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July 7, 2015
Kate Beaton: How to Make It as a Cartoonist
OH MY GOSH KATE BEATON DRAWING THE PONY AND LEV GROSSMAN INTERVIEWING HER!
May 13, 2015
New book: Thing Explainer | xkcd
Enormous news! Xkcd has a new book coming!!!
May 1, 2015
Books Of Wonder - YA THRILLERS
I’ll be on a panel this Sunday at Books of Wonder from 4-6pm. Check it out!
Teen readers, get ready for an evening of twists and turns as New York Times best selling authors LAUREN OLIVER,DANIELLE PAIGE, and authors JACQUELINE GREEN and SETH FISHMAN join us for an evening of thrilling teen reads! Don’t miss out on an evening of missing girls, and page-turning new books that will keep you up reading – late into the night.
March 28, 2015
March 25, 2015
March 23, 2015
Reminder reminder!
Reminder reminder!
March 21, 2015
Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 hardcover
Saga,
the creator-owned gonzo science fiction comic from Brian K Vaughan and
Fiona Staples may be the best sf comic since Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan, and the three collections published to date are already canon, with the long-awaited number four around the corner. To get all your friends ready for it, there’s a new gorgeous, massive hardcover volume collecting the first three installments.The problem with creator-owned comics is that the darned creators get
to go off an have a life, producing work to their own schedule at not
rushing their creative process. There’s no tyrannical Stan Lee figure
standing over them, barking “Kirby, I don’t need it good, I need it Tuesday, and I got six more guys just like you who’d kill to get a crack at X-Men!”*
* Disclaimer: As far as I know, this dialog only took place in my
imagination. Also, I’m totally in favor of Vaughan and Staples getting
to have lives, etc. I just want moar Saga.
What I’m saying is, it was a long-ass wait between getting hooked on Saga and reading the first two volumes and the third volume coming out, and book four isn’t coming out until next month.
And the Saga story is so good: weird, pervy, exciting,
thoughtful, imaginative. Staples’ prodigious artistic talents and
bizarre visual imagination are the perfect complement to Vaughan’s
plotting, which readers will be familiar with from his prior work on Y: The Last Man.
I gave about ten sets of book one/two for Christmas last year, and this
year, I’m giving out ten more of these hardcovers, which are the perfect
way to get my friends hooked, which is good, because then we can all
sit around doing hate-kegels as we mentally urge on Vaughan and Staples
to get book five out.
For those of you who’ve missed it, here’s the Saga premise, from my review of books one and two:The setup is that two posthuman species — a moon-dwelling tribe of
horned magic-users and a planet-based race of high-tech winged people —
are locked in an endless war that spills out across the galaxy,
embroiling all the races of all the planets in a series of vicious,
permanent proxy-wars. In the midst of this, Marko and Alana, soldiers
from opposite sides of the war, fall in love, desert and have a baby,
and kick off a sprawling space-opera as they flee from their respective
armies and the bounty hunters they hire.
Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples let their imaginations run wild with
this story, giving us a galaxy populated by creature-shop aliens that
are somewhere between Duchamp and Disney, a Mos Eisley Cantina times a
million. Vaughan weaves a splendid romantic adventure around this, with
sweet Nick-and-Nora dialog that never feels forced. But the story
transcends mere pace-pounding, and manages moments of sweetness, sorrow,
and sentiment that will have you daubing your eyes between laughing and
gasping over audacious battles. It’s like The Incal, but with a more
straightforward (and more self-disciplined) storyline, and it’s a
reminder that as a visual medium, science fiction has tricks that are
just stupendous.But that hardly scratches the surface. There’s so much heart and so much
high weirdness here that it’s impossible to summarize, you really have
to experience it. And the book features additional material that sheds
light on both Vaughan and Staples’s creative process — scripts,
sketches and articles, which constitute a great peek behind the scenes
at a great piece of work.
Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 hardcover
March 19, 2015
Wait for It!
A list of events to start getting excited about.
3/25: Nina MacLaughlin presents Hammer Head3/26: Hold Your Own with Kate Tempest
Brooklyn:
3/28: Romance Book Group discusses For the Roses
3/29: Gotham Writers’ Workshop: Children’s Books with Michael Leviton
3/31: Megan Daum’s Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed (at Housing Works)
4/1: Self-Published Reading Series
4/2: Brooklyn’s Historic Greenpoint with Brian Merlis and Riccardo GomesJersey City:
3/25: Seth Fishman presents The Dark Water3/26: InDiscussion with Victoria Zackheim, Aviva Layton, Caroline Leavitt, and Amy Ferris3/28: Free Pictures with the Easter Bunny and Storytime3/29: Wolfie the Bunny storytime with Ame Dyckman4/1: New York Hardcore with Tony Rettman, Drew Stone, and Kevin Crowley
March 16, 2015
These are the shirts the laundry lost when on tour. Found....
These are the shirts the laundry lost when on tour. Found. Returned. I wore the flannel to every launch event!
