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Children's Book Reviews: 10/15/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/15/2007
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From Spidey to King
They call him “The Karate Kid.” Soft-spoken comics veteran Ralph Macchio shares a name with the lead actor of the 1980s martial arts classic, but he's never seen the movie, although he still receives fan mail asking whether he's the star. “Depending on my mood, I'll either say yes or no,” Macchio says, laughing.
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PW Talks with Walter Mosley: The End of Easy?
Today, Little, Brown publishes Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley’s 10th and possibly final novel to feature Los Angeles investigator Easy Rawlins. PW caught up with him to discuss what may be an important event for Mosely's many loyal fans.
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Christmas Notes
Pa-rum pum pum pum! Youngest readers can begin celebrating the season with the first board book edition of Ezra Jack Keats’s classic The Little Drummer Boy, words and music by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone. (Viking, $6.99 32p ages 3-up ISBN 978-0-670-06282-9; Sept.) Rock-a-bye Christmas by Matt Novak (Too Many Bunnies) uses a series of die-cut windows to tell a wry Chr...
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Colfer’s ‘Artemis Fowl’ Goes Graphic
Hyperion is simultaneously releasing hardcover and paperback editions of a graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s popular prose novel series.
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M.F. Grimm Turns His Life Around
Better known to the hip-hop world as MF Grimm, Percy Carey has documented the joys and pain of his life in a new graphic novel called Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm from Vertigo.
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Comics Bestsellers for October
Despite an accelerated schedule that will release 3 Naruto titles a month through the end of the year, Naruto sales continue to soar and the three Sept. Volumes 18, 17 and 16 took the top three slots of this month’s list.
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Maintenance: From the Web to Hollywood
In a few short years, Jim Massey has gone from comics fan to creator with his comedic series Maintenance.
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New Yorker Festival Spotlights Superheroes
The New Yorker Festival brought together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the superhero.
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Comics Briefly
SPX 2007 Opens; Imaginova Acquires Newsarama; Brawl Release Party; Rutu Modan Book Tour; Seven Seas' Otaku Contest; Juicy Mother Release Party; and Superheroes in Society Panel.
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Perry Bible Fellowship Collection a Pre-order Hit
The first print collection of the online comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship has already racked up impressive orders.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/8
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Bookazine to Add Manga to 900 Stores
Bookazine is developing a manga section that it will install in 900 stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, whose holdings include F.Y.E., Planet Music and Sam Goody.
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Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King
We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.
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ADV Manga Wakes Up
Despite layoffs, cutbacks and long delays between some volume releases, ADV Manga has managed to persevere and regain some of its footing in the marketplace this past summer.



