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NYCC Weathers Economic Storm
Now in its fourth year, New York Comic-Con, scheduled for February 6—8, stands as the second biggest comics/pop culture expo in the U.S. and the fourth largest event in New York City (following the International Auto Show, the International Orchid Show and the New York City Marathon). This year's Comic-Con brings together a high-powered mix of cartoonists, publishers, movie companies, vi...
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Scholastic Rolls Out Carman’s Multimedia Venture
Skeleton Creek -- conceived, written and produced by Patrick Carman, author of the Land of Elyon, Atherton and Elliot’s Park series -- is a new ghost mystery from Scholastic that plays out on the page and in online video footage.
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Metropolitan Books Publishes Waltz with Bashir—the Graphic Novel
Metropolitan Books will publish a full-color graphic novel adaptation of Israeli director Ari Folman’s much acclaimed animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, in February.
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Grant Morrison, Batman and the Superhero Genre
For more than 20 Years, the Scotish comics writer Grant Morrison has been regarded as one of the most original and inventive writers in the comics medium.
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Antix Goes for the Laughs
What may have come to Francis Lombard and Shawn Walker in a heat-induced dream has evolved into a full-fledged comic company called Antix Press. Antix made their official debut in October at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco; with new titles chock full of comedic value. Whereas most new comics companies have been staying in the action adventure mode, Lombard and Walker identified a lack of humor comics on the market and decided to base their new company around that genre.
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Comics Briefly
NYCC Schedule Posted; Cosplay Across Japan Tour; Caroline Kennedy Comic; Jaffe, Feiffer, Pekar Onstage; NPR Reviews ‘Omega the Unknown’; Pekar Opera Staged; and Archie Origin Story
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Nonfiction Reviews
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution Lars Schoultz . Univ. of North Carolina , $35 (768p) ISBN 978-0-8078-3260-8 In time for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Schoultz, a University of North Carolina political science professor, offers an exhaustive study of the relationship between the U.
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A Priest Without a Pulpit: Barbara Brown Taylor
An Episcopal priest without a parish, Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about how that came to pass in Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith. The next part of her journey is the subject of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/12/2009
Picture Books My Brother Bert Ted Hughes , illus. by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux , $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-39982-5 Pearson provides a suitably sunny setting for this light verse by the late acclaimed British poet, about a boy, Bert, who can't say no to any exotic pet. Among those hidden in his bedroom are a gorilla, a lion, pangolins (a kind of anteater) and R...
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Natasha Wimmer on Translating Roberto Bolaño
Reviewing the late Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's posthumous masterpiece 2666 in the New York Times Book Review this past November, Jonathan Lethem echoed much of the book press, noting, “[I]n the literary culture of the United States, Bolaño has become a talismanic figure seemingly overnight.
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Four Score and Seven New Books on Lincoln: A PW Reviews Roundup
With the coming bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth (that’s February 12, 2009, for those counting), publishers are releasing even more new titles on the perennially popular Civil War president.
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Jeff & Jeff
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Geoff Dyer . Pantheon , $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-37737-1 Two 40-ish men seeking love and existential meaning are the protagonists of these highly imaginative twin novellas, written in sensuous, lyrical prose brimming with colorful detail. In the first, Jeff Atman is a burnt-out, self-loathing London hack journalist who travels to scorching, Bellini-soaked ...
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Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move Denis Johnson . Farrar, Straus & Giroux , $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-22290-1 National Book Award—winner Johnson (Tree of Smoke) goes lean and mean in this slick noir, originally serialized in Playboy last summer. Jimmy Luntz, a chain-smoking, fast-talking addictive gambler, is in the hole several grand to underworld bad dude Juarez, and he knows his kneecaps have a date ...
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Safety Act Catches Publishers Off Guard
The children's book industry is currently dealing with a new and pressing challenge that is threatening publishers, bookstores, libraries and schools. It's not the economy or school spending or reading rates—it is a recent act of Congress, which has blindsided the industry with the implementation of stiff safety standards on all children's products, and whose application to books is vague.
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Industry Scrambling to Comply with Child Safety Act
A new government regulation that requires testing of all products aimed at children 12 and under is causing headaches for publishers, booksellers and manufacturers. Books, audiobooks and sidelines fall under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which is set to go into effect Feb. 10; industry organizations are attempting to get books excluded from the Act, even as they work to understand just what the rules could mean for all parties involved.
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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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