Author Archives: Joan
Even Funner Home
My pal Alison Bechdel’s followup to Fun Home gets a 100K print run. Note it’s also getting day-and-date e-book release, another previously unheard-of publisher move on behalf of a graphic novel. Way to go, Houghton!
Wildcat Comicon
I have the honor of being an inaugural guest at this conference, which includes Caldecott Award winner and National Book Award finalist David Small, New York Times bestselling author Josh Neufeld, and many others. It’s especially cool to see Penn … Continue reading
This wk’s strips: “Trash Talk”, “She’s Got It Bat”
Hey, once again, late posting works in my favor! I’m practically right on time for softball season!
Oprah’s Graphic Novels
This is a great article, not just because it’s great exposure (as Jim Ottaviani wrote to me, “I mean, seriously….Oprah.com!”) but a pleasantly diverse selection, both genre- and format-wise. Fiction, nonfiction, originals, adaptations, sequential works, sequential-text works…everything GNs can be.
This week’s strips: “Straw Poll/Food Fright”
Oh man, I’m so behind. Fortunately, Herman Cain has dropped out ahead of Bachmann, and “Food Fright” kicks off a major romantic storyline for Nikki that’s really heating up now if you check my subscribers, so I can act like … Continue reading
So good, it’s a crime
I love that the super-reader-interactive Mulholland Books website is using original comic content to promote its new prose crime thrillers. I’m biased, as usual, but I gotta say: expect to see way more of this down the road.
This week’s strips: “Digital Delivery”, “Falling Online”
These weren’t meant to be so cyber-salacious — they were just drawn that way.