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...terrorism is two wars, one for men and one for women. The guys' war is special forces on horseback, video-game bombing runs against comic-strip evildoers. It dominates the headlines and the federal budget. Women are not squeamish about the use of force--pollsters suggest they're more interested in the war on terrorism than in any other foreign policy issue in recent history--but they tend to have a different priority: protection of hearth and home against the next terrorist attack...
Little did he know that the change would involve his dog, a pocketbook-size Papillon named Genevieve. Just for fun, Fried had written a handful of comic essays about his pooch, which his wife Katrina distributed to several online dog groups. After getting enthusiastic e-mail responses to the stories, Fried decided that he might have enough humorous anecdotes about Genevieve to sustain a book. With time on his hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication...
...Wolverine the X-Man and Yugi of Yu-Gi-Oh! got into a fight, who would win? The conundrum isn't as tricky as the Superman-vs.-Batman debate that has divided comic-book readers for generations. Wolverine, an American superhero from the venerable Marvel stable, is a hulking genetic mutant with claws like knives. Yugi, a manga character from Japan, is a stunted schoolboy with a penchant for games and puzzles, low self-esteem and eyes the size of moon pies. When classmates pick on Yugi, girls jump to his defense...
...bizarre cast of fellow manga characters debuted in the U.S. last month in the Japanese mangazine Shonen Jump, pre- and postpubescent consumers snatched up all 250,000 copies with a WHOOOSH! Not even the X-Men are a match for Shonen Jump; issues of the most popular U.S. comic books rarely see print runs of more than 150,000. "It's a crazy amount of sales," says Robert Bricken, managing editor of the New York-based comic fanzine Anime Insider. "By all indications [Shonen Jump] is the best-selling product in the history of American comic publishing...
...venture is not without risk. Shonen Jump is up against the tried-and-true formula of American comics, which are traditionally based on red-blooded superheroes triumphing over evil in 36 pages or less. The five series that appear in the 300-page first issue of Shonen Jump?Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z, SandLand, YuYu Hakusho and One Piece?have nuanced story arcs that may not be resolved for years. For example, the archives of Dragon Ball Z?a tale of galactic war over a set of wish-granting orbs?run to 8,000 pages printed over more than...