Mark Siegel on ‘American Born Chinese’ sales
ICv2 has a nice interview with Mark Siegel, which looks at the metrics of how getting a book nominated for a major award affects sales:
The first list that came out in May...
New book about comics
By a chance of fate while we were waiting for our luggage at JFK the other night, we ran into comics journalist Joel Meadows, a fortuitous event that meant we could split a cab...
You Minx, you.
Before I get too far into this, I'll give you the loglines: #1 DC's new girl-focused MINX imprint could just possibly be the most important launch ever by Marvel or DC. #2 I'd read...
Little girls like comics, too
The Babysitter's Club blog has pictures from this Sunday's signing by Raina Telgemeier and Abby Denson at Rocketship. Call us crazy and say we have an agenda, but these pictures of young girls lined...
BLAB!– still cool
Get Underground hace a nice interview with Monte Beauchamp, whose BLAB! remains an influential compendium of all things cool and suureal:
MATT: What draws you to certain artists and what tends to push you...
On the scene: GNs at the Y
Wil Moss sent us this report on the graphic novel talk last Sunday at the 92nd Street Y.
On Sunday night a variety of voices gathered at the New York City 92nd Street YMCA...
Amazon’s Best of 2006: Comics & Graphic Novels
The lists are piling up. Much lauded tales like AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, FUN HOME and BILLY HAZELNUTS are on the list, but some less known works like THE LAST CHRISTMAS by Gerry Duggan, as...
Links about stuff
BOOKSLUT weighs in with a bunch of comic-themed content;
A review of Tom DeHaven's novel It's Superman!:
Serving as a corollary to the Man of Steelâs popular iconography, Itâs Superman by Tom De Haven could just...
Rich Johnson Speaks
ICv2 has the first interview with Rich Johnson, the new co-main man at Hachette's Yen Press. If our email is any indication, Johnson is the new most popular man in comics, but he's probably...
Cartooners winning awards: Jean, Cho
James Jean has won the Best Artist award at the World Fantasy Con. You can see the complete list of winners and nominees here.
Lifetime Achievement:
John Crowley
Stephen Fabian
Novel: Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore...
Hachette names GN line; Hassler leaves Borders
Big news via PW Daily:
The Hachette Book Group is launching Yen Press, a new comics and graphic novel imprint that will focus on titles for adults and young readers, PW Daily learned this morning....
