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August 11, 2009
In this Issue Reynolds and Fantagraphics Face the Future Boom! Dreams Up Unique Android Retelling August Comics Bestsellers Jamie Rich Kills Again Review: Poem Strip Review: Ball Peen Hammer Review: Bone: Rose Panel Mania: Cat Burglar Black Comics Briefly On-Sale Calendar Worth Repeating
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News Reynolds and Fantagraphics Face the Future Whenever comics industry observers get together to talk about the people who've made a difference in the business over the last decade, the name Eric Reynolds inevitably comes up. Recently promoted to Associate Publisher for the Seattle-based art comics publisher Fantagraphics, he has overseen the company's successful navigation of the new opportunities for graphic novels in bookstores. more » » »  Boom! Dreams Up Unique Android Retelling Boom! Studios is heading into uncharted territory with their adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? The series, which editor Ian Brill has called a graphic translation, will mix comic art with Dick's original text from the novel. more » » »  August Comics Bestsellers Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid: Last Straw remains king of the list followed by Naruto vol. 45, newcomer Rachel Russell's 'Wimpy' homage, Dork Diaries, Grant Morrison's Final Crisis; Sherrilynn Kenyon's Dark Hunter manga adaptation and Halo: Uprising. more » » »  Q&A Jamie Rich Kills Again Jamie S. Rich is well-known for his novels, both graphic and prose, about modern romances, including Cut My Hair, Love the Way You Love (with Marc Ellerby), and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, drawn by Joëlle Jones. He and Jones have teamed up again for You Have Killed Me, just released by Oni Press, a noir mystery that's a departure from his usual subject matter. more » » »    Reviews Poem Strip DINO BUZZATI, TRANS. FROM THE ITALIAN BY MARINA HARSS. New York Review Books, Aug14.95 paper (240p) Italian artist and author Dino Buzzati imagines a modern graphic novel version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. In Buzzati's version, set in Milan, a singer called Orfi mourns his lover, Eura, and tracks her to the afterlife. Through a dreamscape made up of bordellos, train stations and a soulless Soviet-like bureaucracy, the singer searches for his lover while being schooled in the ways of the dead. The heartbreaking ending opens as many questions as it answers. Throughout, Buzzati, who died in 1972, offers a sumptuous meditation on the ways in which death gives life meaning, focusing on the sensations of music, sex and, paradoxically, mourning. Poem Strip was originally published in Italy in 1969. more » » »  Ball Peen Hammer ADAM RAPP AND GEORGE O'CONNOR. Roaring Brook/First Second, Aug17.99 paper (144p) In an eerie postapocalyptic urban world, humanity is turning on itself. This graphic novel revolves around a trio who were likely downtown hipsters before the crisis began. Welton, a musician, and Aaron, an author, still have the energy to discuss the purpose of art, but find themselves committing unpardonable acts to save themselves. Exley, an actress, unexpectedly ends up caring for Horlick, a young boy who is teetering between playing childish pranks and becoming a menacing criminal like his older brother. All three adults reminisce about previous loves, and one tries to seek out a passionate one-night stand from the past. Rapp, best known as a novelist and playwright, reflects on the ways we cling to art and passion in the face of destruction and the horror we feel as those things slip away. more » » »  Bone: Rose JEFF SMITH AND CHARLES VESS. Scholastic, Aug10.99 (272p) Every good epic not only deserves but needs a prequel. So Jeff Smith's Bone, one of the great graphic novel epics, gets a teasing look at what happened in that magic realm before the series started in earnest. Opening with a Nordic saga-like origin myth about how the dragon queen Mim was driven mad by the lord of the Locusts and buried in stone to protect the world, Rose shifts into a traditional fantasy melodrama about two princesses. Rose is the more beloved, headstrong and inattentive to her lessons about how to control her powerful ability to magically dream. Her sister, Briar, is a darker soul, ambitious and resentful of the attention directed at Rose. more » » »    Panel Mania Panel Mania: Cat Burglar Black In Richard Sala's Cat Burglar Black, K., a teenage girl who was raised in an orphanage where she was trained as a thief, is sent to a boarding school for cat burglars on a mysterious aunt's recommondation. more » » »	Comics Briefly -John Ostrander Benefit Auction -Hugo Award Winners -Chicago Comic-con Announcements -Wonder Woman Day Seeks Art -Archie Wedding Party at Happy Harbor -MegaTokyo in Japanese -This Week @ Good Comics for Kids more » » »  On-Sale Calendar -Battle of Genryu Origin Vol.1 (CMX) -Dogs: Bullets & Carnage (Viz) -Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Age (DC) -Old Man Winter & Other Sordid Tales (Birdcage Bottom) -Sandman by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (DC) -Some New Kind of Slaughter (Arcaia) -Ten Beautiful Assassins Vol 1 (Seven Seas) -Thor By J. Michael Straczynski Vol. 2 (Marvel) -Universal War One: Revelations (Marvel) -Wolverine: Flies to a Spider (Marvel) Worth Repeating "...What I normally do with [things] like Wanted is that we'll make the comic, and then an agent takes it out to all the whores in Hollywood, and they start bidding, and it's all out of your hands. Hopefully it all works out." —Mark Millar on the art of movie adaptations at Comic Book Resources.
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