Interesting read from The New York Times about the push back Amazon is getting from brick and mortar book stores and other retailers: Amazon inspires anxiety just about everywhere, but its publishing arm is getting pushback from all sorts of booksellers, who are scorning the imprint’s most prominent title, Timothy Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Chef.” That […]
Richard’s Poor Almanac and Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted a tidbit on how you can get a signed copy of his book Richard’s Poor Almanac. It’s a rare collection – I don’t remember how much I paid for mine and was smart enough to take it to the New Orlean’s NCS weekend […]
Glen Weldon on NPR talks about Kate Beaton’s new Hark! A Vagrant collection due out tomorrow. Beaton is the master of comic strip pacing; several of Hark! A Vagrant!’s funniest strips feature panels with no dialogue at all, just a character (Aquaman, say, or an unamused King, or Poe) regarding the reader with a hilarious […]
Terri Libenson’s The Pajama Diaries is now found in book form. This is the first collection of the strip that debuted in 1996. Entitled The Pajama Diaries: Deja To-Do!, the book is a collection of Terri’s favorite daily and Sunday strips.
If you’re a Scary Gary fan, you may know that Mark Buford has a book coming out. The book is entitled, “A Good Severed Head Is Hard to Find.” What you may not know is that right now Mark is taking pre-orders and Mark will be signing every copy that’s pre-ordered before September 1. Every. […]
As noted on Richard Thompson’s blog, his Cul de Sac Golden Treasury: A Keepsake Garland of Classics book is ridiculously priced at $6.80 over on Amazon. Normally $16.99.
For those heading to San Diego Comic Con, be sure to visit Jeff Smith and check out the Bone deluxe 20th Anniversary edition (pictured below). Be prepared to shell out $350. I believe that you can go to his website, purchase the book and then pick it up at one of the cons he’ll be […]
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.)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lot of discussion has been had on the importance of DIY book printing to create high profit margins. A few have discussed the finer points of the process of doing it yourself. John Hambrock has posted the first in a series about how he went about printing the first The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee […]