VIZ launches SF line
Via PR: Viz has announced a new line of SF/fantasy books. The initial rollout includes The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui...
GRAVEYARD BOOK wins Newbery Award
Word via email and Twitter that Neil Gaiman's THE GRAVEYARD BOOK has won the ultra-prestigious Newbery Award for children's literature.
The awards are being...
Kyle Baker gets Obamania!
Over at his blog, Kyle Baker announces his own Obama comic is in the works from HarperCollins:My publisher told me to stop work on...
WIMPY KID as popular as Obama?
Well, at least in NYC, as reported by Shelf Awareness:
Harry N. Abrams is off to a very muscular start in 2009. On Tuesday, the...
WIMPY KID phenomenon detailed
The New York Times looks at Jeff Kinney's "Wimpy Kid" blockbuster status:
The franchise has been a sleeper hit for Amulet Books, an imprint of...
Isadora Duncan, Sabrina Jones, and the Brooklyn Museum
The other night we attended a very cool event at the Brooklyn Museum of Art: an evening of dance and comics strips. The occasion...
PREVIEW: 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
Dan Goldman has a 20 page excerpt of his 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail posted at his website. Relive the...
Catching up on publishing news
If you have a little downtime over the holidays, you could do much worse than by reading The Comics Reporter's yearend series of interviews:
Fantagraphics...
Comic Book Legends book due in April
We saw an oblique reference to this in an interview with Joe Quesada, and uncovered the fact that Brian Cronin's Comic Book Urban Legends...
Details on You’ll All Be Sorry! collection
About Comics's Nat Gertler reports that the collection of You'll All Be Sorry!, Gail Simone's epochal humor column from the Golden Age of the...
More “Best of” lists
New York Magazine rounds up The Top Ten Graphic Novels for its 2008 Culture Awards, led by DISAPPEARANCE DIARY by Hideo Azuma.
Meanwhile, Dustin Harbin...
More best of books: NY Times, STLtoday.com
§ Douglas Wolk contributes a a graphic novel list to the Times Holiday Books section:
If there’s one book that art-comics enthusiasts would be happiest...
