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• Eddie Campbell’s Life-Sized Comics
  Emerging from the British small press scene of the 1980s, Eddie Campbell has since produced a body of thinly-veiled autobiographical comics featuring his stand-in character “Alec”. These works are distinguished visually by Campbell’s fluid, pen-and-ink technique, which marries the observed realism of classic continuity strips with the loose efficiency of a courtroom sketch artist.
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• Comics Programming Grows at the Miami Book Fair
  After adding a full slate of programming focused on comics and graphic novels for the first time at last year’s fair, The Miami Book Fair International, scheduled November 8-15 in downtown Miami, returns with new additions to its slate of comics events, panels and workshops.
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• Del Rey To Publish 'The Talisman' as Comic Book Series
  In what may be a first at a major trade book publisher, Del Rey Books is releasing its first serialized periodical comic, an adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman. The series will be released under a new imprint called Del Rey Comics.
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Manga News

• Maid in the U.S.A: Kaoru Mori’s ‘Emma’
  In 2006, when CMX, DC Comics’ manga imprint, released volume one of Kaoru Mori’s Victorian Era manga series, Emma, American manga readers had their first taste of Japan’s fascination with both maids and romance. Three years later, Emma, will come to a close in December when CMX releases the final volume in this series.
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Reviews

• The Great Fables Crossover
  BILL WILLINGHAM, MATTHEW STURGES, MARK BUCKINGHAM AND VARIOUS. DC/Vertigo, $17.99 paper (244p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2572-8
  The appeal of Fables has always been the reimagining of fairy tale characters as if they were as messy and screwed up as real people; the characters are divorcées, drunks, womanizers, and overall flawed beings. In this crossover of all the Fables characters from various spinoff books, Kevin Thorn, the creator of the world and its stories, is angry such liberties were taken with his characters and is determined to destroy the Fablesverse and start over.
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• Like a Dog
  ZAK SALLY. Fantagraphics, $22.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60699-165-7
  In the afterword to this shaggy-haired collection of 15 years' worth of artful zines and comics, Sally notes that he had always assumed all his favorites artists had never dealt with moments "of paralytic, debilitating doubt and fear." Those insecurities and worries are deeply threaded throughout this book, which reads at times like a history of psychological warfare. Sally (more known for his work with the droning lo-fi Minnesota rock band Low) tends toward richly dark, semiautobiographical, and tightly etched tales of tension and self-recrimination.
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• The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
  GERARD WAY AND GABRIEL BÁ. Dark Horse, $17.95 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-59582-345-8
  The second installment in this Eisner-winning series, Dallas is even more surreal and darkly quirky than its predecessor. The Umbrella Academy is a group of superheroes who were mysteriously born at the same time, adopted and raised together as a family and a team. Now adults, their heroic and family dynamics are traumatized and dysfunctional, despite their love for one another. In this volume, the bizarrely childlike time-traveling team member Number Five recruits his siblings to right a wrong-to save President Kennedy before he is assassinated, possibly saving the world in the bargain.
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Panel Mania

• Panel Mania: Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus)
  Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) is a collection of Eddie Campbell's autobiographical comics told from the perspective of his alter-ego, Alec MacGarry. The book is indeed life-sized in its scope, depicting the progression of his life from youthfull pub-crawls to the responsibilites of adulthood. Alec will be released by Top Shelf in December.
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