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Digital Comics Get a New Platform with Sony PSP Deal

by Todd Allen | 08/25/2009 @ 09:28PM

Last week, Sony announced they will be offering comic book content as digital downloads for the PSP portable gaming device, via the Playstation store. This confirms rumors of Sony seeking significant comics content for the device dating back to March 2009.
Confessions of an Immature Pervert: Erika Moen Overcomes Puritanism

by Johanna Draper Carlson | 08/25/2009 @ 09:27PM

Those who still think young women's diaries are full of blushing and crushes will be shocked by Erika Moen's online journal. DAR! A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary (found at www.darcomic.com) is a webcomic that can be raw, ribald, and revelatory.
RELIGION IN REVIEW
You Saw It Here First: Original Religion BookLine Reviews and a Sneak Peek at Religion Book Reviews c

| 08/25/2009 @ 04:33PM

Mitch Albom’s Have a Little Faith: A True Story; Jean-Yves Leloup’s Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic Between Buddhism and Christianity; Edgar Andrews’s Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything; Bruce Wilkinson’s You Were Born for This: Seven Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles; and a sneak peek at starred reviews in Sept. 14 issue: Edward E. Curtis’s Muslims in America: A Short History; and
Last Call

| 08/25/2009 @ 04:25PM

New and Noteworthy August Books; Addendum to Fall Religion Announcements
Saturday in the Park with Cassie

By Sarah Moroz | 08/25/2009 @ 12:00AM

Last Saturday afternoon’s gray skies deterred no one: 300 eager fans flocked to New York City’s Bryant Park to hear Cassandra Clare discuss her Mortal Instruments series. And Clare gave news of several forthcoming projects, including a new book in the Mortal Instruments series, the creation of a prequel series and a movie adaptation of her books.
Last Gasp Finds Beauty in The Strange Tale of Panorama Island

by Kai-ming Cha | 08/24/2009 @ 10:48PM

The literary manga market is expanding further with the announcement that San Francisco art book and manga publisher Last Gasp has licensed Suehiro Maruo’saward-winningThe Strange Tale of Panorama Island.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/24/2009 @ 10:25PM
Fiction Book Reviews: 8/24/2009

| 08/24/2009 @ 06:00AM

Reviewed this week, new novels from John Irving, Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Kellerman, Nevada Barr and Nora Roberts. Plus, Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew revisits Dracula, Reyna Grande finds salvation in folk dancing, Julian Stockwin's got another Kydd sea adventure and Rachel Sherman's first novel is star-worthy.
Words of War: Military History and Memoirs

by Juan Martinez | 08/24/2009 @ 06:00AM

Despite the current challenges facing the publishing industry, war and military history titles continue to sell—the recession, a plethora of free online information and the declining number of living WWII veterans evidently have not affected books. Publishers offer many explanations for their success, but the most obvious reason the category continues to thrive might simply be the sheer n...
Children's Book Reviews: 8/24/2009

| 08/24/2009 @ 06:00AM

This week's reviews include a new picture books from Tomie dePaola, Nonny Hogrogian, Toni and Slade Morrison, and Danielle Steel; fiction from John Feinstein, Scott Westerfeld, Patricia McCormick and Justine Larbalestier; and a round-up of concept books.
Galley Talk: ‘Once Was Lost’ by Sara Zarr

| 08/20/2009 @ 05:30PM

Jennifer Laughran of Books Inc. in San Francisco talks about a favorite fall galley.

With a Mom in rehab, and a pastor Dad who knows a lot more about shepherding his congregation than taking care of his own family, Samara feels like her whole world is falling apart. When a girl in her town is kidnapped, Sam latches on to the case as a way to feel useful and a part of something bigger than herself, but nobody in town is beyond suspicion, even the people that Sam trusts most.
Sullenberger Memoir Has Story to Tell, 'PW' Review Says

| 08/19/2009 @ 01:55PM

William Morrow reportedly paid over $3 million for a memoir by Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. The house, which brought the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 to BEA, announced a 350,000 copy first-printing and is pushing the title as one of its big fall books. So how does it actually read? In the first review of the book, PW gives Highest Duty a star.
Taking Millar’s ‘Kick Ass’ from Page to Screen

By Germain Lussier | 08/18/2009 @ 08:29PM

Originally released as a periodical comics series in 2008 under Marvel’s ICON imprint, Mark Millar’s Kick Ass been already adapted into a feature film directed by Matthew Vaughn, director of such films as Layer Cake and Stardust. Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights and the film will be released in 2010. But with its hard R-rated world of pop culture references, extreme violence, language and tween serial killers, Kick-Ass has never had a simple route to the public.
Fletcher Hanks Rides Again

by Sasha Watson | 08/18/2009 @ 08:28PM

Get ready, fans, the second volume of odd-ball 1930s comics creator Fletcher Hanks has hit the shelves. You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! completes the collection of Hanks’ work begun with the 2007 volume, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!, edited by Paul Karasik, published by Fantagraphics Books and winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project.
In Marvel’s ‘Strange Tales,’ Indie Artists Take on Superhero Icons

By Kiel Phegley | 08/18/2009 @ 06:30PM

This September, Marvel Comics unveils their long-awaited Strange Tales MAX anthology series. Culling creators from all over the world of alternative comics and literary graphic novels—from Paul Pope and Matt Kindt to Molly Crabapple and Peter Bagge—the stories in the three-issue Strange Tales comic recast such Marvel super heroes as Spider-Man and the Black Widow as quirky and complicated indie comics icons.
Comics briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 08/18/2009 @ 03:56PM
Mr. Vengeance Goes to Comic-con

By Kai-Ming Cha | 08/18/2009 @ 03:23PM

In one of the most memorable scenes of Korean director Park Chan Wook’s movie Old Boy, his middle-aged protagonist wields a hammer and faces off with a gang of armed young thugs. Old Boy is a live-action feature length film adaptation of the manga by the same name. PW Comics Week met with the director at the recent San Diego Comic-con and discussed Old Boy, his other films and why it’s good for a creator to torture his characters.
Panel Mania: The Year of Loving Dangerously

Compiled by Ada Price | 08/17/2009 @ 07:02PM

In the autobiographical The Year of Loving Dangerously, Ted Rall, kicked out of college, broke, jobless, shunned by his parents, and suicidal, avoids homelessness by drifting into the arms of numerous women. The Year of Loving Dangerously is written by Rall, a politacal cartoonist and commentator, and illustrated by Pablo Callejo; it will be released by NBM in December 2009.
Chronicle Has the Lock on Top Chef Books

By Lynn Andriani | 08/17/2009 @ 03:30PM

The Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series Top Chef is the jewel in Bravo’s crown, so it isn’t surprising that the network has developed a range of branded products based on the show. There are Top Chef-themed flower arrangements, Top Chef branded wines and Top Chef knives. Chronicle Books is the lucky winner of the exclusive publishing contract, and it has been a boon to the San Francisco independent.
Cooking the Books with Ruth Reichl

By Lynn Andriani | 08/17/2009 @ 03:30PM

Five years ago, Houghton Mifflin published The Gourmet Cookbook, a 1,000-plus-page compendium of some of the best recipes—think Lobster Thermidore—from the magazine’s archives updated for 2004. In a nod to changing American tastes and culinary consciousness, the house will release Gourmet Today next month. Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, who edited the book, talks about the massive changes she’s noticed in American home kitchens in the past five years.

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