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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/8
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Bookazine to Add Manga to 900 Stores
Bookazine is developing a manga section that it will install in 900 stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, whose holdings include F.Y.E., Planet Music and Sam Goody.
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Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King
We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.
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ADV Manga Wakes Up
Despite layoffs, cutbacks and long delays between some volume releases, ADV Manga has managed to persevere and regain some of its footing in the marketplace this past summer.
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Comics Briefly
Kids Comic-Con Set for March; ICAF Meets at LC; Rall Elected to Head AAEC; Williams Directs NYCC Programming; Little, Brown Cancels Congo Tintin; Rotterdam to Head Sales at DC; Shableski Joins Diamond; and Viz: Death Note; Naruto DVD; Halloween
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Web Comic Creators Take Charge
As Web comics continue to grow in popularity, the online comics industry is evolving into a nearly completely self-made realm, where creators enjoy complete artistic freedom, and self-determined licensing and merchandising.
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Panel Mania: Town Boy
In this 8-page preview of Town Boy, the second volume of acclaimed cartoonist Lat’s memoir of growing up in Malaysia, the teenaged Lat works up the nerve to ask the prettiest girl in town to go to a movie. Town Boy will be published by First Second this month.
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Rude and Baron’s Nexus Returns
A burst of new creative energy when it was launched in 1981, Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus takes the science fiction and superhero genres and infuses them with their own personal styles
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Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest Grows
This year's Stumptown Comics Fest, held September 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. (its fourth venue in four years of existence), featuring a focus on self-publishers and the first festival Trophy Awards, was easily the biggest to date.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/1/2007
The Ginseng Hunter Jeff Talarigo . Doubleday/Talese , $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-51739-3 Set on China's fraught, ruggedly beautiful border with North Korea, Talarigo's tense, atmospheric second novel (after The Pearl Diver) movingly dramatizes the human faces behind political oppression. A nameless middle-aged Chinese man—whose mother was Chinese and father was Korean—maintains...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/1
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/1/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/1/2007
Picture Books The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! Steve Martin , illus. by Roz Chast. Doubleday/Flying Dolphin , $17.95 ISBN 978-0-385-51662-4 Actor, playwright and novelist Martin (Shopgirl) branches into picture books for this nutty abecedary. No humdrum “A is for apple” list, this volume faces outrageous, alliterative couplets with full-page cartoons approximating th...
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Harper to Reprint Scott McCloud’s Zot!
Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback edition in July 2008.
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Myth, the Bible and Image’s Mice Templar
Artist Michael Avon Oeming and writer Bryan J.L. Glass have created Mice Templar, a funny-animal medieval fantasy adventure series ten years in the making.
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Betty and Veronica Make a Move to Realism—and India
Archie Comics expands their classic characters' appeal with updated art styles, interactive blogs and outreach to foreign markets.



