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Panel Mania: How I Made it to Eighteen
In a self-proclaimed "95% true," auto-biography, Tracy White delineates her struggles as a teen with Bulimia, drug dependency, and a nervous breakdown, through the character Stacy Black. Drawn in a simple straight forward style, Black gives her perspective of her situation as she deals with her issues in a mental hospital combined with the interwoven perspectives from three friends and a nurse at the hospital. How I Made it to Eighteen will be released by Roaring Brook Press on June 8th. How I Made It To Eighteen will be published on June 8th by Roaring Brook Press.
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Comics Hold Steady At Down-Sized BookExpo America 2010
While this year's BookExpo America wasn't as gaga over graphic novels as the 2009 BEA--remember, Stitches, Logicomix and R. Crumb's Book of Genesis were three of the biggest books at last year's show--comics were still a solid albeit subdued niche at this year's BEA. Bestselling novelist Janet Evanovich's first graphic novel, Troublemaker, was easily the big graphic novel of the show and many publishers featured significant comics works for summer and fall release.
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BEA 2010: Bestselling Prose Authors Turn to Graphic Novels
Bestselling prose authors continue to migrate to the comics medium, writing original works in collaboration with cartoonists and overseeing the adaptation of their own prose works into graphic novels. Dark Horse's upcoming publication of Janet and Alex Evanovich's Troublemaker, the bestselling novelist's first foray into comics and the big graphic novel at BEA, is only the latest example.
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Comics Briefly: 6/1/2010
New Scott Pilgrim Trailer; Hope Larson Speaks; NPR's the 'Takeaway' Covers Graphic Novels; Kirby's Loki Inspires New Dinosaur Name; Apple, PC Guys Meet Marvel, DC Guys; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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At BEA, Manga Gets Down to Business
No longer the buzzword or newcomer to the show, manga publishers at BookExpo America 2010 got down to business. While most manga publishers did not exhibit, representatives from most Houses circulated on the show floor and held meetings in distributor meeting rooms.
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Marvel Children's Books Now Under Disney Management
On the heels of the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Marvel, which was announced in August 2009 and completed last December, Disney Publishing Worldwide said that it is now managing the global children's licensed book publishing business formerly overseen by Marvel Entertainment.
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'PW,' PWCW' Moving; Will Skip Next Week's Issues
Publishers Weekly and PW Comics Week are moving to new offices at, 71 W. 23rd Street, Suite 1608, New York, N.Y. 10010, on June 3, 2010 and PWCW will skip its June 8 issue.
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Comics Briefly 5/25/10
Super Size Me Creator Does Comic-Con Documentary; DC Enters Alternate Universe for Fringe; Heroes Sued by Comics Artist; Toon Books Sweepstakes; Heroes Con; This Week @ Good Comics For Kids; and This Week @ The Beat
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Octopus Pie Extends Its Reach
Random House's Villard imprint is turning Meredith Gran's acclaimed web comic Octopus Pie, which follows the lives of two twenty-something female roommates in Brooklyn, into a book collection. The 272-page trade paperback collects the first 13 episodes of the Web comic and will be published on June 22.
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Panel Mania: Understanding the Crash
Understanding the Crash, by Seth Tobocman and Eric Laursen, explores the origins of the current economic crisis and ways to get out of it from a progressive perspective. The book takes a look at the local and individual issues that led to the crisis, such as the story in this preview of a woman who fought to keep her house from foreclosure. Understanding the Crash is published by Soft Skull Press and will be released on June 8th.
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A Japanese Mangaka in New York City
Hiroki Otsuka teaches manga workshops and is the mangaka artist-in-residence at New York City's Japan Society, where he is creating a manga, Samurai Beam, which incorporates the woodblock prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), one of the great masters of Japanese woodblock printing and painting.
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Comics and Graphic Novels at BookExpo America 2010
Despite the absence of a number of major comics publishers, this year's BookExpo America will still manage to have a significant comics and graphic novel presence. The largest nexus of the comics scene at this year's BEA will be the graphic novels row (4558), hosted by Diamond Book Distribution.
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Comics Reviews: 5/24/2010
Reviews of new books by John Arcudi and Peter Snejbjerg, Mike Raicht and Brian Smith and a Swedish graphic novel by Kolbeinn Karlsson.
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Panel Mania: Blacksad
Blacksad, the internationally acclaimed graphic novel series by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, is coming to America in a complete edition to be published by Dark Horse on June 2. Blacksad is an anthropomorphic detective story featuring the feline private investigator, John Blacksad, in 1950s America. These preview pages are from the third album, "Red Soul", never previously available in English before.
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DC Comics To Shut Down CMX Manga Line
The battered manga category was dealt another blow after DC Comics announced plans to shut down CMX, its manga imprint, in July. The shutdown will not affect Megatokyo, Fred Gallagher's bestselling original American manga series, which will now be published under the DC Comics line.
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Manga Community Reacts to Viz Layoffs
The news last week that Viz Media had laid off as many as 60 employees, about 40 percent of the company's total staff, took many observers by surprise but did not lead to doomsday predictions among industry watchers.
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A Revolution in Learning: Reading With Pictures is Coming
Reading with Pictures is both a nascent nonprofit organization that advocates the use of comics in the classroom and a 192-page benefit comics anthology featuring a host of acclaimed cartoonists creating stories about the benefits of using comics to teach just about everything.
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Found in Translation: 'City Hunter' and 'Beelzebub'
This week Found in Translation takes a look at Tsukasa Hojo's private eye series City Hunter and Ryuhei Tamura's dark comedy Beelzebub
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Comics Reviews 5/17/2010
New books by Matt Kindt, Kathryn and Stuart Immonen and Seth Tobocman are reviewed this week.
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Janet Evanovich Mixes It Up
"For the record," Alex Barnaby assures readers at the beginning of Troublemaker, the graphic novel coming in July from mother/daughter team Janet and Alex Evanovich, "I was never involved in kidnappings and dognappings... attacked by giant spiders... or had bad juju thrust upon me... until Sam Hooker entered my life."
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