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May 20, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Links: Good news, bad news

May 20, 2009 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

Two publishers are launching new comics series for kids, while another teen-girls project folds. PWCW’s Calvin Reid reports that Papercutz, the publisher of the Nancy Drew and Bionicle graphic novels, will be publishing graphic novels based on the Disney Fairies series of prose books. The graphic novels will be original stories, not adaptations. Reid also reports on another project that’s less sugar, more spice: Fantagraphics has an RIP, MD graphic novel in the works, based on an animated series, currently being developed by Lincoln Butterfield, that features a little boy who becomes a doctor and specializes in treating monsters.

On the down side, however, Shojo Beat, Viz’s manga magazine aimed at teen girls, will end with the July issue. Subscribers will receive a free copy of SB’s brother magazine, Shonen Jump, in August, along with "pertinent information" about their subscription options.

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In other news, Zack Smith talks to Scott Christian Sava about his children’s graphic novels at Newsarama.

Comic Book Resources posts the first chapter of Mouse Guard 1152 for your previewing pleasure.

ICv2 reports that Hill and Wang is expanding its nonfiction graphic novel line with three new titles in the fall: a history of the Vietnam War and biographies of Leon Trotsky (by Rick Geary) and Che Guevara. They also have a brief item on the planned Archie comic in which the gang graduates and Archie gets married, due out for September. And the presidential-comics trend is stretched to its fullest extent with a bio of the Obamas’ dog.

A reader asks Lori Henderson for advice on researching the literary value of manga. Please click through if you can offer suggestions.

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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