The graphic novel field saw sales drop 14.7% compared with Thanksgiving week 2007 according to figures released by Nielsen’s BookScan. Total units sold, according to ICv2, were 244,000 compared with 286,000 a year previous. The drop is in contrast to the 6% increase in total book sales. The increase was a blip after many weeks…
Speak of the Devil By Gilbert Hernandez Dark Horse, November 2008, $19.95 Most of Gilbert Hernandez’s comics have been set in the same world, featuring a huge cast of characters with many obvious and obscure links, reaching from the small Latin American town of Palomar to Southern California and covering the second half of the…
Nickelodeon has created their own Comic Book Awards, inviting fans to come vote in eight different categories during the entire month of December. The categories include Best Hair, Best Guest Character, Cutest Comic Character , Best Comic, Favorite Manga, Grossest Thing in Comics, Favorite Fantasy Graphic Novel and Favorite Comic Strip. Nominees are an eclectic…
VIZ Media has announced that Naruto has been named by Yahoo! as the Number 7 most-searched term in 2008, as reported by the Yahoo! 2008 Year In Review Top 10 Search list. The list, which is available at YearInReview.yahoo.com, provides insights about popular culture and what Yahoo! searchers cared about most throughout 2008. The spunky…
In our never ending quest to dig up cool and unusual gifts, we offer up the one thing that Buffy fan on your list probably doesn’t have – a CD full of original songs dedicated to Their Favorite Slayer, plus: Free comics from Asylum? Marvel brings up Bad Guy Variants Grab Clive Barker on UClick…
It’s little surprise that the Watchmen toped BookScan’s list of Top 20 Graphic Novels for November for the fifth month in a row. In a report at ICv2, it was noted the book actually hit the Top 10 list twice with the paperback edition of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ story atop the list and…
Uclick has added IDW’s graphic novel version of Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always to its rapidly growing line of comic book titles optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Like the children lured to Mister Hood’s Holiday House in the novel, once fans begin reading this engrossing tale, presented in vibrant color and rich…
The 2008 Lucca Festival, Italy’s foremost festival of the arts, announced their annual awards. Courtesy of The Comics Reporter * Miglior Storia Lunga (Best Long Story): Rughe, Paco Roca * Miglior Storia Breve (Best Short Story): "L’appuntamento," Koren Shadmi * Miglior Storia Seriale (Best Serialized Story: Criminal, Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips * Miglior Disegnatore…
The School Library Journal named eight graphic novels in its list of 30 adult titles that “will appeal to high school readers and provide a bridge into the vast world of adult publishing.” The selected books had to have been published between September of 2007 and November of 2008, and were chosen by SLJ’s Adult…
Michael Marshall Smith’s The Straw Men novel and its graphic novel adaptation have both been optioned by Benderspink for feature film according to Variety. The crime novel was released in 2002 and was adapted by Zenescope Entertainment this past summer. Envisioned as a trilogy, the first book involves serial killers, some apparently random brutal murders,…
Troy Little’s graphic novel Angora Napkin is being adapted as an animated project to air on Canada’s Teletoon in March of 2009. IDW will publish the book as a 152-page hardcover in January and the publisher describes the book as “an adult comedy about a girl band pop trio.” Little (Chiaroscuro) is involved in…
The Best American Comics: 2008 Series editors: Jessica Abel and Matt Madden; edited by Lynda Barry Houghton Mifflin, October 2008, $22.00 The “Best American” series has been around for decades, starting with the acclaimed annual collection of short stories and expanding in recent years to such newer emanations as [[[Best American Nonrequired Reading]]], [[[Best American…
