Gahan WILSON from Papercutz

Our sister company Papercutz is publishing, in March, Gahan Wilson’s adaptation of The Raven and other Edgar Allan Poe poems. We thought you’d like to know. It’s presently being solicited at comics stores. You can see more here. You can also order through us at 800 886 1223, M-F 9-6 ET or by mail with [...]

Metronome review

About Metronome by Veronique Tanaka: “A bold pushing of the formal envelope, it bills itself as a ‘visual poem’, but with its regimented film-like frames and hypnotic four-four repetition, it evokes music and stroboscopic cinema.” The Boston Phoenix

Victoria (Favole) FRANCES from NBM in March

New Books: Coming this March, comics stores now taking orders (as well as us online!): The rising star VICTORIA FRANCES, whose FAVOLE series of illustrated books on vampires has become a worldwide bestseller, joins NBM for her next book! ARLENE’S HEART Victoria FRANCES The fantasy artist famous for the FAVOLE series of books is back with [...]

Why I Loved Peter

From Terry: We’ve just shipped a book I fell in love with. Oh, it’s hard love, ’cause it’s about a thorny issue but it’s done so sensitively and the art rendered so beautifully in simple comic form, I just thought we have to see this in the States. “Why I Killed Peter”, by Alfred and [...]

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Happy Reviews for Happy Hooligan

Happy Hooligan’s been getting some great press out there right before Christmas: Andrew “Capt. Comics” Smith for the nationally syndicated Scripps News: “Happy Hooligan” was one of the most successful comic strips in the golden age of that medium, starring a happy-go-lucky bumbler with a tin can for a hat. Frederick Burr Opper, dubbed “the Dean [...]

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George McManus’ BRINGING UP FATHER next in Forever Nuts

In May 2009, NBM Publishing brings back one of the 20th century’s great comic strips. George McManus’ BRINGING UP FATHER is the third and latest in  NBM’s FOREVER NUTS series of classic screwball strips. In 1913, cartoonist George McManus started a comic strip about Jiggs and Maggie, a lower-class couple who came into money. “While the snobbish Maggie [...]

Happy Holidays!

my desk + drawings

I love seeing artist’s workspaces, so following Jesse’s lead, here’s mine. It’s in the corner of a large-ish room which is part of a studio I share with seven other artists (comic artists, illustrators, painters, animators, a photographer who mysteriously hasn’t moved in yet). I used to draw at home, but I have to say [...]