December: a New Royo and Noami Nowak

Here’s what’s being solicited in comics shops now from NBM, to come out in December: The main attraction: Royo’s best-selling Malefic collection (50,000 sold) back in a revised, augmented beautiful clothbound edition: MALEFIC LUIS ROYO One of the best-selling collections of fantasy art by Royo is back in print sprinkled with all-new work. Royo scintillates again [...]

Geary’s Famous Players gets press and an interview

  Newsarama has just posted a very informative interview of Geary on this and his forthcoming bio of Trotsky from Hill & Wang. And… Gumshoe Review says of it: “informative and objective and based on meticulous research of the murder and historical era in which it occurred. The illustrations make the period, the setting, and [...]

Geary and Bringing Up Father reviewed

Booklist reviews our Bringing Up Father collection: “One of the most popular and longest-running comic strips. Soon, McManus  would develop into one of the funnies’ leading stylists.” And Publishers Weekly this week says of Geary’s new Famous Players: “His quirky b&w ink drawings are full of expression, recalling the melodrama of silent films.”

Newsarama on Geary’s Famous Players

  “Another winning true-crime volume from Rick Geary.  No surprise there, as Geary’s made a long and successful career of this type of comics.  In addition to presenting all the evidence in a clear and precise narrative, Geary’s art is perfectly suited to this type of factual accounting.  His representational pen-and-ink drawings couch the events [...]

Publishers Weekly article on Geary

They interview Geary and NBM publisher Nantier. Geary will be appearing at our booth in San Diego next week, see the schedule. And he’s up for 2 Eisner Awards.

Geary’s ‘Famous Players’ reviews

Johanna Draper Carlson at Comics Worth Reading says of Geary’s newest Treasury of XXth Century Murder, “Famous Players“: “Geary’s detailed pen-and-ink line provides a wonderful sense of nostalgia and time gone by. As is typical of the cases he chooses to profile, there are plenty of mistakes to feel superior about. “Today, the neighbors know [...]

Booklist on Geary’s Famous Players and Byun’s Mijeong

Booklist’s Ray Olson reviews a pair of our books: On Rick Geary‘s Famous Players which has just shipped: “Batting a thousand, so to speak, Geary gives us another ideal first look on a legendary homicide.” And on Mijeong: “all beautifully executed, true-feeling stuff.”

Review round-up: Dungeon, Geary & Mijeong

Three reviews of note have appeared recently: “This is an outstanding Dungeons and Dragons parody that serves as a stand-alone story. Readers will be entertained, even those unaccustomed to comic fantasy fiction. These anthropomorphic characters are well drawn, and the snappy dialogue is craftily paired with Boulet’s stunning imagery.“ School Library Journal on Dungeon Zenith [...]

ICv2 reviews Famous Players

Giving it 4 1/2 stars (out of 5) ICv2′s Tom Flinn, in their latest printed Insider’s Guide, says of Rick Geary’s forthcoming book (ships in June): “Geary does an admirable job of illustrating the intricacies of the case.” And he goes on to detail the facts, as well as the scandals that started to rack the Hollywood [...]

GEARY interviewed on Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources has posted an article with many quotes from Rick Geary on his forthcoming Famous Players (shipping June) and also reveals what he’s working on for next year… Famous Players will be premiered at the MoCCA show 1st weekend of June in NYC! Come see us!

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