Graphic Novel Reviews, November 15, 2010
Picturing the Classics “The Jane Austen Centre in Bath sells our book!” burbled Nancy Butler about her adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. “How cool is that!” Butler was signing at the Marvel booth during BookExpo America 2010, and, indeed, Marvel has done...
Graphic Novels Reviews, July 15, 2011
Archaia’s A-List “When we were considering which publishers to approach about Return of the Dapper Men,” says artist Janet Lee, “we wanted a publisher known for beautiful, high-quality books that didn’t necessarily fit the traditional comics mold.” Cer...
Graphic Novels Reviews, September 15, 2011
YOE-YOE TRICKS You wouldn’t think editing and producing books could be as cool as being creative director for the Muppets and Nickelodeon. But Craig Yoe’s wildly creative historical comics collections do what he says: put the comic back in comics with...
Graphic Novels Reviews, September 15, 2011
YOE-YOE TRICKS You wouldn’t think editing and producing books could be as cool as being creative director for the Muppets and Nickelodeon. But Craig Yoe’s wildly creative historical comics collections do what he says: put the comic back in comics with...
Graphic Novels Reviews, July 15, 2011
Archaia’s A-List “When we were considering which publishers to approach about Return of the Dapper Men,” says artist Janet Lee, “we wanted a publisher known for beautiful, high-quality books that didn’t necessarily fit the traditional comics mold.” Cer...
Graphic Novels Prepub Alert: R. Crumb Times Two, Naruto, and a Librarian’s Guide to Manga
According to the August 22 edition of Publishers Weekly, higher education titles led all book categories in growth since 2008. In comics, we have seen an increasing number of adaptations of star titles (classic as well as popular), nonfiction graphic nove...
Graphic Novels Prepub Alert: Jane Austen, Jim Henson & MetaMaus
A fantastic month for comics, this October! Look for Jane Austen, CLAMP, Jim Henson, MetaMaus, and a Tezuka fave. Meanwhile, classics just keep moving into comics. In January this year, a new line was released in the United States: Graphic Dickens, from U...
Graphic Novels Reviews, May 15, 2011
Tall, cheery Rob Berry came from behind the bar, bearing a tray with brimming pints for us. “Calypso is almost done,” he smiled to me and his co-conspirator, Josh Levitas. “It’s going live April 20th, 57 days before Bloomsday, a page a day like a dail...
Graphic Novel Reviews, March 15, 2011
E-comics in libraries For comics industry-wide, the big story for 2010 was e-comics and e-reader apps, from DC Comics to an eUlysses. Per pop culture watchers ICv2, comics were among the top 2010 apps for iPhone and iPad, and the digital comics marke...
Graphic Novel Reviews, January 2011
HOLMES HIJINKS The game is afoot. While comics set in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes universe aren’t quite crowding manga off the shelves, at least a dozen publishers have recent Holmes titles, many multivolume series. Holmes offers broad ap...