Using iBooks Author to create comics collection
Andertoons’ Mark Anderson takes a look at the newly released iBooks Author software from Apple as a way of creating an cartoon collection eBook. As I’m sure you’ve heard, Apple recently entered the textbook market in a big way. They’ve partnered with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, revamped the iBooks app/store, and created [...]
Posted on: Jan 23, 2012, Section: Books, Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Wimpy Kid sues Zombie Kid
Reuters reports that Wimpy Kid, Inc. (Jeff Kinney owned entity that holds the Wimpy Kid copyrights) is suing Antarctic Press for trademark infringement with its Diary of a Zombie Kid series . In addition to depicting a backpack-carrying protagonist, the suit alleges, the “Zombie Kid” cover artwork bears a startling similarity to the “Wimpy Kid” [...]
Posted on: Dec 22, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 10 Comments
Profiled: Shannon Wheeler
Tim O’Shea talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler to talk about the various projects he’s released including I Thought You Would Be Funnier, a Little Golden Book parody Grandpa Won’t Wake Up co-created Oil and Water. Tim O’Shea: Not many folks can say they’ve won an Eisner, but this year’s was actually [...]
Posted on: Nov 23, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 0 Comments
Fantagraphics offers rarities with book purchases
From Fantagraphics Books: We are always grateful to readers who buy books directly from us, so we are pleased to offer a new series of mini-comics featuring fascinating, previously-unpublished (or at least way out of print) sketches, drawings and even full stories, which are available for FREE with the purchase of their matching tie-in books, [...]
Posted on: Nov 23, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 1 Comment
Jeff Kinney: a failure for not getting into newspapers
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiled Jeff Kinney about the success of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I think this admission is a life lesson for all of us. “I always think of myself as a cartoonist who couldn’t crack into newspapers,” he said recently by phone. Kinney created the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” [...]
Posted on: Nov 14, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 6 Comments
Tom Richmond on why he did self-publishing
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond recently released his new book The Mad Art of Caricature!. It’s a great book that I highly recommend you check it out and buy. A notable book like this certainly could have found a print publisher, but Tom opted to explore and publish through self-publishing. He posted [...]
Posted on: Oct 31, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 13 Comments
New Dr. Suess collection of ‘lost’ stories hitting bookstores
Cory Doctrow over at Boing Boing writes about a new collection of lost, unpublished or early work for Dr. Suess that was recently released. The book is entitled, “The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories“. Cory writes: The publication of a new Seuss collection is reason to celebrate in and of itself, and Bippolo Seed [...]
Posted on: Oct 28, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 3 Comments
Shel Silverstein family to print new collection of unprinted poems, cartoons
Beloved children’s book writer, illustrator Shel Silverstein passed away 1999, but his family is releasing a new book of previously unprinted material entitled Every Thing On It The material is described as material Shel liked “but never had a place for in his other collections.”
Posted on: Oct 3, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 2 Comments
Borders to shutter doors for good
From the Wall Street Journal: Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it. Borders, which employs about 10,700 people, scrapped a bankruptcy-court auction scheduled for Tuesday amid the dearth of bids. It said it would ask a judge Thursday to approve a [...]
Posted on: Jul 19, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 10 Comments
JK Rowling to release ebooks without publisher
There’s a big announcement from Harry Potter author JK Rowling today and quite honestly the scope of everything she’s doing is pretty big. On the surface, she’s building an online community called Pottermore that will feature an online store and other interactive features that have been described as “illustrated environments” and not games. One of [...]
Posted on: Jun 23, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 11 Comments
Mr. Media interviews Ivan Brunetti
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has posted an interview with Ivan Brunetti, author of the new book, “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice” described as, “literally a 15-week master course in the art, grown from his practical experience teaching at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. In a mere 88 pages, Brunetti dispenses exactly what [...]
Posted on: May 31, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 1 Comment
Amazon selling more e-books than paperbacks now
Another sign in the digital shift. Amazon announced during its earnings call that for the first time, it now sells more e-books than paperbacks.
Posted on: Apr 15, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 0 Comments
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