DEAD ANYWAY by Chris Knopf (Permanent Press) has just been announced as the winner of the 2013 Nero Award, which will be presented in New York on 7 December. Congratulations to Chris and to his publishers Martin and Judy Shepard of Permanent Press!
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Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert (Center for Cartoon Studies), Faith Erin Hicks’ Friends with Boys (First Second) and The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos and Nate Powell (First Second) are all on the American Library Association’s YALSA top ten graphic novels list: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/ggnt/2013/topten.
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Yang’s BOXERS & SAINTS a National Book Award Finalist
Gene Luen Yang’s BOXERS & SAINTS went on sale last Friday and has already made the long list for this year’s National Book Awards for Young Peoples’ Literature. This is the second National Book Awards nomination for Gene Luen Yang, whose AMERICAN BORN CHINESE was a finalist.
TASTING INDIA – SAVEURS INDIENNES
Another culinary treat just out from éditions Milan, SAVEURS INDIENNES (originally published by Penguin Australia as TASTING INDIA) is a gourmet voyage through India with Christine Mansfield!
COOK LIKE AN ITALIAN – LA DOLCE CUCINA
Just out from éditions Milan: LA DOLCE CUCINA – mouthwatering recipes and tips to learn how to COOK LIKE AN ITALIAN!
ANOMALY film rights go to Relativity
Relativity has closed a deal to finance, produce and distribute Anomaly, a live-action feature based on the interactive comic book created and written by top showbiz lawyer Skip Brittenham and artist-writer Brian Haberlin, co-creator of the Witchblade franchise. Anomaly was their first creation. Their next graphic novel, Shifter, will be published in November. For more…
DRUGS by J. R. Helton
Nice review from Brokenpencil Drugs J. R. Helton, 256 pgs, Seven Stories Press, sevenstories.com, $15.95 “For three days straight, I did Drugs. The straightforward matter-of-fact prose — reminiscent of William S. Burroughs’ classic memoir Junky — latched onto my brain and wouldn’t let go until the final page. “The press release describes Drugs as a…
BATTLING BOY by Paul Pope gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly !
BATTLING BOY Paul Pope. First Second The future of Arcopolis, a city under siege by daily monster attacks, is in jeopardy after its champion, Haggard West, falls in battle. Hope arrives in the form of Battling Boy, a pampered 13-year-old warrior god whose initiation into adulthood is to become Arcopolis’s new protector. Even with magical…
BOXERS AND SAINTS Video
Gene Yang talks with Publishers Weekly about his latest books, BOXERS and SAINTS, out this month from First Second Books: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/59000-video-gene-luen-yang-on-boxers-and-saints.html. “Gene Luen Yang, author of the acclaimed graphic novel AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (shortlisted for the American Book Award), returns with two books that work in tandem: BOXERS and SAINTS. “In BOXERS, Yang tells the…
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