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Holiday Rebound: Children’s Sales Pick Up in December
Children’s books proved to be one of the most recession-resistant segments of the book business this holiday season, with the Twilight series and the latest from J.K. Rowling leading the pack.
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Bottomless Tops PW Comics Week's Third Annual Critic's Poll
Bottomless Belly Button topped PWCW's third annual critics' poll.
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Top 10 Manga for 2008
PWCW's manga editor picks her best manga of 2008.
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Comics in the Classroom
Long ghettoized—even demonized—in North America as puerile and pulpy, both “comic books” (traditional comics periodicals) and book-format graphic novels are now being used in both k—12 and higher education classrooms as everything from early developmental reading tools to serious literary texts.
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January Comics Bestsellers
Jeffy Kinney's Diary of A Wimpy Kid rolls on at #1; followed by the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker and Fables volume 11 (at #6) both from DC Comics; DK's Marvel Chronicle is at #9 and Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Season 8 volume 3 is at #10
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Opening the Disney Archives
The Walt Disney Animation Studios—The Archive Seriesmade its debut in November with the publication of Story (Disney Editions, $50.00), a handsome 272-page hardcover collection of story art created for Disney films over nearly 80 years.
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Comics Briefly
Grant Morrison at NYCC; Stan Goldberg at MoCCA; Preview of 08: Campaign Diary; Best of the Best of 2008 lists; KA-BAAM!! Superheroes on Stage; Kevin Smith's LA Comic Store Closing and The Beat’s Year End Survey
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/05/2009
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to a great history of groundbreaking children's edutainment public television show Seseme Street? We can, and will, on the Web this week. Plus more of America's popular favorites: a memoir from Michael Phelps, a history of progressive U.S. politics, a cultural analysis of the Ed Sullivan Show, Jimmy Carter's latest, sex, red meat, Southern belles and Janet Evanovich.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/22/2008
This Week's Web: further thoughts on the potential for global apocalypse and/or spiritual rebirth in 2012; Hippies across the Middle East; systems analysis for the rest of us; an epic WWII memoir; better living through Samurai wisdom; the dirty world theory; and who's the literary construct of Virginia Woolf? Plus: true-life crime scene investigation department road trip!
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Uslan and DeSanto Catch the Spirit
From February through April, DC's The Spirit series will have a guest writing team: Michael Uslan and F.J. DeSanto, the producers of the Frank Miller-directed Spirit movie that's opening this month.
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Coming Home: A Comic for Military Families
Working in collaboration with the U.S. Defense Department, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, the creators of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic adaptation, have created Coming Home, a comic designed to educate returning service members on the stresses and difficulties of the transition from combat duty back to domestic life.
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Craddock Mambos onto Graphic Novel Scene with Stone Rabbit Series
In Eric Craddock's Stone Rabbit: BC Mambo, a bored little bunny finds himself transported into prehistoric times, leading to a Jurassic journey of mischief and morals. “It’s kind of one zany adventure after another,” said Craddock.
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Comics Briefly
Nick Mag Comics Awards; Archie Comics Gets New Management; New Rep Groups for Diamond Book; Today Show Picks Wimpy Kid; Paul Sizer Signs B.P.M; Dark Reign Trailer; Sandman Cover for Rain Taxi; Penny Arcade at NYCC; and Go! Comi Gets New Distributor
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Panelmania: Gantz Vol. 3
The survivors of the first round of Gantz's deadly hunt return to their normal lives -- but not for long -- in this 17-page preview from the third volume of Hiroya Oku's Gantz, out from Dark Horse Comics in January.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/15/2008
This Week of Web Reviews: MLK in the words of his sister and his Montgomery contemporaries; the elegant dialogue between the stars and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell; a daughter's lyrically captured last weeks with her dying mother; the importance of emotion in rational decision making; and Torah lessons for succesful executives. Plus: pilsner pairings, easy dinners, better brains, and the perfect gift for chronic gifters: a brilliantly illustrated history of mail-order catalogs.
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The Cabinet's First Lady
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience Kirstin Downey . Doubleday/Talese , $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-51365-4 No individual—not even Eleanor Roosevelt—exerted more influence over the formulation of FDR's New Deal or did more to implement the programs than Frances Perkins (1880—1965).
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Blueberry Girl Neil Gaiman , illus. by Charles Vess. HarperCollins , $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-083808-9 In a magical blessing for unconventional girls, Gaiman (The Graveyard Book) addresses the “ladies of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never-you-mind,” asking them to shelter and guide an infant girl as she grows.
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Fiction Reviews
Wanting Richard Flanagan . Atlantic Monthly , $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1900-1 Flanagan follows The Unknown Terrorist with an intricate exploration of civility and savagery that hinges on two famous 19th-century Englishmen: Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and Charles Dickens. In 1839 Tasmania, a tribe of Aboriginals are in the Van Diemen's Land penal colony, soon to be governed by Frankli...
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Journey of the Heart: Stephen Lovely
In Irreplaceable, Stephen Lovely maps the web of connections made after a heart transplant.
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty Peter Singer . Random , $22 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6710-7 Part plea, part manifesto, part handbook, this short and surprisingly compelling book sets out to answer two difficult questions: why people in affluent countries should donate money to fight global poverty and how much each should give.
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