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Adriana Dominguez of HarperCollins has joined Cuentecitos as a contributor and her first post is up. Learn about el dia de los ninos by clicking here.

Comic-Con Blogging Commences in Earnest

I'm heading down to Comic-Con in San Diego Thursday morning and will be staying for the whole show. My co-workers at AWN and I will be blogging constantly from all different angles of the show. Look for news, interviews, party happenings, cool stuff and lots and lots of images posted every night from the happening Gaslamp section of San Diego.

Deron Yamada, our splendiferous Art Director and lovingly called the Great Volcano God Yamada has designed a rockin header for the blog and we like it very much. All hail the Great Yamada!

Informed Art - Comic-Con Revealed

Hope to see you at the Con.

Buffy 2nd printing

Dark Horse announces second printing of

Buffy: Season 8!

Following the book’s release yesterday, Dark Horse will be going back to print on the much anticipated first issue of Buffy: Season 8. Since the book was announced last summer, Dark Horse has garnered a great deal of attention both in and outside of the comic market. With high profile press coverage, buzz among fans, and excitement from direct market retailers, orders exceeded the initial printing of over 100,000 copies!

“Admittedly, our expectations were already gigantic, but this has surpassed even those” says Dirk Wood, Director of Marketing. “We couldn’t be happier about how this has launched, and have high hopes for upcoming issues.”

“We've done something unique here. We've taken something really popular from the most mainstream of media, television, and we've transplanted it with total authority into comics” says Managing Editor, Scott Allie. “This is Buffy, by Joss, as much as the show ever was. And the sales seem to suggest that people are getting the message.”

The upcoming second printing will feature a full bleed version of the breathtaking Jo Chen cover, with some of the design elements removed for a cleaner, and more stripped down look. This new version will be arriving in stores with an on sale date of March 28, just a week before the release of issue #2. Dark Horse encourages retailers to backorder Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1 with confidence, as orders will be filled in full with the new printing.

One More Day......

Only one more day people to the first annual Cybil awards. I'm dying to see what books in each category win. I am particularly interested in the category that I was a panelist on...the Graphic Novel category. I have a favorite, my fingers are crossed, breath held in anticipation...BE TOMORROW ALREADY!

Watch for the announcements tomorrow here: The Cybils

The Best Chronicle Children's Books of the Year Contest

Chronicle Children's Books has just announced a fun contest with lots of wonderful prizes, like autographed copies of An Egg is Quiet, Ivy & Bean and other amazing books. In fact, they say they try and do contests at this address every six weeks or two months. The contests are thematic and there are always great goodies to win.

Click here to enter the contest!

Candlewick to Launch Beginning Reader Series

Publisher's Weekly reports that Candlewick Press, that marvelous publishing house with the beautiful, arty books are launching a beginning reader series. I can't wait!

Read the article here:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6414518.html?nid=2788