Spam attack
Akismet, the spam filter, seems to be down or crashed or something, and in order to avoid a flood of spam comments you must now have an APPROVED comment in order to post. I...
Bernard Chang News
Artist Bernard Chang writes us with a few news items:
§ theBlvd art collective will be hosting a book launch party Friday night at Heroes Con, to celebrate the debut of theBLVD sketchbook 3.0, which...
BookExpoCast to be posted
You know this BEA thing is getting so easy -- we could run around and yap without having to run to programming all the time, because we knew that many of the programs will...
More on THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO GUYS’ STUFF
We alerted you to the forthcoming THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO GUYS' STUFF anthology a few posts ago. Edited by MK Reed and Robin Enrico, it's the latest 99% female comics anthology from Friends of...
Yen Press teams with the WB
Among the more interesting news items at the BEA was the trade show debit of Yen Press. While almost every major publishing house is launching a graphic novel or two, most of the efforts...
Foreward names WAR FIX GN of the Year
And the honors keep on rollin', as WAR FIX from NBM gets recognized by Foreward Magazine:
Foreword, the magazine of independent publishing, has given top honors in its Book of the Year Awards’ graphic novel...
Women of comics profiled
The Herald-Dispatch of Huntingwon, WV, looks at SVA grad Teylor Smirl whose spunk and can-do attitude have led her all the way to an internship at DC Comics, and beyond, to hopes of graphic...
Studio briefing: Thundercats, Shannara, Gaines to screen
The trades are announcing severl movie deals that our audience may find of interest:
§ First, Warner's is making a THUNDERCATS movie:
Studio has optioned a script by tyro scribe Paul Sopocy to turn the popular...
Animated 28 Days trailer
HYPE ALERT! HYPE ALERT!!! Fox Atomic has posted the full length "animated" version of the first story from 28 DAYS LATER: THE AFTERMATH.
BEA wrap-up
We never got to go to the Book Expo America, on Sunday -- we were hoping to head over after we finished some other stuff, but the other stuff took forever. More other stuff...
PC guy is NYTBR go-to guy?
John Hodgman, Daily Show correspondent, and the human avatar of the PC--program bloat, video card upgrades and all--is also, it seems, one of the regular comic book reviewers for the New York Times...
FAQ: The Hansen LIterary Agency
Getting a good agent is getting to be as desirable for the graphic novelists as it has always been for the regular novelists. One of the most prominent agents specializing in graphic novels is...
