Meltzer king of all media
Brad Meltzer has achieved what we suspect is an unprecedented double --- topping the NY Times Bestselller list AND the Diamond chart in the same month. Congrats to Brad. He's also in the midst...
Covering Paul Buckley
Paul Buckley, the art director behind Penguin Classics' new comics themed covers is interviewed at Hear Hear:
PB: Yes, we all went to college reading those fairly drab Penguin Classics. And for that reason,...
To Do 9/16, BKNY: Brooklyn Book Festival
MEANWHILE on the East Coast, people are also celebrating literacy at the Brooklyn Book Festival -- and comics will not be kicked off the litaracy train, oh no!
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Superborough: Brooklyn’s Indelible Stamp...
BKV on NPR, AOK, more cartooners on radio
NPR darling Brian K. Vaughan (an earlier appearance is credited with spiking bookstore sales of Y THE LAST MAN trades) was back on Talk of the Nation to talk about PRIDE OF BAGHDAD yesterday....
Huff Po praises 9/11 Graphic Novel
Outrage from some quarters over the inaccuracies of ABC's recent 9/11 mini-series have driven Art Levine at The Huffington Post to suggest the comics version is more true to the facts:
If ABC executives or...
Grace Reading Series returns with cartooners
The Grace Reading Series, a monthly multi media mix focusing on women writers, returns with a series of readings by cartoonists. The series kicks off October 4 at Mo Pitkins in NYC with Megan...
TO DO, SF 9/20: Yang and Pien at Isotope
Celebrate the release of AMERICAN BORN CHINESE:
China Books, First Second Books, & the IsotopeLaunch What Might be the Best Book of 2006Pardon us while we gush, but if you've seen the advance reviews you'll...
Summit news: Whedon, DBPro, James Fenimore Cooper
The paucity of news from Marvel over the last new months has been made up for at the Diamond Retail Summit taking place in Baltimore. Those present last night got a nice side order...
9/11 COMIC OUTRAGE!!
Are you in the mood for something salty? Because you're going to have to take a grain or two with this one. A story emanating from WENN, the news service that takes out of...
A podcast with Alison Bechdel
The Bat Segundo show talks to the toast of the GN world on her astonishing success with FUN HOME:
The meaning of âtragicomic,â? Nabokov, Charles Addams, on how the funeral home component of Fun Home...
TO DO: TODAY 9/8 McCloud at Midtown
Scott McCloud kicks off the MAKING COMICS express for real today at Midtown Comics at Times Sq. Stop by so you can say you were part of the happening!
In 1993 when Scott McCloud...
Events: TELLING TALES, McCloud at SVA
When we say we've been busy we are almost too busy to even post a few pictures. Wednesday, we went to the opening of TELLING TALES at the Adam Baumgold Gallery, and it's an...
