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...
Preorder Astronaut Academy and get a sketch
Call this the easy peasy version of a Kickstarter reward: Preorder a copy of Dave Roman's Astronaut Academy Re-Entry from bookstore WORD! and you'll...
DCU and Vertigo collection schedule: Deluxe Invisibles, DMZ, DC One MIllion and Planetary...
DC has released its graphic novel schedule into February 2014, and it's a huge list of 147 books. The whole list is below, with Vertigo first and then the DCU.
March Mayhem at Stately Beat Manor!
Once again, it’s that time of year again! Sports geeks speculate who will make the Big Dance, who got snubbed, and who will be...
Persepolis still not being taught to seventh graders in Chicago; students stage sit in...
As we suspected when the news broke, the removal of Persepolis from the seventh grade curriculum at a Chicago high school turned in to a minor media circus pretty quickly, with school officials saying different things all over the place. If you missed all the confusion, the Chicago Tribune
has the authoritative round up and Claire Kirch covers it for PW. Basically it emerged that the book was not being removed from school libraries or all schools, but it is being removed from the 7-10 grade curriculum where it is is currently being taught. The person who seems to have decided that is at the very top: Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennnet who wrote
All you need to know about digital book sales, Amazon bestsellers, and making money...
Three pretty interesting posts on book sales and Amazon which, if you triangulate them, give you a good look at where the publishing business stands this Monday morning as Winter turns into Spring 2013:
You don’t know who Walter Biggins is but he’s fantastic and now it’s too...
Confession: I did not know the name of the editor of the University Press of Mississippi's excellent line of books about comics—spanning scholarly works on Chris Ware, Alan Moore, Osamu Tezuka and everyone in between—but his name is Walter Biggins and now he's leaving. But luckily Jeet Heer, who wrote several books for the line, catches up with him first —hopefully USM's strong comics list will continue:
