8-year-old author who smuggled his handwritten book into his local library becomes a literary sensation
The next, hottest, must-read author is from Idaho. Dillon Helbig has been on television talking about his Christmas themed, time-travel inspired graphic novel, and his rise to success has been written about by The… Read more »
Kickstarter launched for new online literary magazine Fictionable
The global COVID pandemic may have devastated many areas of life, but it has not quashed our love for reading. Figures from the Publishers Association showed that fiction sales for… Read more »
Stormzy’s #Merky imprint to publish first children’s book
“There’s nothing more gangster than being well-read.” So said UK grime superstar Stormzy, 27, in 2018 as he announced the first wave of books to be published under his newly-launched… Read more »
Tintin Artwork to Fetch 2.5 Million Euros; Belated Bonanza for Belgian
The original cover for The Blue Lotus, a novel in cartoons by the Belgian artist Hergé, has re-surfaced and will be going to auction in November. Hergé, whose real… Read more »
DC lends its weight to comics relief effort
In recent weeks we have seen a great deal of mission-driven activity from the publishing world. From free children’s books, to literary and mental health projects published with proceeds going to… Read more »
The coronavirus delivers a huge hit to the comic book industry
The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on all that we love and at this point there isn’t an industry that hasn’t been touched. In book publishing, booksellers have been adapting… Read more »
New York Times Best Sellers tracking to change
If you’ve been looking at the New York Times Best Sellers list lately, perhaps you have seen this book or this book. If you’re looking at it a couple of weeks… Read more »
A comic book for blind people, ft. a blind character, by a blind creator
Chad Allen is a self-proclaimed comic book lover who was diagnosed with Retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment, when he was 15 years… Read more »
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a superhero in real life and now in comic books, too
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is officially a superhero. And not just because she’s literally trying to save the world. Via Allison Flood at The Guardian comes news that the congresswoman from New York… Read more »
A satirical DC Comic series depicting Jesus Christ is canceled
We are indeed living in the end of times! The Second Coming, a forthcoming DC Comics series inspired by the life of Jesus Christ, has been cancelled, according to Allison Flood at The… Read more »