This weekend: Kids Comic Con
The annual event, focused on children's graphic book material and organized by Alex Simmons, comes to the Bronx tomorrow:
The KIDS COMIC CON 2009 is set for April 25th at Bronx Community College (181st Street...
SALT WATER TAFFY goes online
We forgot to pot this news, but everyone else did, but it's still too good not to pass along: SALT WATER TAFFY, Matt Loux's charming series about youthful adventurers, is going to run as...
First ever Nickelodeon Comics Awards winners announced
Wimpy Kid unsurprisingly won two of the inaugural Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards, but Naruto got beaten by Pokémon. The winners:
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Top GNs in bookstores
And in our final chart based item for the morning, ICv2 has released an adjusted list of the top-selling graphic novels of 2008, according to BookScan:
The top nine titles remained the same, but beginning...
NYCC: Archie Comics – #1821
Archie Comics was kind enough to send over their schedule for the show:
Stop by the Archie Comics booth #1821 and meet writers Misako Rocks!, Alex Simmons, Paul Castiglia and Barbara Slate and artists Fernando...
WIMPY KID as popular as Obama?
Well, at least in NYC, as reported by Shelf Awareness:
Harry N. Abrams is off to a very muscular start in 2009. On Tuesday, the pub date for Jeff Kinney's DIARY OF A WIMPY KID:...
WIMPY KID phenomenon detailed
The New York Times looks at Jeff Kinney's "Wimpy Kid" blockbuster status:
The franchise has been a sleeper hit for Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, and for the author, Jeff Kinney, who...
Catching up on publishing news
If you have a little downtime over the holidays, you could do much worse than by reading The Comics Reporter's yearend series of interviews:
Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson
Scholar and critic Jeet Heer
A looooong interview on...
Salem! No!
Oh no! Soon you will see another beloved comics character as you have never seen him before! That never happened before, either! But it's not who you think! And we're not done using exclamation...
SLJ ‘s Best Adult Books for High School Students
School LIbrary Journal has released a list of adult books recommended for younger readers:
It was a banner literary year and so SLJ's Adult Books for High School Students Committee decided on 30 titles, published...
Cool new book: Chicken and Cat Clean Up
Johanna points us in the direction of a new children's book by the marvelous Sara Varon: Chicken and Cat Clean Up.
In this volume, a 40-page hardcover for $16.99 aimed at ages 4-8, Chicken runs...
UK kids are crazy for comics
§ A raft of stories from the UK about how -- get this -- children love comics, in the wake of a study with hard numbers behind the surge. Sales are booming and growth...
