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  • Prophecy Fighters: Nostradamus and The Foundation

    One-part Da Vinci Code and two parts X-Files, The Foundation is a story about the prophet Nostradamus and a secret organization founded to prevent his predictions from coming true. The book will be published by Boom! Studios in September.

  • Comics Briefly

    Viz Film Company; Attack of the Show SDCC Panel; Vertigo Creators Blog; Foreign GN’s on NPR; Paul Sizer Online Comic; New A.D. Chapter; and Vertigo Myspace Spotlight

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/21/2008

    This week on the Web: Behind the scenes of Communist China and Ukraine democracy, Obi Wan on the road, a plague of deer ticks, a lost Las Vegas legend, a strong argument for the samaritan state and an even stronger argument for fat (with recipes). Plus: organizing, improvising, dog training, and What Happened—now with that smooth Scott McClellan delivery.

  • Financial Challenge: A Close Look at Platinum Studios

    Despite years of mounting financial losses, creator complaints and skepticism about its business plan, Platinum Studios continues to sign new comics

  • Funny Business #5: The Good Kind of Audit

    A look at the BPA's circulation audits for comics reveals some interesting information about sales patterns.

  • Image Comics and Tori Amos Ink Comic Book Tattoo

    Image has teamed up with popular singer-songwriter Tori Amos to publish Comic Book Tattoo, a 480-page, full-color book in which various comics artists adapt the concepts behind Amos's songs into graphic vignettes.

  • Norton Acquires Nelson Mandela Graphic Bio

    W.W. Norton plans to publish a graphic biography of former South Africa president Nelson Mandela.

  • Image and Dynamite Finally Raise American Flagg!

    Four years after announcing plans to copublish a new edition of Howard Chaykin’s influential sci-fi comics series, American Flagg, Image Comics and Dynamic Forces are finally publishing the book this month. Turns out it was huge pain to produce.

  • Return to the Perry Bible Fellowship

    After the success of last year's The Trials of Colonel Sweeto, Nicholas Gurewitch is planning an even bigger and broader compilation of his cult web comic favorite, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack.

  • Comics Briefly

    SDCC Programming; PW The Beat: Xeric, Manga; More; Taiyo Matsumoto Interview; Boom! Free Webcomics; World Cosplay Summit at NYAF; Superman on NPR; and Horror Guild Award Nominees

  • Panel Mania: Too Cool to be Forgotten

    In this exclusive 10-page preview from the upcoming Alex Robinson book, Too Cool to be Forgotten, a middle-aged man named Andy Wicks tries hypnosis to quit smoking, and wakes up back in 1985 as a high school sophomore. Too Cool to be Forgotten will be released by Top Shelf Comix on July 29th.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/14/2008

    This week: American dreams get analysis, archaeology shines a new light on the Dark Ages, a professional wrestler's murder-suicide, behind the scenes of the world's wine market, and a dazzling tour of historical Chinese art. And for the rockers: the Beatles in America and No Wave in New York.

  • July Comics Bestsellers

  • A Mother's Story

    An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir Elizabeth McCracken . Little, Brown , $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-02767-0 In this stunning memoir of the death in utero of her first child only days before his birth, McCracken has succeeded in writing a beautiful, precise and heartbreaking account without sentimentality or pity.

  • San Diego Monster-Con

    The San Diego Comic Convention has long been the preeminent event of the comic book industry, an annual pop-culture phenomenon that attracts more than 100,000 fans and grows larger and more prominent in the general culture every year. Much of the recent mainstream attention comes courtesy of the convention's significant Hollywood presence that has drawn both the event and the medium further int...

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008

    On the Web this week: the joy of repetition, the nitty-gritty of China, the story of a Guantanamo Bay translator, the life of a lesbian literary hero, and practical family eating for the eco-, community- and health-conscious. Plus: Monk in print, Finn in audio, counterterrorism in the 1980s and famous deciders deciding badly (from King Priam to G.W.Bush).

  • Keith Knight's Really Big Book

    Let's just call this the year of Keith Knight. Dark Horse is publishing The Complete K Chronicles: A Comprehensive Collection of Keith Knight's Award Winning Strip, a gigantic 500-page omnibus of some of Knight's funniest and most eccentrically insightful cartoons of the past 15 years.

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