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...
Bertozzi profiled in the Times
George Gene Gustines strikes again with a piece on Nick Bertozzi, The Salon and Gordon Lee:
The standout “character” is Picasso, who is an egotist...
Comics Bestsellers: by the numbers
There's been a lot of talk lately about comics on various bestsellers lists, and of course, comics have their OWN bestseller list at Publishers...
News and notes
§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching...
I will never let this book out of my sight again
Just got a galley of this manga reference guide by Jason Thompson and it instantly vaulted to our must-own, must-have list. It's an alphabetical...
New comics mole at New York Mag
We hear this blogging thing is BIG, and so has New York Magazine, apparently. We also hear COMICS are big, and so has NY...
