Scholastic, the current publisher of Jeff Smith’s Bone fantasy graphic novels for all ages, has just announced new titles featuring the characters. While Smith will be drawing them, they have a new writer, Tom Sniegoski. Bone: Tall Tales, co-written with Smith, is due out next year, summer 2010. The Quest for the Spark Trilogy, written by Sniegoski and “overseen” by Smith, will follow in fall 2010, spring 2011, and summer 2011. Once you see the numbers, you understand why Scholastic […]

As I sent them to Publishers Weekly at the end of last year. I know this is terribly late to post, but on the other hand, it’s never too late to talk about good comics. This was supposed to be a graphic novel list, but I couldn’t resist including manga (because I think separating the two is a kind of protectionism, due to manga outselling American graphic novels in most cases, and I enjoy reading both) and Sinfest, a webcomic […]

Boom! Studios has made a number of important business-oriented announcements lately. I’m excited to see them because I think they demonstrate how this publisher is planning to be around for the long haul. They’ve named a new Sales Director, Jenny Christopher, a former Diamond Purchasing Brand Manager. This position allows Chip Mosher to concentrate on Marketing while Jenny focuses on mass market and newsstand distribution. (That Boom! HAS mass market and newsstand distribution relationships is a key indicator of what […]

I thought I’d stop by and check out this month’s Zuda entries, which made me wonder about how similar they were all becoming. I noticed that many of them were tagged either Super-Hero, Action/Adventure, or Horror. There were smart-alec animals, girls in their underwear, bloody fights, talky conspiracies, and always, too much time spent waiting for the viewer to load. The content reminded me of what I can already get elsewhere. Also typical: lots of setup, no real story. With […]

If you wanted any more evidence as to how petty Wizard can be … via Tom Spurgeon comes word that Steven Hoveke, former Wizard staffer and current publisher of Square1Press, was banned from Wizard World Philly. He had a table in Artists’ Alley, where he was selling sketchbooks for Walter Simonson and Howard Chaykin, and he appeared there all day Friday. When he returned Saturday, he was denied entry without being given a reason. Later he Twittered that he was […]