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Tokyopop, Harper Team To Release ‘Shutter Island’ Graphic Novel
Graphic novel publisher Tokyopop is working in conjunction with HarperCollins to release a comics adaptation of bestselling novelist Dennis Lehane’s psychological thriller Shutter Island in January 2010 in time for the February release of a new Martin Scorsese film based on the novel.
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Web Exclusive Children's Book Reviews: 9/24/2009
This selection of web-exclusive children's book reviews includes new books from Rachel Isadora, Peter Yarrow and Amber Kizer, as well as debut work from Jan Bozarth, Carolyn Q. Ebbitt and Donny Bailey Seagraves.
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Recipe Report: September 28
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Q & A with Richard Peck
Q: When you wrote the short story 'Shotgun Cheatham’s Last Night Above Ground' years ago, did you have any inkling that it would grow into three entire novels?
A: No, I didn’t. I was asked by Harry Mazer to contribute something to a collection of stories about guns and I thought, "He’s going to get too many guy stories, so I’m going to think up a female character." That’s how Grandma Dowdel was born. -
Toon Treasury: Open Sesame
With The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics, published this month by Abrams, Art Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly, are bringing comics classics to kids of a new generation. “Comic books were considered the most disposable ephemera, yet clearly those who grew up with them cherished them,” Spiegelman says. “It seems like some of the most important literature for children in the middle of the 20th century is in these comic books.”
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An Anime Canon for All
In June, the Penguin Group released The Rough Guide to Anime by Simon Richmond. The book establishes a canon of 50 must-see films and TV anime series, as well as reviews of 150 notable titles, and a brief history of anime.
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Conspiracy, Comics and a ‘Red Herring’
Written by David Tischman and drawn by Philip Bond, Wildstorm’s new six-issue mini-series, Red Herring, concentrates on an intriguing and complex tale of conspiracy, betrayal and murder.
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Religion in Review
You Saw It Here First: Original Religion BookLine ReviewsExclusively online: reviews of What I Believe by Tariq Ramadan (with a star); Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters by Timothy Keller; The Science of Happiness: 10 Principles for Manifesting Your Divine Nature by Ryuho Okawa and more; and a Sneak Peek at religion reviews coming in the October 12 PW: the starred Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis by John R. Coats, and more.
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Comics Briefly
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Capstone to Add Kids' Nonfiction Graphic Novel Line
Capstone Press, a nonfiction imprint of Capstone Publishers, plans to add a new line of kids' nonfiction graphic novels to its fast growing comics and graphic novel publishing program. This fall the house is launching Graphic Expeditions, a nonfiction line of graphic novels that will debut with six titles that aim to introduce young readers to social studies, history and world cultures. The new line will feature the archaeologist Dr. Isabel “Izzy” Soto...
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Children's Book Reviews: 9/21/2009
This week's children's book reviews include new picture books from Ursula K. Le Guin, Jeff Smith and NBA-er Chris Paul; fiction from Jutta Richter, Laini Taylor, Gordan Korman and Joanne Dahme; and a collection of Thanksgiving books (none of them turkeys).
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Fiction Book Reviews: 9/21/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Anne Tyler, Al Roker, J.A. Jance, Steve Berry, Ha Jin and Elizabeth Noble. Plus, Ann Herendeen gives Pride and Prejudice a bi-sexual reboot, Matt Beaumont sends up a British ad agency in his e-epistolary, Brian Hart debuts with a stellar novel set in starkest Idaho and Jeff Shaara concludes his WWII trilogy.
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Panel Mania: Refresh, Refresh
In Refresh, Refresh three teenage boys come to age in a small Oregon town where all the men, including their fathers, are away fighting in Iraq. While waiting for their fathers—and hitting the refresh button on their email—the boys fight, drink and discover that the world is not as simple as they thought. Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff will be released by First Second in October.
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DC Comics Reorganizes as DC Entertainment
The winds of change once again blew over the comics industry last week, as Warner Bros. announced a major restructuring and executive changes at DC Comics. The home of Superman and Batman will become part of a larger division called DC Entertainment, to be run by WB branding veteran Diane Nelson.
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Ed Brubaker: Crime, Superheroes and Comic Book History
Comics writer Ed Brubaker's body of work stretches beyond the superhero genre and into gritty crime dramas and dark espionage tales. This November, two of his series, Criminal and Incognito, will ship new book collections—a debut trade paperback for Incognito and an oversized hardcover omnibus for Criminal, which will feature a new story arc called "The Sinners."
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R. Sikoryak’s Comics Masterpiece
R. Sikoryak's dead-on recreations of historical cartooning styles—utilized to adapt canonical Western literature—were immediately striking as witty, smart, and intensely well-crafted manifestations of the postmodern impulse within the comics form.
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Jewish Life and Comics in ‘The Big Kahn’
Superheroes, action comics and horror stories—comics writer Neil Kleid does it all. But in an unusual twist, two of Kleid’s recent books, have pointed their story-telling lens at Jewish life and history. Brownsville, which came out in 2006, is set in 1930’s Brooklyn in the world of the Jewish mob, and his newest book, The Big Kahn, is a family drama that takes place in a contemporary Orthodox Jewish community
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Comics Briefly
Reed Combines NYCC, NYAF at Javits Center; Stitches Online Video; SPX Programming Listing ; A Day for the Bookstores; Seven Seas Manga For Kindle; Archie, Veronica Wed; Old Characters Return; Full House Comes To Netcomics; and Picture Box; Top Shelf Offer Book Sales;
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Short Order: September 14
In this installment of cookbook-related news, a federal judge throws out Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine's claim that Jessica Seinfeld copied her with Deceptively Delicious; Oxmoor House prepares a series of grit-centric events throughout the South; Clarkson Potter buys book by M. F. K. Fisher's grand-nephew; Wiley Canada partners with women's magazine Chatelaine on two books; PW reviews this fall's cookbooks for kids; and are Zagat guides on shaky ground?
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The Flavor Bible Still Selling One Year Later
On September 7, The Flavor Bible celebrated one year on Amazon’s “Cooking, Food & Wine” top 100 bestseller list. And, its authors are quick to add, before Julie & Julia-related books took over much of list’s prime real estate, The Flavor Bible spent most of its life in the top 25. How did a book without a movie tie-in, national TV presence or celebrity authors, that doesn’t contain one recipe, achieve such success?



