Seth teams up with Lemony Snicket for new series
Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, is starting a new kids' books series, to be illustrated by Seth. Called "All the Wrong Questions," the first volume, Who Could That Be at This Hour?, will be out October 23rd. The series is getting a 1 million copy first printing.
Continue ReadingFor those who can’t let go: “Goodnight, iPad.”
GOODNIGHT, MOON by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd is a classic for children and the parents who read to them as a drowsy tot lets go, bit by bit, of the corporeal world and drifts into slumber. Now here is a parody for adults who—much like The Beat—ease into sleep while frantically clutching at a game of "The Creeps" or Angry Birds Halloween, and awaken in the wee hours in a panic and check email to relax.
Continue ReadingEven Garth Ennis is going to Kickstarter—for a kids’ book
If you didn't ever expect to see comics writing star Garth Ennis launching a Kickstarter program, you surely never expected to see him do it...for a kids' book. But that's exactly what is happening for a project calledERF, a sort of Finding Amoeba, featuring four lovable creatures plucked from the primordial ooze to find a better way of life:
Continue ReadingVertigo announces trades for Sept.-Dec., including two originals
DC has released it's book schedule for Vertigo for the fall, including two originals, one yet to be announced -- THE PRINCE OF CATS by Ron Wimberly. Judging by his tumblr for the project, it an updated take on Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET starring Tybalt.
Continue ReadingThe cover for Raina Telgemeier’s DRAMA is here
2012 sees Telgemeier's next book, DRAMA, and it's another bullseye to the interests of middle-schoolers, dealing with the ever popular school play. On her blog, she just released the cover and it looks like another winner.
Continue ReadingDRAGON TATTOO graphic novel hits in November
Vertigo has confirmed the details of the graphic novel version of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy: as previously leaked, Denise Mina will write the adaptation, with art by Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti. The cover is by Lee Bermejo — definitely in the style of the Vertigo crime line. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO graphic novel will arrive in November. The book has already been adapted into a Swedish film/TV series and a US film. All three existing versions have various story tics, and very different takes on Lisbeth Salander, the enigmatic heroine who loves Billy's pan pizza and computer hacking. Mina's take is worth watching as she's a veteran crime writer on her own as well as a comics reader (and writer). We're curious to see how she tweaks the story.
Continue ReadingSales Charts: Why Diamond classifies Random House as a “Small” publisher
Courtesy of Diamond, we've been posting their top sales charts for 2011 today (more are coming) -- but one question keeps coming up. Diamond releases charts for both "Indie" publishers and "Small" publishers. What is the difference? When you see Random House -- the world's biggest publisher -- on Diamond's "Small" chart, it seems paradoxical. Well, Diamond has provided us with some definitions.
Continue ReadingBechdel’s ARE YOU MY MOTHER gets 100K first printing
As we've mentioned here several times, there have been no more important graphic novels published in this century than PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi and FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel. Both found large audiences well beyond the traditional ones for comics, and both have become oft-imitated -- but never duplicated -- by book publishers trying to cash in on the "graphic novel" trend. (The number of graphic autobiographies exploring ethnic roots alone is staggering.)
Continue ReadingKim Thompson on “The Graphic Novel Decade”
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet“I think a solid core of high-selling mainstream-y genre comics would be nice, but it really hasn’t happened (except for arguably the manga phenomenon, and I don’t get the impression that the success of manga has bled back into non-manga comics) and “art comics” have achieved enough big successes now (Persepolis [...]
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: Fall 2011: Miscellaneous
Looking for the unusual? The overlooked? Something a bit different? Take a look here!
Continue ReadingMatthias Wivel on Habibi and cultural criticism
Matthias Wivel is one of a trio of reviewers -- Domingos Isabelinho and Ng Suat Tong are the other two -- known for applying the most stringent possible personal standards to comics in their criticism. Thus, seeing Wivel come to the defense of HABIBI at The Hooded Utilitarian is a bit of a surprise -- but he makes a plausible point. Running down a host of critical beatdowns administered on that site over stereotypes and gender issues, he says that "parts of the comics intelligentsia seem to be developing an unhealthy obsession with ideological readings of comics."
Continue ReadingAnthony Bourdain’s Get Jiro! cover emerges
Amazon has the deets on GET JIRO!, the graphic novel brainstormed by master chef Anthony Bourdain, co-written with Joel Rose and drawn by Langdon Foss. it sounds a little like our dream of an American version of IRON WOK JAN has finally come true.
Continue ReadingOprah.com not quite sure what those “graphic novels” things are
The past decade may have been the graphic novel decade but some comics observers dreamed of the crowning moment of comics PR as Oprah Winfrey holding up a copy of Gilbert Hernandez's LUBA as a selection of her book club—a Winfrey book club pick rountinely meant mllions of copies sold, so you can see why it would have been the crowning moment of mainstream acceptance for comics. Sadly, that moment never came, as Oprah canceled her syndicated show to focus on her own network. But while comics might not get that instantaneous boost, at least Oprah.com has picked a few GNs s part of an article entitled11 Books You Never Thought You'd Read (but Will Fall in Love with Instantly):
Continue ReadingDenise Mina will adapt THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO for comics
Scottish novelist/playwright Denise Mina has been chosen to adapt the Millennium Trilogy into comics, it was revealed in The Scotsman. Known as a purveyor of "Tartan Noir," Mina already has solid comics cred, having written a year's worth of HELLBLAZER and A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY for the Vertigo Crime line. The GN adaptations of Stieg Larsson's hugely successful books, starring investigator/hacker Lisbeth Salander, were announced back in October -- to be published by DC's Vertigo imprint -- but no further details have been released. The first book in the comics adaptation will be out in March -- each novel will be split into two GNs for a total of six books.
Continue ReadingTales of the Batman: Gene Colan – The Difference Between an Art Book and a Graphic Novel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBy Todd Allen Back in August, DC released the “TALES OF BATMAN: GENE COLAN VOL. 1” hardcover book. This book reprints Batman #340, 343-345, 348-351 and Detective Comics #510, 512, 517, 528 and 529. As we see a trend towards naming collections of a title by the creator(s),we come across [...]
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