Jan 10, 2012
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, published by Writers of the Round Table Press, includes the text of the original Constitution in it's entirety, as well as an accompanying narrative and full color illustrations that explore the Constitution's creation. The Constitution was adapted by Nadja Baer and the illustrator is Nathan Lueth. The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation will be released on March 16, and Writers of the Round Table Press will also release a curriculum guide to assist teachers using this book in the classroom.
The Roundup for Comics
Publishing news from across the Web
Comics journalist Joe Sacco’s powerful history of a 1956 massacre in Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books), a 2009 PW Best Book, was awarded the Oregon Book Awards’ biennial Graphic Literature Award.
Carla Speed McNeil’s Eisner award-winning epic science-fiction graphic novel, Finder: Voice, a PW Best Book, was awarded the 2012 L.A. Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels over the weekend at the L.A. Times Book Festival.
Anders Nilson’s massive and inventive graphic novel, Big Questions (D&Q), a PW Best Book, has been awarded the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, an annual prize for the “best graphic novel, fiction or nonfiction,” published in the previous calendar year.
Philly theater group Save the Day Productions’ Super Heroes Who Are Super!, is a word-for-word staged reading of superhero comic books that is both celebration and parody.
Josie Leavitt
I have talked a lot about community in ShelfTalker, and usually I mean the community of the bookstore. But as an owner of a business in a village, I have a whole other community available to me, the o...
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Mythopoeic and Sturgeon Awards finalists; Spectrum winners....
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Today -- in the third installment of our Informal Audie Awards Poll -- we turn to one of the most prestigious prizes up for grabs at this years Audies: Distinguished Achievement in Production....
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