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Comics Briefly
Carol Burrell to Draw Kindred GN; CBLDF Membership Drive; Guilty Plea on Manga Obscenity Case; 2008 Reuben Awards; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids and This Week @ The Beat
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Bruni’s Departure and Memoir Publication: Coincidence?
Two weeks ago, the New York Times announced restaurant critic Frank Bruni was stepping down from his post. The food world was aflutter debating who will take his spot. but Bruni’s exit raises another question: can a restaurant critic publish a memoir while he or she still has the job? Coincidentally—or not—Penguin Press is publishing Bruni’s memoir, Born Round, in August, which is when Bruni plans to officially vacate his post at the NYT.
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Short Order: May 26
This issue's installment shares details about a dinner at Bouley restaurant for Tom Standage's An Edible History of Humanity; a link to news about Artisan's legal scuffle with Tavern on the Green; and a slideshow of images of cookbook authors hamming it up.
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Review: New Classic Family Dinners
Mark Peel of Los Angeles’s Campanile restaurant elevates the common vernacular of comfort food —veal scaloppine, grasshopper pie—to refinement, using ingredients like smoked mozzarella and homemade vanilla ice cream, respectively. He also gives tips for extra-mile techniques, like running a pureed potato leek soup through a sieve, or toasting and grinding spices for a shrimp boil.
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Meredith to Promote Cookbooks on Social Networking Site
In January, Meredith Corporation quietly launched Mixing Bowl, a social networking site about cooking. Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages. Now, Meredith is beginning an aggressive marketing campaign for Mixing Bowl, start a companion print magazine—and start launching cookbook authors through the site.
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Cooking the Books with the Neelys
Pat and Gina Neely co-own two Neely's Bar-B-Que restaurants in Memphis and one in Nashville, and star in Down Home with the Neelys on the Food Network. Knopf published their first book, Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, earlier. They stopped in New York on their 13-city tour, and squeezed in a few minutes to talk to PW and offered a few tips for summertime grilling: have fun and don’t forget the cocktails.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009
Among this week's reviews are picture books from George McClements, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Bob Barner; novels from Susane Colasanti, Adam Rapp and Blake Nelson; and an Iraq war memoir from a young soldier.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009
This week on the Web: Robert Kiyosaki explores the new reality of real estate, Arianne Cohen gives the tall their own book, Patrick Allitt recovers the history of conservatism, Tasha Blaine explores nannyhood, Janice Lieberman helps smart shoppers find husbands, and Jane Green returns with her latest beach novel. Plus: Toni Morrison compiles essays on writing from Orhan Pamuk, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer and others.
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Viz Media Launches IKKI, New Online Magazine Venture
In the wake of the cancellation of its print Shojo Beat manga fan magazine, manga and anime publisher Viz Media will launch IKKI, a new online magazine venture that will be used as promotional vehicle and to launch new works and to solicit feedback on whether to release some titles in print.
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Viz Cancels 'Shojo Beat' Manga Teen Mag
Viz Media has cancelled Shojo Beat, a 3 year-old manga fan magazine that doubled as marketing vehicle for Viz manga titles, and the July issue will be the last.
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Knopf to Publish ‘Eragon’ Novelty Book
This fall, Knopf Books for Young Readers will publish Christopher Paolini’s Eragon’s Guide to Alagaësia, a novelty gift book tie-in to the author’s bestselling Inheritance cycle novels.
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Fantagraphics to Publish Lincoln Butterfield Graphic Novel
Seattle-based indie comics publisher Fantagraphics Books and animation developer Lincoln Butterfield have agreed to collaborate on the publication of a graphic novel based on RIP, M.D., an animated cartoon series in development by Lincoln Butterfield.
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New Venue for ECBACC ’09; Same Good Vibe
The venue was new and the main speaker, filmmaker Kevin Grevioux, had to cancel but the spirit of conviviality was undimmed at the 20009 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention held May 16 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia.
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Comics Publishers Turn to Discounted Single Issues
DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment are two publishers that are using the comics shop specialty market to offer specially discounted promotional periodical issues that they hope will appeal to consumers looking for a bit more value for their comics dollar.
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A New Century; A New Publisher for Alan Moore’s LOEG
The first two volumes of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, chronicled a world in which characters out of 19th century fiction are real people. In the third volume, they turn to the 20th century.
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Panelmania: Far Arden
In his search for the mythic artic paradise Far Arden, Army Shanks fights off numerous obstacles such as the half polar bear man in this preview of Far Arden by Kevin Cannon. The book will be released Top Shelf on May 29th.
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Papercutz to Publish Disney Fairies Graphic Novels
Papercutz, a New York City-based graphic novel publisher focused on teen readers, has reached an agreement to produce a series of graphic novels based on Disney Fairies, a series of bestselling prose chapter books drawn from the novels of Gail Carson Levine and constructed around the well-known Disney fairy character Tinker Bell.
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The 'Other' Interlink Launches Two Imprints
Interlink Publishing Group is alive, well and expanding, said publicity director Moira Megargee. The highly publicized financial problems of the magazine and book distributor Source Interlink has caused confusion among some accounts of the Northampton, Mass.-based publisher, but while Source Interlink is reorganizing, Interlink Publishing—with no ties at all to the wholesaler—is add...
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Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels by Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Tropper, David Liss, Michael Muhammad Knight, Jed Mercurio, Jaqueline Sheehan and more. Mother-son duo Iris and Roy Johansen deliver an action-packed romantic thriller, and a star for Jeremy Duns's debut.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009
This week's reviews include novels by Robert B. Parker, James Rollins, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, and Jake Wizner, along with round-ups of new pop-up books and picture book sequels.
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