Curled Up with a Good Book on Silk Road to Ruin

The review site Curled Up with a Good Book reviews Ted Rall’s Silk Road to Ruin: “Although you may think that a book which deals with political subject matter and a part of the world whose nations most Americans know little to nothing about (and have a difficult time even pronouncing correctly) might be dull [...]

Geary Garners 2 Eisners noms!

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  [...]

Drawing Comics

Looking back, this may be a little bit of an exaggeration. I did have some ideas of the kind of story I wanted to tell. I’d seen Turkmenistan mentioned in a number of books and I’d seen a number of news articles about the country, but because most Westerners can only get a two week [...]

Geary’s Lincoln in School Library Journal

“The concise narrative incorporates diverse threads and is packed with details that will mesmerize readers—Lincoln’s prophetic dream of his own death, John Wilkes Booth’s careful and cold-blooded preparations, the identification of the perpetrator’s body after his death by the initials he had carved into his right hand as a child. Geary also raises questions that [...]

NBM in June: a new Geary

In conjunction with ‘Previews’ from Diamond at your local comic bookstore, here’s what’s being solicited for June from NBM: The main news is the next Rick Geary TREASURY OF XXth CENTURY MURDER: FAMOUS PLAYERS The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor Rick GEARY It’s the early days of Hollywood, movies are just starting to come [...]

other mushrooms

in regards to terry’s comment on my latest entry … the last chapter of graylight seems to have a different type of mushroom on every page (here, featuring page 126 with tree shrooms). i didn’t consciously make it so, but the two male leads are walking through a forest, and shrooms being one of my [...]

Boston Globe on David B and Miss Don’t Touch Me

The Boston Globe on Sunday had a great roundup by Carlo Wolff of graphic novels and amongst the books reviewed, David B’s Nocturnal Conspiracies: “Teeming with animals, corrupt politicians, alluring women, his own malleable consciousness and other shape shifts, this scans like a dream.” And Miss Don’t Touch Me: “A more orthodox piquancy infuses Miss [...]

Need some extra cash? Good at social nets?

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 [...]

Metronome in Daily Yomiuri

Japan’s English language newspaper, The Daily Yomiuri, had some kind words on Metronome: “Offers a surprisingly engaging story that, without the hindrance of language, anyone can understand. Tanaka makes good use of rythmn, themes and cadences to set the scene and mood.”

Drawing Comics

I always seem to be coming to this realization that nobody looks anywhere near as closely at my work as I do.   And here are some pencils of the cover for my Turkmenistan book (it’s a little cut off)(it does go around in a complete circle)(but you get the idea). I’ll probably being adding [...]