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WonderCon Capitalizes on the ‘Fantasy Economy’
This year's WonderCon, held February 27-March 1 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, was an acid test for what a mid-size convention could be like in the new and gloomy economy.
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French Publisher Soleil Finds Success at Marvel
Since the 2008 launch of Soleil Productions’ partnership with Marvel Comics, the French publisher has introduced American audiences to bestselling European sci-fi and fantasy comics like Sky Doll, an adult-oriented title about a female android by W.I.T.C.H. creator Barbara Canepa which was recently released as a trade paperback.
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Life in Comics: Another Comics Convention Where Reality Need Not Apply
The author finds the down economy didn't affect the enjoyment of comics at last weekend's WonderCon in San Francisco.
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James Jean Covers Art
Racking up five consecutive “Best Cover Artist” Eisner Awards and three consecutive Harveys, among a host of other awards, James Jean is striking out on his own in 2009 and heading into the art world with a collection of his Fables covers (DC Comics, $39.99) and a book of postcards from Chronicle books on the consumer market.
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Comics Briefly
Swallow Me Whole Gets Nom for LA Times Book Prize; Marvel Ends Open Submissions; Bookstore Debuts Graphic Novel Book Club; Rocketeer Back In Print; Brubaker Goes Live Action; First Second’s Siegel on Book Lust; Watchmen In Baltimore Sun and Manga, Anime, Video Game Show at Japan Society
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Comics Briefly
MoCCA Watchmen Benefit Screening; DeMatteis Comic Free To Schools; Eagle One Brings IDW Backlist Online; Middleman Finale Released As Comic; Spike: After The Fall Collected; Free Donna Barr Downloads and Hudson, Walton Blog Cerebus
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Fiction Reviews
Exiles in the Garden Ward Just . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-19558-2 Few if any novelists have captured Washington politics with the astute insights of Just, who here casts his dispassionate eye on a man who comes to question whether one can achieve a well-lived life on the outskirts of political action.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 03/02/2009
On the Web this week we address a number of mysteries: the life and work of esoteric architect Le Corbusier; the science of finding extraterrestrials; what's left for the Templars to conspire over; and the secret of NYC's favorite gluten-free vegan cupcakes. Plus: a Korn bassist named Fieldy, yet more "on moving," and the first book on villain-of-the-moment Bernie Madoff.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/2/2009
Picture Books Bad Frogs Thacher Hurd . Candlewick , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3253-3 Hurd’s artwork is as exuberant as ever—his portraits of mischief-making amphibians have a ripped-from-the-easel sense of fun, with colors that look like they dried only minutes before readers opened the book.
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Nonfiction Reviews
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History Margaret MacMillan . Modern Library , $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-64358-6 MacMillan, author of the acclaimed Paris 1919, reminds readers that history matters: “It is particularly unfortunate that just as history is becoming more important in our public discussions, professional historians have largely been abandoning the field to amateurs.
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Q & A with Susan Patron
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Susan Patron about her new novel, Lucky Breaks (Atheneum, Mar.).
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Marvel To Sell The Stand Exclusively Via Comics Shops
Marvel plans to release the hardcover graphic novel, The Stand: Captain Trips by Stephen King, on March 10 exclusively through the comics shop market.
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Sarah Glidden's 60-Day Crash Course
A young cartoonist's Birthright trip to Israel is the basis for an upcoming graphic novel from Vertigo.
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“Suggested For Mature Readers”: Tim Pilcher’s Erotic Comics
British author Tim Pilcher’s highly informative, lushly illustrated and thoroughly entertaining two-volume Erotic Comics: A Graphic History is out now from Abrams ComicArts.
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Crunchyroll Goes Legit to Build Anime, Manga Fandom
Originally an online site offering pirated anime and manga, Crunchyoll has gone legit and now offers a wide variety of licensed content from publishers like Udon and Tokyopop.
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Marvel Holds on in 2008
Marvel’s publishing division finished 2008 with sales of $125.4 million, virtually flat with 2007 when revenue was $125.7 million. Operating profit slipped to $47.3 million from $53.5 million, which the company said was primarily due to ongoing investments in digital initiatives.
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Spring Religion Listings
ABINGDON PRESS Funeral for a Stranger (Aug., $13 paper) by Becca Stevens addresses the issue of attending the funeral of an individual one has never met. Gone to Green (Aug., $13.99 paper) by Judy Christie. A woman finds new faith after leaving her corporate life at a large urban newspaper to run a rural paper.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/23/2009
Picture Books Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy David Soman and Jacky Davis . Dial , $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3339-8 What's a superhero without a sidekick? Lulu, star of last year's Ladybug Girl, meets her friend Sam at the playground, but before they can join forces, they must first agree on what to play—a sequence handled with understanding and humor.
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BB Guns at Dusk: Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor draws on his childhood vacations on Long Island.
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High Hopes for New Fiction: Abingdon Enters Christian Fiction Market
In these tough economic times, it's a rare publisher who's expanding. But after doing due diligence, strategic planning and careful acquiring, Abingdon Press will launch a Christian fiction line in late summer. In recent years, the market for Christian fiction has been so successfully cultivated by a handful of evangelical Christian publishers, such as Nelson, Tyndale, Bethany House, Zondervan ...
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