Publishers Weekly articles from May 2005

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2005

Google draws fire, creates book page: as its library program raises concerns, the company makes books easier to find.(Foreword)
May 30, 2005... Google's growing importance in the book world was highlighted by two separate events last week, both of which are likely to have long-range ramifications. The first was the public airing of publishers' concerns stemming from the Google Print...

Yang succeeds Chi at RH Asia.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Y.S. Chi will step down as chairman of Random House Asia May 31, to be succeeded by Eric Yang, the head of a prominent literary agency in Seoul. Chi has directed RH Asia for three and a half years and drove the formation of Random House...

Lockhart new Zondervan Prez.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Doug Lockhart has been promoted to president of Zondervan, succeeding Bruce Ryskamp, who remains CEO. Lockhart joined Zondervan, Harper-Collins's religion subsidiary, in 2002 and most recently served as executive v-p of marketing. He will...

O conventioneers!(Foreword)(BookExpo America)
May 30, 2005... Even though it falls at the beginning of June, BEA always gives me a back-to-school feeling: I want to get a new plaid skirt, a box of pencils and a bunch of new books. At least, this week, I know I'll get the latter. It has become...

Sales changes at chronicle.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... With the departure of Chronicle Book's Chris Navratil, executive director of sales and marketing, the company is restructuring its sales and marketing. Under its new structure, consultant Abby Hoffman will rejoin Chronicle as v-p of sales and...

Books soft at Hastings.(Hastings House, Publishers Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... The sale of books in Hastings stores open at least one year fell 3.4% in the first quarter ended April 30. The company attributed the decline to a lack of hot new titles in the recent quarter, especially compared to strong-selling political...

Second Big Earth buy.(Big Earth Publishing plans acquisition of Intrigue Press)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Big Earth Publishing has followed up its April purchase of Johnson Books with an agreement to acquire Intrigue Press. A division of Corvus Publishing, Intrigue publishes about 10 mystery and suspense books annually and has a backlist of 53...

Bookselling by the numbers.(foreword)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... $511,000: Total sales of Amazon.com in 1995 $2.6 billion: Sales in Amazon's North America media group in 2004 4,496: Number of ABA individual store members in 1995 1,703: Number of ABA individual store members in 2005 $1.8...

Cranking it out.(books without buyers)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Bowker's annual tabulation of the number of new books published in the U.S. revealed the continuation of a disturbing trend: a significant increase in titles published, without any notable increase in book sales. Over the last two years,...

Searles to Blog BEA for 'PW'.(John Searles)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Novelist John Searles, author of the forthcoming novel Strange hut True (Harper Perennial, June 14), will write a blog for PW, reporting on Book-Expo from the Javits Center show floor (and from various parties) beginning June 2. He'll be...

Lectorum to distribute Mexico's FCE.(Lectorum Publications signs deal with Fondo de Cultural Economica)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Lectorum Publications, Scholastic's Spanish language distribution unit, has reached an exclusive agreement to distribute children's and young adult titles from Fondo de Cultural Economica, one of Mexico's largest publishers, in the U.S.

Holtzbrinck to distribute NBM's Papercutz.(Holtzbrinck Publishers signs distribution agreement with NBM Publishing)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Graphic novel publisher NBM has reached an agreement with Holtzbrinck Publishers to distribute its Papercutz line of graphic novels aimed at teens and tweens, beginning in October. The Papercutz line publishes pocket-size original graphic...

An underground pipeline between 375 Hudson and Hollywood?(Hollywood Reader)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... An underground pipeline between 375 Hudson and Hollywood? Maybe they should build one. CAA's Sally Willcox has just sold two upcoming Viking novels to the movies, within a day of each other: Terry McMillan's The Interruption of Everything...

Film scouts' ears perked right up upon hearing that agent Susan Golomb has a first novel by a new client on submission.(Hollywood Reader)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Film scouts' ears perked right up upon hearing that agent Susan Golomb has a first novel by a new client on submission. Golomb, after all, represents Jonathan Franzen, whose The Corrections is a favorite among movie types. (Scott Rudin...

Update: Mike Albo, the New York actor and coauthor of The Underminer: Or, the Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life has spent the past month on tour bringing his evil title character to theater audiences all over the country.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Update: Mike Albo, the New York actor and coauthor of The Underminer: Or, the Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life has spent the past month on tour bringing his evil title character to theater audiences all over the country (see...

Calendar: June 5-11.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
May 30, 2005... 6/5 Birthday of Richard Scarry (1919-1994), who wrote or illustrated more than 300 children's books. The first book he illustrated was Margaret Wise Brown's Two Little Miners in 1949. 6/6 Former trial lawyer Lisa Scottoline...

Alexie hits YA route.(Sherman Alexie)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... The Native American author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie is the latest to try his talents in the children's market, signing with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers for a three-book deal encompassing two novels and a picture book. The first...

Second novel for Schnur.(Leslie Schnur)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Former Delacorte/Dell editor Leslie Schnur, now making a new life as a novelist (The Dog Walker, optioned for a movie and about to appear in paperback), has just sold a second novel to Greer Hendricks at Atria. It's called Sterling Behaviors...

Esquivel is back.(Laura Esquivel)
May 30, 2005... A new novel by Laura Esquivel, who scored a spectacular success for a Spanish-language author with Like Water for Chocolate, has been signed, also for Atria, by Johanna Castillo. It's Malinche, a fictional account of Malinalli, the Mexican...

A final note.(deals)(Public Notice)
May 30, 2005... This is my last Deals column, and in the future information should be sent to Steve Zeitchik (deals@reedbusiness.com). I would like to stay in touch with my many friends in the business and can be reached through the office of my wife, agent...

Foreword.
May 30, 2005... At the starry bash for Amanda Filipacchi's Love Creeps (St. Martin's), authors Tama Janowitz and Jonathan Franzen party with the author (center). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Looking like a real Cinderella Man, Jeremy Schaap (l.)...

New group to promote DOI.(digital object identifier)(Consortium for Business Information Linking)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... A new organization called the Consortium for Business Information Linking, focused on advancing the use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) among business information publishers, is being organized at the Special Libraries Association...

Earnings rise at EDC.(Educational Development Corporation)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... The Educational Development Corp., distributor of Usborne children's books, reported net revenues of $31.6 million for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2005, an increase over the $31.1 million reported for the same period last year. Net...

What are you reading?(foreword)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 30, 2005... Pamela Papazidis, 49 Paralegal, Stamford, Conn. * What are you reading? The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien * Where did you get it? It was in a bag of books I bought at a church sale. * What prompted you to read it? I read...

Is 10.8 million copies enough?(rationing Harry Potter)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... With a bit less than two months to go before Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits stores, some of the same issues that surrounded the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are beginning to surface. Topping the list at...

CBA faces change, answers its critics.(Tightrope)
May 30, 2005... Faced with declining membership and a loss of business to mainstream retailers, CBA has instituted a number of changes designed to shift its attention and resources away from "services" and toward "solutions," said CBA president Bill...

Crown hires McCabe.(Allison McCabe)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Allison McCabe, formerly senior editor at Berkley, has been named a senior editor, acquiring fiction and nonfiction, and will be charged with expanding Crown's historical fiction program.

Kirkpatrick moves to Lyons Press.(Robert Kirkpatrick)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Robert Kirkpatrick, previously senior editor at Greenwood Publishing, has joined the Lyons Press acquiring titles in sports, history and current events.

Berkley tabs Seaver.(Kate Seaver)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Kate Seaver, formerly an acquiring editor at Dorchester, has been named a senior editor at Berkley, acquiring romances, chick lit, mysteries and nonfiction.

Hultenschmidt rises at Dorchester.(Leah Hultenschmidt)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Leah Hultenschmidt, formerly manager of public relations, advertising and Web site operations, has been promoted to editor.

Triumph learning hires Scroggie.(Bill Scroggie)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Bill Scroggie, formerly with the Mazer Corporation, has been named executive v-p of product development.

Gibbs Smith appoints DeCourcey.(Anne Hollinshead DeCourcey)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Anne Hollinshead DeCourcey, formerly national special sales manager at Fulcrum Publishing, has been appointed director of international, trade and library sales. She will be based at Gibbs Smith's Kaysville, Utah, office.

HM's Canavan has new list.(Susan Canavan, Houghton Mifflin)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Susan Canavan, recently promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, is leaving her role as managing director of trade paperbacks to focus on developing her own list of titles. Kate Travers, formerly with Harper Perennial, has been named...

Moore leaves DC for Top Shelf.(Alan Moore, DC Comics )
May 30, 2005... In a dispute over a film adaptation of his work, renowned comics and graphic novel author Alan Moore is leaving DC Comics and taking future volumes of his hit series, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, to a copublishing venture between...

Angelina dances with Penguin.(partnering)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Angelina's previous U.S. publishers, which have collectively sold more than five million books, have included Clarkson Potter, which offered the first titles starting in 1983, and, most recently, Pleasant Company. Penguin has been interested...

Mackey joins Audible.(Elizabeth Mackey appointed)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Elizabeth Mackey has left Franklin Electronic Publishers and joined Audible, where she's been named v-p for content business development.

More evidence of softness.(trends)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... The latest report measuring the performance of the trade market in 2004 comes from the Association of American Publishers. The report, which compiles statistics from 19 publishers--including results from the top seven consumer...

Trident Media promotes Silbersack.(John Silbersack)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Agent John Silbersack has been promoted to executive vice-president.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(Illustration)
May 30, 2005... It's Connelly's first landing in the coveted #1 spot. Closers is his 15th novel, the 11th in the Harry Bosch mystery series, and so far reviews have been excellent, including a PW star ("Connelly comes as close as anyone to being today's...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 30, 2005... No Bullshit: Princeton's bestseller shot up to the #3 spot, not due to Oprah but to a May 15 segment on 60 Minutes. Sales spiked and are still rolling; a 40,000 12th printing (huge for PUP) makes for 275,000 copies in print. Winning...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
May 30, 2005... "Droopy said to Cro-Magnon in Russian, 'The damn chornye survived.' Did he hear right? Chornye. The Russian equivalent for nigger. His was the only black face he'd seen since arriving in Moscow eight weeks ago, so he knew he had a problem."...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
May 30, 2005... Hosseini is at work on his next novel, the story of a lifelong friendship between two Afghan women, ranging from the idyllic mid-1950s to post-9/11 Kabul. Riverhead expects to publish in June 2006. "Alice Hoffman, Jo-Ann Mapson, Alice...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
May 30, 2005... First she wrote a book, which became an instant sensation. Then came two sequels. And now Ann Brashares is heading to L.A. for Tuesday's movie premiere of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Brashares has attended various events with the...

Kafka's chick: Mo Hayder's dark thrillers have a wide audience overseas; Morgan Entrekin thinks she can have the same here.(Entrekin's Story)
May 30, 2005... If someone who knew Mo Hayder in her teens and 20s had looked into a crystal ball, they would have been very surprised to see that this tattooed "rock chick" at age 43 had become a bestselling writer with three brooding thrillers and a...

A captive audience found at camps.(Camping It Up)
May 30, 2005... School is out, summer's here, the days are long. You'd think it would be the perfect time for bookstores to host author events geared to kids, but in fact, as publishers have found, the kids simply aren't around; a good number of them are...

E-books go to school: reality sets in, but survival seems assured.(Survival Story)
May 30, 2005... What a difference five years of hard-headed experience has made to electronic publishing and how its potential is viewed by the publishing industry. In the late 1990's hyperbole about the future of the electronic book was a growth industry....

Why don't Catholics buy more Catholic books?(Catholic Tastes)
May 30, 2005... Everyone in publishing knows that sales of religion books have boomed over the past decade. Even government pundits confirmed this last year when the NEA released the much-ballyhooed Reading at Risk report, which announced that almost no one...

A Sudden Country.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... * A Sudden Country KAREN FISHER. Random, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 1-4000-6322-1 Fisher builds a grand, mesmerizing novel on the bare chronicle left by her ancestor Emma Ruth Ross Slavin, who was 11 when her family joined the 1847 Oregon...

The Testing of Luther Albright.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Testing of Luther Albright MACKENZIE BEZOS. Fourth Estate, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-06-075141-X Luther Albright has it all: a top civil engineering position with the Sacramento department of water services; a lovely home he designed and...

Trace Evidence.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Trace Evidence ELIZABETH BECKA. Hyperion, $22.95 (336p) ISBN 1-4013-0174-6 Death is part of daily life for single mother Evelyn James, a forensic scientist in the Cleveland, Ohio, medical examiner's office. In the opening pages of this...

The Girl in the Glass.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Girl in the Glass JEFFREY FORD. Morrow, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-621127-1 A band of con artists-cum-spiritual mediums focus their psychic and sleuthing powers on a murder mystery in Ford's offbeat, thoroughly researched fifth novel (The...

Pioneer stories.(PW Talks with Karen Fisher)(Interview)
May 30, 2005... How are you related to the real Emma Ruth, who's one of your characters in A Sudden Country (reviewed on p. 33)? She's my great-grandmother's grandmother. My grandmother handed down a typed carbon copy of Emma's chronicle, but we don't...

Scooter.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Scooter MICK FOLEY. Knopf, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 1-4000-4414-6 Former pro wrestler Foley proves his authorial chops with this hard-edged coming-of-age tale (after Tietam Brown) about a turbulent childhood amid the decay of the Bronx in the...

Match Me if You Can.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Match Me if You Can SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS. Morrow, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 0-06-073435-8 Phillips's latest captivating romance (Ain't She Sweet; Breathing Room) follows a pair of reluctant lovers from their combative first acquaintance to...

One Dangerous Lady.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... One Dangerous Lady JANE STANTON HITCHCOCK. Miramax, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 1-4013-5236-7 New York grande dame Jo Slater, whose riches-to-rags-to-riches story entertained readers of Social Crimes, returns in Hitchcock's latest smart,...

Carnivore Diet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Carnivore Diet JULIA SLAVIN. Norton, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-393-05998-7 The surreal invades the quotidian with results both horrific and hilarious in Slavin's first novel, after her well-received collection, The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg...

Big Cats.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Big Cats HOLIDAY REINHORN. Free Press, $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 0-7432-7294-3 In the title story of this lively, honest debut collection set in California and Oregon, two 14-year-old girls, concessions workers at a zoo, get into a...

The Interruption of Everything.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Interruption of Everything TERRY McMILLAN. Viking, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 0-670-03144-5 Bestseller McMillan (A Day Late and a Dollar Short) does what she does best in her long-awaited sixth novel. Her candid, spirited narrator is Marilyn...

Death's Little Helpers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... * Death's Little Helpers PETER SHEGELMAN. Knopf, $22.95 (352p) ISBN 1-4000-4079-5 Shamus-winner Spiegelman's intricate, intelligent second thriller to feature all-too-human New York PI John March (after 2003's Black Maps) explores...

The Secret Purposes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Secret Purposes DAVID BADDIEL. Morrow, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 0-06-076582-8 British author Baddiel (Time for Bed) takes a little-known fact of WWII history--the internment of refugees on the Isle of Man--as inspiration for his compelling...

Triple Identity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Triple Identity HAGGAI CARMON. Steerforth, $24.95 (312p) ISBN 1-58642-090-9 Israeli-born international lawyer Carmon, in his impressively authentic debut thriller, has created a hero, Dan Gordon, with a background in complex asset...

Talking to the Enemy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Talking to the Enemy AVNER MANDELMAN. Seven Stories, $20 (144p) ISBN 1-58322-669-9 Mandelman, an Israeli living in Toronto, complicates the underside of Israeli culture, teasing out the roots of violence and prejudice in this alternately...

Something Nasty in the Woodshed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Something Nasty in the Woodshed KYRIL BONFIGLIOLI. Overlook, $13.95 paper (198p) ISBN 1-58567-564-4 This third installment of the scintillating British mystery series originally published in the U.K. in the 1970s finds shady art dealer...

Vendetta.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Vendetta FERN MICHAELS. Severn House, $27.95 (188p) ISBN 0-7278-6204-9 It isn't easy to root for the vindictive women in Michaels's Revenge of the Sisterhood series. Sure, they're loyal and fearless, and they look good in eveningwear...

Deadly Slipper.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Deadly Slipper MICHELLE WAN. Doubleday, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-385-51457-3 Set in the Dordogne region in southwestern France, Wan's debut, a French-flavored mystery with botanical window dressing, tracks the perilous search for a rare...

Always Time to Die.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Always Time to Die ELIZABETH LOWELL. Morrow, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-06-050415-3 Ann Maxwell has written over 60 books in multiple genres; as Elizabeth Lowell (Die in Plain Sight), she creates dialogue with immediacy and emotional...

The Death Collectors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... * The Death Collectors Jack KERLEY. Dutton, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-525-94877-5 The promise shown in Kerley's first book, The Hundredth Man, is borne out in the second in the series featuring Mobile, Ala., PD detectives Carson Ryder and...

Adam Runaway.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Adam Runaway PETER PRINCE. Touchstone, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 0-7432-7101-7 A vapid mix of elements from Tom Jones and Porkys, Prince's plodding eighth novel features a naive young Englishman adrift in corrupt early 18th-century Lisbon. Adam...

Berlin Blues.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Berlin Blues SVEN REGENER, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY JOHN BROWNJOHN. Vintage U.K. (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $13 paper (224p) ISBN 0-09-944923-4 More like a lovely dirge that the blues, this novel, is set in 1989, just as Berlin's...

Hardboiled & Hard Luck.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Hardboiled & Hard Luck BANANA YOSHIMOTO, TRANS. FROM THE JAPANESE BY MICHAEL EMMERICH. Grove, $21 (160p) ISBN 0-8021-1799-6 Like twins whose paths diverge dramatically, these two gentle stories share little beyond the mesmerizing voice of...

The History of Vegas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The History of Vegas JoDI ANGEL Chronicle, $19.95 (178p) ISBN 0-8118-4625-3 The adolescent narrators in this smutty, sad and occasionally violent debut collection are neglected, nearly grown children of the American West. In the title...

Evening Ferry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Evening Ferry KATHERINE TOWLER. Macadam/Cage, $25 (378p) ISBN 1-59692-124-2 The second volume of Towler's trilogy (after Snow Island) continues the story of a small and isolated New England island, picking up over 20 years after the end...

Chain of Command.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... * Chain of Command CASPAR WEINBERGER AND PETER SCHWEIZER. Atria, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 0-7434-3773-X Two term Reagan Secretary of Defense Weinberger collaborating with Schweizer (The Next War) turns in a debut political thriller crackling...

The Black Angel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Black Angel JOHN CONNOLLY. Atria, $25 (488p and CD) ISBN 0-7434-8786-9 The first 60,000 copies of Irish thriller master Connolly's fifth Charlie Parker novel arrive signed, and with a CD. (The latter features tracks that either play...

The Record Palace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Record Palace SUSAN WHEELER. Graywolf, $15 paper (224p) ISBN 1-55597-420-1 Poet Wheeler (Smokes; Ledger) riffs on lingerers at the eponymous Chicago record shop in a novel with all the snazzy syncopation of the jazz at its heart....

A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer CHRISTINE SCHUTT. Northwestern Univ./Triquarterly, $22.95 (165p) ISBN 0-8101-5153-7 National Book Award nominee Schutt (Florida; Nightwork) writes with startling beauty and frustrating restraint in 11...

The Ladies of Garrison Gardens.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Ladies of Garrison Gardens LOUISE SHAFFER. Random, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 1-4000-6062-1 Shaffer gathers all the elements of engaging suspense: violent death, switched identities, blackmail and contrasting worlds of magnolia gentility and...

The Blue Bistro.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Blue Bistro ELIN HILDERBRAND. St. Martin's, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-31953-3 The pricey, popular bistro of the title is the real star of Hilderbrand's fourth novel set on Nantucket. After years of hotel employ, peripatetic Adrienne...

Rococo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Rococo ADRIANA TRIGIANI. Random, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 1-4000-6007-9 Bestseller Trigiani (Lucia. Lucia) offers Italian recipes, family dramas and oodles of decorating ideas (if little narrative tension) in her latest novel, a feel-good story...

The Stolen Heart.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... The Stolen Heart LAUREN KELLY. Ecco, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 0-06-079728-2 Kelly (Take Me. Take Me with You), a pseudonymous "best-selling and award-winning author," serves up a studiously stylized novel about sex, abuse and grief that's...

The Clouds Above.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... * The Clouds Above JORDAN CRANE. Fantagraphics, $16.95 paper (280p) ISBN 1-56097-627-6 Crane has made his reputation with subtle, heart-tuggingly depressive comics like The Last Lonely Saturday and Keeping Two, so his new project is a...

Bambi and Her Pink Gun: Vol. 1.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Bambi and Her Pink Gun: Vol. 1 ATSUSHI KANEKO. Digital Manga Publishing, $12.95 paper (208p) ISBN 1-56970-941-6 Pink-haired punk Bambi has two problems: a junk-food--scarfing toddler named Pampi who she s trying to deliver to the Old Men...

Scream Queen.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... Scream Queen HO CHE ANDERSON. Fantagraphics, $12.95 paper (56p) ISBN 1-56097-651-9 Anderson's first outing since King, his monumental biography of Martin Luther King Jr., is a visually stunning fable of sex and death that collapses under...

The Maximortal.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 30, 2005... * The Maximortal RICK VEITCH. King Hell Press (P.O. Box 1371, W. Townshend, Vt. 05359), $17.95 paper (192p) ISBN 0-9624864-7-7 Equal parts heart-wrenching and horrifying, this superhero deconstruction is both a gripping tale for graphic...