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David Levithan: The Happy Editor-Writer
T.S. Eliot famously called the majority of editors failed writers—though he conceded that most writers also fit that description. But not David Levithan. The author-editor who now heads up Scholastic Press and is overseeing the house's ambitious charge into multimedia projects—his lengthy title is executive editorial director of Scholastic Press fiction, multimedia publishing and Pu...
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008
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About Our Cover Artist
Tad Hills never set out to be a children's book illustrator. “I really wanted to pursue acting,” he tells PW as he drops off the art work that is now our cover. After graduating from Skidmore College in 1986, where he studied art, Hills took on various freelance jobs—working on a screenplay, making marionettes and jewelry, and generally “doing art.
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American Manga Gets Push at Tokyopop
As the market for manga in America continues to grow, one of the top publishers, Tokyopop, has made a push to promote its OEL, or “Original English Language” manga, works created by non-Japanese writers and artists.
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Publishers Turn to Far East for Printing
With the continuing monetary woes of Quebecor, several publishers are turning to China to print their periodical comics.
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Blue Pills: Positively Lovely
Houghton Mifflin is publishing Blue Pills, Frederik Peeters's moving and award-winning autobiographical graphic novel about falling in love with an HIV-positive woman.
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Jeph Loeb Strikes Back
A top comic book writer and executive producer and screenwriter for the hit NBC series Heroes, Jeph Loeb is headlining some of Marvels biggest titles, including The Ultimates and the recent relaunch of The Hulk.
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Geoff Johns Takes the Green into the Black
One of DC's most surprising successes this year was the rather modest crossover The Sinestro Corps War.
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Nelson Goes Graphic
Thomas Nelson is making a serious commitment to the graphic novel category with plans to publish adaptations of the prose novels of bestselling author Ted Dekker as well as a variety of manga-styled series aimed at teens, especially girls. While some of these graphic novels reflect the publisher's religious mission, most of the new works do not have overt religious content and are aimed at the ...
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008
Among this week's reviews: cashing in on the U.S. prison system, the life and controversial death of a mountaineer, unreasonable business models, mosquitos of the Cretaceous, a new cohort of urban photographers, and a road trip through France makes it to America.
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The Last Issue of Y the Last Man
DC Comics has published the final issue of Y the Last Man, wrapping up writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's 60-issue Vertigo series about the aftermath of a plague that instantly killed all males on Earth except for a young escape artist and his pet monkey.
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Lolita Culture: An Introduction
The increasingly popular anime/mnag -inspired "Lolita" look features young women dressing like frilly Victorian dolls.
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February Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Sequel to Diary of Wimpy Kid tops the list; followed by Naruto Volumes 27-24; and King’s Dark Tower at #6.
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Comics Briefly
IGN.com Theater at NYCC; Exhibit on Race in Comics; Kennedy Center Spotlights Japan; PW The Beat: Self Publishing, Lit Crit; Essex County Wins Alex Award; Stumptown Comics Festival; Pulitzer Winners in MAD; Cartoonists on NPR ; Iron Man Super Bowl Spot; and Brian Wood at Rocketship
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Jackie Ormes: Resurrecting a Comics Pioneer
Nancy Goldstein’s Jackie Ormes: The First African-American Woman Cartoonist (Univ. of Michigan) offers a fascinating look at a comics trailblazer whose name and works have largely fallen through the cracks of time and memory.
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