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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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A Poet in Love
Made Flesh Craig Arnold . Ausable (Consortium, dist.), $14 paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-931337-42-7 “Oh how the heart flares,” Arnold writes, “and melts like wax spilling over a candle's lip”: both the flares, and the excess, find the right voice in this wild second book. A few premises—Persephone and Hades, a “couple from hell” in their underworld; the...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
This week's web roundup: the history of whaling; civil rights struggles in Sunflower, Mississippi; the other side of Chinese cooking; changing the world, one family at a time; and a charming collection of filthy phrases. Plus: subversive gardening, unhealthy eating, Dr. Dre's mom and Tennessee Ernie Ford's son.
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Comics Keep Their Cool in the Heat at MoCCA
In spite of a local heat-wave, a cartoonist passing out and an evacuation by the fire dept., this year's MoCCA Art Festival was as busy and as vibrant as sever.
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Medical Manga in the House
Prepare yourself, America, for a new wave of Japanese manga focused, more or less, on the medical profession.
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Life, Sex, Art--Whatever
Xeric award-winner Karl Stevens's Whatever, a graphic novel set in a Boston suburb amongst the young bar and bed-hopping post-collegiate crowd, has been published by Alternative Comics
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Comics Briefly
NetComics’ First American Title: Friends of Lulu Winners: Kikuchi at NYAF; Anime Expo 2008 Guests; Lynda Barry in Chicago; New A.D. Chapter; and Quesada’s Cup of Joe on Myspace
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Photo Mania
Photographs from the MoCCA Art Festical 2008 at the Puck building in New York City.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
This week on the Web: the voices of undocumented America; how gardens and math explain the world; an idiot girl, a pastor's daughter and two unlikely Hollywood stars reveal all (to varying degrees); family recipes for including, not deceiving, your loved ones; and two new novels from Harry "When Does He Sleep?" Turtledove. Plus: the new Patricia Cornwell and a roundup of children's titles.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
Picture Books Batman: The Story of the Dark Knight Ralph Cosentino . Viking , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-06255-3 While this introduction to Batman pays plenty of homage to the original comic’s noirish aesthetics, Cosentino (The Marvelous Misadventures of Fun-Boy) makes two astute concessions to the sensibilities of his target audience.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
Titanic’s Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler Brad Matsen . Hachette/Twelve , $27.99 (352) ISBN 978-0-446-58205-6 In this expertly written account, Matsen (Descent) does what would seem impossible: he tells us something new about the Titanic disaster.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
The Wettest County in the World Matt Bondurant . Scribner , $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6139-2 This fictionalized tale of Depression-era bootlegging from Bondurant (The Third Translation) enlists the help of Winesburg, Ohio author Sherwood Anderson to investigate Bondurant family lore. In 1928, a pair of thieves accost Bondurant’s real life great-uncle Forrest at his Franklin County, Va.
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Tokyopop Revamps; Cuts Titles, Lays Off 39
The persistent rumors during BEA about the state of Tokyopop turned out to be mostly right. The Los Angeles manga publisher announced a major restructuring that will create two separate divisions—the Tokyopop Inc. publishing unit and Tokyopop Media, a digital and comics-to-films unit—under the Tokyopop Group’s holding company. The moves will result in the layoffs of about 39 Tokyopop staffers.
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BookExpo America Embraces Comics
This year’s BEA showed off the continuing growth and enthusiasm around comics and graphic novel publishing—despite the rumors swirling around Tokyopop’s restructuring.
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Marvel's Iron Man "Invincible" in Comics Shops
For nearly a decade, comic book movies have been big business, but unfortunately for comics publishers, translating that big box office to comic book sales hasn’t been easy—at least when it comes to superheroes. But the recently released Marvel Studios film Iron Man is not only earning of hundreds of millions in ticket sales, it’s also pulling off what most superhero movies never found a way to do: Sell a lot of comics.
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Marvel To Adapt King’s ‘The Stand’ into Comics
This fall, bestselling horror author Stephen King will again team with Marvel Comics to produce a new comics adaptation of one of his most popular novels, The Stand.
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June Comics Bestsellers
Abrams Wimpy kid holds steady at #1, followed by DC Comics's Batman: The Killing Joke, while Marvel has 4 titles on this month's list led by Secret Invasion: The Infiltration at #5.
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More Nonfiction Comics from Hill & Wang
Hill and Wang and its nonfiction comics line, Novel Graphics, will offer two new works that will examine the War on Terror and The U.S. Constitution.
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A Japanese Manga-Ka Takes on Batman
Japanese manga-ka Yoshinori Natsume made his American comics debut this spring with Batman: Death Mask, a 4-issue miniseries published by DC Comics.
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