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Dobson Up at Presbyterian Publisher
David Dobson has been named acting director of publishing at the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. Dobson, who had been director of product management since 2004, will now oversee the marketing and editorial programs for PPC's two book imprints.
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For the Love of Tezuka; Vertical To Publish MW
In October, Vertical will continue its program of publishing classic manga with the release of Osamu Tezuka’s MW in an omnibus edition collecting the entire multivolume work.
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Women SVA Grads Quickly Rise
Recent grads from the cartooning program at the School of Visual Arts are quickly getting hired, and many of them are women, a contrast from days past.
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Lucha Libre: To Live and Wrestle in L.A.
Drawing on superhero comics and Mexican pop culture, Lucha Libre tells the story of the Luchadores Five, ordinary guys in Mexican wrestling masks who fight car stereo-hungry werewolves and evil Elvis impersonators.
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Comics Briefly
Baltimore Comic-con; Howl! Fest 2007; SPX 2007 Guest List; New Shows On Kid’s WB! and Back to Press For Anita Blake Vol. 1
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Sex & Silliness: Maki Murakami’s Gravitation
PWCW talks with the creator of the boys love hit Gravitation about getting started and working in the Japanese manga business
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September Comics Bestsellers
Bleach Vol. 20 moves into the #1 slot, while Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Baker hardcover (at #5) returns to the list for the second month and DC’s 52 is at #11.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
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The Complexity of Stephen Colbert
In his first book, I Am America (And So Can You!), late-night comedian Stephen Colbert takes on everything that’s destroying America. In an interview before The Colbert Report began, you described your “Stephen Colbert” character as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-class idiot.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
Fanon John Edgar Wideman . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-618-94263-3 Psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon (1925—1961) fought to free Algeria from French rule, and wrote several key texts on colonialism, including The Wretched of the Earth. Wideman (Brothers and Keepers) offers a fragmented look at Fanon's life, presenting three narratives in fits and starts.
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Seeking the Stone Cold Truth
John Carr (aka Oliver Stone), former CIA assassin, and his spy boy compadres of the Camel Club expose political corruption in bestseller David Baldacci’s new thriller, Stone Cold.
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Richard Russo Writes What He Knows
On Richard Russo's last day on the job, in his final summer doing manual labor during college breaks, one of the carpenters on his crew told him, “Have a good life. You're going to go out and do other things, and you're going to forget about guys like us.” That's how Russo remembers it now, decades later, as we sit talking in his comfortable home in Camden, Maine.
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Indie Outreach and More for NYCC 2008
New York Comic-Con 2007 drew nearly 50,000 attendees, said show organizer Greg Topalian, who outlined plans for an expanded NYCC 2008, scheduled to be held April 18-20 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
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Viz to Publish Collected Tekkonkinkreet
In September, Viz Media will release an omnibus edition of Taiyo Matsumoto’s acclaimed 3 volume manga series Black and White.
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A New Halo from Marvel
Marvel Comics has launched Halo: Uprising, a new monthly comic book series based on the bestselling Bungie Studio videogame.
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Kyle Baker Goes to War
In the spring of 2006, many Americans were surprised to find the U.S. Army had recruited an 18-year-old boy with autism. Cartoonist Kyle Baker quickly saw the humor in the situation and the Eisner award-winning cartoonist used that story as the basis of a new satirical miniseries on the Iraq war called Special Forces.
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Comics Briefly
B&T Español Inks Marvel Pact; Andrew Steven Harris Joins IDW; Phil Yeh’s Dinosaurs Fall Tour; Top Cow Launches Wanted Website; Kim Deitch, Megan Kelso at Fantagraphics Store; New York Anime Festival Sponsors Contests; Undead Gunslingers; and DragonCon
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Poetry on TV
Celebrated poet John Ashbery has been named the first poet laureate of MtvU.
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