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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PERSEPOLIS stills on line
Sony Pictures Classics has up some still from the PERSEPOLIS animated film which is due out in 2007. Creator Marjane Satrapi wrote the script...
New Tolkien!
Well, old Tolkien reallly, according to PW:
Houghton Mifflin has acquired U.S. rights to publish the first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien since the posthumous...
Meltzer king of all media
Brad Meltzer has achieved what we suspect is an unprecedented double --- topping the NY Times Bestselller list AND the Diamond chart in the...
