'Welcome to my worlds' (An awesome interview of Phillip Pullman.) (Yorkshire Post)

- Anne of Green Gables pre-quel (Controversial? I like the idea.) (The Vancouver Sun)

- Dark jocks (Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte deals with some of the depravity and ugliness associated with high-school sports culture.) (Pride Source)

- Exploring the sacred and religious in comics (Cool article/review about the new book Holy Superheroes!: Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film) (The Trades)

- 'Pulp Factions' (More about the Ten Cent Plague) (Boston Globe)

- 'Transgressions' (An excellent review of Boy Toy by Barry Lyga, but now I don't want to read it.) (New York Times)

- Enid Blyton's Famous Five gets a make-over (Not everybody approves. Namely The Guardian's Jean Hannah Edelstein.)

- Interesting marketing advice for Minx... (instead of marketing them as comics, "They should shelve these books in the YA section of every bookstore and library") (Chasing Ray)

- The Art of William Steig (New Yorker cartoonist and prolific children's book illustrator...Oh, how I love William Steig!) (The Guardian)

- Rapper Tony Yayo sentenced to "promoting literacy" (...As well as nine months in prison and 150 hours of community service for harassing a 14 year-old. Mother of victim protests related book tour.) (HipHop DX)

- Move over X-Men (The HIVE series by Mark Walden is here. "Bad has never been so good.") (The Trades)

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