graphic novels

Friday Links of News & Deals: Amazon the Bully, Readers in need of help (me), and How to get an ebook refund

Friday Links of News & Deals: Amazon the Bully, Readers in need of help (me), and How to get an ebook refund

News Bayou Arcana is due out in the UK shortly. I can’t find it in the U.S. but it is a “southern gothic” horror anthology that brings together an all female team of artists and all male team of writers. From the Guardian: “There is a certain sensitivity that you find in women’s art that(…)

Thursday Midday Posts: DRM Efficacy Questioned by Game Theory, Amazon Launches New Imprint, Kobo + WH Smith

Thursday Midday Posts: DRM Efficacy Questioned by Game Theory, Amazon Launches New Imprint, Kobo + WH Smith

Amazon launched its science fiction, fantasy and horror line called 47North. It’s lined up some big names in scifi with the launched of 15 books “including ‘The Mongoliad: Book One,’ the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these books will be available to English(…)

Comic Review: Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her

Comic Review: Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her

Story: Jamie S. Rich Art: Joelle Jones Publisher: Oni Press (5 page preview) or at Amazon Release: 2006 A passing mention of Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her during a conversation about graphic novels caught attention of the romance reader in me, which prompted me to ask the friend what it was about. He described(…)

Thursday Afternoon Haiku “The Watchmen” Graphic Novel by Alan Moore (writer) & Dave Gibbons

This? Legendary. At least to comic book fans I am piqued by hype First impression: LOOOOOOOONG. Story is intricate and Convoluted too. Quick recap for newbs: Watchmen used to be heroes Govt made them retire One ends up murdered The others reunite to Try and save the world. The heroes are a Bit hard to(…)

Wednesday Late Night Links

Orbit’s new creative director, Lauren Panepinto, blogged about the production of the cover for Jennifer Rardin’s “Bite” books. It’s a pretty fascinating behind the scenes look as it shows the model with the leather and the crossbow. Speaking of Orbit, it sounds like Hachette and everyone is making up so you should be able to(…)

Monday Late Night Links of Love

More bad economic news: Starbucks to stop brewing decaf after noon to save $400 million. Amazing that so much decaf coffee goes to waste. Decaf will now be available only upon request after 12:00 pm. School sales are dropping due to worsening economic situation in urban areas and sharp decrease in federal funding. Let’s hope(…)

Purchase details re: Patricia Briggs and JR Ward

Last week, we saw some previews of the comic book that Dabel Brothers is doing of Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. Only when people went to pre-order the comic book, the purchase link was elusive. Here are some details straight from the Briggs website: You can download a preview of the first graphic novel in(…)