2007 Quills Nominees
The nominees for the 2007 Quills Awards have been announced. Founded by Reed Business Information to honor the "most entertaining and enlightening titles" each...
Vertigo announces Straub/Easton and Jay Cantor projects
Not too much graphic novel news out of yesterday's BEA, although DC/Vertigo announced a couple of graphic novel projects by established authors. Douglas Wolk...
Alison Bechdel on tour
Superstar Alison Bechdel will be on tour to promote the paperback edition of her genre-busting memoir FUN HOME this summer:
Events:
New York:
June 2: ...
DC December shipping collected editions
Via PR:
THE ALL NEW ATOM: FUTURE/PAST TP
Writer: Gail Simone
Artists: Mike Norton, Eddy Barrows, Andy Owens and Trevor Scott
Collects: THE ALL NEW ATOM #7-11
$14.99 U.S.,...
The Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff available for preorder
Editor MK Reed writes to remind us that the new FoL anthology, The Girl's Guide to Guy's Stuff, is available for preorder. The contributor's...
Children read kid’s comics
We always liked the All Ages Reads feature in Newsarama -- actual kids reacing kids comings and giving their thoughts. This time...
Stuck in the Middle Launch Party Photos!
And now just to cleanse everyone's palette, here are pictures from the book party for Ariel Schrag's Stuck in the Middle Friday at Rocketship....
FREDDIE & ME to be published by Bloomsbury
Over on his LJ, Mike Dawson announces the publishing plans for Freddie & Me the autobiographical tale of his lifelong interest in the band...
Why book folks have been turning to the comics
WaPo book reviewer puts it into perpective in this review of Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark:
Over the past 25 years, literary fiction has...
PW on S&S rights “grab”
Some consternation this morning about budding GN publisher Simon & Schuster and their new rights policy which would seem to indicate ownership in perpetua....
RIP Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander, 83, a critically acclaimed fantasy and adventure writer whose coming-of-age novels use vivid action and elements of mythology to depict contemporary struggles...
Koontz and Queenie Chan team for Del Rey
Note, this is an OGN not an adaptation.
Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that...
