Books in the News

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, April 24, 2025



Now, the good Professor always follows up his “Good News, Everyone” with decidedly bad news. But for this week, that can wait. And I was going to spend the first part of this newspost looking at some of the more depressing stories about books from around the world, but end ...

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Choosing Your Genre

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 1, 2020




For better or for worse, we are creatures of categorizations. We love to label things, and to sort them into neat little boxes so that we are absolutely certain we know what to expect when dealing with each one. It is that sense of familiarity that we are looking for ...


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The Impracticality of Being Practical

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 13, 2017


The Businessman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

I have a certain level of disdain for people who believe that comics and art in general are merely hobbies. When I was much younger and on the receiving end of advice from many well-meaning grown-ups, the word “practical” and the phrase ...


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Stories Written for Children (That Might Have Been Intended for Adults)

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2015
tags: books, haunt, me, that


The Giving Tree, Story and Illustration by Shel Silverstein

I remember reading along with certain children's books that became very near and dear to me as a young kid. Over the years, I revisit the story and it begins to take on a whole new meaning as my perspective ...


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Making Use of the Public Library

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 11, 2015



I live in a relatively small, suburban city that does not have an apparent central Art's District hub where creative energies flock like major cities. The closest areas for art inspiration are usually the laid back independently-owned tea shops or coffee lounges where local artists hang their art prints ...

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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier Donation Drive

HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 21, 2014



TheDeeMan and Coydog are running a donation drive to self-publish their fantastic comic Chevalier! Chevalier won last year's Drunk Duck Award for Best All Ages Comic.

Donations will go towards printing and shipping their current book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: The Hither and Yon” as well as the ...



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Chevalier in print! (And thank you again to ComicRocket!)

skoolmunkee at 12:01AM, Oct. 21, 2013

A little message from TheDeeMan:

During the Duck's downtime Monique and I released “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: The Hither and Yon” the first in a four book fairy tale fantasy adventure series based on our webcomic “Chevalier”. It's available now at Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and bookstores everywhere ...

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Brief update - thumbnails working again - and regular newspost

skoolmunkee at 10:37AM, Jan. 26, 2011

The site is recovering from the server move, albeit slowly. We're still seeing reports of problems trickle in, so keep letting us know about those and we can pass them on to the programmers at Wowio. Hopefully we will have more information soon.

Newest fix: Everyone should have thumbnails ...

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Community project to help comic-makers improve, GAAK published, and milestones!

skoolmunkee at 2:56PM, July 7, 2010

Be sure to check out the other recent newsposts, there's been a lot of stuff in them lately!


Hey! You know what you need? A community project! This one's run by Salsa and jninjashadow, and they need submissions from YOU! (Yes, you!)


jninjashadow explains it:
BUG- Bad Ugly ...






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I opened up my PQs and this news came out

skoolmunkee at 3:49AM, Aug. 22, 2009


RedNoseDog tells me that Counterfeit reached 50 pages yesterday! Congrats!


houseofmuses has an announcement too!

houseofmuses
Been a great week for me! House of the Muses #2 is now on sale in paperback at Barnes and Noble and IndyPlanet.com!

I've sent out a press release this evening to ...







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