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Monkey Business at SPX 2007
SPX, the annual celebration of small press and self-published comics, drew hundreds of exhibiting artists, even more fans and this year's Ignatz Awards featured a cartoonist in a gorilla suit.
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Army@Love Goes to War
Rick Veitch’s bawdy Iraq war satire is pretty close to the absurdity level of the real thing.
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Thinking, Writing and Making Comics in China
Chinese comics and illustration artist Rain (Ru An) is one of the most popular comics artists in China today.
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Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay
Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.
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Sergio Aragonés’ Groo Turns 25
Aragonés’s dimwitted barbarian returns with a special anniversary issue and much more.
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Comics Briefly
New Yorker Laughs; Lookin’ Good Cap; Harper Gets Strange; Monsters at MoCCA; Marvel in Spanish and Special Edition Palestine
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Norton Acquires Graphic Work by Small
A graphic memoir by award-winning children's book author and illustrator David Small has been acquired by Norton.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/15/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: 10/15/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/15/2007
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From Spidey to King
They call him “The Karate Kid.” Soft-spoken comics veteran Ralph Macchio shares a name with the lead actor of the 1980s martial arts classic, but he's never seen the movie, although he still receives fan mail asking whether he's the star. “Depending on my mood, I'll either say yes or no,” Macchio says, laughing.
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PW Talks with Walter Mosley: The End of Easy?
Today, Little, Brown publishes Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley’s 10th and possibly final novel to feature Los Angeles investigator Easy Rawlins. PW caught up with him to discuss what may be an important event for Mosely's many loyal fans.
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Christmas Notes
Pa-rum pum pum pum! Youngest readers can begin celebrating the season with the first board book edition of Ezra Jack Keats’s classic The Little Drummer Boy, words and music by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone. (Viking, $6.99 32p ages 3-up ISBN 978-0-670-06282-9; Sept.) Rock-a-bye Christmas by Matt Novak (Too Many Bunnies) uses a series of die-cut windows to tell a wry Chr...
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Colfer’s ‘Artemis Fowl’ Goes Graphic
Hyperion is simultaneously releasing hardcover and paperback editions of a graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s popular prose novel series.
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M.F. Grimm Turns His Life Around
Better known to the hip-hop world as MF Grimm, Percy Carey has documented the joys and pain of his life in a new graphic novel called Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm from Vertigo.
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Comics Bestsellers for October
Despite an accelerated schedule that will release 3 Naruto titles a month through the end of the year, Naruto sales continue to soar and the three Sept. Volumes 18, 17 and 16 took the top three slots of this month’s list.
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Maintenance: From the Web to Hollywood
In a few short years, Jim Massey has gone from comics fan to creator with his comedic series Maintenance.
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New Yorker Festival Spotlights Superheroes
The New Yorker Festival brought together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the superhero.
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Comics Briefly
SPX 2007 Opens; Imaginova Acquires Newsarama; Brawl Release Party; Rutu Modan Book Tour; Seven Seas' Otaku Contest; Juicy Mother Release Party; and Superheroes in Society Panel.
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Perry Bible Fellowship Collection a Pre-order Hit
The first print collection of the online comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship has already racked up impressive orders.



