. Comics both recent and classic are now available for download from Comixology, iVerse and Panelfly. Scrollmotion, another leading app for iPhones that distributes books, will also have Marvel Comics available.
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• November Comics Bestsellers
  The fourth book in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series, Dog Days, takes the top slot from Last Straw, the third book in the Wimpy Kid series. It's followed by Naruto vol. 46; Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey and Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth.
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Q&A

• Boom! Studios’ Mark Waid is Unstoppable!
  Mark Waid started out in the superhero camp, as an editor at DC and then as a freelance writer, shaping such iconic series as The Flash and Captain Marvel. Now, as editor-in-chief of independent comics publisher Boom! Studios, Waid is transforming the paradigm of monthly comics publishing.
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Life in Comics

• Life in Comics: The End of Adolescence?
  In 2004, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Michael Chabon gave the keynote speech at the Eisner Awards. Speaking about the maturation of the industry, he referred to some of the excesses of the 1990s as comics "adolescence": "An excess of desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence."
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Reviews

• Footnotes in Gaza
  JOE SACCO. Metropolitan, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7347-8
  Having already established his reputation as the world's leading comics journalist, Sacco (Safe Area Gorazde) is now making a serious case to be considered one of the world's top journalists, period. His newest undertaking is a bracing quest to uncover the truth about what happened in two Gaza Strip towns in 1956, when aftershocks from the Sinai campaign may have resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military.
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• Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus)
  EDDIE CAMPBELL. Top Shelf, $49.95 (640p) ISBN 978-1-60309-047-6
  Just about the last thing that the comics world needs (apart from more action/horror mashups) is another dry and inspiration-free autobiography—thankfully, Alec shows with thrilling certitude that quotidian observations make just as great comic art as the most action-packed fiction. This monster of a book (billed as "the definitive edition") contains a life's worth of Campbell's previously published Alec MacGarry stories.
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• Rin-ne, Vol. 1
  RUMIKO TAKAHASHI. Viz, $10 paper (180p) ISBN 978-1-4215-3485-5
  Rin-ne is the newest manga from Takahashi, creator of Ranma½ and Inuyasha, two of the most successful anime and manga series of all time. Sakura is a teenage girl who can see spirits due to a narrow escape from the wheel of death and reincarnation as a child.
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• Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
  Sarah Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99(96p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1337-9
  Rather than rushing past the highlights of Earhart's career, this quietly moving book approaches her life through the admiring curiosity of a girl who also aspires to escape traditional boundaries. Young Grace has grown up in Trepassey, Newfoundland, the nearest point in North America from which a plane can take off to fly to Europe; it's also a seacoast community familiar with shipwrecks and other evidence of how coldly indifferent nature can be. In June of 1928, tweener Grace, the dubious townspeople and a mob of impatient newsmen wait for Earhart to finally get her plane in the air for a transatlantic flight.
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Panel Mania

• Panel Mania: Casper and the Spectrals
  For the 60th anniversary of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Ardden Entertainment is releasing a new version of the classic Harvey comic. Casper and the Spectrals will feature Casper's friends Wendy the Witch and the little devil Hot Stuff, and is set in Spooky Town, a part of New York City that normal people can't see. This preview features five pages of the first issue, due out on November 11th, as well as the variant covers.
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