AJ Dungo approaches his graphic novel "In Waves" as a history of surfing and a record of a girlfriend's cancer death. Surfing, for Dungo, is connection and solace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-10 01:55:56 UTC ]
The radical cartoonist William Gropper’s “Alay-Oop,” newly reissued, can be appreciated as a very early example of the graphic novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-08-09 09:00:18 UTC ]
Gallic Books has announced two new projects, with a graphic novel adaptation of Proust and a new book from French author Serge Joncour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-08 17:51:03 UTC ]
The first volume of Ware’s latest graphic novel chronicles life’s biggest themes and smallest moments over the course of a single day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
How one listener's experience with a graphic novel on audio changed her perspective on audiobooks -- and her own reading life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-07-23 10:40:52 UTC ]
Published at the beginning of the Great Depression, William Gropper’s ‘Alay-Oop’ sold poorly. By the mid-forties, he’d quit cartooning altogether. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2019-07-22 13:00:34 UTC ]
ComicHub, a point of sale software platform that collects sales data from comics shops, has reached an agreement to supply POS data on graphic novel and comics sales to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Not every novel can make it as a graphic novel. There are some specific criteria that have to be met plus an ineffable...thing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-07-18 10:42:03 UTC ]
A reader makes a case for the incorporation of graphic novel adaptations of classics, abbreviated for younger readers, into the classroom. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-07-18 10:36:40 UTC ]
HarperAlley will publish a variety of graphic novels and nonfiction for young readers and adults beginning in fall 2020, under the direction of Andrew Arnold. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
The young heroine of Dylan Meconis’s graphic novel “Queen of the Sea” learns how suddenly, and ruthlessly, fortune can turn a queen into a pawn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-25 19:52:06 UTC ]
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has become something of a publishing phenomenon, with several book versions of the report flying off bookstore shelves. Now a San Diego publisher is planning to release a version of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-24 19:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children's Group has snapped up rights to a graphic novel adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson's critically acclaimed Speak, about a high school sexual assault. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-24 00:08:47 UTC ]
Editor Justin Eisinger says illustrating the controversial report is "the easiest way to get people to actually read it.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-06-21 23:40:17 UTC ]
Tidying expert and author Marie Kondo has signed a deal to publish a graphic novel and picture book with Pan Macmillan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 02:18:15 UTC ]
Sheila Rooswitha Putri will be appearing at Glasgow Zine Library with Arianne Maki and Ben Soedira on Saturday 16 March at 19.00. Storytelling in pictures is fundamental to many cultures - what are the distinctive qualities of Indonesia’s traditions of visual narrative and how do you think... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-25 11:15:36 UTC ]