29 April 2010

The 99’s Name Is Legion

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The Atlantic Monthly is devoting a lot of pixels and ink to The 99 , a comic book about young Muslim superheroes. In addition to the print ...
27 April 2010

Still Trying to Pin Down Mary Sues

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Liz B. at the Tea Cozy pointed me to Laura Miller’s interesting Slate essay on the danger of “Mary Sue” characters. Along with the usual w...
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26 April 2010

Seeking Clues to the Future of Storytelling

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Earlier this month, Publishers Weekly reported on the ashbound London Book Fair’s panel discussion on digital books for children, and I wa...
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25 April 2010

Grant Morrison on His Robin

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DC Comics has just published the first hardcover collection of Grant Morrison ’s Batman and Robin comic book, with art penciled by Frank Qu...
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24 April 2010

Where That Number Came From

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On Thursday I posted an analysis of the rumors about recent US Presidents and presidential candidates catalogued on Snopes.com, and how the...
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23 April 2010

Learning Something New Every Day

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Number of children’s books that sold more than a million copies in 2009, according to Publishers Weekly : 20. Number written by Stephenie Me...
22 April 2010

The Party of No Credibility

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American right-wing leaders are responding to complaints about their adherents’ insults, threats, and acts of violence by claiming that such...
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21 April 2010

Exploring New Themes in Oz

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From the Winkie Convention email update comes news of a new Oz comic: The Royal Historian of Oz , by Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch. The publis...
20 April 2010

Divided by a Common Language in The Ghost Writer

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As someone who’s ridden the Lake Champlain ferry annually for the past few years, I found the opening sequence of The Ghost Writer to be ve...
18 April 2010

Dig This Now

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I had drafted a weekly Robin posting continuing my thoughts on the 1980s symbolic distancing of Batman and Robin, but then I read the lead...