Tag: Books
Online graphic novel price war underway
ICv2 reports on Overstock.com's price war with Amazon. Basically the online retailer is matching Amazon's deep discounts on books—despite losing money on these discounts—in an effort to become more of an alternative to Amazon.
That Cancer Vixen movie now has Julie Delpy attached to script
CANCER VIXEN is a very important graphic novel. When it came out in 2006, it earned what must have been the biggest advance ever for a graphic novel, $250,000. The book, by cartoonist...
Neil the Horse to be reprinted by Hermes Press
For several dozen people out there, this will be the biggest news of the year.
Katherine Collin's Neil The Horse is going to be reprinted by Hermes Press later this year!
Originally published in the...
Nice art: Scott C. does Bob Dylan
In September the great Scott C. (Great Showdowns) has a kids book he illustrated coming out written by Bob Dylan.
Yeah that Bob Dylan.
It's adorable.
The title of the book is "If Dogs...
INTERVIEW: Matt D. Wilson’s Second Guide for World Domination
With the launch of The Supervillain Field Manual this month, Matt D. Wilson has now provided the world with two sets of notes for supervillains looking to take over the world, conquer any hero...
On the Scene: Indie Publisher Confronts Amazon Exec at Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
by Bob Calhoun
The mood was tense in the fourth floor conference room of the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco on Saturday—especially for a panel with the dry title of "The Future of Publishing,"...
What are the Graphic Novels That Always Work?
EW recently put out a "best of everything" issue, and Johanna Draper Carlson caught the ten best graphic novels list, which I'll quote from her post. Snarky comments are her own:
1. Maus by...
Preview: AVENGERS ENDLESS WARTIME
Marvel has released some preview pages for October's AVENGERS: ENDLESS WARTIME, the first original graphic novel from Marvel in many years. Writer Warren Ellis, Marvel eic Axel Alonso and executive editor Tom Brevoort participated...
And more sales charts: BookScan’s Top 20 Graphic Novels in May
ICv2 has posted the sales rankings for Bookscan's Top 20 Graphic Novels for the month of May. ICv2 notes that The Walking Dead has cooled a bit, with the show off the air for...
NBM announces return of Omaha the Cat Dancer, more P. Craig Russell collections
NBM has announced their releases for the rest of the year and into 2014 and if you like P. Craig Russell's opera and fairy tale adaptation, you are in luck: they have several collections...
BEA 2013: From Kibuishi to Mattotti
Running around the Book Expo America today. Things that happened.
I missed the unveiling of Kazu Kibuishi's new cover for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The remaining five new covers will be...
Vader’s Little Princess is the #1 graphic novel this week
Awfully unsurprising: Jeffrey Brown's Vader's LIttle Princess, a cute follow-up to Vader and Son, which imagines every iconic image in the original trilogy from the viewpoint of the father of a teenaged (or younger) girl—that dad being Darth Vader. It gives even the well worn tropes a fresh, human feeling and to the shock of no one...it's selling like hotcakes:
