Bourbon Island 1730 By Appollo and Lewis Trondheim; Art by Lewis Trondheim First Second, October 2008, $17.95 Bourbon Island is a small but real place – it’s called Réunion these days, but it’s there, hanging near the east coast of Madagascar – and several of the characters in this graphic novel either carry the names…
Pop culture loves zombies, yet did you ever consider the problems faced by the actors behind the make up. Making a living by playing dead ain’t easy, as Sherman Howard (Day Of The Dead) and Reggie Bannister (The Rage) tell us, plus: Robotech moves closer to the movies New Heat Miser for the holidays! W…
The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #4: Claudia and Mean Janine By Ann Martin, Adapted by Raina Telgemeir Scholastic Graphix, $8.99 [[[The Baby-Sitters Club]]] was perhaps the first series of novels written for the Tween audience before the demographic term was coined. Ann Martin managed to tap into the interests of adolescent girls and depicted their interests,…
Disney has signed Colin Trevorrow (Stealing Time) to write the adaptation of Scott Christian Sava’s Pet Robots. The studio optioned the graphic novel in 2007. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as “a high-tech comedy set in the present, Pet Robots revolves around futuristic robots that fall into the hands of the least likely group of…
BOOM! Studios have announced that their upcoming trade paperback, Warhammer: Crown of Destruction, includes an exclusive in-game item for Mythic Entertainment’s critically acclaimed MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Each copy of Warhammer: Crown of Destruction, written by Kieron Gillen (Phonogram), and drawn by newcomer Dwayne Harris, contains a unique code to unlock the Book…
DreamWorks outlined for The Hollywood Reporter which of the properties it retained after its divorce from Paramount are now on their “high-priority list”. Among them are a few genre properties including: Cowboys and Aliens: The adaptation of the Platinum Studios comic is still being written by now executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. Ron…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard; Illustrated by Georges Jeanty Dark Horse, October 2008, $15.95 I have to admit something right up front, by quoting myself: Not only have I never read any [[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]] comics, I’ve never seen the…
The Venice Chronicles By Enrico Casarosa Atelier Fio/AdHouse, November 2008, $19.95 Sometimes it seems like people live in completely different worlds. For example, I live in an America where a guy named Andy can marry a girl named Chris, have a series of decent jobs in book publishing, and go on occasional vacations to theme…
NBM reminds readers what the First Time was like, in an erotic hardcover anthology that will feature the works of Dave McKean. The collection of ten tales comes from writer Sybilline, a French woman with decidedly spicy ideas. The art is handled by a variety of talents including McKean, Cyril Pedrosa (Three Shadows), and Olivier…
There have now been eight generations of teenage boys to thrill to the exploits of [[[Conan]]], one for each decade since he first appeared in [[[Weird Tales]]] in 1932. The oldest cohort is likely mostly dead; the youngest one will mostly wander away once they get drivers’ licenses or beer-purveying fake IDs. But Conan endures…
GraphicNovelReporter.com is coming later this month and intends to be “a fresh, in-depth look at these books and their creators. It’s a website designed for those who love the many genres within the format — and those who are curious as to what the excitement of these titles is all about.” John Hogan, former editor…
Max Allan Collins revisits the world he crafted for Road to Perdition by signing to write and direct movies based on the prose novel sequels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. Collins will be working with Illinois-based JBM Production Company (Leprechaun) and EMO Films (April Showers). The prolific crime author wrote Road to Perdition…
