Due out in October (direct market; December elsewhere) is the next of Rick Geary’s Treasury of XXth Century Murder volumes. This one is Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White. The notorious architect with a taste for young women was involved with showgirl and model Evelyn Nesbit (played by Joan Collins in The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing). Later, after she married protoypical playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, her husband became jealous of her past, driving him to kill […]

Last week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly took a summer vacation by skipping out on most of its content and instead running lists of the “All-Time Greatest” movies, books, TV shows, etc. Each medium got a list of 100 items, each with a few sentences of description. It seems like quickly assembled, low-effort discussion bait, meant to increase hit counts as comments debate what was left out. (And as a double issue, that meant no fresh content for two weeks, so […]

Last year, I gave Lea Hernandez guff over her failed Kickstarter for The Garlicks, a terrific concept about a family of vampires, including a teen aspiring graphic novelist. This year, she’s back with a publisher. Action Lab Entertainment has announced that they will publishing The Garlicks as part of their all-ages line (of which the best-known title is Princeless). There’s no publication date yet, probably because there’s still work to be done, but the publisher will have a preview available […]

Yes, that headline is muddled, because whether this is a merger, a joining of forces, or an acquisition depends on which press release you read first. The news is flying around the internet, however, that Archaia Entertainment, originally founded by Mark Smylie over a decade ago to publish his comic Artesia, is being bought by Boom! Studios. Archaia has been known for publishing Mouse Guard and putting out attractive, reasonably priced hardcovers, many of which are European reprints. Their licensed […]