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...
Blanchett loses weight for comics role
Cate Blanchett has been spotted out and about of late looking her usual impeccably fashionable self, but tongues have been wagging that she looks...
MOM’S CANCER wins BLOOKER
MOM'S CANCER by Brian Fies has won a Blooker Prize in the comics category. The Blooker Prizes are sponsored by POD publisher Lulu.
A comic...
Sequart Research & Literacy Organization announced
It looks like scholarship is here to stay, as Sequart has announced a new scholarly organization:
An organization has been founded to study and promote...
Mouse Guard picked up by book club
Graphic novels in book clubs? Yes indeedy.
PS: we just got a copy of this hardcover and it's a handsome book indeed.
Archaia Studios...
Cecil Castellucci guest blogs
To celebrate the debut of the Minx line (at long last) Plain JANES author Cecil Castellucci is guest blogging at Blog@Newsarama, and thought she...
The return of Craig Thompson
Whatever happened to...the auteur of BLANKETS, the book which in many ways kicked off the whole "comics are literary" movement? Well it seems he's...
Where is…BOILERPLATE?
Regular readers may recall the odd and colorful saga of BOILERPLATE, a make-pretend mechanical man created by Paul Guinan who ended up being used...
Comics attract wordsmiths, too
First it was the actors; then it was the directors and musicians and TV show staff writers. Now it's the famous novelists who think...
Bertozzi profiled in the Times
George Gene Gustines strikes again with a piece on Nick Bertozzi, The Salon and Gordon Lee:
The standout “character” is Picasso, who is an egotist...
