Everything we learned from the Wonder Woman WonderCon panel

“Wonder Woman” took center stage at Anaheim’s WonderCon on Saturday. The comic book convention packed the arena for the Warner Bros. panel with a crowd thirsty for new footage of Diana Prince in action. The studio was happy to oblige, with just a taste of what’s to come with the movie’s June premiere.... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Everything we learned from the Wonder Woman WonderCon panel

“Wonder Woman” took center stage at Anaheim’s WonderCon on Saturday. The comic book convention packed the arena for the Warner Bros. panel with a crowd thirsty for new footage of Diana Prince in action. The studio was happy to oblige, with just a taste of what’s to come with the movie’s June... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writing Woman to Woman, In Faith

Women writing in the spirituality space bring candor, authority, and humor to titles that challenge, celebrate, console, and empower women. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Changing Ecosystem of Learning: PW Talks to Macmillan Learning GM Susan Winslow

Macmillan Learning general manager Susan Winslow explains how the textbook publishers of yesterday are transforming into cutting-edge digital platforms focused on student success, and what the Covid-19 crisis is revealing about the future of learning. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic-Con: Gal Gadot says her Wonder Woman is 'the Wonder Woman of today'

"The Women Who Kick Ass" panel at San Diego Comic-Con was stocked aplenty with great women who are also great at butt kickin'. They came to discuss women in media, they came to talk about the future roles for females in the genre medium, and they came to tell stories about Gwendoline Christie... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Bertelsmann buys e-learning company Relias Learning

Bertelmann is to spend "in the mid-hundreds of millions" in US dollars on American e-learning provider Relias Learning, describing it as the company's "biggest purchase in the US since it took over Random House in 1998". The buy, which will have to be approved by antitrust authorities, is... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Panel Mania: ‘Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It’ by Tara Booth

Tara Booth’s new graphic memoir is an eccentric and colorful psychological self-portrait with dazzling visual impact and an engaging and idiosyncratic sense of humor. A ten-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Tommy Robinson’s book went to No 1 on Amazon. This is what I learned from the reviews | Zoe Williams

The far-right activist’s Manifesto briefly topped the website’s chart. It is gone now, but the comments make for worrying readingIt’s always tempting to self-soothe when the far right is on the march. Tommy Robinson’s new book, Manifesto: Free Speech, Real Democracy, Peaceful Disobedience,... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Panel Mania: ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ by David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s new graphic novel ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ is an imaginative retelling, in comics, of Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Panel Mania: 'Mothballs' by Sole Otero

Sole Otero’s new graphic novel is a multigenerational saga of female disenfranchisement and despair. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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DOJ vs. Google: Can the digital media industry learn from the last 15 years?

Can the industry save itself from short-term thinking, even if Google is dealt a blackened eye, or bloodied nose during a raft of government tussles? Continue reading at Digiday

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Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

This story was co-published by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. “Poor people” are “my people” Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has said. In his best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, he claimed a similar possessiveness, while at the same time... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Panel Mania: ‘Babe in the Woods: Or the Art of Getting Lost’ by Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan's debut graphic memoir ‘Babe in the Woods: Or the Art of Getting Lost,’ transforms a weekend hike in the woods into an evocative survey of her life and career and into an all-too-real survival story. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Panel Mania: 'Deep Cuts' by Kyle Higgins and Joe Clark

'Deep Cuts,' written by Kyle Higgins and Joe Clark and featuring a diverse group of artists, is a richly imagined and illustrated anthology that uses fictional vignettes to recreate the history of Jazz. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Panel Mania: 'Chaos in Kinshasa' by Barly Baruti and Thierry Bellefroid

Mixing real events with fictional Cold War–era espionage, Barly Baruti and Thierry Bellefroid’s ‘Chaos in Kinshasa’ is a lively graphic thriller that uses the famed 1974 Muhammad Ali–George Foreman title bout as its backdrop. A nine-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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What I learned from binging the Book Club movies.

I’ve been a part of many book clubs. The most successful one was the brain fruit of my most energetic friend. We met weekly, and she’d cook lavish multi-course meals inspired by the novels we chose. But the group lost momentum, as these things do. Some members moved away. Some drifted. The club... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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What do scientists have to learn from wildlife? The value of diversity.

Jasmin Graham’s fresh and innovative memoir details how her work as a “rogue” shark scientist pushes science to include more diverse perspectives. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Panel Mania: 'The Jellyfish' by Boum

Boum’s new graphic novel, 'The Jellyfish,' is a beautifully illustrated meet-cute about a developing queer romance challenged by the emotional complexities surrounding a physical disability. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Pre-Show News, Must-Go Panels, and More

It wouldn’t be San Diego Comic-Con without a little drama, some big questions, and a lot of hype. We've rounded up the big stories of this year's show—among them the show’s future in the city that gives it its name—and the top 21 panels to attend. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Fire commissioner is the latest high-profile woman leader to leave Adams’ City Hall

Mayor Eric Adams expresses frequent pride in the number of women he has elevated to senior roles in his administration. But several of those appointees have departed under murky circumstances in the past year, reflecting the continued difficulties those leaders face — especially in... Continue reading at Crains New York

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Overlooked No More: Ursula Parrott, Best-Selling Author and Voice for the Modern Woman

Her writing, about marriage and divorce, sex and its consequences, work-life balance, the challenges of child-rearing and other topics, still resonates today. Continue reading at The New York Times

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