NBM in July: Science in comics and Omaha in her grand finale!

As being solicited for in this month’s Diamond Previews, the classic erotic comics series OMAHA THE CAT DANCER stars in her final bow, from our Eurotica/Amerotica imprint:   The Complete OMAHA THE CAT DANCER, Vol. 8 Reed WALLER, Kate WORLEY & James VANCE Omaha and Chuck struggle to put the tangled past behind them while political [...]

Pentecost

It’s the Christian feast of Pentecost today – but what’s it all about? It celebrates “the descent of the Holy Spirit” on the disciples and other followers of Jesus, fifty days after Christ was seen to ascend to heaven. But what is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is often thought of as an inspirational [...]

The Scientific Method

This week, Science: a Discovery in Comics is going out to the printer in China! A memorable step, after months of translating and proofreading and finetuning. The physical book won’t be in stores until at least August, but for me the hard work is done. To celebrate, here’s a page from the book. It explains [...]

Vote in the Harveys!

If you’re an artist or creator, editor, make sure to cast your ballot in the Harveys, below, and keep in mind books we published in 2012 when doing so: Rohan at the Louvre by Araki  (foreign) Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde vol.5 by Craig Russell Treasury of 20th century Murder: Lovers Lane by Rick Geary [...]

Persia Blues on Pinterest

One of the exciting things about creating and writing Persia Blues is that I get to share some of the history and culture of my birthplace, Iran. I wanted to weave this into the fabric of the story, from Minoo’s childhood all the way through adulthood. And even beyond, when her life’s journey brings her [...]

The Beginning and End of Science

The extra perk of preparing a book for publication at NBM is that I get to make endsheets, that go inside the hardcover at the beginning and the end of the book. For the upcoming Science: a Discovery in Comics I just finished making them – I layed out a grid and filled it with [...]

WAR PASSENGER Doc About Writer David Axe Gets A Trailer!

War Passenger is a documentary film that tells the story of David Axe, a middle-class, suburban-raised South Carolina resident who walked away from his family, friends, and career to travel to Iraq in 2005 at the peak of the Middle Eastern conflict. Armed with only a backpack and a video camera, David embraced his role [...]

Stan Mack in PRINT Magazine

You might not be aware that Stan Mack, author of NBM’s Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels, is also considered to be one of the founding fathers of contemporary cartoon reportage. Stan recently was profiled in Print Magazine focusing on his work in the magazine back in 1996 which predicted the new digital [...]

Family Ties: Not Your Typical Crime Thriller

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, really. After all, Noel and I already did a book about an alien attack without any aliens in it. The Broadcast was a character-driven thriller about families in rural America and how they might react to an alien invasion. The aliens (or lack thereof) were just a catalyst for the story [...]

NBM in June: Zombillenium hires for… eternity

Coming in June and now being solicited in comics stores: ZOMBILLENIUM Vol.1: Gretchen Arthur de Pins Francis von Bloodt, vampire, a good family man, manages the theme park Zombillenium. They don’t just hire anyone, at Zombillenium: mere mortals need not apply, the park works only with genuine werewolves, vampires and zombies. This is what Aurelian gets [...]