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San Diego Manga-Con
CLAMP signed with Dark Horse; CMX got Crayon Shin-chan; Viz acquired Slam Dunk!; manga got respect at the Eisner Awards and more manga news from this year’s San Diego Comic-con.
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A Full House at the Movie-Con
The San Diego Comic-con is now the single biggest marketing event of the year for Hollywood movie studios.
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San Diego Comics Briefly
NBM at 30; Graphic Novel Panel; Paul Pope; Friends of Lulu Award Winners and San Diego Comic-Con Coverage
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Talking Shojo with Arina Tanemura
Kai-MingCha talks with Tenenura about making shojo and inspiring young women.
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Photo Mania: San Diego Comic-Con 2007
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Warren Ellis Has Returned, But
Don't Expect Him to Enjoy ItIt took 10 years to get him back to San Diego. But fueled by Red Bull, cigarettes and junk food, the comics star-turned-novelist finally faces his Comic-Con fans.
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Potter Parties Pack Punch
On Friday July 27th, Harry Potter parties were everywhere, in every state in the Union, and many countries throughout the world.
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Galley Talk
The End of the Alphabet (Doubleday, Aug. 7) is a stunning accomplishment. To say so much in so few words is breathtaking. Although it's a novel about a man who discovers he has less than a month to live, I'm buying multiple copies and shelving most of them on my inspiration shelf.
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Family Lines: PW Talks With Edwidge Danticat
Growing up in Haiti, Danticat had a second father—her uncle Joseph, who raised her for eight years while her parents worked in order to bring the family to the U.S. In 2004, within the span of a few months, both fathers died and Danticat’s daughter was born. This triangle of events frames the family’s story in Brother, I’m Dying.
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After the Deluge
Though Naomi Klein became well-known in Canada, the U.K. and Europe after her first book, No Logo (Picador, 2000), unmasked the global injustices hidden by glossy corporate marketing, she’s not yet a mainstream name in the U.S. She has another chance with her new populist manifesto, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books)
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Harry's in a League of His Own
The record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows provided a much needed shot in the arm to bookstore sales, which were down 4.3% through May and had fallen every month this year. The trend will undoubtedly be broken in July. The 8.3 million copies of Hallows that Scholastic reported selling in the first 24 hours was far above the sales of The Secret, the top-selling title in th...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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In a Darker Mood: Fall 2007 Religion Listings
It says something about America today that some of the bestselling books on religion were written by atheists. After years of enormous sales for self-help religion tomes, the mood of the country has darkened, and with it the attitudes of many toward faith. It was just a year ago we spotted this trend (“New in Religion: Anti-Religion,” July 10, 2006), though the debate has so domina...
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Northwest Noir
Chelsea Cain’s Heartsick, the first book in a new thriller series to feature Portland, Ore., police detective Archie Sheridan, introduces an unforgettable—and frighteningly plausible—serial killer, Gretchen Lowell.
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Children's Notes
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? Favorite characters make a triumphant return in these summer sequels. The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer, second in a trilogy that began with The Sea of Trolls, revisits siblings Jack and Lucy. (In a starred review of the first book, PW wrote, “Fans of Viking and adventure tales will be up late nights to discover Jack's fate.
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SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes
AUGUST PUBLICATIONS Sides, the first collection of nonfiction from bestselling horror master Peter Straub, is a mixed bag. While the two decades’ worth of introductions and speeches include some intriguing material, the quirky and self-deprecating short essays by the author’s alter ego, fictional critic and academic Putney Tyson Ridge, provide little insight into Straub’s appr...
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American Born Chinese Wins Best Album Eisner
Gene Yang, Bill Willingham, Paul Pope, Darwyn Cooke and Alison Bechdel all took home awards at the 2007 Will Eisner Comics industry Awards ceremony held at the San Diego Comic-con.
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San Diego Comic Con Photo Mania
Photos from SDCC.
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