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Yen Press Highlights 4-Panel Manga Format
This summer, Yen Press is releasing four new series featuring four-panel manga, a Japanese manga format that looks like an American cartoon strip that runs vertically rather than horizontal.
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Trotman talks Templar
The business of Web comics depends on making money by giving something away for free. Not everyone can pull that off, but Charlie Trotman earns a living from her Web comic, Templar, Arizona, despite the fact that the entire comic is available online at no cost.
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Kyle Baker: When Stupid is Smart
Kyle Baker's new art book should be shelved in the self-help, self-improvement, new age-y section of the bookstore where folks try to find some direction in life. Kyle Baker has a message for THE PEOPLE. And what is Kyle Baker's message? Learn How To Draw, Stupid! No,wait, it's: Learn How To Draw Stupid. No comma after the word "draw", heh.
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Comics Briefly
Dash Shaw, Pantheon Ink Deal; Jake Parker Two-Book Pact; PW The Beat: Watchmen Fight; More; Nickelodeon Kids’ GN Award; Japan Society at NYAF; DMP to Rent Manga Online; Response to Tokyopop’s Postponed Titles; Spider-Man Free Online; Kyle Baker on NPR; Fresh Ink in Tokyo; Joe Chiappetta Interview; and Paul Sizer on The Pulse
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Panel Mania: Prince of Persia
In this 12-page preview from the upcoming Prince of Persia graphic novel, a young woman in ancient Persia undertakes a daring adventure. Created by Jordan Mechner, written by B. Sina and illustrated by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, the book is due out from First Second on September 2.
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Girls with Guitars: Apocalipstix Rocks
Artist Cameron Stewart and writer Ray Fawkes tell the tale of the Apocalipstix—an all-girl band who decide they’re not going to let Armageddon stop their cross-country tour! New from Oni Press.
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Portrait of the Artist
The Sky Below Stacey D'Erasmo . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-618-43925-6 A luminous novel crafted in meticulous detail with shimmering language, D'Erasmo's third book tells the story of Gabriel Callahan's life, beginning with his father's abandonment when Gabriel was a child and tracing his ambivalent search for wholeness through adolescence and into adulthood.
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Short-Order Author
Curmudgeonly chef Kenny Shopsin talked about his book, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin, between shifts at his New York restaurant, Shopsin's General Store. You talk about “the art of staying small” and say you have no desire to oversee a Shopsin's restaurant empire or endorse a line of cookware.
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Fiction Reviews
Me and Kaminski Daniel Kehlmann , trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Pantheon , $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-307-37744-9 German literary wunderkind Kehlmann follows up Measuring the World (2006) with this curious and lesser novel. Self-conscious and yet completely un—self-aware, journalist Sebastian Zollner attempts to outdo his art critic rival by writing the biography of recl...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/18/2008
On the Web: unremarkable remnants of young suburban angst, the sadly familiar gripes of one dispirited government spy, a hacked-together introduction to one of the world's holiest leaders, and a YA disappointment of major bloody proprotions. On the other hand: a fascinating look at the power-hungry 17th Century woman who controlled Pope Innocent X, and a gorgeous debut memoir reveals a woman's struggle to raise a son with severe cerebral palsy.
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Nonfiction Reviews
The Norman Maclean Reader Norman Maclean , edited with an intro. by O. Alan Weltzien. Univ. of Chicago , $27.50 (352p) ISBN 978-0-226-50026-3 Maclean (1902—1990), an English professor at the University of Chicago, did not establish himself as a writer until late in his life, but quickly gained national acclaim in 1989 for A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Queen of Style Caralyn Buehner , illus. by Mark Buehner. Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-803-72878-3 A bored royal turned overzealous cosmetician provides the spark for the husband-and-wife Buehners' (Snowmen at Night) quirky fable about empathy and gratitude. Fed up with nothing to do, Queen Sophie heeds her exasperated jester's advice to learn something.
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The Future Is Almost Now
Although comic books have always been a creature of print and paper and ink, the idea of converting them to computer screens is nothing new. Examples of digital comics date back to as early as 1985, and pirated comics have long been available to savvy Web users on underground BitTorrent sites. But publishers, ffor the most part, have ignored the whole issue of digital comics for years.
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Comics Briefly
CBLDF Benefit ; Viz releases Stan Lee Manga; PW The Beat:Time Warner; Fans of 1974; David Glanzer Speaks; Doug Wright Awards; NYAF Cosplay Day at Kinokuniya; FLCL Ultimate Ed. Defect; Stephen King’s The Stand; and Mark Miller, Tony Harris at Midtown Comics
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Fans Flock to Baltimore's Otakon
24,000 Fans flocked to the Baltimore Convention Center for this year’s Otakon, an anime and manga convention held August 8-10.
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Many Tokyopop Series ‘Postponed,’ Not Canceled
Despite rumors that Tokyopop canceled many titles in the wake of its reorganization, the company says that many of the titles purported to be on the chopping block will be published on a modified schedule.
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DK Lands on Comic Fans’ Coffee Tables
Dorling Kindersley is coming out this fall with not one but two new oversized hardcover books about the history of two large forces in the comics world: Marvel Comics and DC’s Vertigo imprint.
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Books About Comics: The Man Behind the Spider
After Mark Evanier’s Kirby: King of Comics came out earlier this year, one would expect that a biography of Steve Ditko would come next. As cocreator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, Ditko ranks second only to Kirby among Stan Lee’s collaborators in devising the Marvel Universe. Blake Bell’s Stranger and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko (Fantagraphics, $39.99 hardcover) has followed quickly indeed, arriving in early summer.
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Fantasy Island
The Company K.J. Parker . Orbit , $24.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-03853-9 This exquisitely written novel by a pseudonymous popular author blends gritty military fantasy with the 18th-century “island story” tradition. Seven years after the end of a war between unnamed countries, four friends who fought together have settled back into civilian life.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 8/11/2008
This week on the Web: more writing advice from the Eggers crowd, more wildfires from the Southwest, more bad news from the War on Terror, and more co-authored novels from James Patterson. Plus: an engrossing overview of human evolution, two guides to caring for your pre-teen, and the much-anticipated Cheech & Chong story.
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