-
The Historical Roots of Manga
Professor Brigitte Koyama-Richard has written One Thousand Years of Manga, a new history that traces the roots of manga to the 12century.
-
Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable Revisited Nikki Giovanni , illus. by Chris Raschka. Candlewick , $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3021-8 “Every year the same thing happens. The Grasshoppers sing, the Ants work in rhythm, the crops come up smoothly, and when winter comes, the Ants turn their backs.
-
Fiction Reviews
Daphne Justine Picardie . Bloomsbury , $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59691-341-7 Former British Vogue editor Picardie (My Mother's Wedding Dress) gives us a fictional life of Rebecca novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907—1989) that founders in obsession. In the late 1950s, du Maurier, determined to establish herself as a serious writer, researched and wrote a biography of Branwell Brontë, t...
-
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/7/2008
This week: a strong start for April, with star-worthy efforts on war, weapons, fashion, parenting, Paris, Gustave Courbet and the Red Headed Stranger. Plus: American art in danger, breaking up is hard on dogs, how and why to purposely shrink your clothes, and more.
-
Master of Alternate History
A brief profile of Harry Turtledove, hailed as a master of alternate history fantasy novels, to accompany our print feature on the alternate history genre.
-
Nonfiction Reviews
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times Susan Quinn . Walker , $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1698-9 Quinn (Marie Curie) does a superb job of recounting the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre Project, a wing of FDR's WPA meant to employ playwrights and actors while providing diversion and inspiration for Depression-ravaged Americans.
-
DramaQueen Relaunches
Houston-based yaoi publisher DramaQueen has not published a title since September 2007. But the house has been reorganized; taken on a new financial investor and plans to release a new batch of titles in May.
-
Kids, Parents Turnout for Kids Comic-Con 2008
Hundreds of kids and their parents from all around the New York City metro area converged on the campus of the Bronx Community College this past weekend for the second annual Kids Comic Con held all day Saturday, March 29.
-
Life in Comics #2: Finding Comics in the “Real” World
The author searches for well known graphic novels in a comics shop, a book store and a library and reports on her findings.
-
Del Rey Tells Mashima's Fairy Tail
Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail, an irreverent story filled with silly, slapstick humor about young wizards, and Del Rey Manga hopes it will be a big hit.
-
Tanaka Keeps Time
Veronique Tanaka uses a unique storytelling style of 16-panel pages to tell her story in Metronome.
-
Comics Briefly
Siegel Copyright Returns; Frank Miller at NYCC; Murakami at Brooklyn Museum; Making a Bestseller; Dark Horse Comics Online; Jeffery Brown on SexTV; and Comic Exhibit at MCAD
-
Music as Memoir
In a poem set to music by his lover Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden implored the patron saint of music, “Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians, appear and inspire.” Or as Nikki Sixx, bassist and songwriter for heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, acknowledges inspiration in his bestselling memoir, The Heroin Diaries: “I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Sear...
-
Classic Do-Over
Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen . Modern Library , $35 (960p) ISBN 978-0-679-64019-6 Matthiessen’s Watson trilogy is a touchstone of modern American literature, and yet, as the author writes in a foreword of this reworking, with the publication of Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River and Bone by Bone, he felt, “after twenty years of toil.
-
Nonfiction Reviews
Why I Came West: A Memoir Rick Bass . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (250p) ISBN 978-0-618-59675-1 In the summer of 1987, nature writer Bass stumbled into the Yaak Valley in northwestern Montana and fell in love. A native of Houston, Bass worked as a geologist in Mississippi before heading west to find his home and his vocation as a writer.
-
Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books What to Do About Alice? Barbara Kerley , illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic , $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-92231-9 It’s hard to imagine a picture book biography that could better suit its subject than this high-energy volume serves young Alice Roosevelt. Kerley (The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins) knows just how to introduce her to contemporary readers: “Theod...
-
Fiction Reviews
The Seamstress Frances de Pontes Peebles . Harper , $25.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-06-073887-7 This lavishly detailed if overlong debut novel set in 1920s and '30s Brazil follows two sisters who share excellent sewing skills, but take divergent paths into adulthood. Crippled by a childhood accident and mocked for her deformities, Luzia is considered unmarriageable.
-
Speed Racer Returns
From the X-Men and Superman to the forthcoming Iron Man and Dark Knight movies, Hollywood has taken a keen interest in the comics game. Now comics publishers are taking a cue from the studios and their comic book—inspired films—and their ability to generate book sales. Remember the 1960s animated cartoon Speed Racer, an early example of Japanese anime finding a kids audience in th...
-
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/31/2008
This week: Poetry, poets, puppies and psychopathology; marginalized voices from Native America and the Civil Rights movement; dedicated craftsmen and flighty counter-dependents; and a dazzling debut novel with a "polyphonic narrative." Plus: how do you measure up against McCain, Clinton and Obama?
-
ComicsPRO Gets Everyone on the Same Page
Retailers and publishers came together to discuss many issues pertaining to the industry at the recent ComicsPRO meeting in Las Vegas.
Browse archive by date:
