On the Scene: Indie Publisher Confronts Amazon Exec at Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
by Bob Calhoun
The mood was tense in the fourth floor conference room of the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco on Saturday—especially for a...
What are the Graphic Novels That Always Work?
EW recently put out a "best of everything" issue, and Johanna Draper Carlson caught the ten best graphic novels list, which I'll quote from...
Book Review | Every/Body: An Open Discussion Of Gender + Body
When I went up to the Toronto Comics and Art Fest, I came across Every/body in my search for comics, zines, or books that...
Preview: AVENGERS ENDLESS WARTIME
Marvel has released some preview pages for October's AVENGERS: ENDLESS WARTIME, the first original graphic novel from Marvel in many years. Writer Warren Ellis,...
And more sales charts: BookScan’s Top 20 Graphic Novels in May
ICv2 has posted the sales rankings for Bookscan's Top 20 Graphic Novels for the month of May. ICv2 notes that The Walking Dead has...
NBM announces return of Omaha the Cat Dancer, more P. Craig Russell collections
NBM has announced their releases for the rest of the year and into 2014 and if you like P. Craig Russell's opera and fairy...
BEA 2013: From Kibuishi to Mattotti
Running around the Book Expo America today. Things that happened.
I missed the unveiling of Kazu Kibuishi's new cover for Harry Potter and the...
Vader’s Little Princess is the #1 graphic novel this week
Awfully unsurprising: Jeffrey Brown's Vader's LIttle Princess, a cute follow-up to Vader and Son, which imagines every iconic image in the original trilogy from the viewpoint of the father of a teenaged (or younger) girl—that dad being Darth Vader. It gives even the well worn tropes a fresh, human feeling and to the shock of no one...it's selling like hotcakes:
Babymouse creators have new comics anthology in the works: Funny Pages: Recess
Babymouse masterminds Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm have signed up to editFunny Pages: Recess!, a comics anthology of stories about recess aimed at...
E.B. Hudspeth’s The Resurrectionist is PFA (that’s pretty freaking amazing)
The Resurrectionist by Eric “E.B.” Hudspeth is one of those visual/verbal blend books that will have a lot of people talking when it comes out. It will also have people talking because it's an utterly incredible sui generis tale of a mad scientist, deformity, and mythical beasts, a tale told in prose and in incredibly detailed and creepy anatomical charts of mythical beasts known and unknown.
The FUN HOME musical is coming to the Public Theater this fall
We've been following the development a musical based on Alison Bechdel's classic comics memoir Fun Home for a while, and nowNew York's prestigious Public...
INTERVIEW: Larry Hama is a Historian of Horror in THE STRANGER
Sitting down to describe Larry Hama’s career it a pretty overwhelming task. Do you talk about his start in comics at the age of...
