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The New York Anime Festival Returns
The New York Anime Festival returns to the Javits Convention in New York September 26-28 with an impressive lineup of anime and manga programming and a range of Japanese pop culture talent.
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The King of Queen & Country
On September 24, Oni Press will release Queen & Country Definitive Edition: Volume 3, collecting volumes seven and eight of the original comic series—which also happen to be critical tie-ins to the two existing Queen & Country novels, A Gentlemen’s Game and Private Wars (both from Bantam). Artists in the third volume are Mike Norton, Steve Rolston and Chris Samnee, and the edition includes a collection of Rucka's scripts with art by Rolston.
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Antarctic Press: The Other Original Manga Publisher
Texas-based Antarctic Press has made a name for itself as a publisher of American Manga, or original English language manga for the U. S. market.
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Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta
Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta edited by Edward Mason (Black Bart/Underwood Books, Sept.), aims to show off the famed fantasy artist's early comics work.
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Comics Briefly
SPX Guests; PW The Beat: Wall Street Blues; Chris Butcher; New Archie Comics Logo; Locke & Key GN; Stephan King’s “N” Online; Geoff Johns Writes DCU Online; New MyCup o’ Joe; Princess Ai Free on Crunchyroll
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‘PopGun’ and the Craft of Comics Anthologies
Image Comics anthology PopGun is the latest publication to bring together a wide variety of comics artists in one full color publication.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/15/2008
The Web this week: a school for little Tigers, some math you can live with, inside the Bureau's bitter heart, what all the news is about, and why your workteam needs urgency—urgently. Plus: the real pirates of the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Indonesia, South America and all ports betwixt.
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia Laura Miller Little, Brown , $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-01763-3 Jam-packed with critical insights and historical context, this discussion of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia from Miller’s double perspectives—as the wide-eyed child who first read the books and an agnostic adult who revisits them—is i...
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Fiction Reviews
After You’ve Gone Jeffrey Lent . Grove Atlantic , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87113-894-1 A widower, suddenly bereft, finds an unexpected future when he goes to Amsterdam looking for his past in Lent’s intricate and rewarding fourth novel. Henry Dorn is an upright college professor whose relatively tranquil existence is upended when his wife and son are killed in a car accident in the...
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie Norton Juster , illus. by Chris Raschka. Scholastic/di Capua , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-92943-1 This welcome sequel to the Caldecott Medal title The Hello, Goodbye Window knowingly describes a child's conflicting personalities. “Sometimes I'm Sourpuss,” a multiracial girl admits.
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Rapid Rise
Cookbook powerhouse Clarkson Potter will have its biggest fall ever this year, with new books from Giada De Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray totaling a combined first printing of more than two million copies. But simmering just below the “big four” are legions of imitators, and it's only a matter of time before the next generation of cookbook stars break onto t...
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Rowling Wins Potter Lexicon Suit
Author J.K. Rowling won her lawsuit against Michigan-based publisher RDR Books on Monday, blocking the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment held that the planned publication of the book, based on a Web site of the same name maintained by Vander Ark, would infringe on Rowling’s copyright to her bestselling Harry Potter series.
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Marvel Turns Stephen King’s The Stand into Comics
Marvel Comics has moved on to another King property, with a comic book adaptation of his 1978 horror classic, The Stand.
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Diamond and Retailers Hit Vegas
The yearly Diamond Retailer summit hit Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday, for three days (September 7-9) of seminars, socializing and announcements by publishers and retailers
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Funnies Business: Les Humanoides Cuts a Deal with the Devil
European adventure comics are coming back to America via new deals at Devil's Due and Marvel.
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Kevin O'Neill and Pat Mills Enforce Marshal Law at Titan
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Comics Briefly
New DC V-P, Ad Sales; Howl! Comics Panel; PW The Beat: Batman Recalled and More; Ben Katchor at SPX; Dark Tower, The Stand Midnight Signing; Death Note Day at Kinokuniya; Runaways Free Online; Middleman Collected Edition; Comics In the Media; and Spurge Talks to John Pham
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Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder
Joshua Beckman, 36, and Matthew Zapruder, 40, met in 1998 when Beckman passed through Amherst, Mass., on a tour for his debut poetry collection, Things Are Happening. Zapruder was an M.F.A. student at the University of Amherst and went to see Beckman's reading: “I was blown away,” says Zapruder.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Dinosaur vs. Bedtime Bob Shea . Hyperion , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1335-5 Shea (New Socks) makes a hilarious commentator as his hero, a small red dinosaur, elevates everyday encounters into a series of matches worthy of the WWF. “Dinosaur versus... a bowl of spaghetti!” announces Shea and, with a trio of bold typographic roars (and two chomps), the bowl is vanq...
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Fiction Reviews
The Book of the Unknown Jonathon Keats . Random , $13 paper (236p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7897-1 Keats (The Pathology of Lies) re-imagines Jewish folklore in his collection of stories about the Talmudic idea of the Lamedh-Vov, 36 righteous souls who must exist at all times in order for humanity, and the world, to sustain itself.
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