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Fiction Reviews
For a Sack of Bones Lluís-Anton Baulenas , trans. from the Catalan by Cheryl Leah Morgan. Harcourt , $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-101255-8 Set in Franco Spain in 1949, Barcelona novelist and playwright Baulenas's revenge tale of Legionnaire Sgt. Genís Aleu is drenched in desolation, fear and cruelty.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 2/25/2008
This week: true crime for highbrow and middle-, joking around with politicians and cancer (not at the same time), being in love means never having not to say no, and Dr. Laura tells you to quit your bellyaching (then tells you how you should go about doing it). Plus: the other Erdich girl, Jerry O'Connell reads James Collins (poorly), and more.
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Exclusive: Read Jonathan Lethem's Omega the Unknown #1
In recent years Marvel has added a number of stellar novelists to its list of comics contributors, including Stephen King, George R.R. Martin and now, Jonathan Lethem.
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Diamond, Retailers Eye Graphic Novel Remainders
Graphic Novels are gaining traction in the bargain book business and Diamond Book Distributors, is also getting in the remainder business and will exhibit for the first time at the Spring Book Show, the largest remainder book show in the South, held in Atlanta at the end of March.
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Rogue Wolf Acquires Cold Cut
Chicago-based Rogue Wolf Entertainment has acquired Cold Cut Distribution, the 14-year-old California wholesaler of independent comics, and will move the company to Chicago.
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Flash Gordon Returns Via Ardden Entertainment
A new comics startup, Ardden Entertainment, is relaunching theFlash Gordonseries with plans to publish other licensed properties and original creations from a number of novelists and comics writers.
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Science Fiction's New Prophet: A PW Web-Exclusive Q&A
PW Talks with PaoloBacigalupi, who's not afraid of weighty issues, like the future of humankind.
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Ennis Moves from Punisher to Phantom Eagle
This March, critically acclaimed comic book writer Garth Ennis will end his four-year run on the series Punisher MAX and debut a new title for Marvel called War is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
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Comics Briefly
Toon Books Moved Up; NYCC News; PW The Beat Looks at Sales; Viz News; and Bluewater to Publish Pistolfist
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Incognegro: Passing for White to Expose Lynching
DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint brought together novelist Mat Johnson and artist Warren Pleece to create Incognegro, an original graphic novel that recreates a terrible period in American history when the brutal lynchings of black Americans were carried out throughout the South.
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David Fickling to Launch Weekly Comic
“In my own experience, the link between reading a comic and reading a book is wonderful and exciting,” says publisher David Fickling, who will launch a comic book program this May called The DFC (The David Fickling Comic). For Fickling, whose London-based, eponymous imprint at Random House publishes children’s books on both sides of the Atlantic, the launch of The DFC reflects his lifelong love of comic books.
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Spring Sequels
Forget about happily ever after. At one time, it may have been enough for The Three Bears to chase Goldilocks from their home and get back to their meal. But publishers know well that a good sequel can pave the road from one-off bestseller to veritable empire. Where did Goldilocks's larcenous tendencies take her next? Did she ever get to finish that nap? And did the bears ever get that broken c...
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Welcome to Sarahland
“I feel like I always have one foot back in high school,” says Sarah Dessen, who at 37 could almost pass for a recent graduate. Chapel Hill, her home since her parents took jobs at the University of North Carolina in 1973, is her town, and she relishes in disguising its landmarks in the fictional Lakeview, where her stories are set.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 2/18/08
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David Levithan: The Happy Editor-Writer
T.S. Eliot famously called the majority of editors failed writers—though he conceded that most writers also fit that description. But not David Levithan. The author-editor who now heads up Scholastic Press and is overseeing the house's ambitious charge into multimedia projects—his lengthy title is executive editorial director of Scholastic Press fiction, multimedia publishing and Pu...
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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About Our Cover Artist
Tad Hills never set out to be a children's book illustrator. “I really wanted to pursue acting,” he tells PW as he drops off the art work that is now our cover. After graduating from Skidmore College in 1986, where he studied art, Hills took on various freelance jobs—working on a screenplay, making marionettes and jewelry, and generally “doing art.
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American Manga Gets Push at Tokyopop
As the market for manga in America continues to grow, one of the top publishers, Tokyopop, has made a push to promote its OEL, or “Original English Language” manga, works created by non-Japanese writers and artists.
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