DUNGEON monstres 2 reviewed in Booklist
for Dungeon Monstres2: “Possibly the most exciting yet cohesive volume of the Dungeon series so far. Sfar & Trondheim don’t slouch on the snappy dialogue or quirky characterization that make Dungeon a fun ride!” Booklist
METRONOME makes New York Magazine’s Top Ten
New York Magazine has just announced their top ten in all things culture and that includes a list of top ten Graphic Novels where our Veronique Tanaka’s arresting silent GN Metronome is seventh tied with another silent GN called Travel.
Moresukine in New York Times Book Review
In an article highlighting some great graphic novels for Holiday gifts in last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, critic Douglas Wolk called Dirk Schwieger’s Moresukine ”A very different take on Japan… Schwieger is genuinely open to trying anything… He’s also attuned to the details of his environment and the way they color his social interactions.” [...]
My Desk
December 7, 2008 by Jesse Lonergan
Filed under NBM Blog
So I spend an awful lot of time sitting at my desk working on comics. And I figure most of the other artists and writers at NBM do a lot of the same. And I was just curious what everybody’s workspace looked like and I thought it would be cool if people could post some [...]
my first week back on the job
December 6, 2008 by Naomi Nowak
Filed under Events, NBM Blog
I’ve been getting used to drawing comics instead of painting this past week. Adjusting every drawing to a sequence/story is very different and I’m always so slow at it at first … my colleagues at the studio must think I’m lazy when I’m just sitting there chewing on a pencil. We did spend a whole [...]
BIG KAHN: Cover Sketches & Color Exploration
December 4, 2008 by Neil Kleid
Filed under NBM Blog, New Releases
Just stopping in before the weekend to direct you over to KAHN artist Nico Cinquegrani’s blog where he’s posted a fairly in depth look at sketches and color exploration for the cover to our upcoming graphic novel, THE BIG KAHN. And here’s the final colored illustration. Now I will take it, drop it into the [...]
The Year of Loving Dangerously
December 3, 2008 by Ted Rall
Filed under Author Appearances, Events, New Releases
Ted Rall here. I’m packing up to do a French tour. The French edition of SILK ROAD TO RUIN, which NBM published in 2006, is coming out this month! I’m going to be at the big cartoon festival at Angoulême as well as a travel-oriented festival in Paris in ate January and early February, respectively. [...]
Welcome to our new author/nbm blog!
…And by author/NBM I do mean, as you can see below, that the authors will be active directly in this blog for all of you to interact with and get the latest news from. You also have the capacity to choose any author’s entries for RSS feed or such instead of all entries. It’s up [...]
FAMOUS PLAYERS: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor
December 2, 2008 by Rick Geary
Filed under NBM Blog
I am currently finishing the inked pages for my eleventh graphic novel for NBM, the second in the new series “A Treasury of XXth Century Murder.” It’s the story of the still-unsolved 1922 murder of the Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor, a convoluted case that involved many of the motion picture celebrities of the day. [...]
