British comic book writer responsible for shaping storylines for characters such as Judge Dredd, Batman and Strontium DogWhen the comic book writer Alan Grant, who has died aged 73, was at school in Scotland in the 1950s, he was regularly beaten by his teachers for being left-handed, and frequently excluded for rebellious behaviour. So it is perhaps surprising that he went on to write celebrated runs of the adventures of two of the most authoritarian comic characters — Judge Dredd and Batman.Or perhaps not. Judge Dredd, which debuted in the British sci-fi weekly 2000AD in 1977, is a sharp satire on an all-powerful future police state, while Batman is the brooding vigilante who has to mete out justice because the corrupt authorities are failing in their job. So maybe Grant’s writing was in some way revenge for the injustices he suffered as a child. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2022-07-31 12:08:58 UTC ]
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Independent bookshops have been able to make “huge” improvements thanks to writer James Patterson’s “generous” and “forward-thinking” initiative which has awarded more than £500,000 in grants to some 272 indie retailers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former ABA president and founder of the Happy Bookseller in Columbia, S.C., died on May 26. He was 91. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bertin, an Air Force veteran and longtime Macmillan sales representative covering the Mid-Atlantic region, died on May 6. He was 79. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookshops from St Ives to Ireland are among the 62 to receive the final round of grants from author James Patterson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer Jeremy Lewis on the life of Peter Janson-Smith, a notable literary agent "of the old school". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women’s magazine editor and author whose memoir Shoot the Damn Dog recounted her experience of depressionThe journalist and author Sally Brampton, who has died aged 60, created the template for the modern women’s magazine. She was hired as editor when the French magazine Elle launched a British... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chairman argues that negotiations with publishers led to ‘substantial changes’ to the regulator’s rules that have helped to achieve ‘effective regulation’Sir Alan Moses made a trenchant, and often witty, defence of his role as chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher, editor, and award-winning children's book author James Cross Giblin died on Sunday, April 10, following a long illness. He was 82. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former v-p and director of adult field sales at Random House died in hospice care on April 11. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Founder of Arcadia Books, an adventurous publisher of literary fictionGary Pulsifer, who has died of cancer aged 59, was a pioneering publisher of literary fiction, much of it in translation, and the great majority of it through Arcadia Books, the publishing house he founded in 1996. He... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A show about the boundary-pushing art of radical Latin American women and another devoted to the science fiction of the Americas are just two of 43 exhibitions and events receiving $8.5 million in grants from the Getty Foundation as part of Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The founder of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, N.C., who helped launch North Carolina's literary revival, died yesterday. She was 75 years old. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A U.S. District Court judge has approved a temporary restraining order to block Tribune Publishing’s purchase of the Orange County Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise, a decision that the owner of the Los Angeles Times has described as a “death-knell” to its bid. The publishing company's... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British author and comedian Louise Rennison, whose books about teenager Georgia Nicolson were bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic, has died. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An intellectual property lawyer and former general counsel at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Bursley died on January 30. She was 61. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hillel Black, former publisher of Macmillan and editor-in-chief at William Morrow, died February 8 at the age of 86. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew Pate, who held executive positions with several technology and print-on-demand companies, died November 10 at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 58. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Skip Skwarek, whose long tenure at Dial Books for Young Readers included roles as managing editor and associate publisher, died of pneumonia on January 15. He was 70. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reading Agency chief executive Sue Wilkinson and Andrew Bignall, head of libraries at Hertfordshire, remember Sue Jones. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing projects in Macedonia, Albania, Norway and Spain are among the recipients of the first tranche of grants from Publishing Scotland's new Translation Fund. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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