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  • Children’s Book Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007

    | 11/02/2007 @ 06:00AM

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007

    | 11/02/2007 @ 06:00AM

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007

    | 11/02/2007 @ 06:00AM

  • From Prose to Manga

    by Kai-Ming Cha | 11/02/2007 @ 06:00AM

    This fall, Digital Manga Publishing, an independent manga publisher in Southern California, will release its first original manga, an adaptation of Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi's popular prose novel series, Vampire Hunter D, which will be published simultaneously in the U.S., Japan and Europe.

  • Transporting Readers to a New Place: PW Talks with Eliot Pattison

    by Leonard Picker | 11/02/2007 @ 06:00AM

    After five Inspector Shan mysteries set in contemporary Tibet, Edgar Award—winner Eliot Pattison places the action of Bone Rattler in 18th-century North America.

  • Tezuka’s Black Jack Returns

    By Kai-Ming Cha | 10/30/2007 @ 07:20PM

    Vertical Inc. will publish Black Jack, legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s popular series about a genius surgeon, in fall 2008.

  • Your Friendly Neighborhood Icon

    By Peter Sanderson | 10/30/2007 @ 01:29PM

    This month Titan Books publishes Spider-Man: The Icon, a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book tracing the history of Marvel’s flagship character through the comics and other media, including extensive licensing and merchandising programs.

  • Uclick Phones Home

    By Brigid Alverson | 10/30/2007 @ 01:28PM

    Last summer, uclick released Thunder Road, the first U.S. comic created specifically for cell phones. Now the company is preparing to bring cell phone comics to the internet.

  • Comics Briefly

    | 10/30/2007 @ 01:26PM

    PW Hosts Graphic Novel Panel; NYCC Tabs Alex Ross, Mike Mignola; Shortcomings Second Printing; Zuda Comics Launch; Aurora Launches Luv Luv; Paul Pope Diesel Party; and NYAF Cosplays at Kinokuniya

  • Yaoi-Con and BL, No Longer “Niche”

    By Ed Chavez | 10/30/2007 @ 11:30AM

    This weekend's Yaoi-Con in San Mateo, Calif., drew more than 1,500 fans and showed that the "boys’ love" genre is still in growth mode, as publishers announced a shower of new books.

  • McKelvie Finds Glamour

    By Stephanie Mangold | 10/30/2007 @ 11:27AM

    Artist Jamie McKelvie follows up Phonogram with a book all his own, the fantasy Suburban Glamour.

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007

    | 10/26/2007 @ 06:00AM

    Amalia’s Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice David I. Kertzer . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-55106-4 In this absorbing account, Amalia Bagnacavalli’s tale is a horrific one. An impoverished Italian peasant in the late 19th century, Amalia was hired as a wet nurse and contracted syphilis from the infant assigned her by a Bologna fou...

  • CBLDF: Ready For War or Peace

    by Calvin Reid | 10/26/2007 @ 06:00AM

    Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, divides the organization's activities into “peacetime and wartime,” and right now, he said, the CBLDF is on a war footing. Since 2004, the CBLDF has spent nearly $100,000 defending Gordon Lee, a Rome, Ga., comics retailer charged with distributing materials harmful to minors, who faces a year in jail and $1...

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007

    | 10/26/2007 @ 06:00AM

    Picture Books Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes Heather Collins . Kids Can , $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55337-881-5 Collins arranges 45 mostly familiar nursery rhymes in a sun-up to sundown romp starring a multi-species stuffed animal family, who made similar appearances in her Traditional Fairy Tales series of board books.

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007

    | 10/26/2007 @ 06:00AM

    The Outcast Sadie Jones . Harper , $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-137403-6 Set in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father, Gilbert, back in the house.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/29

    | 10/26/2007 @ 04:00AM

  • Buffy Season 8—the Shape of Things to Come?

    By Wil Moss | 10/23/2007 @ 03:21PM

    The popularity of Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 is making other publishers look for comics with famous authors or with TV tie-ins.

  • Matsumoto’s Mashup

    By Anne Ishii | 10/23/2007 @ 03:20PM

    Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, is an avant-garde masterpiece. But what the hell is a “tekkon kinkreet”?

  • DrMaster: Publishing Manga Small Scale

    By Kai-Ming Cha | 10/23/2007 @ 03:19PM

    DrMaster is hoping a small, independent manga house can compete with larger publishers

  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery

    By Calvin Reid | 10/23/2007 @ 03:17PM

    Cartoonist Mort Gerberg brings together 26 New Yorker cartoonists to take an amusing look at the big topics—including the big D—of our senior years.

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