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Boaz Yakin and Nick Bertozzi team up for the epic JERUSALEM

test heading THOUGH NO STRANGER TO COMICS, Boaz Yakin is better known to the world of movies. My first introduction to him was through Fresh. One of my favorite movies. Since then, Yakin has written and directed many films with the likes of Denzel Washington, Renée Zellweger and Jason Stratham, working on blockbusters and indy pictures [...]

By |2024-03-21T06:06:03-04:00June 6th, 2013|Adventures in Publishing, Behind the Scenes, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Boaz Yakin and Nick Bertozzi team up for the epic JERUSALEM

Richard Feynman: awesomely smart guy, fun at parties, now out in paperback!

You like quantum electrodynamics, don't you? Of course you do! Who doesn't, am I right? All I'm gonna say here is if you think you don't like physics, or physicists, this book will change your mind. And now it's out in a gorgeous, sleek, affordable paperback edition! So if you're looking for a fantastic biography [...]

By |2013-05-15T15:32:04-04:00May 15th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Richard Feynman: awesomely smart guy, fun at parties, now out in paperback!

Happy book birthday, Odd Duck!

test heading Oh, the joys of being an Odd Duck. If you're a Theodora-style Odd Duck, maybe you're a little fussy, a little particular about your life. You've got your funny ways, and you stick to them. You might not be super sociable--you've got your own thing going, after all. If you're a Chad-style Odd [...]

By |2024-03-21T06:10:47-04:00May 14th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Happy book birthday, Odd Duck!

Red Handed comes out today!!!

test heading Ugh, where can I even start with this book? Well, let me give you a quote from a recent Booklist review that pretty much sums it up: If David Lynch scripted Dick Tracy it might—might—be as great as this. Red Handed is ... it's a crime story about crime stories, and it's also [...]

By |2024-03-21T07:53:17-04:00May 7th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Red Handed comes out today!!!

Happy book birthday, NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG!

test heading This book had a long, winding road to travel, but it's finally here! A "typical" (ha! as though there is such a thing as typical in this business) graphic novel starts life as a script, then it gets arted, then sent to the printer, and then, pretty soon, it's a book. Nothing Can [...]

By |2024-03-21T07:53:36-04:00May 7th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Happy book birthday, NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG!

Convention Tips!

test headingIt's convention season! When you work at a graphic novel publisher, you attend a lot of conventions and a lot of small-press shows. And you start to notice patterns - you get a sense of what works and what doesn't work for the folks who have tables at a show like MoCCA or TCAF [...]

By |2024-03-21T07:57:47-04:00April 24th, 2013|Uncategorized|1 Comment

Happy book birthday to RELISH!

test headingToday's the publication date of Lucy Knisley's splendid graphic-memoir-by-way-of-cookery, Relish. If you live in Boston, New York City, the Hudson River Valley, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, or Toronto, you should attend one of her events and get yourself a signed book! It was my great pleasure to edit Relish, and it's the peculiar lot [...]

By |2024-03-21T08:32:48-04:00April 2nd, 2013|Uncategorized|1 Comment

POSEIDON’S EARTH SHAKING RELEASE!!

George O'Connor delivers POSEIDON, the fifth installment in his mythical OLYMPIANS series—and continues to dethrone D'aulaires Book of Greek Myths, as the most valuable and trustworthy reference for young readers for the original world-shaping tales of Ancient Greece . . . and O'Connor turns out to be one of their most inspired and exciting retellers. [...]

By |2013-03-19T17:10:06-04:00March 19th, 2013|Uncategorized|2 Comments
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