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One of the year's most hotly anticipated novels is Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, about alternate worlds, levitating clocks, and... well, true to form for Murakami, it's really hard to tell what his novel's about, especially without reading it. More »
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Newly-published retrospective Bat-Manga!: The Secret History Of Batman In Japan has been making headlines - but not the right kind. The book, which collects Jiro Kuwata's little-seen 1966 Batman manga as well as other ephemera from Japan's mid-60s bout of Adam West-inspired Batmania, was curated by uber-designer Chip Kidd, but it's the book's credits that have caused trouble amongst fans - leading to a call for a Kidd boycott. More »
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If Dave Gibbons had gone with his original designs for Watchmen, the ground-breaking graphic novel he created with Alan Moore, then the psycopathic crime-fighter Rorschach would have had those ink blots all over his body. And he would have worn a big Prince-style trench-coat, the better to flash his body spots. And items that look like jodhpurs or spats over his boots. Styling! The London Times presented some of Gibbons' original Watchmen concept art. Click through to see his original designs for Dr. Manhattan and the Comedian. More »
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