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• Amazon, Archaia To Release Kindle Graphic Novel
  Although Amazon.com has published prose works exclusively on the Kindle before, in a first the online retailer has teamed with graphic novel publisher Archaia to publish Tumor, an original graphic novel by writer Joshua Fialkov and artist Noel Tuazon, initially in a digital edition formatted specifically for the Kindle; Tumor will be released serially on the Kindle before a hardcover print edition is published.
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• Otakon '09: Good Attendance and Sales; Some Complaints
  The unofficial registration for this year's Otakon, an annual anime and manga convention held July 17-19 at the Baltimore Convention Center, was 26,350, up slightly from last years attendance of 26,262. Although fans showed up in force (and in costume) and vendors generally seemed pleased with sales, there were complaints about the organization of Artists Alley and the programming—including one anime panel that was abruptly halted for inappropriate content.
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• Red 5 Hits with iPhone App
  With digital downloads of comics for various desktop and handheld devices getting more and more attention, several comics publishers are getting additional sales through iPhone downloads. One of the surprise success stories has been Red 5.
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• Relationships and Preconceptions: Fumi Yoshinaga's Ooku
  The Ooku is the area of Edo Castle, the legendary ancient Japanese military capital, where the Shogun's wife, concubines and female relatives lived during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). In Fumi Yoshinaga's new alternate history manga Ooku: The Inner Chambers, the Ooku is instead the residence of the Shogun's husband and concubines, for in this Japan, the women rule.
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Q&A

• Brian Fies Looks Back at the Future
  There was a time when the future was something to look forward to. That's the spirit Brian Fies captures in his graphic novel, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? , published this month by Abrams. "It really stems from a joke—'It's the 21st century. Where is my flying car and jet pack?'—and looking back and turning over the question in my mind—what did happen to the fun stuff?" Fies said.
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Reviews

• Masterpiece Comics
  R. SIKORYAK. Drawn & Quarterly, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 973-1-897299-84-5
  This slim but densely sly volume collects, at long last, 20 years of Sikoryak's classic lit/classic comics mashups. Blondie and Dagwood act out Genesis in "Blonde Eve"; Garfield tempts Jon into a deal with the devil in "Mephistofield"; and Batman turns into Raskol for a reworking of "Crime and Punishment." What could be simple parody in other hands is elevated to multileveled artistry by Sikoryak's uncanny ability to mimic the line of artists from Winsor McCay through Jack Davis to Charles Schulz.
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• 100 Bullets, Vol. 13: Wilt
  BRIAN AZZARELLO AND EDUARDO RISSO. DC/Vertigo, $19.99 paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2287-1
  The final collection of Azzarello and Risso's 100-issue crime comic book crushes its grand construction into Grand Guignol as the series concludes in an inevitable bloodbath, with its high society cabals, sleeper assassins and no-one-is-innocent bystanders blowing each other to smithereens in the name of hollow revenge. Azzarello's writing serves his thematic purposes (the endless reverberations of violence in American culture), and his punchy, vernacular dialogue glistens with vulgar brio. Where Wilt stumbles, oddly, is its often scattered and distracted plotting, which blunts its impact. Some crucial plot points breeze by with only a baffling allusion, while others get driven home with a jackhammer.
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• You Have Killed Me
  JAMIE S. RICH AND JOELLE JONES. Oni (Diamond, dist.), $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-932664-88-1
  1930s-era gumshoe Antonio Mercer finds himself screwed over from all angles when he accepts a missing persons case in which the disappeared dame is his ex-lover. Hired by her equally hot sister, Mercer faces down a number of tough guys, running the gamut from cops, both honest and bent, to gamblers, mob bosses and even short-tempered and knife-wielding musicians, while following the gal's trail, but nothing is ever as it seems.
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Photo Mania

• Photo Mania
  PW Comics Week's Erin Finnegan and Ada Price roamed the floor of the Baltimore Convention Center to get photos of the activities and the cosplayers at Otakon 2009.
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