-
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/1
-
Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/1/2007
-
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/1/2007
Picture Books The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! Steve Martin , illus. by Roz Chast. Doubleday/Flying Dolphin , $17.95 ISBN 978-0-385-51662-4 Actor, playwright and novelist Martin (Shopgirl) branches into picture books for this nutty abecedary. No humdrum “A is for apple” list, this volume faces outrageous, alliterative couplets with full-page cartoons approximating th...
-
Harper to Reprint Scott McCloud’s Zot!
Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback edition in July 2008.
-
Myth, the Bible and Image’s Mice Templar
Artist Michael Avon Oeming and writer Bryan J.L. Glass have created Mice Templar, a funny-animal medieval fantasy adventure series ten years in the making.
-
Betty and Veronica Make a Move to Realism—and India
Archie Comics expands their classic characters' appeal with updated art styles, interactive blogs and outreach to foreign markets.
-
More Gore: Tokyopop’s Ultimate Battle Royale
Tokyopop plans an Ultimate edition of the explicit and violent Battle Royale series that will collect three volumes of the original manga in a single hardcover edition.
-
Comics Briefly
Nee Rises at DC Comics; New York Anime Festival Guests; Demo Rights Revision; 30 Days of Night Movie To Open; Zuda Contracts Online; Wieringo Tribute Raises $4K; 24 Hour Comics Day 2007; Top Comics of the Year 5767; and David Heatley on Canadian Radio
-
Panel Mania: Common Foe
In this preview of Common Foe, written by Keith Giffen and Shannon Denton with art by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski and Federico Dallocchio, WWII American and German squads fighting during the Battle of the Bulge desperately join forces to fight a fiendish, bloodthirsty enemy. The book will be published in October by Desperado.
-
Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings
Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings is a lacerating falling-out-of-love story and an irresistible gem of a graphic novel.
-
"Charming" 'Playing for Pizza' from Grisham
John Grisham’s latest effort outside the legal thriller arena takes him to Italy, where a refugee from the NFL is making a go of it in the Italian Football League. The novel hits stores today, and below is the PW review.
-
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/24/2007
-
Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 9/24/2007
Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families Erica Sandberg . Kaplan (www.kaplanpublishing.com), $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-4277-9594-6 In her introduction, certified credit counselor Sandberg writes, “When I became pregnant with my daughter Lillian, I was caught off-guard by how little I—someone who has been in the personal finance field for ov...
-
Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/24/2007
Song Yet Sung James McBride . Riverhead , $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59448-972-3 Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in bestselling memoirist (The Color of Water) McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre—Civil War Maryland.
-
Rock Star Comics: Gerard Way and Umbrella Academy
Dark Horse is launching Umbrella Academy, a new miniseries conceived and written by Gerard Way, lead Singer for the band My Chemical Romance.
-
Jonathan Hickman: The Design of Things to Come
Jonathan Hickman’s The Nightly Newsis both an indictment of the modern media and a startling fusion of sequential art and graphic design.
-
Abadzis Launches Laika
Nick Abadzis's new graphic novel explores the poignant story of Laika, the first dog in space, and the only living creature ever launched with no plan for survival.
-
New Manga From CMX, Flex Comics
DC Comics' manga imprint, CMX, announced new titles from Japanese publisher MediaWorks, and the first titles from Flex Comics, the Japanese manga and digital comics venture DC announced in June
-
Comics Briefly
Ignatz Award Nominees; Mike Wieringo Tribute; Naruto Movie Sweepstakes; Zannel.com, Top Cow Team Up; and Beto, Malkasian at Book Soup
-
Schulz and Peanuts Unshelled
Schulz and Peanuts is also a groundbreaking work in the growing field of biographies of comics creators, as David Michaelis analyzes Schulz’s comics as a guide to understanding his psyche.



