Diamond Kids Group launches
Pow! Sock! Comics are for kids! PW Children's Bookshelf has the scoop on Diamond's new initiative to bridge the gap for comics aimed at kids:
Diamond Book Distributors, the book trade affiliate of Diamond Comics...
Cartoon America opens today
Well if 2006 wasn't already the Year of the Comics, a big show is opening today at the Library of Congress: "Cartoon America":
âCartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricatureâ?...
Sikoryak’s cartoon review
Last Sunday the LA Times ran several review of interest to our kind, including Laurel Maury on Brian K. Vaughan and reviews of biographies of Charles Addams and Walt Disney. There was also...
People on the Move
Some people coming and going over the last few weeks:
• Editor Janna Morishima is leaving Scholastic to take a job at Diamond working on a new initiative aimed at selling more graphic novels aimed...
DC announces trades for March and April
Led by the Absolute Edition of BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, DC has listed their graphic novel and collected edition plans into March and April.
DC Comics continues the rollout of new collected editions for...
More groovy Halloween stuff: Gaiman, Lee
Neil Gaiman wrote an op-ed for the NY Times:
We are gathered here at the final end of what Bradbury called the October Country: a state of mind as much as it is a time....
Charles Addams
Charles Addams is the king of the creepy cartoons, and Linda Davis has just written a new biography of the artist calledCharles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life. You can listen to an interview with her...
Margaret Atwood, cartoonist
Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's greatest living writers. The multiple-award winning novelist, essayist and poet is the author of such books as THE HANDMAID'S TALE and CAT'S EYE, and she also dabbles in...
DC’s early 2007 collected editions line-up
DC just sent out a listing of the trades and GNs for early 2007 (Jan and Feb.)
The list is long -- we're happy to see a collection for THE AMERICAN WAY, John Ridley's...
For stylish lunching
Eric Shanower is once again offering his Wizard of Oz Lunch Box Only $16.95. Seriously, how could you not want this?
PS: we recently received a copy of Eric's ADVENTURES IN OZ compendium, published by...
More on CORTO MALTESE – UPDATE
We had a brief conversation this afternoon with Howard Jurofsky of Heavy Metal. He says that they will be publishing the first CORTO MALTESE book, THE BALLAD OF THE SALTY SEA, and see how...
