Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for...
Blanchett is CANCER VIXEN
Marisa Acocella Marchetto's CANCER VIXEN is believed to have nabbed the highest advance ever for a graphic novel but it looks like it's earning...
COMICS AS ART review
Will COMICS AS ART: WE TOLD YOU SO, the oral history of Fantagaraphics be published, in the wake of the Harlan Ellison lawsuit? We...
PERSEPOLIS stills on line
Sony Pictures Classics has up some still from the PERSEPOLIS animated film which is due out in 2007. Creator Marjane Satrapi wrote the script...
New Tolkien!
Well, old Tolkien reallly, according to PW:
Houghton Mifflin has acquired U.S. rights to publish the first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien since the posthumous...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
