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Friedman’s More Old Jewish Comedians

By Ian Brill | 03/03/2008 @ 09:26PM

Drew Friedman returns with more scabrously endearing portraits in More Old Jewish Comedians.
Comics Briefly

| 03/03/2008 @ 09:25PM

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie: Nana Screenings; Blue Dragon Debut; NYAnime Fest 2008 Dates; Lapham’s Young Liars; Stumptown Comics Fest; Unterzakhn in The Forward ; February Zuda Winner; Chris Claremont Podcast; RabagliatiSigning; Signing at Midtown Comics; and G4TV's Fresh Ink
Busiek and Bagley’s Weekly Trinity

By Douglas Wolk | 03/03/2008 @ 07:31PM

Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley are teaming up for a new weekly comic book which will focus on DC's top three characters.
Collected Consciousness

by Craig Morgan Teicher | 03/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

Poets are the nomads of literary publishing. Poetry books are rarely money-makers for their publishers; they get published because of a particular house or editor's personal commitment to poetry, to shore up the literary end of a list, or because a nonprofit, indie or university press is passionately invoved in poetry.
New Life for RFK Photos

by Michael Coffey | 03/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

It was meant to be merely a slightly expanded edition of an out-of-print classic of photojournalism, Paul Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train, first published in September 2000 by Umbrage Editions. Fusco, a photographer for Look magazine in the 1960s, had been assigned to ride the train carrying the body of Robert F.
The Poets' Poet

by Craig Morgan Teicher | 03/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

How is it that an accomplished poet and scholar, beloved by generations of students, whose work has enjoyed the praise of no less than Harold Bloom, remains, at 76, something of a poet's poet, a secret hero to a few rather than an enthusiasm widely shared? Allen Grossman's reputation, such as it is, may be owing in part to his difficult-to-classify poems.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008

| 03/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

This week: lies (regarding oil independence), liars (influential pre-invasion war proponent Ahmed Chalabi), myths (of small-business ownership) and financial ruin (at the hands of lenders). Also: a definitive new biography of Marcus Garvey, a piercing look at America's "securtiy-industrial complex," Hemingway and Heston finally drop a CD, and more.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008

| 02/29/2008 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Minutka: The Bilingual Dog/ La Perra Bilingüe Anna Mycek-Wodecki , trans. from the Spanish by Diana Abt. Milet (IPG, dist.), $9.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-84059-509-3 Minutka, a tiny spotted dog, dances about the gray pages of this small, black-and-white square book, chatting about herself in English and Spanish: “Look at me!” read the words at the top of the page; &...
Fiction Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008

| 02/29/2008 @ 07:00AM
Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008

| 02/29/2008 @ 07:00AM
'Little Vampire' Rises Again

By John Sellers, Children's Bookshelf | 02/28/2008 @ 07:00AM

Mark Siegel, editorial director at Roaring Brook’s First Second imprint, hopes that resurrecting a series by French comic book creator Joann Sfar can help the author find the same popularity here that he does abroad. This April, the imprint will release Little Vampire, a compilation of three graphic novels by Sfar, the first two of which had been published individually by Simon & Schuster five years ago.
Terry Brooks Makes Manga Magic

By Laura Hudson | 02/27/2008 @ 03:50PM

With Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks takes his best-selling series to comics for the first time.
Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic in the Ocean

by Calvin Reid | 02/27/2008 @ 03:49PM

Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published environmental comic for kids that examines the destructive impact of plastic on the world’s oceans.
Life Sucks: Vampires Work the Late Shift

by Van Jensen | 02/27/2008 @ 03:48PM

Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece have collaborated for a fresh and comedic new take on the vampire tale.
WonderCon ‘08: New Frontier; King Kirby Bring Out Fans

By Ian Brill | 02/27/2008 @ 03:47PM

This year’s WonderCon, held in San Francisco Feb. 22-24, drew more than 22,000 comics fans to the Moscone Center.
Udon Takes Over Murata’s Robot

by Chris Arrant | 02/27/2008 @ 03:46PM

The first three volumes of Range Murata’s experimental manga anthology Robot were published by Digital Manga Publishing. Now Udon Entertainment has taken over English language publication of the series beginning with the fourth volume. Robot, volume 5, will be released in March.
Comics Briefly

| 02/27/2008 @ 03:45PM

Shooting War Optioned; New PW Video Channel; NYCC Tabs Kubert, Simon; Glyph Award Nominees; Dark Tower Midnight Release; New Naruto; Viz Down Under; Bionicle GN from Papercutz; Berberian, Dupuy at Housing Works; Japanamerica at Kinokuniya; Hotwire Signing Reslated; Tank Girl Prose Novel; and DIY Amulet Comic
Children's Book Reviews

| 02/25/2008 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Hello, Day! Anita Lobel . Greenwillow , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-078765-3 It's a beautiful spring day, inspiring the denizens of farm, field and forest to offer up their full-throated version of the title greeting. “The Cow said, 'Moo,' ” proclaims the text opposite a mild-mannered, sloe-eyed cow, her hide glowing with marker-like striations of peach, pink and brown.
How Does Our Gardening Grow?

by Juan Martinez | 02/25/2008 @ 07:00AM

According to the National Gardening Association (NGA), an estimated record 91 million households participated in one or more types of DIY indoor and outdoor lawn and garden activities in 2005. In 2006, homeowners spent a record $44.7 billion to hire professional lawn and landscape services. Taken together, these figures represent a dramatic increase in gardening interest and expenditures.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 02/25/2008 @ 07:00AM

Comfort: A Journey Through Grief Ann Hood . Norton , $21.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-393-06456-8 The first six pages of this wrenchingly honest memoir of Hood's daughter's death and its aftermath read like a tightly controlled scream. All the platitudes, the dozens of words of comfort that people offer—“time heals,” “she is in a better place”—are interspersed wit...

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