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  • Comics Class of '08

    With the explosion of the graphic novel category, there's been a concurrent explosion in opportunities for young cartoonists. PW talks to three of them: Jeff Lemire, Dash Shaw and Hope Larson

  • Walker, College Team on 'Twilight Zone' Graphic Novels

    Walker & Co. has teamed with the Savannah College of Art & Design and the estate of famed TV writer Rod Serling to produce a series of graphic novels based on the original scripts for the classic TV show The Twilight Zone. The venture was initiated by SCAD's Industry Partnerships program directly with the Serling estate; SCAD faculty and students will produce the books and Walker Books ...

  • The Importance of Being God

    Though writers are known for their egos, few have come out and literally declared themselves God. New Wave fantasist and poet Thomas M. Disch does just that in The Word of God or, Holy Writ Rewritten.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008

    This week: trendspotting and bullsh*tting, novel- and biography-writing, napping and dieting, a personal tour of the Congo and a vision for democracy in Iran. Plus: an overweight narcissist sheds the pounds, a Kyoto girl trains to be a geisha, and three historians look at the sex-obsessed weekly newspapers of mid-19th century New York.

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008

    Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children Phillip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff . Random , $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6430-4 The authors of this unsettling indictment of American industrial mendacity detail the impact of the “trillions of tons” of largely unregulated toxic pollutants that have been poured into the environment after WWII when synthetic chemical compound...

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008

    The Other Queen Philippa Gregory . Touchstone , $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4912-3 In her latest foray into the lives and minds of Elizabethan shakers and movers, Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) takes on Mary Queen of Scots during her 16-year house arrest. By the secret order of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Mary is held at the estate of George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife, Bess of ...

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008

    Picture Books Sergio Makes a Splash! Edel Rodriguez . Little, Brown , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-06616-7 Sergio the penguin isn't afraid of all water—just “the very deep kind.” But with the help of floaties, a snorkel, a life preserver, he discovers that taking the plunge isn't so bad after all.

  • Scott Dunbier joins IDW

    Veteran editor Scott Dunbier has joined IDW as Special Projects Editor and plans to launch several new ventures for the publisher.

  • Jules Feiffer Does Some Explaining

    Fantagraphics will publish four volumes collecting the complete run of Jules Feiffer’s long running comic strip in the Village Voice.

  • G. Willow Wilson, Live on the Air

    The team behind the acclaimed graphic novel Cairo returns with a regular monthly series from Vertigo.

  • New Book Designer for Vertical Inc.

    Vertical Inc.’s celebrity book-designer Chip Kidd has handpicked designer Peter Mendelsund to take his place designing Vertical’s prose and manga titles.

  • Stumptown Fest Waves DIY Flag

    This year's Stumptown Comics Fest, held April 26 and 27 in Portland, Ore., was moved from the fall to the spring and still topped last year’s attendance.

  • Comics Briefly

    Call For Lulus; Free Comic Book Day; Around The Web; Blain U.S. Tour; Spiegelman Speaks; and Life Sucks Excerpt

  • The Case Against Intelligent Design

    Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller is a leading opponent of intelligent design. In Only a Theory, he explains why.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/28/2008

    This week: a look back with Goldwater, midcentury ball players and Sitting Bull; a look inside Steve Jobs, the international food racket and poker's checkered past; economics for the rest of us, another memoir of the modern Midwest, an Olympian oarsman and a lesson in Assholery. Plus more!

  • Graphic Novel Breakfast at BEA

    In a first for BookExpo America, this year's show will hold a breakfast panel featuring four acclaimed comics creators offering their insights into the growth of the graphic novel category. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and writer and Heroes producer Jeph Loeb will be interviewed by Jeff Smith, creator of the bestselling fantasy graphic nov...

  • Photo Mania: NYCC 2008

  • Orson Scott Card's Ender Comics

    Marvel Comics and renowned science fiction writer Orson Scott Card announced at last weekend’s New York Comics Convention a new series of comics based on Ender's Game.

  • NYCC Is Manga Country

    There were big announcements by manga houses Viz Media and Del Rey; plans for a new line of color graphic novels by Tokyopop and a new content deal between Japanese publisher Square Enix and Yen Press.

  • Abel and Madden Study the Panels

    Drawing Words and Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden is an essential addition to any library of graphic novel how-tos.

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