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Panelmania: Adventures in Cartooning
A cartooning elf helps a princess learn the secrets of good cartooning, in this 5 page previews of the instruction book/story book for younger readers by James Sturm, Alexis Frederick-Frost and Andrew Arnold. Adventures in Cartooning is due in April from First Second.
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Norton’s Mandela Comics Bio Offers New Info
In celebration of the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela on July 18, W. W. Norton is publishing Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book, a book collection of a series of biographical comics on the life and accomplishments of the former South African president.
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A Cavafy Person: Daniel Mendelsohn
Critic and memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn undertook the Herculean task of translating and annotating all the poems written by the great Modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863—1933), including his last, unfinished poems, never before published in English. It was a labor of love, and Knopf is publishing the results this month in two volumes.
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Travel Book Market Tanked In 2008
The U.S. travel book market fell 16% in 2008, to $279 million, according to the newest edition of Travel Publishing Year Book, published by Stephen Mesquita, the U.K.—based travel publishing analyst. Sales are based on figures from Nielsen BookScan and cover about 70% of the book market. This is the second time Mesquita has included data from the U.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/16/2009
This week's Web: psychological trauma and the new veterans, life with a birdkeeper, the rise and fall of an economic Olympus, the policy of science, the science of the paranormal, and what a professor of entrepreneurship wishes she knew a long time ago. And in food: around the world and across Wisconsin with classic dishes like hot dogs, pie, and a dozen kinds of pancakes (plus German Rice Waffles!).
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Fiction Book Reviews
Emily's Ghost Denise Giardina . Norton , $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-06915-0 Giardina (Saints and Villains) offers Brontë fans a solid biographical novel portraying sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily as different in temperament but in love with the same man, fighting the same illnesses and withdrawing from the same grim realities to write poetry and fiction that express their individual...
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Nonfiction Book Reviews
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall Colin Ellard . Doubleday , $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-52806-1 This delightful, dense and illuminating book by Ellard, an experimental psychologist, explores how we navigate space and hone our sense of direction, despite being paradoxically spatially primitive and overly evolved.
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Q & A with Melissa Marr
Bookshelf spoke with Melissa Marr about her new novel, Fragile Eternity (HarperCollins, Apr.).
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Where’s Bono? And What’s His Favorite Book Charity?
Almost exactly a year ago, when Candlewick Press moved its offices to Davis Square in Somerville, Mass., the building’s proximity to the Somerville Theatre, a 90-year old movie theatre/concert hall, wasn’t even a consideration. But it became one after it was picked for U2’s Boston concert to promote its 12th CD, No Line on the Horizon.
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Talk of the ‘Times’: A ‘New York Times’ Reviewers Panel
“Serendipity!” That was the succinct answer given by Julie Just, children’s books editor of the New York Times Book Review last Saturday, when asked how she determines just which books will be reviewed in the prestigious paper. “It could be a certain cover that you fall in love with, or recommendations from colleagues,” she said. “It could just be reading, reading, reading. But it often comes down to serendipity.”
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Hungry? The Latest on ‘The Hunger Games’
One of the most heavily buzzed-about titles of 2008 was Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novel The Hunger Games, and there’s already plenty of anticipation—and news—ahead of the second book, Catching Fire, due this fall from Scholastic Press. Here’s a roundup of the latest, including an earlier release date for Catching Fire, as well as a new contest, which is being announced for the first time here in Children’s Bookshelf.
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The New York Times Debuts Comics Bestseller List
The New York Times has launched a weekly Graphic Books bestseller list that tracks the bestselling comics and graphic novels.
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Beacon Plans Graphic Adapt of Kindred; Nonfiction Comics Line
Beacon Press, a 155 year-old Boston-based nonprofit publisher with a mission driven by social justice, will publish a graphic adaptation of the late Hugo-award winning science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler’s much-praised novel Kindred, the latest comics work to be acquired by Beacon.
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Fantagraphics Brings Tardi to the US
Legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi is finally coming to the US with two grphic novels due this summer from Fantagraphics.
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Secret Identities Revealed
The author looks at the new anthology Secret Identities which examines superheroes, Asian artists and racial stereotypes through comics.
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March Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney's Last Straw settles in for a long run at #1; Naruto holds slots #2,3,4,5, and 10; Bone: Crown of Horns is at #6 and Walking Dead at #7.
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Comics Briefly
DC Comics Launches After Watchmen Promotion; Japanese Spidey on Marvel.com ; Death Note Film Event; Inoue Wins Manga Prize; Anime Day at Kinokuniya; IDW Offers Obama Sequel; Hillary Comic 2nd Printing; Charity Auction For Moore Book; AOTS Watchmen Spoof; Physicist on Watchmen and Two Comics Exhibits
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DC Comics Launches After Watchmen Promotion
DC Comics announced plans to launch After Watchmen, a marketing campaign intended to highlight and support a wide range of its titles in the wake of the opening of the Watchmen movie
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Panelmania- Pixu: The Mark of Evil
A mysterious marking in an apartment building slowly leads to madness and horror for five tenants in this exclusive 17-page preview of Pixu: The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, and Fábio Moon. Pixu will be released by Dark Horse in July.
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From Web to Print: Dark Horse’s Applegeeks
Dark Horse is publishing a print collection of the popular online comic Applegeeks, a tech and geek oriented story about four college friends
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