GalleyCat reports that Karin Slaughter, a popular thriller writer from the UK, and Oni Press are teaming up to create Slaughterhouse Graphic Novels, which will adapt prose fiction into comics form. The idea is to emulate Stephen King’s Dark Tower, and not Isaac Asimov’s I-Bots, I think… (By the way, Slaughter is our covergirl for…
The Black Diamond Detective Agency is a bit of an anomaly for Eddie Campbell – it’s a book he wrote and illustrated alone that nevertheless is not concerned with stories or storytelling in any way. Campbell’s probably best-known for illustrating From Hell from Alan Moore’s famously copious scripts, but most of his work has been…
Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review looks at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Guardian reviews Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr. Y. OF Blog of the Fallen reviews Daniel Wallace’s Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. Blogcritics reviews Warren Hammond’s KOP. The Kansas City Star reviews The Dark River by the secretive and mysterious John…
MTV News talked to Todd McFarlane about the new Spawn movie he’s financing himself. (Wait…isn’t he also claiming he’s bankrupt? Now I’m confused.) The LA Times has noticed that the dying-by-degrees traditional comic-book market isn’t looking quite as sickly as it had been recently. The inferior4+1 reports on a DC Comics press release which says…
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog continues its mission of annotating every single “Anita Blake” comic – this time, it’s The First Death #1. The Oregonian picks on comics commentator Douglas Wolk. Novelist Lewis Shiner introduces modern graphic novels to the readers of the News & Observer. The Wichita Eagle looks at the growing field of Christian graphic…
Well, it’s a book, now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows went on sale at the crack of Saturday, and the world will never be the same. (Or something.) For this link round-up, I’ll corral the stories into groups, by theme, proving that there are only about a dozen potential Potter stories, each of which…
Comic Book Resources talks to Eric Powell about The Goon. The eighth week of “X-Position” from Comic Book Resources is an interview with Peter David about what’s going on in the X-books. (Silly, CBR, don’t you know that exposition will never wash away the sins of mankind?) Comic Book Resources also chats with Dynamite Entertainment…
Jennifer Fallon loves Wile E. Coyote, and doesn’t care who knows it. (She also lists Chuck Jones’s very interesting rules for Roadrunner cartoons, which show just how much of a brilliant formal exercise those shorts were.) But Wouldn’t It Be Cool? lists nine reasons that he reads SF. The Philadelphia Inquirer uses the Harry Potter…
Comics Reporter reviews 1-800-MICE #2, All Flash #1, and Magic Hour #2. Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews this week’s comics, starting with All Flash #1. Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good also reviews this week’s comics, but he starts with Annihilation: Conquest – Quasar #1. At the All-New, All-Different Savage Critic(s): Graeme McMillan reviews World…
I may have to do another one of these round-ups on Monday to get the post-publication stuff (and the reviews that won’t annoy Rowling by their very existence), but, after that, I never want to hear the words "Harry Potter" in my life again. (Above, Mr. Potter illustrates my mood.) CNN just realized that Deathly…
Imaginative literature thrives on the “what if?” story. What if aliens invaded Earth? What if vampires were real? What if a superpowered infant was rocketed to Earth from a doomed planet? Or, in this case: what if Frank Lloyd Wright were an insane evil druid whose wrath extended years after his death? OK, the architect…
I took my two sons (ages six and nine) off to the Montclair NJ Art Museum Thursday afternoon for an exhibition with the unwieldy title Reflecting Culture: The Evolution of American Comic Book Superheroes. (The picture at the top is the free giveaway comic that MAM has in lieu of a catalog or list of…
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