BLANKETS and FUN HOME on hot seat in MISSOURI
A Marshall, Missouri woman has requested that FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel and BLANKETS by Craig Thompson be removed from the library shelves, because she feels they are inappropriate, writes the Marshall-Democrat News. ...
Comics in Virginia Quarterly Review
Now even literary magazines, the last bastion of reading, are being invaded by comics! But the comics are cool and...well, literary. The Virginia Quarterly Review has been serializing Art Spiegelman's "Portrait of the...
Byron Preiss assets on the block for $150K
Following Chapter 7 Bankruptcy proceedings, the remaining assets of Byron Preiss Visual Publications and iBooks will be going on the block on October 19 with a starting bid of $150,000. The assets include what...
News from all over
• Love the New York Post's headlines: FINDING HUMOR IN A TUMOR a profile of Marisa Acocella Marchetto and CANCER VIXEN.
• SCI FI Wire has a new video of the making...
Woman Corner
Over at TIME.com Andrew Arnold reviews five graphic novels that all happen to be written by women.
Meanwhile, over at SF Weekly, Karen Zuercher outlines the reasons why some women have a hard...
Owen’s Dragons soar at Warners
Comics-type James A. Owen (STARCHILD) has a new career as the author of a new children's fantasy novel, HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS and the book is already on the Hollywood fast track for a...
Comics make BIble cool!
Gannett News has a fairly comprehensive look at the new religious comics publishers:
LifeWay's "Spirit Warriors" follows the adventures of six rebellious teens mysteriously orphaned as children who have uncommon God-given strengths. They unleash their...
Johnson to Hachette
Publishers Weekly reports that Rich Johnson, formerly in charge of DC's book trade biz, has been hired at Hachette to set up a graphic novel imprint at Little/Brown:
In an internal memo released to PW,...
Quotable Brad Meltzer
In a very long interview with Scott King the best selling author talks about doing creator owned material:
Scott: …I know you write comics but do you have any desire to do a creator owned...
Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for the week ending September 17th displays the effect of the...
Blanchett is CANCER VIXEN
Marisa Acocella Marchetto's CANCER VIXEN is believed to have nabbed the highest advance ever for a graphic novel but it looks like it's earning its keep, with a movie deal in place before it's...
COMICS AS ART review
Will COMICS AS ART: WE TOLD YOU SO, the oral history of Fantagaraphics be published, in the wake of the Harlan Ellison lawsuit? We sure hope so, especially after reading
this review in PRINT...
