Librarians Love Graphic Novels! Numerous Titles Win Awards!
Every January, the American Library Association holds their Mid-Winter Meeting. Tradition dictates that it be held in a frigid clime, so Philadelphia was chosen. (In a bit of uncanny foresight, the next three sites...
Reviews: Comics from Comic Art Brooklyn and beyond
Here for your perusal, I examine a pile of worthy comics and graphic novelish books that I have found in my travels to Brooklyn; from a few book release parties at Bergen Street Comics,...
DC Announce Date for “Black Canary/Zatanna” from Paul Dini, Joe Quinones
Comics Alliance have confirmed from DC Comics that the long-awaited Black Canary/Zatanna OGN from writer Paul Dini is to be published in May of next year. Originally expected to be drawn by Amanda Conner,...
SDCC’13: Heidi’s Sunday Podcast with Fantagraphics, Rick Geary and more.
Live from San Diego Comic-Con, it's More To Come! Heidi's podcast from Publishers Weekly Comics World brings you special coverage from San Diego Comic Con. Interviews fresh from the convention floor, with new episodes...
HYPE ALERT: Free Honest Tea at Crown Publishing for Mission in a Bottle
Disclosure: from time to time I take on outside consulting projects, and I'm currently working with the creators of the new graphic novel Mission in a Bottle to do some marketing for them...
INTERVIEW: The Code Monkey Team Expand with “The Princess Who Saved Herself’
The creative team behind the Code Monkey Save World Kickstarter - Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton, Takeshi Miyazawa, Jessica Kholinne and Simon Bowland - have seen their project rocket wildly beyond the $30000 target they...
5 Recent Graphic Novels You Don’t Want to Miss
These graphic novels have been chosen because they were all released in the past 6 months and equally combine qualities of well-crafted concepts and remarkable artwork to create solid visual narratives. They aren’t the...
INTERVIEW: From Dragons to Vampires to Super-Spies, with Emma Vieceli!
It's St George's Day today, so to celebrate here's an interview with the only other person on known record to have slain a dragon - Emma Vieceli, writer/artist for a number of graphic novels including...
INTERVIEW: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton Team Up on Kickstarter!
Kick up the Kick-Watcher! Today sees the launch of Code Monkey Save World, a new 60-page graphic novel from Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, to be brought to life by the artistic team of...
On the Scene: MoCCA Fest 2013, SelfMadeHero’s Englishmen in New York
It’s a truism that comics culture and the comics industry varies radically from country to country, but MoCCA Fest’s efforts to bring in an international perspective is laudable, to get past the stereotypes of...
Review: The Death of Superman
Nowadays we think of it as the pre-mullet era of Superman, but at the time The Death of Superman was an incredibly big idea for DC. A story which killed off their main signature...
Graphic novels recognized by ALA awards and YALSA
The early award season for books is here, and earlier this week the American Library association handed out a slew of literary awards. As has been the recent trend, several graphic novels were recognized among the pictureless books:
