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A friend & colleague considers Rick Altergott's The Doofus Omnibus.

From the Scholastic website: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling, the fifth in the bestselling series has been scheduled for release on Saturday, June 21, 2003 in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, it was announced today by Scholastic and Bloomsbury publishers. The companies …

The beaming cartoon cat on the front cover of Kim Deitch’s aptly titled The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Pantheon) looks innocent enough. But turn the volume over and the same ‘toon head leers at you salaciously: innocence & experience in one four-fingered figure. Largely set in the early days of …

Seven figure deal for the controversial Supreme Court Justice’s memoirs from HarperCollins: Multiple publishers vied for the rights to Thomas’ autobiography, which he started writing in 2001, but Thomas liked the package offered by the New York-based HarperCollins, including the editor assigned to work with him, people in the publishing …

Cory Doctorow’s sci-fi novel Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom is in bookstores today. In keeping with the open source tradition, you can also download the whole flipping thing, as well as check up onn ews, reviews, press and whatnot on the book at Cory’s site . Here’s a …

For a guy few outside of the British Navy know much about, Samuel Pepys is getting a lot of play these days. He is the subject of a new biography by Claire Tomalin, reviewed last week in the NY Times, and his daily diaries have been turned into a blog …

A look at five of 2002's top genre comics.

Yesterday would have been J.R.R. Tolkien’s 111th birthday, his “eleventy-first.” Fans celebrated worldwide: It’s a clear sign that a movie has passed from mere entertainment into the realm of cultural phenomenon when it starts spawning theme parties. Such is the case with “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Act two, …

The “Susan Orlean” depicted in Adaptation is a female human who wrote The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession – similarities end there: The movie Adaptation portrays real-life author Susan Orlean in so perversely inaccurate a manner that studio executives were ”terrified” that Orlean might halt the …

Our good friend and Blogcritic John Scalzi has great and interesting news: he published a sci-fi novel in serial form on his website last month, now the book has been picked up by a publisher for “traditional” publication. This is excellent news for John and for the free publication of …