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Comics Briefly
Toon Books Moved Up; NYCC News; PW The Beat Looks at Sales; Viz News; and Bluewater to Publish Pistolfist
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Incognegro: Passing for White to Expose Lynching
DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint brought together novelist Mat Johnson and artist Warren Pleece to create Incognegro, an original graphic novel that recreates a terrible period in American history when the brutal lynchings of black Americans were carried out throughout the South.
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David Fickling to Launch Weekly Comic
“In my own experience, the link between reading a comic and reading a book is wonderful and exciting,” says publisher David Fickling, who will launch a comic book program this May called The DFC (The David Fickling Comic). For Fickling, whose London-based, eponymous imprint at Random House publishes children’s books on both sides of the Atlantic, the launch of The DFC reflects his lifelong love of comic books.
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Spring Sequels
Forget about happily ever after. At one time, it may have been enough for The Three Bears to chase Goldilocks from their home and get back to their meal. But publishers know well that a good sequel can pave the road from one-off bestseller to veritable empire. Where did Goldilocks's larcenous tendencies take her next? Did she ever get to finish that nap? And did the bears ever get that broken c...
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Welcome to Sarahland
“I feel like I always have one foot back in high school,” says Sarah Dessen, who at 37 could almost pass for a recent graduate. Chapel Hill, her home since her parents took jobs at the University of North Carolina in 1973, is her town, and she relishes in disguising its landmarks in the fictional Lakeview, where her stories are set.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 2/18/08
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David Levithan: The Happy Editor-Writer
T.S. Eliot famously called the majority of editors failed writers—though he conceded that most writers also fit that description. But not David Levithan. The author-editor who now heads up Scholastic Press and is overseeing the house's ambitious charge into multimedia projects—his lengthy title is executive editorial director of Scholastic Press fiction, multimedia publishing and Pu...
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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About Our Cover Artist
Tad Hills never set out to be a children's book illustrator. “I really wanted to pursue acting,” he tells PW as he drops off the art work that is now our cover. After graduating from Skidmore College in 1986, where he studied art, Hills took on various freelance jobs—working on a screenplay, making marionettes and jewelry, and generally “doing art.
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American Manga Gets Push at Tokyopop
As the market for manga in America continues to grow, one of the top publishers, Tokyopop, has made a push to promote its OEL, or “Original English Language” manga, works created by non-Japanese writers and artists.
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Publishers Turn to Far East for Printing
With the continuing monetary woes of Quebecor, several publishers are turning to China to print their periodical comics.
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Blue Pills: Positively Lovely
Houghton Mifflin is publishing Blue Pills, Frederik Peeters's moving and award-winning autobiographical graphic novel about falling in love with an HIV-positive woman.
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Jeph Loeb Strikes Back
A top comic book writer and executive producer and screenwriter for the hit NBC series Heroes, Jeph Loeb is headlining some of Marvels biggest titles, including The Ultimates and the recent relaunch of The Hulk.
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Geoff Johns Takes the Green into the Black
One of DC's most surprising successes this year was the rather modest crossover The Sinestro Corps War.
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Nelson Goes Graphic
Thomas Nelson is making a serious commitment to the graphic novel category with plans to publish adaptations of the prose novels of bestselling author Ted Dekker as well as a variety of manga-styled series aimed at teens, especially girls. While some of these graphic novels reflect the publisher's religious mission, most of the new works do not have overt religious content and are aimed at the ...
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
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