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Via PublishersWeekly.com Children's Book Newsletter:
Salman Rushdie: Will Dumbledore come back to life?
J.K. Rowling: I feel I have to be explicit. Dumbledore is definitely dead....
SCANNER DARKLY GN distr’d via cell phones
A few announcements that crept out during San Diego that no one blogged because they were at the show.
Amp'd Mobile, Pantheon Books...
HarperCollins and Fox Atomic launch Graphic Novel line; Palmiotti edits
More pacting, more branding, MORE GRAPHIC NOVELS!
Fox Atomic, the youth focused entertainment unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, announced today a partnership with leading publisher...
SDCC: ASFA (#4800, 4701-03)
Allen Spiegel Fine Arts is the booth where you find some of the most amazing artists at the comvention, this year including Thom Ang,...
A few other things
TEZUKA! Irresponsible Pictures tips us off to a documentary about Tezuka available on on YouTube -- go!
Matt over at Highway 62: San Diego posts...
SDCC: Vanguard (#1706)
Appearances by the legendary Steranko, Basil Gogos John Romita Sr. and more highlight the Vanguard schedule, along with the premiere of 3 new calendars....
Good GOD, Derek Kirk Kim
WEHT Derek Kirk Kim, anyway? He was hailed far and wide as a comics genius back in 2004 for his wonderful collection SAME DIFFERENCE...
Moore, Lee, Braque, Picasso
Marcela Valdes has a good piece in WaPo's Book Notes section nicely tying together LOST GIRLS and the Gordon Lee case:
Alan Moore better be...
A Lost Princess of Mars?
A while ago, on the Old Beat we told you about a new comics series to be published by IDW based on Edgar...
The New World Order
Speaking of Hill & Wang, the Book Standard had a probably the most important story about comics you'll read this week, as the impact...
Novel Graphics looks at Hoover, Beats, Genetics
ICv2 has the skinny on the latest from Hill & Wang's Novel Graphics line of non-fiction graphic novels, whew, including, two projects from...
SDCC: Impact Books
How-to books, the Impact University panel, portfolio reviews and signings by Peted Davd, Matt Haley and Jessica "NeonDragon" Peffer highlight this booth.
Impact Books, the...
