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• Asterios Polyp: A Tour De Force of Imagination and Drawing
  One of the most talented comics artists of this generation, David Mazzucchelli first came to prominence as a superhero artist before moving on to make his reputation as a cartoonist of rare literary nuance and significance. This month Pantheon is publishing Asterios Polyp, Mazzucchelli's first original graphic novel and a book about which not much has been revealed over the ten years or so that he's been working on it.
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• The First Asian American Comicon Is a Cool Success
  The first Asian American Comicon opened its doors at the newly built Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in downtown New York City to a long line of attendees. The space, designed by Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C., quickly filled up well beyond its capacity. More than 500 people visited the museum for the show. Many came specifically to meet guest of honor Larry Hama, who has penned Marvel's G.I. Joe series for the past 20 years.
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• The Stand Graphic Novel Finally Comes to Bookstores
  Marvel Comics and Random House's Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group have reached an agreement to allow The Stand: Captain Trips, the hardcover graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand, to be distributed in the general bookstore market beginning in January 2010.
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Funnies Business

• Quantifying Library Penetration for Graphic Novels
  Did you ever wonder how many copies a graphic novel could sell in the library system? Figuring out what a graphic novel could do is a bit of a puzzle. Libraries are an up and coming market for graphic novels (or "graphic fiction" or reprint collections; go ahead and pick your terms of choice).
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• Another Juicy Murder Story from Rick Geary
  Looking to build on his success in researching the details of sensational period-era murders, NBM will release Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor, Rick Geary's latest investigation into a historical murder mystery, in September. The eighty-page hardcover volume will have an initial print run of 10,000 and is Geary's second contribution to the Treasury of XXth Century Murder.
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Reviews

• Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
  TIM HAMILTON AND RAY BRADBURY. Hill and Wang, $16.95 paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8090-5101-4
  A faithful adaptation of the original, Hamilton's comics version conveys the social commentary of the novel, while using the images to develop the tone. He uses grainy, static colors and images obscured by heavy black shadows and textures to portray the oppressive nature of this world where firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Malevolent forces and danger lurk in the shadows pervading the suburban home of fireman Montag and his wife, Mildred.
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• Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Vol. 1
  MICHAEL KUPPERMAN. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60699-164-0
  Picasso's life narrated by a hamburger; pubic hair stencils for men; Bambiffpow Jackson, "there's a fistfight in my very name!"—and that's just part of the first five pages of this hilarious collection of humorous comics and illustrations. Kupperman has been laffing it up for years via cartoons in the New Yorker and animation on Saturday Night Live, but his smart, droll, absurdist humor is best displayed in this compendium of the first four issues of the comic of the same name. Kupperman's wit and imagination is only heightened by the stiff, self-conscious woodcut style he often uses for art, although it sometimes bursts out in a blobbier style for such things as the kid-friendly "Fireman Octopus."
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• Halo Uprising
  BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS AND ALEX MALEEV. Marvel, $25 (168p) ISBN 978-0-7851-2838-0
  Based on the famous video-game series Halo and created by the Eisner-winning team of writer Brian Michael Bendis (Powers) and artist Alex Maleev (Daredevil), this book shows the Covenant invasion of Earth from the perspective of civilians on the ground. Ruwan, a hotel concierge in the beautiful resort city of Cleveland, Ohio—my, how the future changes things—flees the conquering aliens and teams up with Myras Tyla, a musician determined not to be a sitting duck.
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Panel Mania

• Panel Mania: Soul Eater
  Set in a school for Shinigami (or Japanese death spirit), Soul Eater by Atsushi Ohkubo follows Maka, a scythemeister in training who must perfect her living weapon and partner, Soul Eater, by consuming 99 human souls and one witch soul. Soul Eater Vol. 1 will be released by Yen Press in October 2009.
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