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Sun, 30 May 2004
2004 Eisner nominations
Better late than never, here's a complete list of this year's Eisner Award Nominations. Check out the list and be sure to click on the links to the GN search engine for more
info about the works and artists nominated.
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Fri, 28 May 2004
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13
Trust me, you don't want to miss this book.
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Mon, 24 May 2004
GN search is live
Now you can search for graphic novels by title or description!
This is pretty useful if you want to find GNs by a particular author, like
Alan
Moore or Chris Ware. I can also now post more info-packed links about individual books I recommend, like
Maus,
Palestine or
Watchmen.
Not every book in stock has been added yet, but the list is growing daily.
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Fri, 21 May 2004
Li'l Folks - Charles M. Schulz: Li'l Beginnings
Until now, this book was only available through the
Charles M Schulz museum, but
Hijinx has obtained a limited supply of this great looking volume that
makes the perfect companion to The Complete Peanuts vol 1. These are in limited supply, so get yours today!
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Derrick Bang - With Foreward by Jean Schulz
Charles M. Schulz: Li'l Beginnings, with a foreword by Jean Schulz and annotations, editorial commentary and an introduction by Derrick Bang, includes all 135 of the panels that Schulz created for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, his hometown paper, between June 22, 1947, and January 22, 1950
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Sun, 16 May 2004
I usually don't like websites with a lot of Flash animation, but this one is pretty darn cool. From their site:
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe. Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.
Sun, 09 May 2004
Not to be outdone by the recent Marvel online previews we've linked to lately, check out these absolutely gorgeous preview pages from Auad Publishing's new book featuring the art and life of Jordi Bernet.
Bernet is an amazing talent, but don't take my word for it. Check out the introduction by none other than Will Eisner. If that doesn't convince you, read the foreward by a guy you might have heard of named Joe Kubert.
Torpedo 1936 is a hard-edged crime comic with lots of violence and humor. I especially loved I spit on your cards! just one of the Torpedo tales in this fantastic collection.
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Thu, 06 May 2004
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Tue, 04 May 2004
Check out yet another full preview of the upcoming Doctor Octopus Year One, courtesy of Marvel. Enjoy.
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freshly formed feedback forums
I just expanded our feedback forums to separate some of the discussions
currently jammed into what is now the miscellany
forum. I've added a board for comics and
one for customer service issues as well. I'm open
to suggestions for other topics as well, so let me know in the customer service forum.
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