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Flight Editor Shows Off Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi creates a dark fantasy in Amulet, the tale of two children trying to rescue their mother.
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Comics Briefly
YALSA Lists Teen Comics; Guests At NYCC 2008; NBM’s Boneyard on Hiatus; ComicsPRO Decries Con Sales; and Spidey, Mary Jane Break up
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/21/2008
This week: sex in America, stories in Arabia, intimacy through astrology, pregnancy through ARTs, the romantic advantages of availability and newly-available images of John and Yoko's romance. Plus: 30 perspectives on Hillary Clinton, a family story of Cystic Fibrosis and volunteer efforts in Israel.
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Nominees for 2008 Edgar Awards Announced
Mystery Writers of American has announced the nominees for the 2008 Edgar Allen Poe Awards, which honor the best mystery books and television productions released in 2007.
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Top Shelf Moves into Year 11
Indie Top Shelf moves into 2008 with new kids comics, Alan Moore and a movie deal.
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Conan Keeps Conquering
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian remains an iconic character, with a relaunch of his comic, a book retrospective and a new movie announcement.
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Delano's New Narcopolis at Avatar
Veteran Brit writer Jamie Delano is back with a new series about a city where people dazed by recreational narcotics and apathy.
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Comics Briefly
EW Tabs PW The Beat; Natsume Does Batman Manga; Comic Book “History”; New from NBM; Virgin’s Dan Dare Online; Fantagraphics Comix Show; New Reed Show Blogs; Selznick Wins Caldecott; and January Zudacomics Contestants
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Nickelodeon Mag: Green Slime and Comics
Nickelodeon magazine, the monthly periodical of the children’s TV programming juggernaut, covers a variety of kids’ subject matter, including comics.
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Shakespeare Meets Manga at John Wiley
Science and educational publisher John Wiley & Sons release manga adaptations of four Shakespeare plays—Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar—in February in a tankoubon, graphic novel book-format.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/14
This week on the web we feature some urgent presidential concerns: Israelis and Pelestinians working together! An abortion doctor reports from the field! El Caballo speaks! And perhaps the last financially solvent 20-something in America tells his tale! Plus: Alice in Cubicleland, irrational happiness and an autobiography writ very, very small.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Ditlow Joins Brilliance
Tim Ditlow, former publisher of Listening Library and publisher at large for Random House Audio, has joined Grand Haven, Mich.-based Brilliance Audio.
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Tor Books, Seven Seas Together at Last
The new joint venture between New York City sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books and L.A.-based manga publisher Seven Seas to create a manga imprint is a match made in pop culture heaven.
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Burns and Palmiotti Explore the Docks
Inside Dock Walloper, filmmaker Edward Burns's foray into the comics-to-movie track in Hollywood.
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Genshiken: Kio Shimoku and the Otaku Soul
Kio Shimoku is the manga-ka of the beloved Japanese geek-culture series Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. The 9 volume series from Del Rey Manga completed its publication this month. The series revolves around a college visual media club where a small group of otaku gather to obsess about their favorite anime, manga, videogames and related activities.
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Disney’s Haunted Mansion Hardcover
Originally published as an anthology comic series by SLG Publishing, the first six issues of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Vol. 1: Welcome, Foolish Mortals is being collected in an attractive limited edition hardcover.
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January Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid stays on top followed by Naruto and Stephen King’s Dark Tower.



