The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
A grand jury in San Diego has charged three people involved with PageTurner Press and Media, a publishing scam that the government contends defrauded elderly authors across the U.S. of almost $44 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
The SBL and AAR’s annual meeting, set to run from November 23-26 in San Diego, will bring together some 7,000 scholars, authors, professors, and publishers from around to take on topics that are vital to academic religion publishers and biblical scholars. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
It's that time of the year where the Javits Center will be full of superheroes, supervillains, and more. New York Comic Con kicked off Oct. 17 and will run through Oct. 20. While the East Coast leg is not nearly as large as San Diego's version that took place earlier... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-10-18 16:49:58 UTC ]
While children colored Bluey pages and adults geeked out over the latest Marvel and DC announcements, there were indications of a growing middle ground of titles for all ages at last month’s Comic-Con International in San Diego. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Freedom to read, advocacy take center stage at a high-energy, well-attended ALA Annual Conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Librarians got hands-on experience with tools of the trade and shared their own innovative approaches to meeting community needs at the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego, June 27–July 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Amid ongoing attacks on libraries and the freedom to read, a strong professional program and an excellent slate of speakers will showcase the power of libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The massive show returns in-person to San Diego this summer after a three-year hiatus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
In San Diego, an 8-year-old published a book about a courageous turtle and plans to donate the proceeds for art and music supplies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-05-12 21:42:48 UTC ]
After a COVID-19-forced hiatus, San Diego comic book store owners are looking forward to the return of an IRL Comic-Con — even if they won't attend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-24 20:45:41 UTC ]
A great idea! Marshall University students in Bret Masters’s building technology class are currently building bookshelves to install Little Free Libraries in Yeager and Huntington Tri-State Airports. The idea for the project was originated by Kelli Johnson, associate librarian at Marshall, when... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-02 18:12:16 UTC ]
When San Diego magazine abruptly ceased operations and laid off nearly all of its employees in late March, mere days after a statewide shelter-in-place order took effect in California, CEO and publisher Jim Fitzpatrick stressed that it was only a temporary pause and that he hoped the magazine... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-06-15 18:27:52 UTC ]
The Constitution holds that the president shall, from time to time, conduct a spurt of interviews with mainstream news outlets before going back to Fox. Or something like that. We’re currently seeing one of those spurts. Last week, Trump gave an interview to Reuters in the Oval Office; on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-06 12:04:22 UTC ]
The joint annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature drew more than 9,400 scholars to San Diego from Nov. 23-26, remaining flat compared to the number of attendees in 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore must find a new owner and a new location before its lease expires in less than 60 days. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of the annual American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL) meeting taking place in San Diego, Calif. from Nov. 23-26 this year, PW investigates the latest trends in academic religion book publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
What place does San Diego have in the cultural imagination? Because this is where I grew up, it’s hard for me to see it clearly. San Diego can seem like a joke—always trying to be something more than what it is, never measuring up, the overlooked younger sibling of LA and San Francisco. Our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-05 08:48:04 UTC ]
Members of San Diego’s Laotian community have launched a statewide movement to get their history added to California textbooks. Lao Advocacy Organization San Diego, or LaoSD, formed last fall after then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that added lessons on the Vietnamese American refugee... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
After San Diego bookseller Seth Marko, the co-owner of the Book Catapult, underwent emergency heart surgery last week, other indie booksellers in San Diego and beyond stepped forward to keep the store open while he convalesces. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]