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Broccoli Books to Shut Down
Manga publisher Broccoli Books will be shut down at the end of this year
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The Saga of Swamp Thing’s Saga
In 1983 DC Comics editor Len Wein decided to take a chance and give a British writer by the name of Alan Moore a shot at writing the Swamp Thing. The rest of the story is history.
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Dave Gibbons and the Creation of Watchmen
Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore’s artist-collaborator on the now-classic superhero epic Watchmen, provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of the graphic novel in a new book just released by U.K. publisher Titan Books.
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Fanboys and Families: Miami Book Fair Debuts Comix Galaxy
The Miami Book Fair International, held November 9-16, marked its 25th anniversary by launching the Comix Galaxy, a partnership between the Miami Book Fair and Diamond Book Distributors that greatly expands the presence of comics and graphic novels at the annual show.
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Mike Allred Hits All The Right Notes
Originally published as a series by Dark Horse in the late 1990s, Red Rocket 7, a labor of love by Mike Allred that manages to integrate aliens, spaceships, robots and clones into the history of rock n’ roll, is back in print now in a .45-record-sized collection from Image.
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Comics Briefly
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Popeye's "Immortalicky"
Popeye: one of the most beloved cartoon personalities of the 20th century, was created by E.C. Segar (a former movie house projectionist who loved his Chaplin) some ten years after he became a cartoonist in pre-Capone Chicago. At the time, Popeye was a world-wide sensation. The daily adventures of this very American character literally changed the face of comic strips and heavily influenced that other burgeoning art form, animation.
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About Comics at the Ten Year Mark
About Comics has lasted 10 years with a small staff and a very personal vision that creates an eclectic line of books.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books How to Build an A Sara Midda . Workman/Artisan , $17.95 ISBN 978-1-57965-378-1 Offering a hands-on approach to learning the alphabet, this small-format book comes with 11 off-white foam shapes (as well as a mesh storage bag). In the book, miniature, stylized people (and the occasional dog) work together to construct each letter of the alphabet, using rectangular blocks and arcs...
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art Hugh Howard . Bloomsbury Press , $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-244-1 Patron of the arts is not the first association one makes with George Washington, but Howard elegantly makes the case that the founder of the nation also helped establish America’s art.
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Can't Buy Me Love
The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships Edited by Hilary Black . Morrow , $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-156096-5 While women have made enormous strides in their earning power and financial self-sufficiency in the past century, research shows that many would still be “very willing” to marry for money, underscoring the complicated natu...
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Fiction Reviews
The Possession of Mr. Cave Matt Haig . Viking , $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-02056-0 “Could it have been that the desire to protect is the desire to possess?” wonders antiques dealer Terence Cave in Haig’s overwrought study of a father creepily bent on protecting his beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Byrony.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/17/2008
On the Web this week: a stunning index of Indian wildlife, the man who gave birth, country music's Southern roots, a cookbook celebration of Paris's ethnic diversity, and a Booker Prize finalist. Plus: Lana Turner's daughter, a third McCourt brother, and more.
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Q & A with Anita Silvey
Bookshelf spoke with Anita Silvey about her new book, I’ll Pass for Your Comrade (Clarion).
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Meet the Joie de Tel Aviv: Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan
At age 42, writer-illustrator Rutu Modan has been creating comics for over a decade now, amassing a hipster following in her native Israel. But it wasn't until she released her graphic-novel debut, last year's coolly complicated familial drama Exit Wounds, that she finally earned international praise from both the comics cognoscenti and the ever-discriminating literati.
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Abrams To Publish Hereville Web comic in Print
Barry Deutsch has signed a book deal with Harry N. Abrams to publish his much lauded webcomic, Hereville, as a graphic novel
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AX: Top Shelf To Publish Gekiga Anthology
In August 2009 Top Shelf, will publish AX, a much-anticipated Japanese alternative comics anthology.
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Gaiman’s Sandman At 20
On Sunday November 9, the twentieth anniversary of DC Comics’ Sandman series was marked at one of Manhattan’s leading cultural centers, the 92nd Street Y, when creator Neil Gaiman was interviewed onstage by acclaimed graphic designer (and comics enthusiast) Chip Kidd.
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Books About Comics: Encyclopedic Wonders
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Comics Briefly
Miami Book Fair Embraces Comics; 2009 Eisner Judges ; Steve Geppi Speaks; NYCC Sign-up, Casting Call; Death Note II Canadian Screening ; Abel on NPR; Fan Questions on MyCup o' Joe; Spotlight on Comics; and This Week In The Beat
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