Gahan WILSON from Papercutz
December 31, 2008 by NBM
Filed under NBM Blog, New Releases
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
December 29, 2008 by NBM
Filed under NBM Blog, New Releases
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
December 29, 2008 by NBM
Filed under NBM Blog, New Releases
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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Axe vs. Pirates: The pirate panic button
The ships that make the two-day run from Mombasa, Kenya, to Somalia carrying vital humanitarian supplies are frequent targets of pirate attacks — and have been for more than a decade. How have ship’s crew adapted? Same way the pirates have adapted over the years: with simple technology and no-nonsense tactics. On Wednesday, the small [...]
Axe vs. Pirates: Scared jobless by pirates
Kennedy Mwale, 32, pictured, is a freelance tour guide in Mombasa’s old port, a claustrophobic melange of Arab and Portuguese architecture with one small stone pier. A week ago Monday, three small cargo ships were tied to the pier. Scores of shirtless stevedores lugged bags of cement and tossed them into the ships’ holds. The [...]
George McManus’ BRINGING UP FATHER next in Forever Nuts
December 19, 2008 by NBM
Filed under NBM Blog, New Releases
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 [...]
