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  • Comics Go Wide at New York Comic-Con; Gordon Lee Charges Dismissed

  • Ender's Game Comics Coming from Marvel

    Marvel is adding Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game universe to its stable of comics adaptations.

  • Tokyopop Debuts Line of Color Graphic Novels

    Next year, American manga publisher Tokyopop will launch Tokyopop Graphic Novels, a line of full-color books featuring manga-influenced art and stories by artists from all over the world.

  • Vertigo Announces Push to Acquire Graphic Novels

    DC's Vertigo imprint is dedicating two editors, Jonathan Vankin and Joan Hilty, to the job of acquiring new original graphic novels in a broad range of genres.

  • ICv2’s Annual Graphic Novel Conference

    ICv2’s third annual Graphic Novel Conference will kick-off on April 17—the day before New York Comic-con opens—at the Javits Convention Center in New York, with a day of facts and figures about the state of the business.

  • ICv2 Confab Reports 2007 Graphic Novel Sales Rise 12%

    In 2007 graphic novel sales in the U.S. and Canada were $375 million, a 12% rise from 2006 and quintuple the sales number from 2001.

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008

    This week: a war correspondent's love story; the cost of misunderstanding Muqtada; Swiss banking behind the scenes; the madness of Zelda and Marilyn; and the new graduation gift-book to beat. Plus: leadership for ladies, marketing's magic bullets and a fittingly over-the-top Top Chef cookbook.

  • Wyoming Crime

    Another Man's Moccasins Craig Johnson . Viking , $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-01861-1 At the start of Johnson's stellar fourth mystery to feature Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire (after 2007's Kindness Goes Unpunished), Walt responds to a call that leads to the discovery of the body of a young Vietnamese woman, Ho Thi Paquet, along an Absaroka County highway.

  • New Authors Explore Fantasy and Reality at Fantagraphics

    Fantagraphics has announced several original graphic novels by both returning and new authors.

  • Big Head Press: Publisher with a Mission

    Using a combination of free online serials and print compilations, Big Head Press publishes comics and graphic novels with a libertarian slant.

  • Alex Robinson Does the Time Warp

    Alex Robinson's new grahpic novels features a man sent back to relive high school in 1985.

  • Crayon Shinchan: Age-inappropriate Humor

    CMX is bringing back Crayon Shinchan, a manga aboout a 5-year old mischievous imp who always manages to do something inappropriate.

  • Funnies Business #2: The Crack Dealer’s Business Model

    Boom! Studio's controversial decision to release their comcis periodical North Wind on MySpace was controversial but appears to have raised sales.

  • Comics Briefly

    Eisner Awards Nominees; NYAF Dates Changed; Lulu Awards at MoCCA; ABC Events At BEA; Villard to Publish Unique; Death Note Movie; and Last Sam and Max Episode

  • Marvel, Harper Debut Spidey Kids' Books

    Marvel Comics and HarperCollins Children's Books are teaming up to launch a reading program based around Marvel's popular character Spider-Man. The new line, called simply, Spider-Man, will release its first titles in winter 2009; it will focus on a variety of children's formats, including beginning readers, story books, chapter books, phonics sets and novelty publications.

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/14/2008

    Novel About My Wife Emily Perkins . Bloomsbury , $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-59691-166-6 The lives of a London couple about to have their first child unravel in Perkins’s haunting third novel. In the wake of surviving a train derailment, pregnant Ann Wells tells her husband, struggling screenwriter Tom Stone, that a man has been following her.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/14/2008

    This week: a triumverate of feminist-folk-rock pioneers, building a better sales tax, ancient Egypt and Soviet Russia, going green with consumerism, going consumerist with Christ, and a classy new overview of Pop Art. Plus: three smokin' new guides to grilling.

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