Our Coming Up section is… up!

We’ve just updated our Coming Up section all the way to what’s shipping in June. Check it out! Includes Craig Russell’s new volume 5 of the Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde after many a year hiatus…. and Geary’s next Treasury of XXth Century Murder, besides a bunch of new sets, AND a thick art book [...]

“it is not often a graphic novel can bring me to tears”

2 reviews on Stargazing Dog: “It’s not often a graphic novel can bring me to tears. “Stargazing Dog,” by Takashi Murakami, did just that. There is something positive to take from this. I admit I found the first part so emotionally wrenching that it took me two weeks to force myself to read the second [...]

Geary at APE this weekend

It’s been a few years but Rick Geary is able to come back to the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco this weekend and he will be graciously manning our NBM table #203 for us. Come by, say hi, get his latest Sacco & Vanzetti as well as an array of other Treasury of Murder [...]

Booklist on Sacco & Vanzetti + more

“The quiet effectiveness of Geary’s consciously old-fashioned drawing style is reinforced by his thorough recreation of period details.” Says Booklist of Geary‘s Sacco & Vanzetti. “This dreamlike meditation on creativity and finding value in life is not understood so much as succumbed to. Reminded me of the work of Winsor McCay in its dreamlike logic.” [...]

Geary to appear in Portland after APE

Portland, OR Comics Store Bridge City Comics will have Rick Geary appear Wed. Oct. 5th from 6 to 8PM signing all his Treasury of Murder books as well as others. Rick does few appearances outside of APE which he’ll be at (see his post below this one) and San Diego, so Portlanders! Here’s your chance [...]

APE 2011

Here are four more pages from my new 20th Century Murder, “Lovers Lane,” which detail the discovery of the bodies of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills on September 16, 1922. I’m looking forward to being at APE this weekend (Oct. 1&2), my first time there in four years.  Anyone reading this and planning [...]

Review round-up on a bunch o’ books

Marc Mason at Comics Waiting Room on 2 of our recent books: first on Sacco & Vanzetti: “As with all the books he’s done in this series, he does his research, lays out the facts and evidence, and allows you to decide for yourself. That’s not only a hallmark of strong storytelling, but of confidence [...]

Kirkus on Sacco: ‘another great contribution to the country’s wealth of graphic lit.”

Well, we were going to highlight some other books this time but NO! Geary’s  Sacco & Vanzetti hogs everyone’s attention! This time with a great review from the influential Kirkus Reviews, putting it in with “The 13 Can’t Miss Graphic Novels of 2011″. Calling him ‘legendary,’ they quote him about the book and state: “Chalk one more up for the history [...]

RICK GEARY Chats About SACCO & VANZETTI Part 3

Next week, Rick Geary will be attending the San Diego Comic Con is on, where we’re premiering the latest volume of Rick Geary’s Treasury of XXth Century Murder, THE LIVES OF SACCO & VANZETTI, and hopefully watching Rick take home a win for his Eisner Award Nomination in the Best Reality-Based Work category for his [...]

Rick Geary interviewed on CBR + more

Comic Book Resources presents a good background article after interviewing Rick Geary on his forthcoming Sacco & Vanzetti. The Sky Over the Louvre gets this review on The Comics Journal site by the very hard to please R. Fiore: “In this year that is good God already half over I don’t think there’s anything in [...]

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