Color Quandaries #2: The Barks Affair
Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published...
Finally FLAGG
We've been too busy to get as excited about this as we should, bit it looks like Dynamic Forces' long long delayed (it was...
Jill Thompson update
A reader writes to inform us that Jill Thompson now has her own forum on the Lurid Forum. That in turn reminded us...
Economic Report #2: Books not so hot
Yesterday's announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a...
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...
