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Comics History Retold at MoCCA Art Festival
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual Art Festival is primarily dominated by the latest in alternative and small press comics. But many of the panels at the event (held June 6-7 in New York), programmed by scholar Kent Worcester, dealt with classic works and creators from comic books’ long and rich history.
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Panelmania: Stuffed
In this preview of Glenn Eichler and Nick Bertozzi’s Stuffed, Tim Johnston and his wife explore Tim's late father’s “Museum of the Rare and Curious.” In the museum they discover, “The Warrior,” the life like statue of an African, which leads to confrontations of race and family. First Second is publishing Stuffed this September.
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Review: Organic and Chic: Cakes, Cookies and Other Sweets That Taste as Good as They Look
We were first taken with this book's photo of "Goldies," organic Twinkies dusted with gold metallic powder. But there's much more to this lively new collection of wholesome, sophisticated baked goods from cake maker Sarah Magid. In 60 recipes, Magid offers up crowd-pleasers like oatmeal raisin cookies and flourless chocolate almond cake, as well as homemade variations on childhood all-stars like Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies and Hostess Sno-balls.
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Short Order: June 22
This week's round-up of cookbook news includes three cookbook events, featuring Park Avenue socialites; South American chefs; and Thomas Keller and Miss America (together!). There's also early buzz on two foodie memoirs from acclaimed Chicago chef Grant Achatz and acclaimed Top Chef loser Stefan Richter.
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Recipe Report: June 22
This week, a recipe from Anne Byrn, aka the Cake Mix Doctor, for Chocolate Espresso Pound Cake. The recipe comes from The Cake Mix Doctor Returns, which Workman will publish in October.
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Cooking the Books with Diane Abrams
About a year ago, Gourmet launched a cookbook club, selecting a cookbook every month, reviewing it in the print magazine and offering related multimedia content on its web site. Diane Abrams, dirctor of Gourmet Books, spoke with Cooking the Books about what books she's loved, what she’s been disappointed by, and a couple of unforeseen quirks in the way cookbooks are published that the experts at Gourmet didn’t anticipate.
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Online Cookbook Store Jessica's Biscuit Going Strong
Jessica’s Biscuit stocks a dizzying array of cookbooks, from brand new releases to award winners to more obscure titles (for instance, there are eight books listed under its “Alaskan Cooking” category). Books are priced low, with most new books coming in just below Amazon’s prices. How does the Newton, Mass., company do it? “We buy right,” says the COO. Nearly 30 years of experience in cookbooks has taught the company to be smart and cautious, and it has paid off.
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'Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day' Sees a Sequel... and Competition
When St. Martin’s/Dunne published Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day in late 2007, it didn’t anticipate how popular the book would be. It was a runaway hit, and the house has been shipping an average of 10,000 copies a month so far this year. It’s unsurprising that a sequel would follow, but this fall, that sequel, Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day, will have to contend with at least six other new bread-making titles.
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PW profiles Charles Todd: the mother and son mystery writing team
Masters of psychologically complex detective stories set in the aftermath of WWI, the mother-son team of Caroline and Charles Todd, who write under the name Charles Todd, have a new series featuring a female detective set in the same period.
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Children's Book Reviews: 6/22/2009
Reviewed this week: new books from Kenneth Oppel, Rebecca Stead and Paul Griffin, plus PW's review of the sequel to The Hunger Games, Catching Fire.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 6/22/2009
Reviewed this week, new books from Irvine Welsh, Dan Fesperman, Larry McMurtry, Terry Goodkind, Teri Woods and more. Plus, Joshua Gaylord debuts with a novel set in an elite Manhattan prep school, Nancy Grace tries fiction, Evie Wyld sets her startling novel Down Under and there's a lot of kicking going on in Katie Kitamura's The Longshot.
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A Wake Up Call to the West: PW talks with Alex Dryden
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British journalist who lived in Russia for more than 15 years. Red to Black is his first novel, a thriller that offers a sobering view of Putin's Russia.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/22/2009
Four Daily News sports reporters turn in the definitive story of Roger Clemens and drugs in baseball; Miles Kington presents a lively epistolary meta-nonfiction collection about dying; Sam Pocker catches retailers gone wild; and smallpox eradicator D.A. Henderson chronicles his showdown with the disease. Plus: fiction from Jane Porter, Sarah Prineas's second Magic Thief novel, and Alex Flinn's Gossip Girl makeover of "Sleeping Beauty."
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Hippocrene Launches Arabic Dictionary iPhone App
New York independent Hippocrene Books, which has been publishing foreign language dictionaries for 35 years, has launched an iPhone app, HippArabic. It is based on the house’s bestselling Arabic Dictionary & Phrasebook and has more than 4,000 entries.
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Galley Talk: 'Shiver' by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater is the love story of Sam and Grace, told in chapters that alternate between their points of view. Sam, a werewolf, rescues a young Grace from a wolf attack. Werewolves in Stiefvater’s world respond to the cold—they are wolves in winter, humans in summer, and each year they are human for a shorter period of time, until they remain wolves permanently. So Sam and Grace are on a deadline.
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Go, Girls! Trina Robbins Brings Back The Brinkley Girls
In a new collection of work by Nell Brinkley from Fantagraphics, beautiful girls travel the world in fabulous dresses, rescue and then marry their men, and generally have a lot of gorgeous fun. Between 1913 and 1940, Nell Brinkley’s characters, a.k.a. the Brinkley Girls, were everything your average American girl wanted to be. Brinkley zestily described this every-girl as, “Frank and strong, and happy and good, just a girl—an American girl such as many of you know."
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Books About Comics: The Kurtzman Legacy
The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics (Abrams ComicArts, $40) begins with startling, sweeping statements of its subject’s importance not just to comics, but to American culture as a whole. Time critic Richard Corliss asserts that "almost all American satire today follows a formula that Harvey Kurtzman thought up." In his introduction, Harry Shearer declares that without Kurtzman there would be no Saturday Night Live or Simpsons.
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June Comics Bestsellers
Jeffy Kinney’s Wimpy Kid: Last Straw rules the roost but Stephen King’s Dark Tower: Treachery; IDW’s Star Trek: Countdown and Marvel Zombies 3 all make the Top Ten.
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Kidjutsu: A Kid-Safe Site for Webcomics
The internet is full of great comics created specifically for children, but young readers don’t have any way to find them. After all, there is no children’s room on the internet. But Brian Leung is hoping to solve that problem with Kidjutsu, a site that collects kid-friendly webcomics and displays them using an easy-to-use online comics viewer.
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New Graphic Novel, Film from Melvin Van Peebles
Acclaimed film director, actor, playwright and composer, Melvin Van Peebles, director of the groundbreaking 1971 black film Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song, is teaming up with Brooklyn indie Akashic Books to publish, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, a graphic novel created by Van Peebles and the odd-named artist Caktus Tree…? that was also the basis for a new film that Van Peebles will screen this summer.
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