MARCH 5, 2007:
Go! Comi To Publish Wendy Pini's Masque Of The Red Death
Manga publisher Go! Comi has announced their first
original series, The Masque of the Red Death, written and
drawn by Wendy Pini.
Ms. Pini is the creator of ElfQuest, one of the most popular
and successful independent comics of all time. The announcement
was made at New York Comic Con.
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DECEMBER 5, 2006:
Villard to Publish American Widow
Random House editor Chris Schluep has acquired American
Widow, a graphic memoir by A.R.
Torres that tells the story of her husband's life and subsequent
death in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers during the
9/11 attacks. Artist Sungyoon Choi will illustrate the book. Agent
Judy Hansen negotiated the deal. Random House's Villard imprint
will publish the book in the fall of 2008. Schluep is a Ballantine
Books editor. Outside of the Pantheon graphic novel program, Villard,
a part of Ballantine Books, has become the publishing destination
for non-manga original graphic novels at Random House.
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NOVEMBER 28, 2006:
New Eisner Work, Paperback Series Due from Norton
 W.W.
Norton is fulfilling one of the final wishes of the legendary Will
Eisner by re-releasing the 14 graphic novels that make
up the Will Eisner library in a series of newly designed trade paperbacks,
as well as his two self-published instructional manuals. The company
also announced plans to publish a new, unpublished instructional
work, Will Eisner's Expressive Anatomy, penciled just before
his death in January 2005. Norton has had a brisk sale of the foreign
rights for Eisner's works, indicating that his reputation continues
to grow almost two years after he died.
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| NOVEMBER 11, 2006:
Talbot Deconstructs Alice and Lewis
 British
cartoonist Bryan Talbot has forged
a career as a true graphic novelist who has shown a rare breadth
of subject matter in his work: his Luther Arkwright is
an SF epic some have compared to Star Wars, while the award-winning
A Tale of One Bad Rat is an intimate and gripping tale
of childhood sexual abuse. He'll be back in 2007 with a new graphic
novel called Alice in Sunderland, which is sure to be one
of the highlights of the year in comics. The book is due in February
from Dark Horse. As befits his eclectic career, Alice has a unique
perspective on literary history via the British town of Sunderland,
home to Lewis Carroll and the "real" Alice and her family.
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OCTOBER 16, 2006:
Will Eisner's latest hardcover collection out from W.W. Norton!
 From
Publishers Weekly:
Collecting four of Eisner's later graphic novels — New
York, The Building, City People Notebook
and Invisible People — this volume takes as its subject
the city Eisner lived in and drew for most of his life. Eisner treats
the city like a lover; its flaws are on display, its cantankerous
nature is well-known, but the abiding tenderness that comes from
lifelong intimacy is evident on every page. In New York,
people on trains fantasize about one another while never making
eye contact in "An Affair on the BMT Local"; while in
"Worm's Eye View," two pairs of feet come together and
move apart in a wordless narrative. These little moments of witnessed
connection are the heart of the collection, and Eisner's eye for
humanity amid the grind of the city is always on target. In the
vignettes of City People Notebook, time, smell, space and
streets all have their own special sets of rules in this hectic
city. Much of the collection touches on the slightly magical nature
of cities, and Neil Gaiman's very personal introduction
adds the context of Eisner's enormous influence on contemporary
comics and graphic novels.
TEXT Copyright © Reed Business Information,
a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release date: October 16, 2006
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 APRIL
4, 2006:
Norton brings back Kings in Disguise!
W.W. Norton's debut into the world of graphic novel
publishing could be said to have officially taken place last year
with its release of two Will Eisner
titles, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders
of Zion and the classic Contract with God Trilogy,
but this April's reissue of James Vance
and Dan Burr's Kings
in Disguise promises to solidify Norton's status as
the newest high-profile player in this rapidly expanding genre.
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