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It’s a Big Manga World After All
Literary agent Yukari Shiina and her agency, World Manga, aim to make the manga world more of a two-way street.
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Funny Business #4: Ignoring the Direct Market
Companies like SLG and Kenzer & Co. have gone outside the direct sales market to sell their books.
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Byrne’s Next Men Returns
13 years after the series ended, John Byrne is reviving his superhero series, Next Men, which will be published by IDW
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Fluffy: A Bunny in Denial
In June Dark Horse will release Simone Lia's Fluffy, a cute but emotionally complex graphic novel about a talking bunny (who denies that he’s a bunny) and his “daddy,” a grown man named Michael.
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Comics Briefly
Shuster Award Winners; New David B. from NBM; PW The Beat: Tokyopop, San Diego, More; Hotwire Comics Show; June Zuda Competition; and MediaBistro Comics Class
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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A Poet in Love
Made Flesh Craig Arnold . Ausable (Consortium, dist.), $14 paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-931337-42-7 “Oh how the heart flares,” Arnold writes, “and melts like wax spilling over a candle's lip”: both the flares, and the excess, find the right voice in this wild second book. A few premises—Persephone and Hades, a “couple from hell” in their underworld; the...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
This week's web roundup: the history of whaling; civil rights struggles in Sunflower, Mississippi; the other side of Chinese cooking; changing the world, one family at a time; and a charming collection of filthy phrases. Plus: subversive gardening, unhealthy eating, Dr. Dre's mom and Tennessee Ernie Ford's son.
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Comics Keep Their Cool in the Heat at MoCCA
In spite of a local heat-wave, a cartoonist passing out and an evacuation by the fire dept., this year's MoCCA Art Festival was as busy and as vibrant as sever.
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Medical Manga in the House
Prepare yourself, America, for a new wave of Japanese manga focused, more or less, on the medical profession.
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Life, Sex, Art--Whatever
Xeric award-winner Karl Stevens's Whatever, a graphic novel set in a Boston suburb amongst the young bar and bed-hopping post-collegiate crowd, has been published by Alternative Comics
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Comics Briefly
NetComics’ First American Title: Friends of Lulu Winners: Kikuchi at NYAF; Anime Expo 2008 Guests; Lynda Barry in Chicago; New A.D. Chapter; and Quesada’s Cup of Joe on Myspace
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Photo Mania
Photographs from the MoCCA Art Festical 2008 at the Puck building in New York City.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
This week on the Web: the voices of undocumented America; how gardens and math explain the world; an idiot girl, a pastor's daughter and two unlikely Hollywood stars reveal all (to varying degrees); family recipes for including, not deceiving, your loved ones; and two new novels from Harry "When Does He Sleep?" Turtledove. Plus: the new Patricia Cornwell and a roundup of children's titles.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
Picture Books Batman: The Story of the Dark Knight Ralph Cosentino . Viking , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-06255-3 While this introduction to Batman pays plenty of homage to the original comic’s noirish aesthetics, Cosentino (The Marvelous Misadventures of Fun-Boy) makes two astute concessions to the sensibilities of his target audience.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
Titanic’s Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler Brad Matsen . Hachette/Twelve , $27.99 (352) ISBN 978-0-446-58205-6 In this expertly written account, Matsen (Descent) does what would seem impossible: he tells us something new about the Titanic disaster.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
The Wettest County in the World Matt Bondurant . Scribner , $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6139-2 This fictionalized tale of Depression-era bootlegging from Bondurant (The Third Translation) enlists the help of Winesburg, Ohio author Sherwood Anderson to investigate Bondurant family lore. In 1928, a pair of thieves accost Bondurant’s real life great-uncle Forrest at his Franklin County, Va.
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Tokyopop Revamps; Cuts Titles, Lays Off 39
The persistent rumors during BEA about the state of Tokyopop turned out to be mostly right. The Los Angeles manga publisher announced a major restructuring that will create two separate divisions—the Tokyopop Inc. publishing unit and Tokyopop Media, a digital and comics-to-films unit—under the Tokyopop Group’s holding company. The moves will result in the layoffs of about 39 Tokyopop staffers.
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