PW’s Best Graphic Novels of the Year
Thus it begins. You can go to the link for all the details, but the cartoonists represented include Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie, Lynda...
Tonight: Chip Kidd@ The Strand
PLUS: See Frank Santoro's review of Bat-Manga in today's PW Comics Week with an EXCLUSIVE three-page preview. This book is WILD! I mean...SKIDOO.
New York Times snubbing graphic novels?
You'd think with the WATCHMEN graphic novel selling 10K+ copies a week on and off since July that it would have cracked a major...
Graphic novel status update
This article from the Philadelphia Inquirer is a typical summing up of the state of the Graphic Novel and its place c. late 2008,...
Yen Press moves to Orbit; Johnson leaves
Via PR from Hachette: Yen Press, the manga imprint led by Kurt Hassler and Rich Johnson, will be folded into a new publishing division,...
Tonight: Spiegelman, Heatley
Although this event at Barnes & Noble Tribeca is billed as an Art Spiegelman event, it will actually be a joint slide show/talk between...
BATTLING BOY preview
Paul Pope previews a page of his long-gestating GN for First Second, BATTLING BOY:
>In Batman Year 100, I had room for a couple of...
THE ALCOHOLIC news — signing, review
Glitter twins Dean Haspiel and Jonathan Ames will be appearing tonight at 7:00 pm at the Barnes & Noble Tribeca, 97 Warren St. (at...
Del Rey announces King/Straub monthly comic
Continuing what seems to have been a successful foray into comics adaptations and continuations of established fantasy/sf/horror books, Del Rey will publish a...
STAN’S SOAPBOX cover released
The Hero Initiative has released the final cover of their collection of Stan's Soapbox and announced a very limited edition hardcover (below), and an...
Michael Chabon’s Top 12 Tales of Adventure
Found via the Del Rey Internet Newsletter: Michael Chabon's "Dashing Dozen": 12 favorite works of adventure fiction:
CAPTAIN BLOOD, Rafael Sabatini
The Kull Stories, Robert E....
AMELIA RULES goes to S&S
While the gold rush of comics to mainstream book publishers seems to have slowed a bit (there were very few announcements or rumors at...
