COPPER goes to Scholastic
Fresh off the news that his AMULET gn is getting the movie treatment, Kazu Kibuishi's long running COPPER webcomic has been sold to Scholastic,...
Borders on the block?
Jim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look...
BEA spotlights Graphic Novels with day of panels
Back in the neolithic times when The Beat first started working at Publishers Weekly, there was usually one graphic novel panel at the yearly...
This Weekend: SPLAT
The New York Center for Independent Publishing is presenting one of the biggest graphic novel events ever: SPLAT: The First Ever NYCIP Graphic Novel...
Interview round-up
§ ICv2 has a two-par interview with First Second's Mark Siegel:
What were your big hits for the second half of 2007 through the holiday...
The troops live under the canon’s thunder
The whole bookscan/genre debate marches on, and Chris Mautner somehow reintroduces the canon debate into the mix. The link is a round-up of other...
School Library Journal graphic novel section
School Library Journal is a magazine aimed at...school librarians. It just had a big cover ppackage on graphic novels which you can read online,...
FREDDIE & ME update
Mike Dawson's FREDDIE & ME, a graphic novel about growing up a Queen fan that artfully mixes autobiography and imaged biography, is coming out...
WIMPY KID movie planned
Fox 2000 has optioned the phenomenally successful WIMPY KID books. Nina Jacobson will produce. According to the article, five books are eventually planned, with...
Border’s new concept stores spotlight GNs
Among other things. This week Borders rolled out the first of 20 new souped-up media-age "concept stores" which spotlight five areas: Traveling, Cooking, Wellness,...
Homework assignment: Bookscan
Perhaps the biggest thing to happen while we were away was this wholescale lid-ripping by Brian Hibbs who gets hold of the Bookscan graphic...
Wolf Boy movie in the works
Evan Kuhlman's Wolf Boy: A Novel has been optioned by the Weinstein Co. for a possible film.
The novel -- which deals with a...
