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I flagged two items that Brigid Alverson highlighted at Good Comics for Kids, showing two ways of reading Bone by Jeff Smith that appear to be on a collision course with each other. Back in January, Josiah Leighton discussed the movement depicted in two pages of Out from Boneville , as ...
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The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at California State University, Fresno, will host a national Oz conference, co-sponsored by the International Wizard of Oz Club , on 14-16 May 2010. Featured speakers will include: Gregory Maguire , author of Wicked Michael ...
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Gregory Maguire
I like how Dino-Hockey , by Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott, and just reissued in paperback, appeared on a list of Best Hockey Books for Kids last month, as spotted on Chasing Spaghetti . I like how there’s a blog called HockeyBookReviews.com . But I love how the hockey-playing dinosaurs are ...
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NPR and Time have both run stories about a new exhibit/book from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge that discusses the painter’s use of photographs in detail. Not that Rockwell hid the fact that he used photos as well as live models and his imagination. NPR interviewed a photographer ...
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Tom Clancy
Many months back, the weekly Robin linked to master letterer Todd Klein ’s essay on the unusual longevity of the logo for Robin magazine , which lasted (with one minor change) on magazines featuring the Tim Drake character from 1991 to 2009. This fall Klein offered a complete study of logos ...
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Kim Stanley Robinson
Invincible is a comic book launched in 2003, written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley. It explores the life of a new teen-aged superhero. Special powers run in Mark’s family—his dad is also a costumed hero, though that turns out to be less pleasant and inspiring than ...
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The Invincible
Mark Twain
Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin offered more to think about in a posting addressing established publishers’ fears about piracy. In particular, Shatzkin invoked a couple of points that non-establishment publisher Tim O’Reilly made in 2002 , including: Piracy is a kind of progressive ...
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So many passages in L. Frank Baum ’s Oz books involve the magical availability of food—perhaps a reflection that that was a much bigger concern for American children a century ago. For this traditional feast day I’m quoting Dorothy Gale ’s discovery of a lunch-box tree in Ozma of Oz , when ...
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L. Frank Baum
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Chris Giarrusso ’s G-Man: Learning to Fly . Overbearing older brother? Check. Clueless parents with unrealistic expectations? Check. Strange but loyal friends? ...
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I knew before reading it on Jacket Knack that illustrator Maginel Wright Enright was the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. But I didn’t recall that she was the mother of author Elizabeth Enright . Maginel Wright Enright illustrated Twinkle and Chubbins , L. Frank Baum ’s pseudonymous ...
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L. Frank Baum
Elizabeth Enright
Secrets
I doubt this week I’ll read more trenchant criticism than thirteen-year-old Rebecca Landau’s letter in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday: More than three-quarters of the paperbacks I own have quotes on the back cover from The Times or some other respected literary source comparing the ...
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Tad Williams
Batman: The Black Casebook is marketed as the stories that inspired Grant Morrison ’s issues of Batman magazine, and the direction he’s driven DC’s leading character since 2006. But really it’s the best collection of weird-ass Batman and Robin adventures from the 1950s and late 1960s now on ...
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Bill Bryson
Yet more quoting of what the brave new world of publishing might look like, this time from literary agent Rachelle Gardner : If you think the published books are bad now, just wait until self-pubbing becomes the norm. Holy cow. Folks, you don’t see an agent’s daily slush pile. Sure, some of it ...
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Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin posted some thoughts on “What it will mean when the ebook comes first”—i.e., before the printed version. Some of these wrinkles I’d thought of, and some are making me think now: 1. “Space” will no longer be scarce. That means that nothing of value should be ...
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Heritage Auction Galleries got exceptional coverage from the New York Times yesterday (including a slide show ) for its upcoming sale of work from the collection of comic-book artist Joe Kubert. His career matches nearly the entire span of the business since he began work as an artist’s ...
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Michael Patrick Hearn and the New York Times have both brought the news that Bloomsbury Auctions is preparing a 9 December sale on the theme of “Capture the Imagination: Original Illustration & Fine Illustrated Books.” Among the lots are original John R. Neill artwork of Cap’n Bill ...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Tom Clancy
Last week I read a short news item in a great metropolitan daily that puzzled me so much I went to the original report in the Salem (Massachusetts) News for more detail. I found it, but the story only deepened the mystery: Danvers High parents recently got an automated call from the principal ...
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For the first twenty-plus years of Batman comics , Robin was an unaging symbol of youth. Indeed, as the last weekly Robin showed, for Robin to become a man was a horrible disruption of the status quo. Such a change was, like an escaped criminal or errant meteorite, a problem to be fixed by the ...
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I enjoyed the great march of Bill Willingham and (mostly) Mark Buckingham ’s Fables comic to issue #75. In fact, I’ve been planning a “Willingham week” for a while; that prospect was both strengthened and postponed when I received a review copy of his new novel, Peter and Max . Nonetheless, I ...
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L. Frank Baum
Mark Twain
Bill Bryson
Today’s newspaper brought word of a silly controversy that’s just too embarrassing for the American right wing not to highlight. Two years ago, as documented here , Sesame Street aired a parody of cable news channels featuring CNN host Anderson Cooper. Oscar the Grouch brought him on to report ...
