New Dungeon Zenith gets reactions
April 20, 2009 by NBM
The reviews are coming in for our newly released latest Volume 3 of Dungeon Zenith:
“Hysterically funny. Endlessly inventive”
“Ah, Dungeon, what pleasures you bring me. Boulet is comfortably upholding the artistic standards of previous forays into Dungeon. Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim … man, these two guys can seemingly do no wrong. They’re leading lights in France’s comics scene, and it’s obvious why. Dungeon: Zenith vol. 3: Back in Style is witty, fun and adventurous. Readers of fantasy, of humor, of unapologetically fun comics are going to love it.”
“The Sfar/Trondheim duo did not disappoint in this latest volume, taking crazy story risks and throwing in plot twists and character reversals at the drop of a hat. DUNGEON remains my favorite genre-related series of all time.”
Turkmenbashy
April 16, 2009 by Jesse Lonergan
So I think (I think) my Turkmenistan book is pretty much done. Terry’s read it, mentioned some changes. I’ve made the changes. I still need to put the cover together, the end feels close. I think Terry and I have settled on a title of The Golden Age: Two Years in Turkmenistan. And along with the work on the book coming to an end my time in Vermont is also ending. I’ll be moving back to Boston (Cambridge, Somerville) in the beginning of May. Last weekend I was down looking at apartments and it’s the same plan for this weekend.
And then once I get settled there I guess I’ll start on the next book. I’m weighing two ideas… a reality based book about travelling back and forth across America or a post-apocalyptic romp (something like Beach Blanket Bingo plus Mad Max divided by Candide).
Bringing Up Father on its way
April 16, 2009 by Terry
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.
Tanaka outed
April 14, 2009 by Terry
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.
Phil Yeh to do a mural at L.A. Times Bookfair and BEA
April 13, 2009 by NBM
Phil Yeh, author of Dinosaurs Across America which has been praised as a great fun way to get kids to learn about US geography will be touring for this book and on behalf of Cartoonists Across America, his organization in support of literacy through comics. That includes appearances at the L.A. Times Bookfair at the Hideho comics store booth later this month and around the Book Expo America convention in NY, late May. At most of his appearances he does a mural and gets fellow artists and kids to join in on the fun. Go meet him! Believe us when we say he is lively and opinionated. Here’s his latest schedule:
APRIL EVENTS
Wednesday, April 15, 4:00 pm
Book signing and workshop
Lytle Creek Elementary
San Bernardino, CA
Thursday, April 16, 4:00 pm
Book signing and workshop
Riley Elementary
San Bernardino, CA
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:00-6:00
3rd Annual Mural Event
San Bernardino Public Library
555 West Sixth St.
San Bernardino, Ca 92410
909-381-8236
Sunday, April 26, 2009
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Book signing at Hi-de-ho booth
LA Times Festival of Books
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, April 30
Graphic Novel Workshop
Ann Arbor Academy
111 East Mosley
Ann Arbor, Mi 48104
MAY EVENTS
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Book signing and mural event
Nicola’s Books
2513 Jackson Av.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Tel: 734-662-0600
Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 11:00am-4:00 pm
Book signing and Mural event
Dayton International Peace Museum
A Space to Make Peace
208 W. Monument Ave.
Dayton , OH 45402
937-22PEACE
member of International Network of Museums for Peace
Friday-Sunday, May 8-10
Mountain Arts Network Spring Group Show & Sale
Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa
Lake Arrowhead Village
27984 Highway 18
Lake Arrowhead, CA
Wednesday, May 13, 4:00 pm
Book Signing and Workshop
Marshall Elementary
San Bernardino, CA
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Mural event
Hotel Pennsylvania Lobby
New York, New York
Friday-Sunday, May 29-31, 2009
Mural
BookExpoAmerica
Javits Convention Center
New York, New York
JUNE EVENTS
Saturday, June 20, 2009, 11:00am-4:00pm
Book signing and mural event
Bank of Books
748 E. Main Street
Ventura, CA 93001
805.643.3154
JULY EVENTS
Thursday-Sunday, July 23-26, 2009
San Diego Comic Con
San Diego Convention Center
FALL EVENTS
September 26-27, 2009
Mural Event and Book Signing
Kidsfaire Family Expo
Alameda County Fairgrounds
Pleasanton, CA
October 3-4, 2009
Mural Event and Book Signing
Kidsfaire Family Expo
Orange County Fairgrounds
Costa Mesa, CA
October 14-18, 2009
Mural event
Frankfurt Book Fair
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 11:00 am-5:00 pm
Mural event
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
323-930-CARS
From Rick Geary
April 13, 2009 by Rick Geary
Here is a small preview of my latest book from NBM, “Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor.” It’s the convoluted tale of a still-unsolved 1922 murder in Hollywood, involving several film stars and other “famous players” of the day. The two finished pages reproduced here recount the discovery of the body, always the best starting point for a good mystery.
By the way, I’m proud and thrilled to be nominated for two Eisner awards this year, especially so because they both recognize my work for NBM, on last year’s book “The Lindbergh Child.”
Skinflowers is at stores
April 13, 2009 by NBM
Eurotica’s latest, Skinflowers by Ecce Homo, the photog who helps Favole painter artist Victoria Frances pose models for her paintings, is at stores now and from us of course.
It’s an import from Europe, a beautiful jacketed hardcover with photography of nudes in fantasy goth settings. Next week, we’ll be shipping out Victoria Frances next new book Arlene’s Heart, a moving goth fairy tale for adults. Frances, A Spaniard, has already made quite a name for herself in this country with the vampire series of illustrated books Favole.
Dungeon Zenith 3 is out
April 8, 2009 by NBM
The newest Dungeon book is out! After quite a lapse where we brought out various other branches of this vast epic, we’re back to the main storyline, Zenith, with volume 3 which, as we’ve always done, collects together 2 of the original French volumes, numbers 5 and 6.
In this one The Keeper gets himself into such hot water he even manages to lose the Dungeon entirely to a wiley schemer!
This marks the 10th volume we have out in this series, btw! And of late, we’ve brought the price down on recent volumes to $12.95.
It’s at stores now and we have stock of every volume out.
PW runs erroneous news on Geary
April 7, 2009 by NBM
Not sure how they misunderstood our release but contrary to the bit of news they ran in their PW Comics Week out today and in their Comics Briefly, Diamond will most certainly be making available his new Famous Players volume in the Treasury of XXth Century.
What Diamond does not have in Previews, however, is the capacity to order previous volumes of his, especially including the Lindbergh Child.
Curled Up with a Good Book on Silk Road to Ruin
April 6, 2009 by NBM
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 and boring. Instead, Rall has written a very interesting and often LOL humorous account that anyone who wants to learn more about this politically unstable region and anyone who likes travel memoirs will enjoy highly.”
And they give it 4 1/2 stars out of 5. Hey, the book may be out for a couple years now but never too late for a review, right? Besides this book remains timely and topical.
