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Stranded: Virgin’s New Sci-Fi/Superhero Drama
Comics writer Mike Carey’s new book, The Stranded, is about a group of aliens that live amongst us, but who don’t even know that they’re from another world. The new comics series is a collaboration between Virgin Comics and The Sci-Fi Channel and will also be produced as a TV show.
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Hergé at One Hundred
English-speaking fans of Hergé’s Tintin can read two new books by Great Britain’s leading “Tintinologist,” Michael Farr: The Adventures of Hergé and Tintin & Co., both are published by Last Gasp and vividly illustrated with Hergé artwork.
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Johnny Boo: Kochalka for Kids
In June, Ignatz Award-winning creator James Kochalka will release his latest work for children, Johnny Boo: The Best Little Ghost in the World.
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Realbuzz Studios: Panels and Parables
RealBuzz Studios produces manga-style comics with Christian values without hitting the reader over the head with a Bible.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008
In this week's Web roundup: culinary tours domestic and international, an improv comedy legend and a comic up-and-comer, the economic realities of global energy crisis and the new world order it's engendered, memoirs from a librarian and a teen with OCD, and a powerful resource for parents facing the death of a child. Plus: an inviting look at Winslow Homer and a novelist's take on Mary, mother of Jesus.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008
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SPLAT! Makes Splash
Over 150 cartoonists, librarians, editors, publishers and would-be cartoonists, attended “SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium,” a one day conference sponsored by the The New York Center for Independent Publishing in Manhattan.
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Chris Hart Moves How-To Empire to Sterling
Popular how-to-draw author Chris Hart has moved from his longtime publisher, Watson-Guptill, to Sterling Publishing and will launch a new line of drawing books for Sterling’s crafts/DIY imprint Sixth & Spring.
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Funnies Business: Alex Ross Banished to the Back of the Catalogue
Star comics artist Alex Ross has taken a group of public domain superhero characters; updated them with new covers and new stories and created Project Superhero, a new work that will be published by Dynamite Entertainment.
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Where's Waldo? Perth, Australia
Alex Cox, the director of the eccentric 1980s punk sci-fi film Repo Man, has teamed up with artist Chris Bones to create a graphic novel sequel to the cult film.
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Hazed: The Dirt on Sorority Life
Mark Sable’s new original graphic novel, Hazed,is an all-too-real dark comedy that details the sordid reality of sorority life for three young women on an American college campus.
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Comics Briefly
Kids' Comic Con; BEA Graphic Novel Day; Amulet Movie; Dave Stevens Obit; Mark Siegel on ICv2; Harvey Awards Ballots; Ralph Bakshi Exhibit; Cold Cut Now Haven Distribution; Ware, Kirby in Bookforum ; Noir Comics on NPR; Reading at KGB Bar; and Fruits Basket Promotion
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars Andrew X. Pham . Harmony , $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-38120-0 In a narrative set between the years of 1940 and 1976, Pham (Catfish and Mandala) recounts the story of his once wealthy father, Thong Van Pham, who lived through the French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during WWII, and the Vietnam War.
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Fiction Reviews
Slumberland Paul Beatty . Bloomsbury , $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59691-240-3 The narrator of Beatty’s late ’80s picaresque, Ferguson W. Sowell—aka DJ Darky—is so attuned to sound that he claims to have a “phonographic memory.” Ferguson, who does porno film scores for the money in L.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Cool Daddy Rat Kristyn Crow , illus. by Mike Lester. Putnam , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24375-2 Debut author Crow’s hip ode to jazz (and scat in particular) will sweep up its audience in its catchy beat as kinetic cartoon art adds verve and wit. Blue-gray rats with bulbous snouts and ever-expressive eyes star in the animals-only tale.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/17/2008
On the Web this week: Star-worthy tales from Darfur and the Middle East, violence in the Old West, non-violence in India, civil war in the sneaker industry, a personal take on Terri Schiavo and a new kind of AIDS narrative. Plus: psychotherapy for your stomach and another look at Our Bodies.
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Steroid Nation
As Captain Renault famously said in Casablanca: “Round up the usual suspects!” Well, the part of Renault was recently played by Rep. Henry Waxman (D.-Calif.) as he called pitcher Roger Clemens and Clemens’s trainer Brian McNamee before his House Oversight Committee. The committee also took sworn depositions from Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch, members of the Yankee champion...
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Reading & Talking Sports: Spring Titles 2008
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