If you’re in the Netherlands (and I do have a couple of readers there according to my web analytics) you might be interested to know that the Anne Frank Foundation has announced a graphic novel based on Anne Frank’s life is now available. The idea for a comic book originated from the fact that children […]
Previews of the seventh Flight anthology have been posted. Kazu Kibuishi, the creator and editor of Flight series, has announced that volume eight will be the last volume of the anthologies.
Apple has reversed its decision to ban a non-censored version of Ulysses Seen from its App store because it contained nudity. According to New York Times blogger Julie Bosman, Apple invited Throwaway Horse (the publisher) to resubmit the iPad graphic novel after app reviewers gave it a second look. “They basically apologized,” Mr. Rutkowski said. […]
The National Cartoonists Society has their annual Reuben Awards weekend. Winners of the division awards are in bold.FEATURE ANIMATION Ronnie del Carmen – Storyboard Artist – “Up” Tomm Moore – Director – “The Secret of Kells” Barry Reynolds – Character Designer – “The Secret of Kells” NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION Bob Rich Tom Richmond Robert Sanchuk GAG […]
Congrats to Seth, Michael DeForge and Marc Bell. Press release:Canada’s finest comics and graphic novels were celebrated last night as the 6th annual Doug Wright Awards touched down in Toronto?s Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in a ceremony hosted by ReGenesis actor Peter Outerbridge. This year?s top honours included:BEST BOOK: George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth […]
Andrew McGinn and David Neitzke have published their first graphic novel, “The Legacy – a Graphic Novel.” For those who are sensitive to critique of the American newspaper comic strip, this book probably best be avoided. John Hogan over at Graphic Novel Reporter describes it as, “about a young man named Chas who inherits a […]
Slashfilm and other sites are reporting that the graphic novel, Cowboys & Aliens will be hitting the big screen and that Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde will be the star actors. The movie is set to be released in July 2011.According to IMDB, the plot is based in Silver City, Arizona, where “Apache […]
Jeff Smith, creator of the Bone graphic novel series, sold the movie rights in 2008 to Warner Bros. Looks like it’s getting closer to the big screen. A quick Google search didn’t yield any release dates. For more than 10 years, Hollywood has been interested in putting Smith’s entertaining epic on the big screen. At […]
I’ve mentioned before Eddie Pittman’s excellent web graphic novel Red’s Planet. This week Tom Dell’Aringa and Steve Ogden announced that Eddie has agreed to publish through their Wishtales publishing studio.From the press release: Pittman recently began publishing his all-ages science fiction graphic novel “Red’s Planet” online. Dell’Aringa and Ogden were immediately taken by his wonderful […]
Kazu Kibuishi, the creator and editor of Flight series, has announced that volume eight will be the last volume of the anthologies. The next couple of years will also mark the end of the Flight series. We will be wrapping it all up with Flight Volume Eight. We had a pretty good run, but it […]
Seven Stories Press has begun running a webcomic version of Stephanie McMillan’s graphic novel “As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial” (co-created with Derrick Jensen). The comic updates Tuesdays and Thursdays in full color. A French version of the printed book is also available.As an aside, Stephanie was […]
Tom Spurgeon reports that R. Crumb’s Genesis graphic novel sold 120,000 copies. Two comments: First, after all the hype for Genesis, I actually think that book was underplayed a bit in comics circles, perhaps because a lot of typical opinion-makers were slow in catching up to it. I think I’ve encountered more “I finally got […]
The LA Times interviews Joe Sacco on his latest book “Footnotes in Gaza” Joe is credited as inventing the genre of cartoonist-correspondent. In this book he investigates the massacre of 275 Palestinians in 1956 by Israel during the Suez Crisis. All the ingredients were present for a violent denouement. It came, according to a United […]
I got a chuckle out of it. Can’t wait to take the kids.
The documentary, “The Cartoonist” – about Jeff Smith and his comic Bone, will begin airing on PBS stations around the country next year, with some stations already scheduled for this month (see below). Here is a teaser about the documentary.The following stations will be airing it this month:Thursday, December 10th at 8:30pm on channel 15 […]