Why book folks have been turning to the comics
WaPo book reviewer puts it into perpective in this review of Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark:
Over the past 25 years, literary fiction has...
PW on S&S rights “grab”
Some consternation this morning about budding GN publisher Simon & Schuster and their new rights policy which would seem to indicate ownership in perpetua....
RIP Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander, 83, a critically acclaimed fantasy and adventure writer whose coming-of-age novels use vivid action and elements of mythology to depict contemporary struggles...
Koontz and Queenie Chan team for Del Rey
Note, this is an OGN not an adaptation.
Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that...
Blanchett loses weight for comics role
Cate Blanchett has been spotted out and about of late looking her usual impeccably fashionable self, but tongues have been wagging that she looks...
MOM’S CANCER wins BLOOKER
MOM'S CANCER by Brian Fies has won a Blooker Prize in the comics category. The Blooker Prizes are sponsored by POD publisher Lulu.
A comic...
Sequart Research & Literacy Organization announced
It looks like scholarship is here to stay, as Sequart has announced a new scholarly organization:
An organization has been founded to study and promote...
Mouse Guard picked up by book club
Graphic novels in book clubs? Yes indeedy.
PS: we just got a copy of this hardcover and it's a handsome book indeed.
Archaia Studios...
Cecil Castellucci guest blogs
To celebrate the debut of the Minx line (at long last) Plain JANES author Cecil Castellucci is guest blogging at Blog@Newsarama, and thought she...
The return of Craig Thompson
Whatever happened to...the auteur of BLANKETS, the book which in many ways kicked off the whole "comics are literary" movement? Well it seems he's...
Where is…BOILERPLATE?
Regular readers may recall the odd and colorful saga of BOILERPLATE, a make-pretend mechanical man created by Paul Guinan who ended up being used...
Comics attract wordsmiths, too
First it was the actors; then it was the directors and musicians and TV show staff writers. Now it's the famous novelists who think...
