Preview Craig Thompson’s HABIBI
Craig Thompson'ss incredible graphic novel HABIBI is coming out next week, and while very different thematically from BLANKETS, it shares Thompson's emotionally resonent storytelling in which every line and word is part of the overall effect. For a peek, Guernica magazine has a preview of 11 pages. HABIBI goes on sale everywhere next week.
Continue ReadingHanawalt draws worldwide gas
A book on farts illustrated by Lisa Hanawalt, with an attached soundboard? Where do I sign up?
Continue ReadingBrooklyn Book Festival announces comics programming
The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York's biggest public book event of the year, and it's always had some comics programming -- however this year's edition, which takes place Sunday, September 18th at Brooklyn Borough Hall, is blowing off the hinges with appearances by Kate Beaton, Dean Haspiel, Michael Kupperman, Keith Knight, Ted Rall, David Shrigley, Sarah Glidden, Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Hayden, GB Tran, Dave Roman, Laura Lee Gulledge, Nick Bertozzi, Hillary Chute, and Steven Weinberg. Instead of being confined to only comics events, graphic novelists are taking part in panels with non-comics writers. I'm moderating the humor panel with Kate Beaton, Michael Kupperman, Keith Knight, and Jennifer Hayden -- oh boy!
Continue ReadingSchulz Library needs volunteers tomorrow
Here's an update on the status of the CCS Schulz Library, which was endangered by flood waters but saved by a plucky and heartwarming band of volunteers who risked danger and dampness to rescue every single book from the library. Although the books are high and dry, the building they were housed in is in questionable shape, and the books are extremely jumbled from the sudden move. In order to get things organized for the new class, arriving in scant days, a call has gone out for some help:
Continue ReadingLego versions of Road House and the Bible make life worth living
If you have been around the nerdier sectors of the net in the last decade you have surely seen The Brick Testament, by Brendan Powell Smith a loving recreation of the BIble's most gruesome, perverted and vengeful moment rendered in Lego brick men and women. What you may NOT have known is that the whole glorious thing is coming out this month in a paperback from Skyhorse.
Continue ReadingWell Said: Neil Gaiman
Embedded in the carpet of the new Gungahlin Public Library in Canberra, Australia.
Continue ReadingThe Atlantic on 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
Over on the Atlantic website, Kirsten Butler offers a list of 10 non-fiction comics that goes way beyond the usual Maus/Persepolis/Joe Sacco list.
Continue ReadingWalking Dead and Death of Spider-Man top shaky June sales
June was another down month, with periodical comics sales down 4.62 percent from June of 2010. The GN picture was more complicated. Overall, these numbers paint a pretty dicey picture for the Fantasy Economy. (See Larry Marder's comment's here). June 2010 may have been an abnormal month for GN sales but there is a need for more franchises like Hellboys, Chews and Narutos.
Continue ReadingRaina Telgemeier announces Drama!
On her panel at SDCC, Raina Telgemeier announced some info on her next book: it's called Drama!
Continue ReadingBryan Lee O’Malley’s SECONDS to be published at Villard
Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley has been teasing a new projects called SECONDS with a photo on his Twitter feed, and Publishers Weekly has confirmed that it will be a new graphic novel to be published by Random house imprint Villard in 2013.
Continue ReadingSDCC11: Marvel Launches Season One Graphic novels
Tom Brevoort believes in the satisfying chunk. Or in his case, "big, sizable, meaty chunks" of of story like those found in graphic novels. Marvel has significantly rejected the notion of creating original graphic novels over the years, with former E-i-C Joe Quesada continually saying they don't make economic sense. However, maybe they do make more reading sense for new readers in a world of tablets and Kindles. Marvel has announced a new line of Season One hardcover original graphic novels which will give modern readers a modern take on the origins of classic characters:
Continue ReadingBreaking: Bye bye, Borders
It's official....as everyone expected, Borders, the book chain that spearheaded the rise of graphic novel sin the good years, has failed to find a buyer and will be liquidated, perhaps as soon as this Friday.
Continue ReadingCharlaine Harris plans new 3-book graphic novel series
Speaking of True Blood, which we probably were a while ago, Charlaine Harris, author of the original Sookie Stackhouse novels, is planning to get into the GN game:
Continue ReadingExclusive: Kim Harrison’s Blood Work Blog Tour
Original comics additions to best-selling fantasy series are one of the hottest trends in graphic novels these days, and here's a new one that looks to continue that trend. Kim Harrison's The Hollows urban fantasy series has already sold over a million copies and now it's joining the graphic novel world with BLOOD WORK, an original gn set in the Hollows world with art by Pedro Maia an Gemma Magno. The book was written by Harrison herself and goes on sale on July 12th. The Hollows series is set in an alternate world where supernatural witches, vampires, werewolves and pixies lives alongside more regular humans. Rachel Morgan, a witch, is a detective who investigates crimes that involves both worlds. BLOOD WORK tells the story of how Morgan and her vampire partner Ivy Tamwood met for the first time and teamed up.
Continue ReadingBONE announces 20th Anniversary Tour Dates
At the Book Expo in May we were asking an indie book store owner if she sold many graphic novels and she said "Only the classics, like BONE." To celebrate, the BONE crew is hitting the road with the spectacular deluxe 20th Anniversary edition, the first full color one volume edition of BONE. Details here.
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