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	<title>The Beat &#187; First Second</title>
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		<title>SAVE APATHEA! site launches</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/08/02/save-apathea-site-launches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>MK Reed </b>writes to point us to a new website, <a href="http://saveapathea.com/">SAVE APATHEA!</a> which will be serializing her upcoming First Second graphic novel Americus, which is due out in late 2011. It's described as the story of "Neil Barton, a teenager growing up in Oklahoma, and his fight to keep his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, in his public library." Reed (a sometime Beat contributor) writes and Jonathan Hill provides art. The first chapter was previously published in Papercutter #7. News pages will go up Monday-Wednesday-Friday. ]]></description>
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<b>MK Reed </b>writes to point us to a new website, <a href="http://saveapathea.com/">SAVE APATHEA!</a> which will serialize her upcoming First Second graphic novel, AMERICUS, which is due out in late 2011. It&#8217;s described as the story of &#8220;Neil Barton, a teenager growing up in Oklahoma, and his fight to keep his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, in his public library.&#8221; Reed (a sometime Beat contributor) writes and <b>Jonathan Hill </b>provides art. The first chapter was previously published in PAPERCUTTER #7. New pages will go up Monday-Wednesday-Friday. </p>
<p>Web serialization of an original GN is increasingly being used at First Second to build some pre-awareness for their books &#8212; see Mark Siegel&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBUQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsailortwain.com%2F&amp;ei=TodWTPS-IIP68AbK46SiBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9VTAe2JpKHJKK91fR0uXAgoHU7g&amp;sig2=14o6jsF98rGjY33ubWM2RA" target="_blank">SAILOR TWAIN</a> and <a href="http://www.zahrasparadise.com/" target="_blank">ZAHRA&#8217;S PARADISE.</a></p>
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		<title>Zahra&#8217;s Paradise launches</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/19/zahras-paradise-launches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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It seems that First Second is getting into the webcomics business. First it was E-i-C Mark Siegel&#8217;s Sailor Twain Or The Mermaid In The Hudson and now Zahra&#8217;s Paradise, a timely comic about the ongoing struggles in Iran. Calvin Reid has more information:

The Web comic will be published simultaneously in English, Farsi, Arabic, French, Italian, [...]]]></description>
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It seems that First Second is getting into the webcomics business. First it was E-i-C Mark Siegel&#8217;s <a href="http://sailortwain.com/">Sailor Twain Or The Mermaid In The Hudson</a> and now <a href="http://www.zahrasparadise.com/">Zahra&#8217;s Paradise, </a>a timely comic about the ongoing struggles in Iran. <strong>Calvin Reid </strong><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/449912-First_Second_to_Publish_Iranian_Graphic_Novel_and_Web_Comic.php?nid=2286&amp;source=link&amp;rid=17176476">has more information</a>:<br />
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<blockquote>The Web comic will be published simultaneously in English, Farsi, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch, with other languages to come. Mark Siegel, editorial director of First Second, said the comic is about a blog called Zahra&#8217;s Paradise and tells the story of the blogger&#8217;s brother, a 19-year-old Iranian political activist who disappears after the political demonstrations in Tehran in June 2009. In their effort to locate the missing activist, the blogger and his mother, Zahra, come face-to-face with the brutality of the Islamic Republic and the fate of other missing Iranian dissidents. While the characters are fictional—the full names of the creators have been left out to protect them—Siegel said the events are real, and he called the comic &#8220;a roman à clef of history as it is happening.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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