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Comics Briefly
IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection; Tezuka’s Swallowing the Earth; The Original Human Torch; IFC, Dash Shaw Web Animation; Alan Moore's Future Shocks on iTunes; Madman Atomic Comics to End; Cartoon Art Museum Classes; Comics @ Impact University; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids; Gerberg Wins; Reuben; and This Week @ The Beat
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PhotoMania: BookExpo America 2009
BookExpo America 2009 received and enthusiastic response from comics publishers and here are a few photographs of comics artists and publishers at the show..
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Death & Laughter: A Conversation with Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper follows a tumultuous week in the life of Judd Foxman as he confronts a dying marriage, a dead father, infertility and infidelity in This Is Where I Leave You. It's funny.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/1/2009
This week's reviews include a new picture book from Neil Gaiman, fiction from Francesca Lia Block and Alex Sanchez, and a collection of summer board books for youngest readers.
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Soapbox: Come Out, Wherever You Are
When I moved to New York City from Atlanta, one of the first things I wanted to do was visit the Oscar Wilde Bookshop in Greenwich Village, believed to be the country's first bookstore dedicated to gay and lesbian authors. I was dismayed to find a sign on the door announcing the store was closing, citing the down economy.
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Fiction Book Reviews: Week of 6/1/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Lisa Tucker, Robert Ferrigno, Kris Radish, Sarah Dunant and David Rosenfelt. Plus, Jeanette Walls follows up The Glass Castle with a "true-life novel" about her grandmother, Eugenia Kim gets a star for her debut, and Jason Starr is as good as ever.
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BookExpo America 2009: IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection
Continuing its efforts in literary/graphic novel crossovers, IDW Publishing has announced a major licensing agreement with the estate of acclaimed author Robert Bloch. IDW has the rights to develop 100 of Bloch’s short stories for various formats, to be known as the Robert Bloch Collection.
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R.L. Stine Visits Chinese Fans
Published in the U.S. by Scholastic, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels have sold more than five million copies in China since 2002, when Jieli Publishing House launched the series there. Stine spent two weeks touring five cities across the country.
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Barron’s Scores with ‘Museum’
Barron's novelization of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is the top seller this week for the reference and educational publisher.
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Eckhart Tolle and MUTTS Creator Become Co-Authors
Three years ago, MUTTS comic strip creator Patrick McDonnell became interested in the work of Power of Now author Eckhart Tolle, and modeled one of his Sunday color comics on the cover of Tolle’s book Stillness Speaks. The comics artist decided to approach Tolle about working on a project together, and in October, Tolle’s publisher, New World Library, will release Guardians of Being, coauthored by Tolle and McDonnell.
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Phoenix Books Launches Children's Line
California publisher Phoenix Books is launching a children’s division. The first book, published under the already existing Dove imprint, will be released in September, with Carl Reiner’s Tell Me Another Scary Story... But Not Too Scary! The line will also include a series for tweens called I (heart)..., about celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Robert Pattinson, Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers.
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BookExpo America 2009: Despite No-Shows, Many Comics, Graphic Novels at BEA
This year BEA will have fewer attendees, fewer galleys and reduced booth space for many giant publishers, but graphic novel publishers will still be there.
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Anime Boston Brings Out Manga Publishers, Fans
Held last weekend, Anime Boston attaracted more than 15,000 people, an increase over last year's attendance.
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EW's Jeff Jensen Examines the Green River Killer
Jeff Jensen is widely known as an Entertainment Weekly reporter, but his father, Tom Jensen, was the primary investigator into the Green River Killer, who murdered more than 40 women in the Seattle area in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Underground Comix and the Transformation of the American Comic Book
This revolutionary era of underground comics is preserved and celebrated with great aplomb in Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix by co-authors James Danky and Denis Kitchen, published this month by Abrams ComicsArts.
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Panelmania: Anime Boston 2009
This past weekend, PWCW roamed the floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston to bring back lively photographs of the exhibitors and attendees at this year’s Anime Boston convention. Photos are by Erin Finnegan.
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Comics Briefly
Carol Burrell to Draw Kindred GN; CBLDF Membership Drive; Guilty Plea on Manga Obscenity Case; 2008 Reuben Awards; This Week @ Good Comics for Kids and This Week @ The Beat
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Bruni’s Departure and Memoir Publication: Coincidence?
Two weeks ago, the New York Times announced restaurant critic Frank Bruni was stepping down from his post. The food world was aflutter debating who will take his spot. but Bruni’s exit raises another question: can a restaurant critic publish a memoir while he or she still has the job? Coincidentally—or not—Penguin Press is publishing Bruni’s memoir, Born Round, in August, which is when Bruni plans to officially vacate his post at the NYT.
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Short Order: May 26
This issue's installment shares details about a dinner at Bouley restaurant for Tom Standage's An Edible History of Humanity; a link to news about Artisan's legal scuffle with Tavern on the Green; and a slideshow of images of cookbook authors hamming it up.
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Review: New Classic Family Dinners
Mark Peel of Los Angeles’s Campanile restaurant elevates the common vernacular of comfort food —veal scaloppine, grasshopper pie—to refinement, using ingredients like smoked mozzarella and homemade vanilla ice cream, respectively. He also gives tips for extra-mile techniques, like running a pureed potato leek soup through a sieve, or toasting and grinding spices for a shrimp boil.
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