Interviews of note
§ Daily Cross Hatch continues chatting with Paul Gravett and Nick Bertozzi:
Gravett: Exactly. And the point is, these characters—there’s nothing in Japan that’s been...
Bookmark: Comics Writing resources
Caleb Monroe has put together a page of online resources for would-be (and be) comics writers. Looks like an impressive amount of work...
A little bit more on DC/RH
A couple of people drew our attention to the following quote from Paul Levitz's interview with Newsarama on DC going with Random House for...
To Do LA Sept. 8- BLAB! at Copro Nason
It's not often we wish we were in LA, but this looks like a helluva show:
Saturday, September 8, 8:00-11:30 pm :THE BLAB! SHOW ...
Breaking news: Girls read comics?
Wall Street Journal reports on comics shocker!:
Industry heavyweights including DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment Inc. are betting that girls represent a big growth opportunity...
They’re just not that into you
Via Brigid comes the tale of Takeshi Miyazawa, an American manga-style artist who moved to Japan to follow his dream after being published in...
Brits catch on to the graphic novel thing finally
Or so says the New York Times. Of course, when you have people like Raymond Briggs and Posy Simmonds leading the pack, it's about...
3 Image Books that look rather cool
Newsarama previews three September books we like the looks of: REPO #4, MADAMAN ATOMIC #4, GUTSVILLE #2:
Speaking of GUTSVILLE, writer Simon Spurrier writer to...
What are people doing
§ If only we could be as funny as Tim O'Neil.
§ The Forbidden Planet Blog Log interviews the guy behind the Comics Britannia mini...
LUCHADORES lead Humanoids film slate
Well, only yesterday we were editing a story on LUCHA LIBRE, a drop-dead gorgeous book in the Euro style, first published in France by...
Video tribute to Comics Sans
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=274428&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEFComic Sans from Genre Creative and Vimeo.
Via Unbeige
Adventure on!
Over on his blog, Jeff Smith recently announced some impressive sales figures for Scholastic's BONE reprints:
I received some astonishing sales figures from Scholastic -...
