Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman has denounced the 'absurd' removal of his graphic novel 'Maus,' about the Holocaust, from school libraries. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-01-28 20:33:57 UTC ]
When Samuel Teer and Mar Julia, author and illustrator of 'Brownstone', received word on Sunday that their graphic novel had won the 2025 Michael L. Printz Award, neither was anticipating the call. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. Editorial cartoons and illustration are fairly niche topics—or so I once thought. On Jan. 3, cartoonist Ann Telnaes published Why I’m quitting the Washington Post on her Substack. It detailed... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2025-01-21 11:00:00 UTC ]
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The company has been a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since its founding in 1982. The future of its comics distribution and graphic novel divisions remains uncertain. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald TrumpThe Washington Post’s Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the newspaper after its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon depicting the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2025-01-04 15:23:11 UTC ]
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“The mental garbage we ingest is arguably more harmful than an occasional cheeseburger and fries.” Richard Cytowic is a neurologist, neuropsychologist, and textbook writer. He specializes in metacognition. He is a professor of Neurology at George Washington University. His New York Times... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-12-28 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Percival Everett nabbed the National Book Award and Samantha Harvey bagged the Booker, but they weren’t the only writers who struck gold this year. Yes, from the Pulitzer to the Nebula, the PEN/Faulkner to the Edgar, here are the winners of the biggest book prizes of 2024. Congratulations to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-12-18 09:57:03 UTC ]
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For the second year in a row, the top spot on our annual graphic novel critics poll is shared by two titles which, while distinctive in style, share remarkably similar themes, delving into the inheritance of trauma across generations and the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The cartoonist and filmmaker’s first graphic novel in more than a decade is a dazzling post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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This work of half autofiction, half graphic novel follows a dramatic year in a teenage girl's life. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-11-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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This year, established manga publishers jostled on the shelves with prestige graphic novel publishers, prose publishers venturing into comics, and more. The result was a great year for manga. Here are 10 titles you shouldn’t miss. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Darryl Cunningham blames fear of ‘legal consequences’ for reluctance to take on book, now only available in FrenchA biography by a British graphic novelist of Elon Musk is struggling to find an English-language publisher due to feared “legal consequences”.Elon Musk: Investigation into a New... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-23 16:00:01 UTC ]
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The National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominees discuss the wry maturity and singular strangeness of two writers whose work inspired their own. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Attorneys for the state of Florida have asked a federal judge to toss a closely watched lawsuit filed by six major publishers, the Authors Guild, students and parents, and several bestselling authors over HB 1069, a newly enacted state law that critics say is fueling a surge in unconstitutional... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
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"I tend to look for powerful, important stories that have left some space in their lines, deliberately or otherwise, as the best candidates for comics adaptation." Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-11-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
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McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, focuses on an egocentric, self-destructive white male novelist, played by Robert Downey, Jr. The fictional Jacob McNeal—think Mailer or Roth at their worst—wins the Nobel Prize early in the play, but he’s guarding a... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2024-11-14 13:00:00 UTC ]
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EveryLibrary, a non-profit dedicated to supporting public and school libraries across the country via local grassroots organizing, has been tracking anti-library legislation since 2012. Between the onslaught of book bans and censorship petitions, they’ve naturally had a busy few years. But last... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-13 17:52:28 UTC ]
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