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• Kodansha Sets Up Shop To Publish Manga in U.S.
  Kodansha, the largest publisher in Japan and an important licensor of manga to U.S. publishers, is setting up an office in New York City and plans to begin publishing and selling manga direct to the U.S. market beginning in October.
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• Golden Apple Comics Turns 30
  There have been substantial changes at Golden Apple Comics, the legendary Hollywood comics store. Under the direction of Ryan Liebowitz, son of the store’s well-known founder, the flagship store has been moved and the 25-year old satellite store in Northridge has been sold.
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Q&A

• Politics, Art and Activism in Oaxaca
  Peter Kuper left the United States in 2006 for Oazaca, Mexico in search of peace and quiet. Instead, the award-winning cartoonist found a strike, a government crackdown and a political storm. His two-year residence produced Diario de Oaxaca, A Sketchbook of Two Years in Mexico.
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Life in Comics

• Digital Comics: The Inevitable Frontier
  Sometimes it's hard to recognize change when you're living in the midst of it. "The things they can do now!" my mom often exclaims when I show her my latest digital gadget. "You don't know how amazing it is because you're used to it." Maybe that's why when it comes to digital comics, my attitude is one of pragmatism and not Oh my god, it's going to change everything!
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Reviews

• The Best American Comics, 2009
  Edited by CHARLES BURNS, JESSICA ABEL and MATT MADDEN. Houghton Mifflin, $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-618-98965-2
  In his introduction, guest editor Burns admits that most of the artists therein "were already well known to me... if you're a reasonably talented cartoonist, it's hard to stay under the radar for long." So many of the usual suspects are in this volume. There's Adrian Tomine, with a particularly funny excerpt from his charged epic of postmillennial self-hatred, Shortcomings.
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• West Coast Blues
  JACQUES TARDI and JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE. Fantagraphics, $18.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-60699-295-1
  Maybe it's because blood and brain matter look somewhat more disturbing in the chunky, primitive black and white favored by famed French cartoonist Tardi, but there's something particularly creepy about his adaptation of the late Manchette's crime novel that wouldn't have been well served by color. The protagonist, George Gerfaut, is a dead-souled Parisian businessman who's just about as irritated by his work as he is by his family. There's little he seems to like but for booze, cigarettes and West Coast-style jazz.
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• The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics
  Edited by ART SPIEGELMAN AND FRANÇOISE MOULY. Abrams, $40 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5730-5
  Spiegelman and Mouly reinvented comics as pop art in their classic anthology RAW. This time out, they're reclaiming comics as a medium of far gentler thrills in a bountiful collection of story gems from a more whimsical era of graphic storytelling. Cartoonists little known to nonscholars are standouts: Sheldon Mayer's Sugar and Spike—toddler pals who speak their own language, much to the consternation of grownups—are a delight with their sweet hijinks.
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Panel Mania

• Panel Mania: Dolltopia
  Dolls escape their factory built conformity in Dolltopia by Abby Denson. Kitty, a ballerina doll forced into domestic life with a jock doll, and Jim, an army doll who doesn't fit in with the the military lifestyle, flee to Dolltopia, a haven where dolls can be who thay want. Dolltopia is published by Green Candy Press.
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