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S&S Kids' Group Adds Graphic Novels
From Hope Larson’s Chiggers |
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has undertaken a divisionwide effort to encourage the publication of comics and graphic novels throughout its imprints. It's an initiative that began about a year ago, culminating last month at the S&S offices with a roundtable presentation by a panel of comics experts to a gathering of about 50 S&S staff from every department in the children's group.
Rubin Pfeffer, S&S senior v-p and publisher of children's trade, is the force behind the initiative, which is being coordinated by Ginee Seo, v-p, editorial director of Atheneum Books for Young Readers, and Liesa Abrams, senior editor at Aladdin Paperbacks.
Seo and Abrams, both self-described comics fans, emphasized that S&S is not launching a stand-alone graphic novel imprint. Instead, the program is intended to educate the entire children's division and encourage all imprints to acquire quality comics alongside conventional prose works. "The comics program is not just about books," Seo explained, "but educating the market and everyone here internally about the comics medium. We want editors to treat comics like any other category and to integrate them as another form of respected reading material."
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 Transforming IDW
The Transformers are coming and IDW has the comics to tie-in with this summer's movie.
 The Big Guide to Manga Mania
Jason Thompson talks about Manga: The Complete Guide, a jaw-droppingly comprehensive survey of translated Japanese manga published in the U.S.
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In this 8-page preview of The Killer, Matz and Luc Jacamon's hard-boiled murder suspense tale, a cool and ruthless professional assassin begins to crack under the psychological burden of years of killing. The Killer will be released in hardcover by Archaia Press Studios later this month.
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Confessions of a Supervillain
Superhero comics like Spiderman and the Fantastic Four are dominating Hollywood movies. But in Austin Grossman's first novel, Soon I Will Be Invincible, the superhero genre takes aim at literary fiction. Alternating between the first-person voices of the evil Dr. Impossible, and Fatale, a super-human cyborg who joins a superhero group charged with bringing him to justice, Goodman's new novel is a thoroughly entertaining comic book that's written in the form of a literary prose novel.
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The Annotated Northwest Passage
SCOTT CHANTLER. Oni, $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-932664-61-4
 While being hyped as the greatest Canadian western comic book ever may sound like faint praise indeed, in the case of Chantler's thrilling historical adventure, it definitely is not. Categorized as young adult historical fiction, the book is a James Fenimore Cooper–styled thriller set in remote Rupert's Land, circa 1755. Fort Newcastle, an English-run trading post commanded by the stout-hearted hero Charles Lord, is overrun in a vicious sneak attack by French mercenaries looking to get rich off the fur trade. Lord and the survivors of the massacre wander the wilderness, looking for allies and plotting their revenge, while inside the captured fort, the villainous Guerin
Montglave plots evil deeds. Chantler's sharp black and white artwork (replete with dramatic closeups and muscular action choreography) has a welcome precision to it, while the writing has a pulp immediacy (" 'T'ought you could 'ide, English dog?' ") which brings history to life. This collected edition of the three-issue original comes with copious and welcome annotations at the back, where Chantler discusses various plot points and historical references as well as the different styles used from one frame to the next (including one he calls his "Frank Miller shot"). (June)
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Poor Little Percy Gloom
If it's intended as a nightmare, then the whole enterprise has a strangely pleasing look about it. Percy Gloom is the first graphic novel from children's film and TV director Cathy Malkasian (Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys Movie), and as debuts go, it's hard to beat. A fantasy landscape drawn in looping, fairy tale swirls and telling a story redolent with totalitarian darkness, Gloom is an unsettling mixture of whimsy and evil, like a Kafka tale retold in the spirit of Dr. Seuss's The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
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June 13, 2007
- The Agency (Image/ Top Cow)
- Aranzi Machine Gun Vol. 1 (Vertical)
- The Aviary (AdHouse Books)
- Fables Vol. 9 Sons of the Empire (DC/ Vertigo)
- Thunderhead Underground Falls (Alternative Comics)
- Re-Gifters (DC/ Minx)
- Death Jr. Vol. 2 (Image)
- Iono-Sama Fanatics Vol. 1 (Infinity Studios)
- Scarlet Traces: The Great Game (Dark Horse)
- Sorcerers and Secretaries Vol. 2 (Tokyopop)
- Vesuvius Club (Trafalgar Square)
- What if Event Horizon (Marvel)
- King of Thorn Vol. 1 (Tokyopop
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- Death Note Films in New York
- Lea Hernandez Webcomic
- New Seven Seas Blog
- Morrison Book from Sequart
- New from Alternative Comics
- New Episode of A.D.
- Le Chevalier D'Eon Anime Wins Prize
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