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  • Nonfiction Reviews

    | 09/15/2008 @ 06:00AM

    The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia Laura Miller Little, Brown , $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-01763-3 Jam-packed with critical insights and historical context, this discussion of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia from Miller’s double perspectives—as the wide-eyed child who first read the books and an agnostic adult who revisits them—is i...

  • Fiction Reviews

    | 09/15/2008 @ 06:00AM

    After You’ve Gone Jeffrey Lent . Grove Atlantic , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87113-894-1 A widower, suddenly bereft, finds an unexpected future when he goes to Amsterdam looking for his past in Lent’s intricate and rewarding fourth novel. Henry Dorn is an upright college professor whose relatively tranquil existence is upended when his wife and son are killed in a car accident in the...

  • Children's Book Reviews

    | 09/15/2008 @ 06:00AM

    Picture Books Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie Norton Juster , illus. by Chris Raschka. Scholastic/di Capua , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-92943-1 This welcome sequel to the Caldecott Medal title The Hello, Goodbye Window knowingly describes a child's conflicting personalities. “Sometimes I'm Sourpuss,” a multiracial girl admits.

  • Rapid Rise

    By Lynn Andriani | 09/15/2008 @ 06:00AM

    Cookbook powerhouse Clarkson Potter will have its biggest fall ever this year, with new books from Giada De Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray totaling a combined first printing of more than two million copies. But simmering just below the “big four” are legions of imitators, and it's only a matter of time before the next generation of cookbook stars break onto t...

  • Rowling Wins Potter Lexicon Suit

    By John A. Sellers | 09/09/2008 @ 02:59PM

    Author J.K. Rowling won her lawsuit against Michigan-based publisher RDR Books on Monday, blocking the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment held that the planned publication of the book, based on a Web site of the same name maintained by Vander Ark, would infringe on Rowling’s copyright to her bestselling Harry Potter series.

  • Marvel Turns Stephen King’s The Stand into Comics

    By Laura Hudson | 09/09/2008 @ 02:30PM

    Marvel Comics has moved on to another King property, with a comic book adaptation of his 1978 horror classic, The Stand.

  • Diamond and Retailers Hit Vegas

    By Torsten Adair | 09/09/2008 @ 02:29PM

    The yearly Diamond Retailer summit hit Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday, for three days (September 7-9) of seminars, socializing and announcements by publishers and retailers

  • Funnies Business: Les Humanoides Cuts a Deal with the Devil

    by Todd Allen | 09/09/2008 @ 02:28PM

    European adventure comics are coming back to America via new deals at Devil's Due and Marvel.

  • Kevin O'Neill and Pat Mills Enforce Marshal Law at Titan

    By Sam Thielman | 09/09/2008 @ 02:26PM

    On September 2,
    Titan Books
     is putting out a new paperback, Marshal Law: Origins ($12.95) collecting in black and white (with new artwork) two out-of-print Marshal Law novellas.

  • Comics Briefly

    Compiled by Ada Price | 09/09/2008 @ 02:24PM

    New DC V-P, Ad Sales; Howl! Comics Panel; PW The Beat: Batman Recalled and More; Ben Katchor at SPX; Dark Tower, The Stand Midnight Signing; Death Note Day at Kinokuniya; Runaways Free Online; Middleman Collected Edition; Comics In the Media; and Spurge Talks to John Pham

  • Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder

    by Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

    Joshua Beckman, 36, and Matthew Zapruder, 40, met in 1998 when Beckman passed through Amherst, Mass., on a tour for his debut poetry collection, Things Are Happening. Zapruder was an M.F.A. student at the University of Amherst and went to see Beckman's reading: “I was blown away,” says Zapruder.

  • Children's Book Reviews

    | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

    Picture Books Dinosaur vs. Bedtime Bob Shea . Hyperion , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1335-5 Shea (New Socks) makes a hilarious commentator as his hero, a small red dinosaur, elevates everyday encounters into a series of matches worthy of the WWF. “Dinosaur versus... a bowl of spaghetti!” announces Shea and, with a trio of bold typographic roars (and two chomps), the bowl is vanq...

  • Fiction Reviews

    | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

    The Book of the Unknown Jonathon Keats . Random , $13 paper (236p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7897-1 Keats (The Pathology of Lies) re-imagines Jewish folklore in his collection of stories about the Talmudic idea of the Lamedh-Vov, 36 righteous souls who must exist at all times in order for humanity, and the world, to sustain itself.

  • Wowio: Good for Prose; Bad for Comics?

    by Van Jensen | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

    For comics and prose publishers, Wowio.com seemed almost too good to be true. The Web site allowed publishers to post their books online so readers could download them for free, with publishers earning a set fee per download. But since the site was acquired in July by Platinum Studios, an online comics and entertainment licensing firm, changes in Wowio's terms may have undermined the value of t...

  • Art Books in a Booming Art Market

    by Charles Dee Mitchell | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

    When discussion of the market for contemporary art makes its way into the popular press, it often centers on how immune the market seems to be to broader financial trends. Last fall, as the latest round of art auctions concluded, Carol Vogel stated it plainly in the New York Times: “Never mind the gyrations on Wall Street or the subprime mortgage and equity crisis.

  • Nonfiction Reviews

    | 09/08/2008 @ 06:00AM

    Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara . Columbia Univ. , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-231-13960-1 Kara, a former investment banker and executive, uses theoretical economics and business analysis to propose measures that could eradicate sex trafficking by undermining the profitability of the illegal activities associated with the crime.

  • Oni and 60Frames Meld Web Videos, Comics

    by Wil Moss | 09/02/2008 @ 07:58PM

    Recently Oni Press announced it has joined with 60Frames Entertainment, an online video distribution company, to create interlocking web videos and comic books.

  • Alan's War: A Conversation Becomes a Book

    by Kate Culkin | 09/02/2008 @ 06:00PM

    First Second will release the English-language version of Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, by French artist Emmanuel Guibert, in October.

  • Life in Comics: Skimming the Ocean or Digging a Well: Analysis on Comics Blogs

    by Jennifer de Guzman | 09/02/2008 @ 01:09PM

    Editor de Guzman questions whether reading blogs about comics has any bearing on creating or marketing comics.

  • September Comics Bestsellers

    by Calvin Reid | 09/02/2008 @ 01:08PM

    Diary of Wimpy Kid continues at #1 on the list, with Batman: The Killing Joke (#2), Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures (#5), Y the Last Man vol. 10 (#8) and Ultimate X-Men Vol. 18 (#10) following.

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