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Hazed: The Dirt on Sorority Life
Mark Sable’s new original graphic novel, Hazed,is an all-too-real dark comedy that details the sordid reality of sorority life for three young women on an American college campus.
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Comics Briefly
Kids' Comic Con; BEA Graphic Novel Day; Amulet Movie; Dave Stevens Obit; Mark Siegel on ICv2; Harvey Awards Ballots; Ralph Bakshi Exhibit; Cold Cut Now Haven Distribution; Ware, Kirby in Bookforum ; Noir Comics on NPR; Reading at KGB Bar; and Fruits Basket Promotion
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars Andrew X. Pham . Harmony , $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-38120-0 In a narrative set between the years of 1940 and 1976, Pham (Catfish and Mandala) recounts the story of his once wealthy father, Thong Van Pham, who lived through the French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during WWII, and the Vietnam War.
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Fiction Reviews
Slumberland Paul Beatty . Bloomsbury , $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59691-240-3 The narrator of Beatty’s late ’80s picaresque, Ferguson W. Sowell—aka DJ Darky—is so attuned to sound that he claims to have a “phonographic memory.” Ferguson, who does porno film scores for the money in L.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Cool Daddy Rat Kristyn Crow , illus. by Mike Lester. Putnam , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24375-2 Debut author Crow’s hip ode to jazz (and scat in particular) will sweep up its audience in its catchy beat as kinetic cartoon art adds verve and wit. Blue-gray rats with bulbous snouts and ever-expressive eyes star in the animals-only tale.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/17/2008
On the Web this week: Star-worthy tales from Darfur and the Middle East, violence in the Old West, non-violence in India, civil war in the sneaker industry, a personal take on Terri Schiavo and a new kind of AIDS narrative. Plus: psychotherapy for your stomach and another look at Our Bodies.
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Steroid Nation
As Captain Renault famously said in Casablanca: “Round up the usual suspects!” Well, the part of Renault was recently played by Rep. Henry Waxman (D.-Calif.) as he called pitcher Roger Clemens and Clemens’s trainer Brian McNamee before his House Oversight Committee. The committee also took sworn depositions from Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch, members of the Yankee champion...
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Reading & Talking Sports: Spring Titles 2008
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Poems to Go
The Academy of American Poets has adapted its Web site for the iPhone.
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Jeff Lemire's Haunting Essex County Trilogy
Jeff Lemire's 'Tales from the Farm', the first book in his Essex County Trilogy, has gained literary acclaim with its stories of men in emotionally devastating situations.
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The Saga of the Guin Saga
In Japan, the Guin Saga has run for 119 volumes and has been compared to The Lord of the Rings. Now Vertical is bringing the first five novels and three mangas to the US.
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The Crumbs Move to Norton
W.W. Norton executive editor Robert Weil has acquired the publishing rights to two titles by acclaimed underground cartoonist R. Crumb in addition to acquiring a new work from his wife, noted underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky Crumb.
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Dark Horse Expands Web Comic Collections
Wondermark, The K Chronicles and Achewood are joining Dark Horse's burgeoning line of Web comics collections.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/10/2008
This week on the Web: Lying in the workplace, recovery for women, the failure of U.S. intelligence, the rise of rap, the decline of African American-owned media, and the latest in Queen Liz-lit. Plus: another Odyssey, a new idea of normal, and cooking school stories worth a listen.
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New York Comic-Con 2008: Comics, Books and Kids
The third annual New York Comic-Con, to be held April 18—20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, opens next month with a record of impressive growth that suggests the ongoing mutual embrace of comics publishing and traditional book publishing is even more apparent and more inevitable than ever.
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Q&A with 'Hotlanta' Authors
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller, co-authors of
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Life in Comics #1: An Outside Hope
Acclaimed columnist Jennifer de Guzman joins the PWCW staff and starts out talking about the most hopeful path for comics' continued success.
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Skim: Tales of a Teenage Wicca
This month, Canadian children’s publisher Groundwood Books will make its first foray into the world of graphic novels when it publishes Skim, a nuanced coming-of-age story written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki
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March Comics Bestsellers
Abram’s Rodrick Rules is in the top spot; followed Viz’s Bleach Vol. 22 and Graphix’s Bone: Ghost Circles. Ultimate X-Men: Sentinels is at #8; and Savage Sword of Conan at #10.
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Action Historians: Making Comic Book History
In their new series, Comic Books Comics, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey embark on an attempt to tell the complete history of the comic book industry in the comics medium itself.
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