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‘Turning Them into Movies Is Just an Added Benefit’: Kingdom Comics at Disney
Ahmet Zappa and Christian Beranek are launching a new line of graphic novels at Disney to be distributed via Disney Worldwide Publishing
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Comics Briefly
2008 Harvey Awards; PW The Beat: Didio, Heroes Con; EW’s 100 Best Books; Brian K. Vaughan at Midtown Comics; Guests at NYAF; Vanguard at SDCC; Transfuzion at Wizard World Chicago; and Don Parent at Wizard World Chicago
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Bad Moon Setting
After nearly four decades of marriage, Anne Roiphe's husband collapsed from a fatal heart attack in the lobby of their apartment building. In her new memoir, Epilogue, she puts to the test the old saying, “Time is the widow's friend,” as she begins rebuilding her life. Tell me about the significance of the moon in the book.
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Miami Book Fair Adds Graphic Novel Focus
The Miami Book Fair International, which attracts more than 250,000 visitors over eight days, is partnering with Diamond Comics Distributors to expand the comics and graphic novel presence at the 25th annual fair set for November 9—16 on the campus of Miami-Dade College. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will be a featured guest and will create this year's poster.
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Nonfiction Reviews
Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends Mike Sager . Da Capo , $16.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-306-81735-9 Veteran journalist Sager (Revenge of the Donut Boys) presents an amalgam of celebrity portraits and cautionary tales in a collection as addictive as the drugs and violence that fuel much of the author’s reporting.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Ten Tiny Babies Karen Katz . S&S/McElderry , $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3546-9 Kicking off with “1 tiny baby starts to run” and ending with 10 sleeping babies tucked into their cribs, Katz (Princess Baby) once again puts her kewpie doll crew through their paces, this time enumerating all the fun things that babies do, from toe wriggling and noisemaking to eati...
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Tolstoy in Queens
Irina Reyn's debut novel, What Happened to Anna K., transports Anna Karenina to Queens, N.Y., where she struggles with familiar issues of identity, social rules, gender and loyalty a century later and a continent away.
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Washed Up by 15
The second thriller from former Cosmopolitan (U.K.) editor-in-chief Sam Baker starring fashion journalist Annie Anderson, Deadly Beautiful, takes a hard look at the too often brief careers of teen models, one of whom, Scarlett Ulrich, may be the victim of a serial killer in Japan.
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Prophets and Plural Wives
The 19th Wife David Ebershoff . Random , $26 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6397-0 This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult not recognized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka the Mormon church). Ebershoff (The Danish Girl) brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th &...
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Fiction Reviews
The Development John Barth . Houghton Mifflin , $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-547-07248-7 From the iconic Barth come nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore. In his trademark style—multiple endings, metaphysical musings, breaking the fourth wall—Barth presents a searing indictment of a certain sociological class in the later stages of life, when the...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/23/2008
This week: attack of the Chinese megacity, the stripping life in D.C., the Empiric States of America, a scottish football hooligan in suburbia's peewee soccer league, Alice Munro the mother, a fine new birding guide, and the pleasures of Richard Kern's sexy-creepy-contrived voyeurism. Plus: the latest of L.A. Banks's Vampire Huntress novels, E.E. Knight's new Vampire Earth book, and a standalone novel from Left Behind scribe Jerry B. Jenkins.
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Spring Flying Starts
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Nee Reported Out at DC Comics
According to a report on the comics news website Comic Book Resources, John Nee, DC Comics senior v-p of business development, is leaving the company.
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The Amazing Remarkable Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell's latest opus takes on cowboys and circuses and takes him and his creative muse in even more daring directions.
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It’s a Big Manga World After All
Literary agent Yukari Shiina and her agency, World Manga, aim to make the manga world more of a two-way street.
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Funny Business #4: Ignoring the Direct Market
Companies like SLG and Kenzer & Co. have gone outside the direct sales market to sell their books.
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Byrne’s Next Men Returns
13 years after the series ended, John Byrne is reviving his superhero series, Next Men, which will be published by IDW
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Fluffy: A Bunny in Denial
In June Dark Horse will release Simone Lia's Fluffy, a cute but emotionally complex graphic novel about a talking bunny (who denies that he’s a bunny) and his “daddy,” a grown man named Michael.
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Comics Briefly
Shuster Award Winners; New David B. from NBM; PW The Beat: Tokyopop, San Diego, More; Hotwire Comics Show; June Zuda Competition; and MediaBistro Comics Class
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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