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Rock Star Comics: Gerard Way and Umbrella Academy
Dark Horse is launching Umbrella Academy, a new miniseries conceived and written by Gerard Way, lead Singer for the band My Chemical Romance.
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Jonathan Hickman: The Design of Things to Come
Jonathan Hickman’s The Nightly Newsis both an indictment of the modern media and a startling fusion of sequential art and graphic design.
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Abadzis Launches Laika
Nick Abadzis's new graphic novel explores the poignant story of Laika, the first dog in space, and the only living creature ever launched with no plan for survival.
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New Manga From CMX, Flex Comics
DC Comics' manga imprint, CMX, announced new titles from Japanese publisher MediaWorks, and the first titles from Flex Comics, the Japanese manga and digital comics venture DC announced in June
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Comics Briefly
Ignatz Award Nominees; Mike Wieringo Tribute; Naruto Movie Sweepstakes; Zannel.com, Top Cow Team Up; and Beto, Malkasian at Book Soup
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Schulz and Peanuts Unshelled
Schulz and Peanuts is also a groundbreaking work in the growing field of biographies of comics creators, as David Michaelis analyzes Schulz’s comics as a guide to understanding his psyche.
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Panel Mania: Legend of The Dark Crystal Vol. 1: The Garthim Wars
In this preview of Barbara Randell Kesell, Heidi Arnhold and Max Kim's Legend of The Dark Crystal Vol. 1: The Garthim Wars, a young herder discovers the sole survivor of a village pillaged by the brutal Garthim. Based on the Jim Henson film Dark Crystal, the book will be published by Tokyopop in November.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007
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Self-Pub Pickup
Indie Monkfish Book Publishing of Rhinebeck, N.Y., publisher of science, spiritual and metaphysical titles, celebrated its fifth anniversary last month. A milestone, for sure, but six months before, when publisher Paul Cohen and his partner, Georgia Dent, who handles design and publicity for the press, entertained ways to generate more revenue, the idea of self-publishing came up.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007
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Diamond Summit Marks Industry in Transition
At its annual Retailer Summit, Diamond Comics Distributors presented a new point-of-sale software system that could revolutionize the comics shop market.
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Hyperion, CCS Add New Biographies
Hyperion Books for Children and the Center for Cartoon Studies will add titles on Amelia Earhart and Helen Keller to its line of graphic biographies
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DMP to Co-Brand Japanese Publishers
L. A. manga publisher DMP has entered into a deal with three Japanese publishers under which all titles licensed from the three by DMP will carry the original Japanese publisher's logo and DMP’s logo.
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Chronicling Caniff
Fantagraphics Books has just published Meanwhile...: A Biography of Milton Caniff by Robert C. Harvey, the longtime comic strip historian and scholar.
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Matt Fraction Works Hard For the Genres
Despite writing high-profile Marvel titles like Immortal Iron Fist, Punisher War Journaland theCivil Warspinoff,The Order, Fraction is still hard at work onCasanova, his creator-owned series from Image Comics.
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Comics Briefly
Harvey's Honor Best Comics; Making Comics Wins Quill Award; MoCCA Book Club; Webcomics at MoCCA; New Cancer Vixen Website; G4’s Fresh Ink Online and The Comics Reporter on Comics Shops
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox Stephen Budiansky . Viking , $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-01840-6 Journalist and military historian Budiansky (Her Majesty's Spymaster) pulls no punches in this hard-hitting examination of the most sordid aspects of Reconstruction in the South from 1865 to 1876.
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Galley Talk: Interred with Their Bones
I'm not much of a mystery reader, but I'm mad for smart Shakespeare books, especially if they explore the modern play-going scene. I picked up Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones (Dutton, Sept. 20) expecting to drop it in disgust at barmy scholarship, but I didn't. Quite the opposite: I was impressed and enthralled.



