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• Toon Treasury: Open Sesame
  With The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics, published this month by Abrams, Art Spiegelman and his wife, Francoise Mouly, are bringing comics classics by Barks, Stanley and Kelly to kids of a new generation.
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• Capstone to Add Kids' Nonfiction Graphic Novel line
  Capstone Press, a nonfiction imprint of educational and library publishing house Capstone Publishers, plans to add a new line of kids' nonfiction graphic novels to its fast growing comics and graphic novel publishing program.
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• An Anime Canon for All
  In June, the Penguin Group released The Rough Guide to Anime by Simon Richmond. The book establishes a canon of 50 must-see films and TV anime series, as well as reviews of 150 notable titles, and a brief history of anime.
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Q&A

• Conspiracy, Comics and a 'Red Herring'
  Written by David Tischman and drawn by Philip Bond, Wildstorm's new six-issue mini-series, Red Herring, concentrates on an intriguing and complex tale of conspiracy, betrayal and murder.
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Reviews

• Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 2
  GILBERT AND JAIME HERNANDEZ. Fantagraphics, $14.99 paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-60699-168-8
  These latest tales from the art comics trailblazers are sure to draw readers in with their melancholic tone and the adventurous comic art that has enthralled readers for decades. The volume is bookended with Jaime's Ti-Girls stories. In the first, titled "Daughters of Doom," we see Jaime's superheroes going wild, both narratively and visually. The caped and powerful Ti-Girls fight, fly and reflect on the changes taking place in their universe. Gilbert's stories stand at the center of the volume.
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• Grown-Ups Are Dumb! (No Offense)
  ALEXA KITCHEN. Disney-Hyperion, $8.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1331-7
  Kitchen is a veteran cartoonist, having been publishing her work for the past five years. That's not unusual. The surprising part is that she's 10 years old, and what she lacks in technical skill she makes up for in brio. Call her the real life Greg Heffley. It's fascinating to see which parts of a mature cartoonist's skill set she's just beginning to develop—proportion, observation, storytelling—and which are already pretty much there.
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• Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
  PETER KUPER. PM Press (www.prmpress.org), $29.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60486-071-9
  Kuper has long been among the most politically engaged and stylistically distinctive artists working in comics, and both qualities take center stage here. This dazzling annotated sketchbook recounts two years Kuper and his family spent living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Anticipating a sojourn from American politics, Kuper instead found himself in a city roiled by a teachers' strike that was violently suppressed by the regional government.
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Panel Mania

• Refresh Refresh
  In Refresh, Refresh three teenage boys come to age in a small Oregon town where all the men, including their fathers, are away fighting in Iraq. While waiting for their fathers—and hitting the refresh button on their email—the boys fight, drink and discover that the world is not as simple as they thought.
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