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June 16, 2009

News

• Go, Girls! Trina Robbins Brings Back The Brinkley Girls
  In a new collection of work by Nell Brinkley from Fantagraphics, beautiful girls travel the world in fabulous dresses, rescue and then marry their men, and generally have a lot of gorgeous fun. Between 1913 and 1940, Nell Brinkley’s characters, a.k.a. the Brinkley Girls, were everything your average American girl wanted to be. Brinkley zestily described this every-girl as, “Frank and strong, and happy and good, just a girl—an American girl such as many of you know."
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• Kidjutsu: A Kid-Safe Site for Webcomics
  The internet is full of great comics created specifically for children, but young readers don’t have any way to find them. After all, there is no children’s room on the internet. But Brian Leung is hoping to solve that problem with Kidjutsu, a site that collects kid-friendly webcomics and displays them using an easy-to-use online comics viewer.
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• New Graphic Novel, Film from Melvin Van Peebles
  Acclaimed film director, actor, playwright and composer, Melvin Van Peebles, director of the groundbreaking 1971 black film Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song, is teaming up with Brooklyn indie Akashic Books to publish, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, a graphic novel created by Van Peebles and the odd-named artist Caktus Tree…? that was also the basis for a new film that Van Peebles will screen this summer.
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• Finder Ties Comic To Novel
  Late last year, bestselling thriller writer Joseph Finder was walking around Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, and ran into “a couple of guys” from DC Comics. He had just finished Vanished, a novel coming out this August featuring a young alienated teenager who is creating his own comic book. Those "guys" turned out to be DC senior editor Will Dennis and acclaimed comics writer Brian Azzarello.
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Bestsellers

• June Comics Bestsellers
  Jeffy Kinney's Wimpy Kid: Last Straw rules the roost but Stephen King's Dark Tower: Treachery; IDW's Star Trek: Countdown and Marvel Zombies 3 all make the Top Ten.
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Reviews

• Mijeong
  BYUNG BYUNG-JUN. NBM, $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56163-554-2
  The short story collection Mijeong handsomely showcases young manhwa artist Byung's relatively accomplished illustrative style, while his stories reveal a still-germinal narrative voice. These short tales trade in the gothic melodrama of urban malaise, with murder, assault, rape and suicide frequently present as plot points for youthful characters to repress, enact or unexpectedly react to. Byung sometimes succeeds in wringing moments of genuine pathos from his sensitive, affectless teens' responses to outsized traumas, as in the final moments of the delicately full-color "Song for You."
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• Luba
  GILBERT HERNANDEZ. Fantagraphics, $39.99 (608p) ISBN 978-1-56097-960-9
  In this expansive sequel to 2003's Palomar, Hernandez gives readers a peek into the lives of the inimitable Luba and her extended family now living in modern-day Southern California. Often taking center stage is the snarky Venus, the young daughter of Petra, one of Luba's recently discovered half-sisters. Obsessed with romance comics—and in love with the much-older owner of a comic and record store—Venus tries to make sense not only of her own life but her family's complicated dynamics. Her aunt Fritzi, another half-sister of Luba and sister of Petra, is a lisping psychotherapist who goes through boyfriends like candy and embarrasses Venus by always speaking Spanish.
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Books about Comics

• The Kurtzman Legacy
  The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics (Abrams ComicArts, $40) begins with startling, sweeping statements of its subject's importance not just to comics, but to American culture as a whole. Time critic Richard Corliss asserts that "almost all American satire today follows a formula that Harvey Kurtzman thought up." In his introduction, Harry Shearer declares that without Kurtzman there would be no Saturday Night Live or Simpsons.
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Panelmania

• Panelmania: Comics from the MoCCA Art Festival
  This week we're presenting excerpts from three mini-comics that were available at the MoCCA Art Festival, held  June 6-7 in New York City: Jupiter Napex by Patrick Thomas Glass, Open Spaces Closed Places by Saicoink, and Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman and Shaun Feltz.
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Comics Briefly

• DC's Wednesday Comics in USA Today
• Cap Lives! Captain America Back from the Dead!
• Ace Books Goes Graphic with Patricia Briggs
• WWII's WASPs to be Bluewater Comic
• Sikoryak's Typhon Slideshow at MoCCA
• Del Rey gets Samurai Deeper Kyo, Wild @ Heart
• Virtual Spotlight with Alex Ross
• Quesada's Cup O'Joe now on CBR
  
• This Week @ Good Comics for Kids
  
• This Week @ The Beat

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On-Sale Calendar

• June 17, 2009
  
  • From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics In The Third Millenium (Fantagraphics)
  • Gakuen Heaven Nakajima (Blu)
  • Gestalt Vol 1 (Viz)
  • Legacy (Hero Initiative)
  • Mice Templar Vol. 1: The Prophecy (Image)
  • The Question: The Five Books Of Blood (DC)
  • Sleeper: Season 1 (DC)
  • Tales from Outer Suburbia (Scholastic)
  • Treasury of XXth Century Murder Vol 2.: Famous Players (NBM)
  • Ythaq: Forsaken World (Marvel)
  
  

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