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Diamond Summit Marks Industry in Transition

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/11/2007 @ 01:14PM

At its annual Retailer Summit, Diamond Comics Distributors presented a new point-of-sale software system that could revolutionize the comics shop market.
Hyperion, CCS Add New Biographies

by Calvin Reid | 09/11/2007 @ 01:13PM

Hyperion Books for Children and the Center for Cartoon Studies will add titles on Amelia Earhart and Helen Keller to its line of graphic biographies
DMP to Co-Brand Japanese Publishers

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/11/2007 @ 01:12PM

L. A. manga publisher DMP has entered into a deal with three Japanese publishers under which all titles licensed from the three by DMP will carry the original Japanese publisher's logo and DMP’s logo.
Chronicling Caniff

By Peter Sanderson | 09/11/2007 @ 12:00PM

Fantagraphics Books has just published Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff by Robert C. Harvey, the longtime comic strip historian and scholar.
Matt Fraction Works Hard For the Genres

By Laura Hudson | 09/11/2007 @ 11:59AM

Despite writing high-profile Marvel titles like Immortal Iron Fist, Punisher War Journaland theCivil Warspinoff,The Order, Fraction is still hard at work onCasanova, his creator-owned series from Image Comics.
Comics Briefly

| 09/11/2007 @ 11:58AM

Harvey's Honor Best Comics; Making Comics Wins Quill Award; MoCCA Book Club; Webcomics at MoCCA; New Cancer Vixen Website; G4’s Fresh Ink Online and The Comics Reporter on Comics Shops
Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007

| 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox Stephen Budiansky . Viking , $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-01840-6 Journalist and military historian Budiansky (Her Majesty's Spymaster) pulls no punches in this hard-hitting examination of the most sordid aspects of Reconstruction in the South from 1865 to 1876.
Galley Talk: Interred with Their Bones

by Staff | 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM

I'm not much of a mystery reader, but I'm mad for smart Shakespeare books, especially if they explore the modern play-going scene. I picked up Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones (Dutton, Sept. 20) expecting to drop it in disgust at barmy scholarship, but I didn't. Quite the opposite: I was impressed and enthralled.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007

| 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books What Will Fat Cat Sit On? Jan Thomas . Harcourt , $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-206051-0 Fat Cat is ready to take a seat, and all the other animals firmly believe it's not a matter of “what” but rather “whom” he will choose for his resting place. Solidarity quickly breaks down—“Sit on the Pig! Sit on the Pig!” shrieks Chicken in full Furie...
Children's Audio Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007

| 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM

The Aurora County All-Stars Deborah Wiles , read by Kate Jackson. Listening Library , $30 unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hours ISBN 978-07393-4883-3 Jackson hits a home run as the inspired choice to read Wiles's (Each Little Bird That Sings) latest, a heartfelt story with baseball at its center. Her slightly raspy voice, shaded with an occasional twang, is perfect for bringing to life the cast of...
Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007

| 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM
Akashic Takes Black Goat

by Felicia Pride | 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM

Poet and novelist Chris Abani has found a new home for Black Goat, the poetry imprint he founded in 2004 and continues to direct. Originally launched under California-based Red Hen Press, Black Goat is now an imprint of Brooklyn indie publisher Akashic Books, the house that published Abani's novella Becoming Abigail and his forthcoming novella Song for Night.
Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007

| 09/07/2007 @ 06:00AM

Miscarriage of Justice Kip Gayden . Hachette/Center Street , $22.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59995-687-9 Nashville Circuit Court judge Gayden’s mixed debut tracks a tragic love story that begins at a Tennessee Christian summer camp in 1896. There, pastor’s daughter Anna Dennis, 16, and Walter Dotson, a third-year Vanderbilt medical student, fall hard for each other.
DC Comics, Random House Ink Distribution Pact

By Calvin Reid | 09/05/2007 @ 12:00PM

After being distributed to the book trade for 20 years by Warner Books/Hachette, DC Comics will move its bookstore distribution to Random House next spring. Among the benefits of the switch, DC executives hope Random will be able to expand sales of graphic novels and comics into independent bookstores.
Dobson Up at Presbyterian Publisher

by Lynn Garrett, Religion BookLine | 09/05/2007 @ 06:00AM

David Dobson has been named acting director of publishing at the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. Dobson, who had been director of product management since 2004, will now oversee the marketing and editorial programs for PPC's two book imprints.
For the Love of Tezuka; Vertical To Publish MW

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/04/2007 @ 01:06PM

In October, Vertical will continue its program of publishing classic manga with the release of Osamu Tezuka’s MW in an omnibus edition collecting the entire multivolume work.
Women SVA Grads Quickly Rise

by Laurel Maury | 09/04/2007 @ 01:05PM

Recent grads from the cartooning program at the School of Visual Arts are quickly getting hired, and many of them are women, a contrast from days past.
Lucha Libre: To Live and Wrestle in L.A.

By Ian Brill | 09/04/2007 @ 01:02PM

Drawing on superhero comics and Mexican pop culture, Lucha Libre tells the story of the Luchadores Five, ordinary guys in Mexican wrestling masks who fight car stereo-hungry werewolves and evil Elvis impersonators.
Comics Briefly

| 09/04/2007 @ 01:01PM

Baltimore Comic-con; Howl! Fest 2007; SPX 2007 Guest List; New Shows On Kid’s WB! and Back to Press For Anita Blake Vol. 1
Sex & Silliness: Maki Murakami’s Gravitation

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/04/2007 @ 11:04AM

PWCW talks with the creator of the boys love hit Gravitation about getting started and working in the Japanese manga business

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