Comic Book Resources

Bluewater Productions to publish Michael Jackson biography in October

Tribute: Michael Jackson, King of Pop

That was quick ... via press release, Bluewater Productions has announced a "special collector's edition" biography comic book of Michael Jackson, who passed away last Thursday. The book will feature a wraparound cover and foreword by Giuseppe Mazzola, a friend of Jackson's

The book is scheduled for October. The complete press release and an image of a second cover can be found after the jump.

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Thin wallets, fat bookshelves: Abrams fall catalog

Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics

The art book publisher Abrams came out of the gate running this year with their new Comicarts imprint, which featured titles like Craig Yoe's discovery of naughty Joe Schuster art, Secret Identity. What delights will the offer for the second half of the year? How about a new book by Alan Moore? Yes, it's true; click on the link to find out more.

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Everyone's A Critic: A round-up of comic-related reviews and thinkpieces

Dave Stevens: Brush with Passion

* Dan Nadel reviews the Dave Stevens bio Brush With Greatness and in the process comments on Stevens' work as well: "Stevens made a conscious choice to marginalize himself, to live within the bubble of fandom. He was a willful anachronism, frustrated by his chosen intellectual and artistic world but unable or unwilling to see beyond it."

* A la Casey Kasem, Tom Spurgeon counts down (or really, up) the top 10 best comic series of all time. Quick, before you click on the link: can you guess what number one is based on this quote? "Three generations of American adults not only read some excellent comics in this magazine, they saw a great deal of an age-stratified pop culture through its lenses."

* Speaking on Radio Canada International, novelist Miguel Syjuco offered an early (and, I think, first) review of Seth's new book, George Sprott (click on the first part of the program link. It's around the 12-minute mark).

* Steve Duin (who really, you should be reading regularly) has some nice things to say about Fantagraphics' new collection of Nell Brinkley cartoons.

* The Jog/Tucker Stone review rundown of DC/Humanoids titles continues. For those keeping score they just finished talking about Enki Bilal.

* Graeme McMillan eviscerates that second half of Neil Gaiman's two-part Batman story.

* Shaenon K. Garrity writers about her trip to Japan and how exactly she ended up there.

* Rob Clough reviews Miss Lasko-Gross' A Mess of Everything.

* Derik Badman continues his look at Tezuka's Phoenix series with a look at Volume 8.

* Kinukitty gets global with her yaoi coverage by looking at In the End, a German-made manga.