Even if you missed last weekend's C2E2 conference, you can still check out one of the more interesting presentations from the event. Toby Greenwalt's informative Comic Books, Libraries, and Innovation slideshow is now online at his website. Toby is the adult services librarian at the Skokie, Illinois, public library and he's passionate about what he does. Check it out!
It's officially spring but these new releases will pull us into a future that isn't so bright. In WITHER, scientists need to find cure for a genetic experiment that would have created a perfect, disease-free race of humans -- instead people are dying in their 20's and 16 year old Rhine is taken away by a scientist to become par
Sarah Addison Allen is the New York Times bestselling author of such books as Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen and The Girl Who Chased the Moon. Known for combining elements of popular fiction, magic realism and food, she has virtually created a genre all her own.
March 22, 2011
I love hearing from readers. I recently received an email asking a very specific manga question: "I know there's ‘symbolism' in Japanese manga regarding various artistic elements or words or word balloons, etc.... As I read Domo the Manga, I wondered why all the characters were constantly ‘sweating.' What's THAT all about?"
Today on Publishing Perspectives comes a report on the Leipzig Book Fair last week. While the piece is on Germany's publishing industry as a whole, there's an interesting comics-related tidbit about tablets and comics readers: Namely, that Germany's digital comics readers prefer using their PCs far more than any mobile devices. The big deterrent to e-readers seems to be cost, as comics fans there don't want to commit to the expense.
In this guest post for Teenreads.com, Lory Kaufman, author of THE LENS AND THE LOOKER, discusses the challenges --- and rewards --- of being
