The MoCCA Art Fest, an indie comics and graphic novel festival held April 2-3, returned after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, attracting nearly 6,000 fans to a new venue in Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Norm Konyu’s unsettling new graphic novel 'The Junction' is the story of Lucas Jones, an 11 year-old who one day disappears along with his father, only to return 12 years later—seemingly unchanged and still 11 years-old—without the father, who remains missing. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
'The Winds of Numa Sera', by Morgan Rosenblum and Jonny Handler, is an ambitious and luxuriously illustrated fantasy graphic novel of epic proportions. It's the story of an empire and its sovereignty over a vast and restless assemblage of conquered lands, an empire vulnerable to foreign enemies... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
The independent graphic novel publisher, which evolved into its current business model in 2019, is forging a different path to market than many of its competitors while sticking closely to the aesthetics that hardcore comic fans know and love. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Humble Bundle has put together a charity game bundle with all proceeds going to humanitarian crisis relief efforts in Ukraine. For a minimum donation of $40, you can pick up more than 120 games, books, apps, game asset packs and other goodies worth a total of over $2,500 through the Stand with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-03-18 19:54:35 UTC ]
Exciting news for Hayao Miyazaki fans: Shuna’s Journey, a 1983 graphic novel by Miyazaki, will receive an English-language release in the U.S. late this year. First Second, a Macmillan imprint, will publish the work on November 1st. Alex Dudok de Wit will translate, and will write a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-25 18:53:27 UTC ]
My friend, a poet and professor, was telling her nine-year-old daughter last week about the banning of Maus. She explained that Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust had been banned, and that it’s especially important to shine a light on dark histories when... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-18 09:51:43 UTC ]
A novel of revolution, a graphic novel of Portland punk, and a photo book of the mosh pit. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2022-02-11 15:22:22 UTC ]
Concerned about Kickstarter's plans to migrate its platform to blockchain technology, Spike Trotman, publisher of the indie graphic novel house Iron Circus Comics, is stepping away from Kickstarter to launch a new independent crowdfunding platform to fund a new volume of her Poorcraft frugal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel about the Holocaust from middle school curriculums. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-02-02 08:44:58 UTC ]
Scout Comics, a small indie comics and graphic novel publisher, has grown quickly since its launch in 2015, thanks to both its list and an unusually diverse business model. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Art Spiegelman's 'Maus,' the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel on the Holocaust, have risen after a Tennessee school board banned it this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-01-31 18:49:42 UTC ]
Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust now has several top slots on Amazon’s bestseller list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2022-01-30 22:54:35 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman has denounced the 'absurd' removal of his graphic novel 'Maus,' about the Holocaust, from school libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-01-28 20:33:57 UTC ]
The "Orwellian" decision to ban a graphic novel that depicts the horrors of the Holocaust was made days before Holocaust Remembrance Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-01-27 17:45:36 UTC ]
Ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Swiss sportswear brand On brought the pages of a graphic novel to life to introduce a new hero to the next generation of athletes. The 10-minute film, entitled "Black Ice," is about Akwasi Frimpong, the first skeleton athlete from Ghana and only the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2022-01-20 13:08:00 UTC ]
'My Little Golden Book About Betty White,' #3 in the country, honors the last of the Golden Girls, who died December 31. Plus the month's book club picks include a pair of debut novels, and Alice Oseman's fourth Heartstopper graphic novel sends pulses racing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Staff at independent comics and graphic novel publisher Image Comics voted January 6 to certify union representation by a vote of 7-2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
The #1 book in the country is 'The Brightest Night,' the graphic novel adaptation of the fifth entry in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series. Plus 'The Year of Magical Thinking' and other works by Joan Didion, who died December 23, see renewed interest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jeremy Holt and artist George Schall’s new graphic novel 'Made In Korea' outlines a near-future world in which childless couples can purchase a sophisticated robotic kid powered by AI and designed by its Korean manufacturer to age and develop along human lines. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-05 05:00:00 UTC ]