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Children's Book Reviews

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Amandina Sergio Ruzzier . Roaring Brook/Porter , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-236-9 Amandina Goldeneyes, a shy, lonely, long-eared dog, is a talented performer, “but nobody knew that, because nobody knew Amandina.” Amandina decides to rent the rundown Teatro Ventura “in the old town” and spruce it up.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World Amy Seidl , foreword by Bill McKibben. Beacon , $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8584-4 In this intimate reflection, Seidl, an ecologist, records her observations of life and ecology in the wooded Vermont hollow where she lives, depicting how human, animal and plant life is changing as the weather becomes warmer and less predic...
Fiction Reviews

| 09/29/2008 @ 06:00AM

Oh, Johnny Jim Lehrer . Random , $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6762-6 PBS NewsHour anchor Lehrer mixes baseball, WWII and romance in his 19th novel to mostly pleasant results. Even though Johnny Wrigley, from smalltown Lafayette, Md., is being scouted by the Detroit Tigers, he enlists in the Marines in April 1944 to “kill Japs for America.
DC Folds Minx; Virgin Becomes Liquid Comics

by Calvin Reid | 09/25/2008 @ 09:03PM

The day after former Virgin Comics CEO Sharad Devarajan announced plans to resurrect the now defunct Virgin Comics under a new name, DC Comics said it was shutting down Minx, a line of graphic novels targeting teen girls.
ADV Survives Hurricane Ike

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/24/2008 @ 01:57PM

Overshadowed by the financial crisis on Wall Street, Hurricane Ike's touchdown in Texas has had a tremendous effect on companies like the Houston anime and manga producer ADV Films.
Global Voices: Mia Kirshner’s I Live Here

By Laura Hudson | 09/23/2008 @ 02:45PM

Actress Mia Kirshner's effort to draw attention to the plight of International displaced people has led to I Live Here, an unusual collaborative graphic work that will be published by Pantheon in October.
IDW Launches G.I. Joe Invasion

by Van Jensen | 09/23/2008 @ 02:44PM

The license from Hasbro's famous toy has landed with Idea and Design Works, which is wagering that G.I. Joe is poised to once again be a big seller. In a bit of synchronicity, original G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama is returning to the property, and a movie is set to come out next year.
Afro Samurai Makes Its Manga Debut

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/23/2008 @ 12:43PM

The much touted Afro Samurai series, a popular animation series on Spike TV, made its debut as manga for American audiences this month.
Panelmania: Nothing Nice to Say

| 09/22/2008 @ 10:26PM

In this 13-page excerpt from Nothing Nice to Say, a compilation of strips from the webcomic of the same name, creator Mitch Clem critiques the punk rock subculture with a comic eye.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/22/2008 @ 09:47PM
Books About Comics: President to Prince

By Peter Sanderson | 09/22/2008 @ 08:18PM
Nonfiction Reviews

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Numbers Game: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot . Gotham , $22 (192p) ISBN 978-1-592-40423-0 Americans are assaulted by numbers, whether it's the latest political poll or most recent clinical study on caffeine.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/22/2008

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Web this week: women in prison, an artist on the campaign trail, archeology in the deep sea, another foodie hitting the road, and another TV comedy writer casting broad laughs in convenient book form. Plus: Webster's greatest hits, a powerful novel about the Biblical Eve, and two gripping memoirs of tragedy, injustice and reconciliation in Africa.
Fiction Reviews

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

Lowboy John Wray . Farrar, Straus & Giroux , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-19416-1 Wray's captivating third novel drifts between psychological realities while exploring the narrative poetics of schizophrenia. The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believi...
Children's Books

| 09/22/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Say a Little Prayer Dionne Warwick , David Freeman Wooley and Tonya Bolden , illus. by Soud. Running/RPKids , $17.95 (32p plus CD) ISBN 978-0-7624-3268-4 The title is borrowed from one of Warwick's timeless collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, but her book is a flat, pedestrian self-esteem primer.
The New York Anime Festival Returns

By Kai-Ming Cha | 09/16/2008 @ 06:30PM

The New York Anime Festival returns to the Javits Convention in New York September 26-28 with an impressive lineup of anime and manga programming and a range of Japanese pop culture talent.
The King of Queen & Country

by Evie Nagy | 09/16/2008 @ 06:29PM

On September 24, Oni Press will release Queen & Country Definitive Edition: Volume 3, collecting volumes seven and eight of the original comic series—which also happen to be critical tie-ins to the two existing Queen & Country novels, A Gentlemen’s Game and Private Wars (both from Bantam). Artists in the third volume are Mike Norton, Steve Rolston and Chris Samnee, and the edition includes a collection of Rucka's scripts with art by Rolston.
Antarctic Press: The Other Original Manga Publisher

By Stephanie Mangold | 09/16/2008 @ 06:28PM

Texas-based Antarctic Press has made a name for itself as a publisher of American Manga, or original English language manga for the U. S. market.
Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta

by Frank Santoro | 09/15/2008 @ 10:01PM

Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta edited by Edward Mason (Black Bart/Underwood Books, Sept.), aims to show off the famed fantasy artist's early comics work.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Ada Price | 09/15/2008 @ 09:08PM

SPX Guests; PW The Beat: Wall Street Blues; Chris Butcher; New Archie Comics Logo; Locke & Key GN; Stephan King’s “N” Online; Geoff Johns Writes DCU Online; New MyCup o’ Joe; Princess Ai Free on Crunchyroll

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