This fall, I’m quite excited to introduce another absolutely mind boggling talent comin’ outta nowhere: Greg Houston of Vatican Hustle, coming in October.

Lock up your virgin daughter! Close the window shutters tight! We’ve just got him set up to start blogging here.

When I read his comics, every once in a while I check the mirror to make sure I ain’t gettin’ so ugly myself…

So, drum roll please… Greg Houston should be in here soon.

This remarkable graphic novel by the talented Korean artist Byun Byung Jun is moving, at times melancholy and quite lyrical. We brought out his Run, Bong-Gu, Run! a couple years ago to good acclaim. This continues our little Manhwa department which also has Buja’s Diary by an old Korean master.

Check it out, it’s in stores now! And if you like it, tell people, hey, tell me right here in a comment. Would love to hear what you think.

Arlene’s Heart has shipped and should have reached stores by now. Look for it, it’s a moving fantasy fairy tale for adults and a tribute to surviving personal loss and rejection.

Beautifully painted. See previews here.

And as you said in your entry below, welcome back… um… from the dead? Well I guess that’s in tune with the new book you’ve got coming in August.

Wait, everyone, to see when he posts some pages, this is in a completely different more cartoony style than he used in North Country (where he already varied styles somewhat depending on circumstance). Shane is a remarkably talented guy!!

George Khoury has posted a great interview of the wonderful Spanish artist Miguelanxo Prado on Comic Book Resources by whom we’ve published quite a few books over the years. Besides his remarkable comics, Prado went on to put a touch of class into the animated version of Men in Black.

I still love his Streak of Chalk and if pressed, probably would put it in my top ten GNs of all time. Can’t wait to see that new GN he’s cooking up now, it’s been a while!

When you go over to our Prado page, you’ll see all his books can be had for free with an order of 4 other books, btw.

Well, we’re putting to bed the next great entry in our Forever Nuts collection of classic comic strips, Bringing Up Father, and it looks gorgeous. The strips have been meticulously restored and we end up with a colorful foreword by Bill Blackbeard, short but quite sweet, and a great intro by R.C. Harvey who gives us all we could want to know about McManus and this seminal strip in the history of comics.

And if that weren’t enough, we have quite a few annotations/footnotes at the end of the book that explain references in the strips. Allan Holtz, who worked on this with us did painstaking research. His full set of notes even beyond what we culled for the book will be posted up online when the book is out.

We will be a little late with the release, mid-June shipping instead of May but worth the wait, believe me.

Well it’s out on blogs, especially Heidi McDonald’s The Beat.

Veronique Tanaka of Metronome that we published is in fact… Bryan Talbot. Yes, that Bryan of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat (which I personally think is his magnum opus) and more recently Alice in Sunderland.

And of the Art of Bryan Talbot which we also published.

Turns out Heidi’s post is creating quite a controversy, JT Leroy has already been mentioned and two famous comics bloggers have knives drawn as we speak.

Haaaa, Bryan, you’re a genius, I luv ya. Except you could have given me some warning, ya know?

And if this makes you check out the very arresting work that is Metronome -and is absolutely unrecognizable as Bryan’s work, btw, that’s the REAL genius- then great! ‘Cause it’s another GN we’re very proud of having in our catalog. JT Tanaka or not.

Congratulations go to Rick Geary, our author of the always superb Treasury of Murder, whether Victorian or XXth century, for his nominations in the Eisners as best writer/artist and for The Lindbergh Child  as Best Reality Based Work!

If you’re a pro getting a ballot, make sure you vote for this still somewhat under-rated artist  (although I have to say he keeps growing in awareness out there) with such a personal style.

Lindbergh, by the way, along with his next Famous Players book, out in June about a famous murder in the early already scandalous days of Hollywood, are Junior Library Guild selections. Print runs on these are now surpassing 10,000.

We’re looking for someone with good experience with social networks to help us expand our presence there. We’re presently on MySpace but need to be on Facebook and others with all this better interlinked. Like NBM’s books? Good at this sort of thing where you can show what you’ve done in those spaces?

Then be in touch with me at tnantier at nbmpub.com.

Hope to hear from ya!

We’re shipping now the next installment of the main branch of Dungeon, one we hadn’t published anything new in for a while. It has a new artist who does a great segue from Trondheim/Sfar’s art. Generally now these 2 guys are so busy they’re only writing the Dungeon books together and passing along the art to others.

Btw, Lewis will be in San Diego as a guest this year! Sumthin to look forward to.

You can order from us or look for it in stores soon!