SubscribeI love when movie adaptations of books have the potential to actually be good; I love it even more when the trailer gives me goosebumps. The soundtrack sounds promising, and I think they handled the wild things brilliantly. Now, just a few more months until we get to see if the movie lives up to [...]
Month: June, 2009
Reading YA as an A
A recent post by Barbara Vey for Publisher’s Weekly has us talking. It is not a brand new idea by any stretch of the imagination, but it certainly has opened our eyes to the fact that we are not alone. Turns out she had recently received an email from Lauren Baratz-Logsted discussing the pros of [...]
Comic Books 101
The word is sperading about Chris Ryall and Scott Tipton’s new book Comic Books 101! Here’s some of what people are saying! (Click the quotes to check out the full review.)
The Arizona Daily Star: “…Chris Ryall and Scott Tipton make geeky seem cool.”
Play Magazine: “[Chris] and Scott cover everything from the history of comics’ beginnings [...]
Drawing with Water
This is absolutely amazing. There is genius, and then there’s something beyond that:
The amazing Faith Erin Hicks
So, of course, we must point out how amazing our client Faith Erin Hicks is. War at Ellsmere was recently released, and people are still talking about the awesomeness of Zombies Calling, so you must check out the amazingness in some way. Here is a preview of Zombies Calling and a preview of War at [...]
The Meaning of Life–for only $9.99
This movie looks absolutely amazing. Check it out:
The Meaning of “Baker’s Mark”
The name Baker’s Mark comes from a 15th century tradition of baker’s marking their breads with a unique seal that was “a means of identifying him for punishment if his bread were unwholesome or short of weight. If, however, a baker consistently made good bread, this same seal would naturally come to be associated with [...]
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel
by Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett
Pop Culture/Art Book/Sci Fi
October 2009
Abrams/Abrams Image
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Amazon Favorite for Fall 2009
View the Robot
Never After
by Dan Elconin
YA/Teen/Re-imagining of Peter Pan
October 2009
Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse
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Liquid City
Edited by Sonny Liew
Contributions by Mike Carey, Lat, Ken Foo, Leong Wan Kok
Anthology/Fantasy/Comics/Graphic Novel
PublishedNovember 2008
Image Comics
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Brain Camp
by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan
Middle Grade Fiction/Sci Fi/Graphic Novel
Illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
on behalf of Victoria Sanders & Assoc.
Forthcoming 2010
First Second Books
Friends with Boys
By Faith Erin Hicks
Fiction/Graphic Novel
Pub Date Forthcoming
Published by :01 First Second Books
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City of Spies
by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan
Middle Grade Fiction/Graphic Novel
Illustrated by Pascal Dizin
on behalf of Victoria Sanders & Assoc.
Forthcoming 2010
First Second Books
War is Boring
Written by David Axe with Illustration by Matt Bors
Nonfiction/ War Memoir/Graphic Novel
Pub Date Forthcoming: 2010
New American Library/Penguin Group
(temporary cover)
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