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Comics Go Wide at New York Comic-Con; Gordon Lee Charges Dismissed
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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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.
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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.
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New Authors Explore Fantasy and Reality at Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics has announced several original graphic novels by both returning and new authors.
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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.
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Alex Robinson Does the Time Warp
Alex Robinson's new grahpic novels features a man sent back to relive high school in 1985.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.



