Matthew Sturges has spoken much of his comics work, including his new miniseries Run! and being named last week as co-write of Justice Society of America in the wake of Geoff Johns’ departure. But his prose work has gone little mentioned. Over at his blog, he reports, “Since it’s been announced elsewhere, I guess it’s…
Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris writes more than just novels featuring Sookie Stackhouse. In fact, she just signed to writer the fourth Harper Connelly novel for Editor Ginjer Buchanan at Berkley Prime Crime, for publication in fall 2009. Not only that, but she’s teaming with Toni Kelner to edit Death’s Excellent Vacation, a cross-genre anthology. Stories…
The New York Times named their 100 notable books of the year today and the genre, as one might expect, was likely under-represented. Graphic novels were entirely ignored and just four works of fiction could be considered within out genre and they are: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf. By Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew…
I’m writing this late on Thursday evening, full of turkey and stuffing and good will toward my fellow man. And I’ve been thinking that I don’t have any theme to unify them – I almost had three books starting with “G” and then almost had three volume twos — but a theme just jumped out…
Book View Cafe is a new online publishing venture by a consortium of writers, many of whom are friends of ours here at ComicMix. According to their website, “Offerings range from novels to flash fiction and include both reprints and new work. Here on the Book View Cafe Blog, the authors talk about their work…
Tor Books has announced the release of Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. After twenty-three years, this is the first true, direct sequel to the award-winning Ender’s Game. Published in 1985 with millions of copies sold worldwide, the New York Times bestselling Ender’s Game received acclaim and honors, appearing on Modern Library’s Best 100…
Sometimes I even confuse myself, and I think I’ve just done it with that sub-head. These three books are all the fourth volumes of their series, all things I reviewed before, and all from Yen Press (because they and Del Rey are the most consistent at sending me books for review – hint, hint, other…
Mad Artist Tom Richmond wrote on his blog about a new Mad book, due out tomorrow. He wrote, “Back in 1998 Mad published MAD About the Movies, a collection of movie spoofs from over the years. It was in part to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Warner Bros. (WB owns DC Comics which in turn…
The Vertigo Encyclopedia By Alex Irvine DK Publishing, September 2008, $29.99 There are few ways to produce a traditional encyclopedia, usually beginning with an alphabetical listing. Most come with illustrations and are written in an academic style with little in the way of adjectives let alone opinions. Graphic presentation may be the key difference between…
Yen Press has been moved from the Young Adult division of Hachette Book Group to become an imprint of the company’s Orbit line of science fiction titles. Orbit was already an existing imprint and is now being upgraded to a separate division, much as DelRey is an imprint and separate division of Random House. They…
Well as careers go, here’s a good one. Start off writing a fanzine and wind up working with and for Del Close and Monty Python and, specifically, John Cleese. Then you get to write all kinds of books about your labors. Long-time comics journalist and frequent ComicMix commenter Kim Howard Johnson has a new book…
classid=”clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D” id=ieooui> The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936-1940: A Heavily Illustrated Guide By Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich, and R.J. Vitone McFarland & Co. Publishers, August 2008, $55 Growing up in New York during the 1960s meant that Sunday morning we were treated to two choices: Sonny Fox on Channel 5’s [[[Wonderama]]] or the zany Chuck McCann…
