Tonight: Kim, Oleksyk, Reklaw
Via the First Second blog:
Derek Kirk Kim, Sarah Oleksyk, and Jesse Reklaw read from their latest works at Powell's Books this coming Monday, April 27th. Kim will debut his latest graphic novel, "The Eternal...
Tonight To Do: Photographer Exhibit
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and First Second Books are pleased to present a unique exhibit featuring photos and illustrations from the graphic novel The Photographer.
This exhibit offers a sample of the book...
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...
BATTLING BOY optioned at Paramount
Paul Pope's BATTLING BOY isn't due until 2010 from First Second, but it already has a coveted movie option from Brad Pitt's Paramount shingle.
Paramount Pictures has acquired Paul Pope's upcoming graphic novel "Battling...
Emmanuel Guibert and ALAN’S WAR
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ALAN'S WAR, the US edition of an award-winning French graphic novel by Emmanuel Guibert, is one of the best-reviewed books of the year. Here's a video of Guibert's drawing techniques.
Things to look out for: STUFFED! by Bertozzi and Eichler
Over on his blog, award-winning cartoonist Nick Bertozzi teases the new book he's illustrating for First Second, written by COLBERT REPORT writer Glenn Eichler.
Here are a couple of pages from STUFFED!, the graphic...
