Profiled: Jeff Kinney and the impact of Wimpy Kid
Parade Magazine put “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” creator Jeff Kinney on the cover of Parade Magazine and profiled inside yesterday’s edition. Kinney visited this same store four years ago to sign copies of the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid. At the time, no one knew whether a book based on a Web comic [...]
Posted on: Mar 21, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 1 Comment
Matthew Inman’s The Oatmeal hits #2 on Amazon
John Glynn reports that Matthew Inman new book “5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides)” has hit #2 on Amazon.com The book is published by Andrews McMeel. Amazon is selling it for only $7.72 (48% off list price.)
Posted on: Mar 9, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 0 Comments
The Ballad of Rango: The art and making of an outlaw film
Tonight the movie “Rango” opens in theaters nation wide. From the trailer (see below) it looks like a quirky film about a chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) looking for his identity in a desert full of colorful characters. Titan Publishing released an accompanying book entitled “The Ballad of Rango: The Art and Making of an [...]
Posted on: Mar 4, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 10 Comments
Wes Hargis’ book hits #4 on Times best seller list
Remember the comic strip Franklin Fibbs (also ran as Little Fibbs)? Fibbs co-creator Wes Hargis has a book on the New York Times best seller list. Book is entitled When I Grow Up and was written by Al Yankovic. Currently sits at #4 right behind “Of Thee I Sing” by Barack Obama (illustrated by Loren [...]
Posted on: Feb 23, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 0 Comments
Borders files for bankruptcy protection
Sad news for book publishers. Borders was once seen as the brainier of the large chains, beginning in 1971 as a used bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. In the 1990s, that image began to fade as the chain expanded wildly and helped wipe out many mom-and-pop independent stores. Now the company is set to close [...]
Posted on: Feb 17, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 4 Comments
Profiled: Nick Galifianakis and his new book
Nick Galifianakis has a new book entitled, “If You Loved Me, You’d Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You” – and as you might guess it’s about love and relationships. NPR talks to Nick about the book. Mike Rhode, Tom Toles, Richard Thompson and Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax were on hand [...]
Posted on: Feb 15, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 1 Comment
Drawn & Quarterly to publish Hark! A Vagrant collection
Drawn & Quarterly has secured the North American rights to publish a new book collection of Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant. Chris Oliveros, Editor-in-Chief and Acquiring Editor and Publisher at D+Q: “To say that the meteoric rise of Kate Beaton’s popularity is nothing short of a modern-day cartooning tour-de-force is not hyperbole,” said Oliveros. “Her [...]
Posted on: Jan 12, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 2 Comments
Pogo first volume due out this fall
I wish more company execs were as blunt as Fantagraphic Books Co-Publisher Kim Thompson: Anyway, a new year is upon and it’s time to ‘fess up about all the late Fantagraphics titles you were expecting to have by now, and don’t, because we suck. Specific apologia and weaseling have been added to some titles, others [...]
Posted on: Jan 7, 2011, Section: Books, Comments: 9 Comments
IDW to offer full-length graphic novels for iPad
IDW has started releasing digital graphic novels every week for the iPad according to Comics Alliance. Just launched books include Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter and The Outfit, and Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County: the Complete Library Volume One. Each book contains all the material found in the print editions, all spectacularly formatted for full page reading [...]
Posted on: Dec 23, 2010, Section: Books, Comic strips, Graphic Novels, Technology, Comments: 2 Comments
SF Chronicle on Bill Amend’s 20 year collection
The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Bill Amend about his career and his recently released 20 year collection , The Best of FoxTrot. Q: You include a lot of math puzzles and science references in your strips. Have you ever made a mistake? A: Oh, yes. And how the e-mails flow on those days. I probably [...]
Posted on: Dec 20, 2010, Section: Books, Comments: 0 Comments
End of year must have cartooning products
We’re closing in on the end of the year. 2010 was a good year, but mostly a blur. That said there were a lot of great books, services and products that came out this year. I’ve compiled a list of things I thought are above and beyond. If you’re still looking for a gift to [...]
Posted on: Dec 17, 2010, Section: Art Supplies, Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Technology, Comments: 14 Comments
This is how you promote a book
We talk a lot about the new economy for cartoonists. This video ought to be a case study of what to do (not just cartoonists but syndicates). Here’s what I note Stephan is doing right: 1. Have something worth selling (Pearls Blows Up: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury book) 2. Produce viral marketing (video) 3. [...]
Posted on: Dec 13, 2010, Section: Books, Comic strips, Comments: 20 Comments
Bloom County turns 30
Geoff Boucher, writing in the Hero Complex blog of the LA Times, notes that last week was the 30 year anniversary of Bloom County. I grew up in south Florida and fell in love with newspapers by reading the Miami Herald, which had one of the most personality-packed staffs in America – crime reporter Edna [...]
Posted on: Dec 13, 2010, Section: Books, Comic history, Comments: 6 Comments
Mr. Media interviews Andrew Farago
As always, an interesting interview by Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) with Andrew Farago, who is not only the curator for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, but the author or a new coffee table book Looney Tunes Treasury: Includes Amazing Interactive Treasures from the Warner Bros. Vault!.
Posted on: Dec 2, 2010, Section: Books, Comic history, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments
Ted Rall appears on MSNBC to promote revolution
Ted Rall appeared on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan show to talk about his book “The Anti-American Manifesto” and the need for a left-wing revolution in America.
Posted on: Nov 11, 2010, Section: Books, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 61 Comments
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