Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...modest hoopla that has surrounded the publication of The Plant, very few media analysts bothered to talk about the story itself (possibly because they didn't bother to read it). The Plant happens to be about a voracious supernatural vine that begins to grow wild in a paperback publishing house. It offers success, riches and the always desirable Bigger Market Share. All it wants from you in return is a little flesh...a little blood...and maybe a piece of your soul. What made The Plant such a hilarious Internet natural (at least to my admittedly twisted mind) was that...
...Plant's marketplace viability may come in late December and January, when Philtrum Press--my publishing company, which has offered books at odd intervals for almost 20 years--will e-market all six parts (The Plant, Book One: The Rise of Zenith) for $7, about the price of a paperback. And for that, my friend, you'll need your credit card...
...Berlin: City of Stones" ($15.95) by Jason Lutes is a paperback published by Drawn & Quarterly. It can be found at superior comicbook stores, and the Drawn & Quarterly website...
...Berlin: City of Stones," by Jason Lutes This paperback collects the first eight issues of a projected 25-issue series that takes place in Weimar Berlin. If it reaches completion, this will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, European drawing style, much like Hergé's "Tintin." This first volume follows a young woman art student who meets a weary leftist journalist against a background of boiling politics and decadence. Only eight issues in, and already this book has the density of the best novels...
...Luba" ($2.95 each) by Gilbert Hernandez and 'Naughty Bits' ($2.95 each) by Roberta Gregory are published by Fantagraphics books. Stories from "Luba" and other Gilbert Hernandez titles have been collected into paperback: "Fear of Comics" ($12.95). Likewise there are four collections of "Naughty Bits" material ($9.95 each). All should be available at better bookstores, superior comic book stores, and from the publisher's website...