Books

Canadian literary treasure Margaret Atwood has been toying with comics for a while, showing up at conventions and expressing her interest in the form. And now she's taken the plunge! With a band new graphic novel, Angel Catbird, which will be illustrated bu Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered). The book is the first in a trio of all-ages (!) graphic novel that tell the story of "an unusual superhero. The first book comes out in fall of 2016, published in conjunction with Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives, a charity led by conservation group Nature Canada.

When I saw an item about a new book in TwoMorrows Modern Masters from Paolo Rivera in my feed I thought "Oh cool! Rivera...

Sure, lots of people are silently panicking over preregistration for Comic-Con International, and most haven't even thought about what to do for Thanksgiving (I'll be...

These are only semifinalists, but you can add the Goodreads Choice Awards to the beginning of the end of year comics best lists. They only show the semi finalists as pictures but as far as I can make out it is:

    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...