According to the August 22 edition of Publishers Weekly, higher education titles led all book categories in growth since 2008. In comics, we have seen an increasing number of adaptations of star titles (classic as More...
YOE-YOE TRICKS You wouldn?t think editing and producing books could be as cool as being creative director for the Muppets and Nickelodeon. But Craig Yoe?s wildly creative historical comics collections do what he says: put More...
Archaia?s A-List ?When we were considering which publishers to approach about Return of the Dapper Men,? says artist Janet Lee, ?we wanted a publisher known for beautiful, high-quality books that didn?t necessarily fit the traditional More...
A fantastic month for comics, this October! Look for Jane Austen, CLAMP, Jim Henson, MetaMaus, and a Tezuka fave. Meanwhile, classics just keep moving into comics. In January this year, a new line was released More...
Tall, cheery Rob Berry came from behind the bar, bearing a tray with brimming pints for us. ?Calypso is almost done,? he smiled to me and his co-conspirator, Josh Levitas. ?It?s going live April 20th, More...
E-comics in libraries For comics industry-wide, the big story for 2010 was e-comics and e-reader apps, from DC Comics to an eUlysses. Per pop culture watchers ICv2, comics were among the top 2010 apps for More...
HOLMES HIJINKS The game is afoot. While comics set in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s Sherlock Holmes universe aren?t quite crowding manga off the shelves, at least a dozen publishers have recent Holmes titles, many multivolume More...
Picturing the Classics ?The Jane Austen Centre in Bath sells our book!? burbled Nancy Butler about her adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. ?How cool is that!? Butler was signing at the Marvel booth during BookExpo More...
Graphic Novels Old Enough to Vote: Location, Location, Location In October, TV zombies will chomp their way through AMC?s The Walking Dead, a new show based on the adult-level, Eisner-winning comics series of the same More...
As comic books and graphic novels (GN) find more mainstream success, readers tempted to check out the adventures of their favorite superpowered characters are often frustrated by the sheer volume of stories available, while others More...
I was honored to be nominated, Alex Simmons said, nearly jumping up and down, but now I'm really damn happy! Simmons was accepting a Glyph Award for The Cartoon Life of Chuck Clayton miniseries from More...
Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThe Wimpy Kid is bedding down at Twilight this month, so we get Tim Collins's hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Vampire, from Michael O'Mara Books. Poor Nigel Mullet, undead at 15 More...
Swedish imports sell outSmall publishers aboundOrigami comics show the value of paperDonald Duck the national mascot of Finland? Who knew? The Scandinavian comickers were sounding off at the MoCCA Art Fest, a two-day confabby comic More...
Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesRemember our favorite bigamist, Archie Andrews? Last year, the red-headed Everyguy got to marry both Veronica and Betty in imaginary futures. Why not? Like in a game narrative, we can choose More...
Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThere's a wonderful story about a Latvian war orphan, bright but subliterate and an emotional trainwreck, learning to read from cookbooks when his foster mother hit on the one thing that More...
Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesMost of the following titles will be coming in July 2010, as adaptations and remix approaches continue. Wonderful news from the pop culture watchers at ICv2: the long-dormant and much-beloved "Sailor More...
Head back toBookSmack! for more storiesIn this second installment of Graphic Novels Prepub Alert (click here for the debut), we sample intriguing titles scheduled for June and July 2010 release. Two big-time European classics await More...
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton (Hill and Wang)Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke (Idea & Design Works)The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Norton)City More...
Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 2 by Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez (Fantagraphics)Bayou by Jeremy Love (Zuda)Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell (Little, Brown)Stitches: More...
Hill & Wang: Farrar. 2009. c.149p. ISBN 978-0-8090-5100-7. $30; pap. ISBN 978-0-8090-5101-4. $16.95. GRAPHIC NOVELSLean and relentless in its forward motion, Bradbury's 1953 sci-fi classic about a book-burning fireman lends itself perfectly to a graphic More...
Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesSex. Drugs. Rock'n' roll.Equal rightsfor women, African Americans, and gay people. Sit-ins. The Vietnam War. The peace movement. Don't trust anyone over 30. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair brought the More...
Comics about Mother? Yes, we found some, even if those countless school-kid manga feature few adults of any sort. What teen wants parents showing up in fantasies of space operas and superpowers unless Mom and More...
