Books

    NBM just announced it's line of graphic novels for January and beyond and it's a stunning line-up with work by Kerascoët (artists on Miss Don't...

I can't actually vouch for the contents of this humorous book from the fine folks at The Devastator...but the cover is certainly seasonal. Oh,...

Amanda Meadows—just recently named to PW's Star Watch 2015 list– is the co-publisher of the hilarious comedy magazine The Devastator and the driving force...

Not too many comics or graphic novel make Page Six, the NY Posts's venerable gossip page, but the book party the other night for...

Hyperbole and a Half, a book collecting the webcomics of Allie Brosh with new essays, was one of the smash hits of 2014, selling 129,679 copies according to Bookscan, and doubtless more than that in the rest of the world. While it's a text/comics hybrid, the visual component of her storytelling—awkward Paintbrush tableau—is vital to her work, and she was a guest at Comic-Con just a few weeks ago.

I've attended the annual conference of the American Library Association every year since 2010, when the conference was in Washington, DC. For whatever reason (probably because...

Want to know what comic-cons are really about? Get these books. In my previous post I talked about the importance of community -- it is...

    I don't have time to do much more than copy the PR on this but...great news for the physical book side of the business, which...

By Nick Eskey Jennifer Crute is a native New York City artist, turned comic creator. She began her love for making art at an early...

As usual Abrams Books will have some dandy books and signings at booth #1216, with authors including Cece Bell, Nathan Hale and Tom Angleberger. PLus many signed books and prints by the likes of Jules Feiffer. And if you're luycky, you might even get a galley of Trahsed, Derf Backderf's hilarious and disgusting account of a garbageman's life. Other galleys and samplers will also be available from the likes of John Leguizamo and Tom Kinney.

Ignatz winner, Eisner-nominee Laura Park is a cartoonist who veers into "national treasure" territory for me. Her classically styled linework and delicate coloring mix with an ineffable, inspired mix of sadness and tenderness. Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream, her mini comic, is a small classic, released in small numbers. But hooray, D+Q will be publishing a collected edition of her comics under the Waking Dream title.

The King in Yellow is a) Robert W. Chambers famed horror story about a play that dooms all who read it to madness b) a new graphic novel adaptation of the same by INJ Culbard published by SelfMadeHero. (See a preview here.) It's also c) a sneaky ripoff by someone on CreateSpace who used the cover to the Culbard book for their own self-published reprint of the prose book. The SelfMadeHero blog has all the details and how to spot the sneaky fake.