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Win, Lose or Draw: Political Comics and Campaign '08
 The 2008 presidential campaign has been historic and gripping in a multitude of ways, and with the fast approach of Election Day, politics are seeping into many corners of popular culture. Comics are no exception, and while political themes in comics are nothing new, a number of publishers and creators have developed projects tied directly to this election season. Benefits for the comics industry include the publicity and sales that come from tapping into current widespread interest in the campaign—but the new batch of politically minded projects also demonstrates the various ways that the medium of comics can uniquely contribute to the political
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 Comics and Classics: Two Stores in One
This Jacksonville Beach, FL shop is an unusual hybrid store where books, comics and art all get space.
 The Joker's On Azzarello
Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo team for a new graphic novel that delves into the persona of Batman's archnemesis, the Joker.
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An avenging ghost hunts down a gangster who wronged him in this seven-page excerpt from The Revenant, a mix of the superhero and horror genres. The 112-page graphic novel, conceived by Shannon Denton and Keith Giffen, written by Rob Worley and illustrated by Mat Santolouco, will be released by Desperado Publishing this month.
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From Zap To Tintin
It has been forty years and two generations since Robert Crumb published Zap Comix #1 in 1968, the first major event in the underground comix movement. Marking this anniversary, Patrick Rosenkranz's Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution--1963-1975 (Fantagraphics Books, $34.99 paper) serves as a comprehensive and invaluable history of this groundbreaking period in American comics. This new softcover edition presents an updated and expanded version of the 2002 hardcover.
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Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
JOE HILL AND GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ. IDW (Diamond, dist.), $24.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-60010-237-0
 Novelist Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box, crafts a gripping account of the shattered Locke family's attempt to rebuild after the father/husband is murdered by a deranged high school student and the family subsequently moving in with the deceased father's brother at the family homestead in Maine. But as anyone who has read horror fiction in the past 70-odd years will tell you, it's a bad idea to try to leave behind the gruesome goings-on in your life by moving to an island named "Lovecraft." What begins as a study in coping with grief soon veers into creepy territory as the youngest Locke discovers a doorway with decidedly spectral qualities, along with a well that houses
someone or something that desperately wants out and will use any means available to gain freedom, including summoning the teenage murderer who set events in motion in the first place. To say more would give away many of the surprises the creative team provides, but this first of hopefully several volumes delivers on all counts, boasting a solid story bolstered by exceptional work from Chilean artist Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show) that resembles a fusion of Rick Geary and Cully Hamner with just a dash of Frank Quitely. (Oct.)
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"If this book does tank, I might not make it."
—Publisher Alvin Buenaventura on the perils of publishing Kramer's Ergot #7, an oversized, $125 comics anthology.
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October 15 2008
- Berlin Book 2: City of Smoke (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Solanin (Viz Media)
- Scalped Vol. 3: Dead Mothers (DC/ Vertigo)
- Dear Dracula (Image)
- Annihilation: Conquest Book 1 (Marvel)
- Jamilti and Other Stories (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Otto's Orange Day (Toon Books)
- Benny and Penny in Just Pretend (Toon Books)
- Papillion (Del Rey Manga)
- The Complete Aranzi Hour (Vertical)
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CBLDF Announces Involvement in Manga Obscenity Case
- NYCC 2009 Registration Opens
- New Marvel Animated Series Announced
- Art Spiegelman Tour Hits San Francisco, NYC
- The Original Johnson on ComicMix
- Luv Luv Press Online with Netcomics
- Free Marvel Ultimatum Saga Online
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