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• Orca Book Publishers' Graphic Adventure Line
  In 2007 Orca launched The Graphic Guide Adventure Series, a line of fictional adventure graphic novels aimed at middle graders aged 8-12; produced by the team of writer Liam O'Donnell and artist Mike Deas and focused on the environment, skateboarding, soccer and, now, media literacy.
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• Com.x is Back with a Bang
  Com.x, an independent comic publisher operating out of London, England and Venice, California, launched in England in 2002 with the beautifully designed and drawn comics Cla$$War and Razorjack. But then a long operational hiatus set in. Now armed with new investors and new projects, they've had an extremely busy 2009.
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• Upbeat Diamond Summit Draws New Retailers
  Although it's been a tumultuous month in the comics industry, retailers and publishers got down to business at the Diamond Retailer Summit, held October 11–12 in Baltimore. Organized and run by Diamond Distribution, the exclusive distributor for the top four comics and graphic novel publishers, the yearly meeting drew nearly 600 retailers from around North America.
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• YA or Not YA?: 'Stitches' Gets NBA Nomination
  Caldecott Medalist David Small's graphic novel-style memoir, Stitches, was named a 2009 National Book Award finalist in the Young People's Literature category—which has led to some discussion and debate, along with the usual congratulations.
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Q&A

• A Talk with Guy Delisle: Looking for the Details
  Cartoonist and animator Guy Delisle has lived and worked in both Shenzhen, China and Pyongyang, North Korea. He recorded his experiences living in these cities (and in their respective national cultures) in two well-received book-length comics works, Shenzhen (Drawn & Quarterly 2006) and Pyongyang (D&Q 2005), utilizing his unique dry humor, conversational tone, and focus on the everyday to capture the contradictions of the place and the experience of a foreigner encountering them for the first time.
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Reviews

• Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer 6
  VAN JENSEN AND DUSTY HIGGINS. Slave Labor Graphics, $10.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59362-176-6
  This enjoyable reworking of Carlo Collodi's classic tale drops the magically animated puppet into a horror movie plot. After his maker/father Geppetto is killed by vampires, Pinocchio tries to protect the disbelieving inhabitants of his village, aided only by woodcarver Master Cherry, a greatly aged Blue Fairy and the ghost of the nagging cricket he squashed some time ago. As that last reference indicates, this is not the sentimentalized Disney version of the story; the protagonist of this book is one tough little puppet.
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• Grandville
  BRYAN TALBOT. Dark Horse, $17.95 (108p) ISBN 978-1-59582-397-7
  Talbot follows up the admirable but abstruse Alice in Sunderland with an engrossing blend of steampunk, Victorian-flavored detective stories, anthropomorphized animals and 9/11 allegory. The storytelling skills that he brought to The Tale of One Bad Rat are firing on all cylinders as he spins the tale of Scotland Yard's bodybuilding badger, Insp.-Det. Archie LeBrock searching for a murder squad, a trail of violent intrigue leading to France.
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• All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009
  PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60699-285-2
  It's a surprisingly rare thing to find the great comic artist who can not only draw with poetry and beauty, but write like a demon as well. In this lavish scrapbook of uncollected ads, posters, covers, ephemera and one-offs, Hornschemeier's skills are nearly as verbal as they are visual, his art encompassing many different styles, from richly layered classical surrealism to densely structured and primary color-heavy McSweeney's-style illustrations.
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Panel Mania

• Panel Mania: Like A Dog
  Like a Dog by Zak Sally collects the first two issues of his series Recidivist, along with other stories from the last 15 years.
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