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AudioBooks: The New Sound of Comics
Given the trend to franchise intellectual property in different media—from movies and TV to the Internet and books—it is no wonder that the superhero genre is turning up in the form of audiobooks. Indeed the Bethesda, Md., Audiobook producer Graphic Audio released an audiobook production of DC Comics’ crossover series Infinite Crisis in June and has just released an audiobook version of 52: The Audiobook, Part 1, DC’s groundbreaking weekly comics series from 2006.
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Shooting War Aims for Print Success
Originally a webcomic, the new graphic novel Shooting War follows the trials and travails of a cocky young video blogger who finds himself reporting on the front lines of the Iraq war
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Whedon Can’t Get Enough Serenity
In November Dark Horse is releasing a hardcover collection of theSerenity: Those Left Behindminiseries Joss Whedon co-wrote in 2005, and he’s already got another miniseries in the works for early 2008.
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November Comics Bestsellers
Naruto continues its domination of the list and is joined by Marvel Zombies and Get Fuzzy.
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Comics Briefly
Fall 2007 Xeric Winners; Jimbo’sWins American Book Award; 2008 MoCCA Applications; Viz Licenses Shojo Movies; and Dinosaurs Across Americain NYC
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St. Martin's Revives Margaret Mitchell...Again
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/05
This week: The Anti-Matter Anthology, Conversations with Woody Allen, Our Dumb World, The Nature of Dogs,Veganomicon, the Journals of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and many more.
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Agreeing to Disagree
At a moment when the boundaries of freedom of speech are being debated, ex—New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis recaps America's love-hate relationship with the First Amendment in Freedom for the Thought That We Hate.
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Children’s Book Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007
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From Prose to Manga
This fall, Digital Manga Publishing, an independent manga publisher in Southern California, will release its first original manga, an adaptation of Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi's popular prose novel series, Vampire Hunter D, which will be published simultaneously in the U.S., Japan and Europe.
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Transporting Readers to a New Place: PW Talks with Eliot Pattison
After five Inspector Shan mysteries set in contemporary Tibet, Edgar Award—winner Eliot Pattison places the action of Bone Rattler in 18th-century North America.
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Tezuka’s Black Jack Returns
Vertical Inc. will publish Black Jack, legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s popular series about a genius surgeon, in fall 2008.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Icon
This month Titan Books publishes Spider-Man: The Icon, a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book tracing the history of Marvel’s flagship character through the comics and other media, including extensive licensing and merchandising programs.
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Uclick Phones Home
Last summer, uclick released Thunder Road, the first U.S. comic created specifically for cell phones. Now the company is preparing to bring cell phone comics to the internet.
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Comics Briefly
PW Hosts Graphic Novel Panel; NYCC Tabs Alex Ross, Mike Mignola; Shortcomings Second Printing; Zuda Comics Launch; Aurora Launches Luv Luv; Paul Pope Diesel Party; and NYAF Cosplays at Kinokuniya
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Yaoi-Con and BL, No Longer “Niche”
This weekend's Yaoi-Con in San Mateo, Calif., drew more than 1,500 fans and showed that the "boys’ love" genre is still in growth mode, as publishers announced a shower of new books.
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McKelvie Finds Glamour
Artist Jamie McKelvie follows up Phonogram with a book all his own, the fantasy Suburban Glamour.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007
Amalia’s Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice David I. Kertzer . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-55106-4 In this absorbing account, Amalia Bagnacavalli’s tale is a horrific one. An impoverished Italian peasant in the late 19th century, Amalia was hired as a wet nurse and contracted syphilis from the infant assigned her by a Bologna fou...



