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...last year manga racked up some $100 million, almost double 2002's sales, according to ICv2, a pop-culture trade publication. The two dominant U.S. publishers of manga, TOKYOPOP and VIZ, will ramp up their 2004 title count to more than 300 between them. Later this year DC Comics plans to launch a manga imprint called...
Like the first volume, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (DC Comics; 224 pages), is set in England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate...
...coordinator of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, recruiting high school seniors from her hometown and matching them with undergraduates when they arrive in Cambridge to tour Harvard. She has spoken at a number of national conferences, most recently addressing a January 2002 meeting of Blacks in Government in Washington DC on the topic of leadership...
...Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (DC Comics; 1986) This black comedy version of Batman's latter days remains one of the best selling graphic novels of all time. Along with Alan Moore & Dave Gibbon's "Watchmen," it redefined the concept of "superhero," and helped spark the first wave of "serious" interest in comics...
...Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse (DC Comics; 1995) A novel set in the South during the 1960s, "Baby" tackles both the civil rights movement and the complications of being gay at that time. It's a moving work featuring people - Southerners, blacks, and gays - who don't get much serious attention in this medium...