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Opening the Disney Archives
The Walt Disney Animation Studios—The Archive Seriesmade its debut in November with the publication of Story (Disney Editions, $50.00), a handsome 272-page hardcover collection of story art created for Disney films over nearly 80 years.
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Comics Briefly
Grant Morrison at NYCC; Stan Goldberg at MoCCA; Preview of 08: Campaign Diary; Best of the Best of 2008 lists; KA-BAAM!! Superheroes on Stage; Kevin Smith's LA Comic Store Closing and The Beat’s Year End Survey
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/05/2009
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to a great history of groundbreaking children's edutainment public television show Seseme Street? We can, and will, on the Web this week. Plus more of America's popular favorites: a memoir from Michael Phelps, a history of progressive U.S. politics, a cultural analysis of the Ed Sullivan Show, Jimmy Carter's latest, sex, red meat, Southern belles and Janet Evanovich.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/22/2008
This Week's Web: further thoughts on the potential for global apocalypse and/or spiritual rebirth in 2012; Hippies across the Middle East; systems analysis for the rest of us; an epic WWII memoir; better living through Samurai wisdom; the dirty world theory; and who's the literary construct of Virginia Woolf? Plus: true-life crime scene investigation department road trip!
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Uslan and DeSanto Catch the Spirit
From February through April, DC's The Spirit series will have a guest writing team: Michael Uslan and F.J. DeSanto, the producers of the Frank Miller-directed Spirit movie that's opening this month.
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Coming Home: A Comic for Military Families
Working in collaboration with the U.S. Defense Department, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, the creators of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic adaptation, have created Coming Home, a comic designed to educate returning service members on the stresses and difficulties of the transition from combat duty back to domestic life.
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Craddock Mambos onto Graphic Novel Scene with Stone Rabbit Series
In Eric Craddock's Stone Rabbit: BC Mambo, a bored little bunny finds himself transported into prehistoric times, leading to a Jurassic journey of mischief and morals. “It’s kind of one zany adventure after another,” said Craddock.
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Comics Briefly
Nick Mag Comics Awards; Archie Comics Gets New Management; New Rep Groups for Diamond Book; Today Show Picks Wimpy Kid; Paul Sizer Signs B.P.M; Dark Reign Trailer; Sandman Cover for Rain Taxi; Penny Arcade at NYCC; and Go! Comi Gets New Distributor
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Panelmania: Gantz Vol. 3
The survivors of the first round of Gantz's deadly hunt return to their normal lives -- but not for long -- in this 17-page preview from the third volume of Hiroya Oku's Gantz, out from Dark Horse Comics in January.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/15/2008
This Week of Web Reviews: MLK in the words of his sister and his Montgomery contemporaries; the elegant dialogue between the stars and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell; a daughter's lyrically captured last weeks with her dying mother; the importance of emotion in rational decision making; and Torah lessons for succesful executives. Plus: pilsner pairings, easy dinners, better brains, and the perfect gift for chronic gifters: a brilliantly illustrated history of mail-order catalogs.
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The Cabinet's First Lady
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience Kirstin Downey . Doubleday/Talese , $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-51365-4 No individual—not even Eleanor Roosevelt—exerted more influence over the formulation of FDR's New Deal or did more to implement the programs than Frances Perkins (1880—1965).
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Blueberry Girl Neil Gaiman , illus. by Charles Vess. HarperCollins , $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-083808-9 In a magical blessing for unconventional girls, Gaiman (The Graveyard Book) addresses the “ladies of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never-you-mind,” asking them to shelter and guide an infant girl as she grows.
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Fiction Reviews
Wanting Richard Flanagan . Atlantic Monthly , $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1900-1 Flanagan follows The Unknown Terrorist with an intricate exploration of civility and savagery that hinges on two famous 19th-century Englishmen: Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and Charles Dickens. In 1839 Tasmania, a tribe of Aboriginals are in the Van Diemen's Land penal colony, soon to be governed by Frankli...
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Journey of the Heart: Stephen Lovely
In Irreplaceable, Stephen Lovely maps the web of connections made after a heart transplant.
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty Peter Singer . Random , $22 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6710-7 Part plea, part manifesto, part handbook, this short and surprisingly compelling book sets out to answer two difficult questions: why people in affluent countries should donate money to fight global poverty and how much each should give.
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Q& A with Tony Abbott
Since 1994, Connecticut author Tony Abbott has published more than 70 books for young readers. These include standalone hardcover novels Kringle, Firegirl and The Postcard, as well as a handful of paperback series, among them The Secrets of Droon, which has sold more than 10 million copies. His new paperback series with Scholastic, The Haunting of Derek Stone, debuts with City of the Dead.
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uclick Hopes to Roll Out Hundreds of Comics for iPhone
uclick is making comics from Image, IDW, Papercuts and Cartoon Books availble for download via iTunes for iPhones and iPods.
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Comics Briefly
Abrams to Publish Mouly, Spiegleman Title; NYCC Screens Wonder Wonder Animated Film; TwoMorrows Cancels Write Now!; NPR’s Best GNs of 2008; New NBM Blog ; Asylum Distribution Deal; Bluewater’s 10th Muse Returns; Star Trek Comics on iPhone; Rob Liefeld at Midtown Comics; and Fanfare Distribution; Disappearance Diary Hailed
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New Norton Editions of Classic Eisner Fiction
W. W. Norton has published new trade paperback editions of four semi-autobiographical fictional works by the late comics master Will Eisner.
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No Starch Press Offers Manga-Style Technical Guides
This month, add No Starch Press to the roster of publishers looking to enter the manga educational market when they release the first of a series of manga-style technical guides intended to teach topics like statistics, calculus and physics
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