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Photo Mania

| 09/30/2008 @ 12:21PM

PWCW's photographers roamed the exhibition floor to bring back signature images from the 2008 New York Anime Festival at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/29/2008 @ 10:12PM
Dark Horse Revives Robert Howard’s Solomon Kane and Kull

By Wil Moss | 09/29/2008 @ 08:08PM

Following the success of its Conan the Barbarian comic books, Dark Horse is now bringing back two other Robert E. Howard creations from the pages of the pulps to the pages of the contemporary comics world.
Big Fan Turnout for the 2008 New York Anime Festival

by Kai-Ming Cha and Calvin Reid | 09/29/2008 @ 02:50PM

The second annual New York Anime Festival, held this past weekend at the Javits Convention Center, began slowly with a small group of fans on the floor during Friday’s professional day but their numbers swelled considerably by the evening.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/29/2008

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

This week on the Web: a vaccine and pediatrics expert on the latest autism myths, an activist on America's fossil fuel addiciton, a bad-boy screenwriter's path to God, a Jewish typographer's memoir of survival in the Nazi counterfeiting operation, a French marine biologist explains the origins of life, and a multi-talented UK writer takes a trip through the human head. Plus: doughnuts, dogs, green cosmetics, farming, Richard Nixon and exquisite Chinese food.
Children's Book Reviews

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Amandina Sergio Ruzzier . Roaring Brook/Porter , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-236-9 Amandina Goldeneyes, a shy, lonely, long-eared dog, is a talented performer, “but nobody knew that, because nobody knew Amandina.” Amandina decides to rent the rundown Teatro Ventura “in the old town” and spruce it up.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World Amy Seidl , foreword by Bill McKibben. Beacon , $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8584-4 In this intimate reflection, Seidl, an ecologist, records her observations of life and ecology in the wooded Vermont hollow where she lives, depicting how human, animal and plant life is changing as the weather becomes warmer and less predic...
Fiction Reviews

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

Oh, Johnny Jim Lehrer . Random , $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6762-6 PBS NewsHour anchor Lehrer mixes baseball, WWII and romance in his 19th novel to mostly pleasant results. Even though Johnny Wrigley, from smalltown Lafayette, Md., is being scouted by the Detroit Tigers, he enlists in the Marines in April 1944 to “kill Japs for America.
DC Folds Minx; Virgin Becomes Liquid Comics

by Calvin Reid | 09/25/2008 @ 09:03PM

The day after former Virgin Comics CEO Sharad Devarajan announced plans to resurrect the now defunct Virgin Comics under a new name, DC Comics said it was shutting down Minx, a line of graphic novels targeting teen girls.
ADV Survives Hurricane Ike

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/24/2008 @ 01:57PM

Overshadowed by the financial crisis on Wall Street, Hurricane Ike's touchdown in Texas has had a tremendous effect on companies like the Houston anime and manga producer ADV Films.
Global Voices: Mia Kirshner’s I Live Here

By Laura Hudson | 09/23/2008 @ 02:45PM

Actress Mia Kirshner's effort to draw attention to the plight of International displaced people has led to I Live Here, an unusual collaborative graphic work that will be published by Pantheon in October.
IDW Launches G.I. Joe Invasion

by Van Jensen | 09/23/2008 @ 02:44PM

The license from Hasbro's famous toy has landed with Idea and Design Works, which is wagering that G.I. Joe is poised to once again be a big seller. In a bit of synchronicity, original G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama is returning to the property, and a movie is set to come out next year.
Afro Samurai Makes Its Manga Debut

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/23/2008 @ 12:43PM

The much touted Afro Samurai series, a popular animation series on Spike TV, made its debut as manga for American audiences this month.
Panelmania: Nothing Nice to Say

| 09/22/2008 @ 10:26PM

In this 13-page excerpt from Nothing Nice to Say, a compilation of strips from the webcomic of the same name, creator Mitch Clem critiques the punk rock subculture with a comic eye.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/22/2008 @ 09:47PM
Books About Comics: President to Prince

By Peter Sanderson | 09/22/2008 @ 08:18PM
Nonfiction Reviews

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Numbers Game: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot . Gotham , $22 (192p) ISBN 978-1-592-40423-0 Americans are assaulted by numbers, whether it's the latest political poll or most recent clinical study on caffeine.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/22/2008

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Web this week: women in prison, an artist on the campaign trail, archeology in the deep sea, another foodie hitting the road, and another TV comedy writer casting broad laughs in convenient book form. Plus: Webster's greatest hits, a powerful novel about the Biblical Eve, and two gripping memoirs of tragedy, injustice and reconciliation in Africa.
Fiction Reviews

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

Lowboy John Wray . Farrar, Straus & Giroux , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-19416-1 Wray's captivating third novel drifts between psychological realities while exploring the narrative poetics of schizophrenia. The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believi...
Children's Books

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Say a Little Prayer Dionne Warwick , David Freeman Wooley and Tonya Bolden , illus. by Soud. Running/RPKids , $17.95 (32p plus CD) ISBN 978-0-7624-3268-4 The title is borrowed from one of Warwick's timeless collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, but her book is a flat, pedestrian self-esteem primer.

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