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Jeff Smith’s Bone Saga Ends—Again

By Kate Culkin | 01/27/2009 @ 09:28PM

Graphix, the Scholastic division focused on comics and graphic novels for children, released the ninth and final color volume of Jeff Smith’s epic fantasy adventure series Bone this month.
What a Girl Wants Is Often a Comic

By Evie Nagy | 01/27/2009 @ 07:30PM

Jane Yolen to Publish Graphic Novel with Dark Horse as Publishers Weigh the Teen Girl Market for American Comics
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/27/2009 @ 04:51PM
The Best Comics You'll (Probably) Never Read

By Sam Thielman | 01/26/2009 @ 08:39PM

Sam Thielman looks back at some of the great unfinished comcis projects of the past 30 years.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/26/09

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

This Week's Web: Israeli and Palestinian writers interviewed in Norweigian; an ancient mechanical artifact of Indiana Jones; Kiyosaki gets spiritual; and more confessions than you require. Plus: literary roundup with books on Ginsberg, Snyder, Richard Matheson, and refugee writers.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

Closing Time: A Memoir Joe Queenan . Viking , $26.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-670-02063-8 Humorist and pop culture writer Queenan (Queenan Country) turns the mirror on himself in this somber and funny memoir about life with father in the projects of Philadelphia. Queenan closes the chapter on his life with a verbally and physically abusive alcoholic father.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/26/2009

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Good Night, Baby Ruby Rohan Henry . Abrams , $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8323-6 Her parents say it’s bedtime, but preverbal Ruby is proving elusive. With her pet cat at her heels, she runs away to play with the newspaper, hide in the closet and make mischief with the flowerpots.
Fiction Reviews

| 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie . Picador , $14 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-55187-2 Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan.
Layoffs at Diamond, DC Comics, Top Cow

By Heidi MacDonald | 01/23/2009 @ 08:49PM

Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.
Graphic Sales Grow at Denver’s Tattered Cover

By Judith Rosen | 01/20/2009 @ 09:15PM

Graphic novel sales at independent Denver bookseller the Tattered Cover's three stores are bigger than both Romance and philosophy sales.
Life in Comics# 11: What Women Want

by Jennifer de Guzman | 01/20/2009 @ 09:14PM

Do women need superheroes as role mdels? Should they? Our columnist looks at the debate currently raging.
Grant Morrison, Final Crisis, and the Superhero Genre

By Jeffery Klaehn | 01/20/2009 @ 09:10PM

In part 2 of an interview with acclaimed superhero comics writer Grant Morrison, PWCW talks about Morrison’s work on DC’s Final Crisis series, a new Batman series in the spring and new work to be published by Vertigo.
Living and Drawing in the Subway

By Calvin Reid | 01/20/2009 @ 05:33PM

Youme Landowne, a white female artist, met Anthony Horton, a black homeless artist, on a subway platform and the result is Pitch Black, a childrens graphic novel.
Comics Briefly - 1/21/09

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/19/2009 @ 10:22PM

Diamond Raises Order Minimums; Kyle Baker Comic Free Online; Golden Apple Comics Owner Interviewed; Satrapi and Ware Onstage; and Brevoort hosts "Take My Trade!"
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/19/2009

| 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM
What Do We Want? Freedom

by Will Boisvert | 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM

Jedediah Purdy—who debunked irony in his attention-getting first book—now explores the conundrums of freedom in A Tolerable Anarchy.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/19/2009

| 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Same Same Marthe Jocelyn , illus. by Tom Slaughter. Tundra , $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-88776-885-9 Jocelyn and Slaughter (previously paired for Eats) strikingly introduce the concept of classification. Slaughter's graphic cut-paper compositions command attention with their paint-box—bright colors.
Love Among the Avatars

| 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM

The Accord Keith Brooke . Solaris , $7.99 paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-84416-589-6 In this expansion of a 2007 short story of the same name, British writer Brooke explores the nature of love, self and reality in the Accord, a virtual reality populated by digital recordings of real people’s souls.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM

Living the Sweet Life in Paris: Adventures of an American Pastry Chef David Lebovitz . Broadway , $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2888-5 The title of the fifth book from Lebovitz, celebrated pastry chef and Chez Panisse alum, is a bit of a misnomer: this feisty memoir-with-recipes is just as tart as it is sweet.
Fiction Reviews

| 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM

Into the Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea . Little, Brown , $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-02527-0 Nayeli, the Taqueria worker of Urrea's fine new novel (after The Hummingbird's Daughter), is a young woman in the poor but tight-knit coastal Mexican town of Tres Camarones who spends her days serving tacos and helping her feisty aunt Irma get elected as the town's first female mayor.

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