publishing
Thin wallets, fat bookshelves: A publishing news round-up
Moomin kids' book
* Over at the Drawn & Quarterly blog, Tom Devlin announces that the company will be starting a children’s book line, entitled “D&Q Enfant.” The first few titles in the line will consist of Moomin picture books.
* The blog Monster Brains has a brief preview of Johnny Ryan’s upcoming grand guginol graphic novel, Prison Pit. It’s probably NSFW.
* The Cartoon Network and Del Rey have joined forces to produce a series of graphic novels based on the popular Secret Saturdays cartoon show. The first volume will hit stores in September.
* Zenescope has announced plans for a third and final Wonderland mini-series.
- April 29, 2009 @ 10:15 AM by Chris Mautner
Pantheon publisher axed as recession hits book industry
Pantheon Books
Janice Goldklang, publisher of Pantheon Books, has been laid off as part of the massive restructuring of Random House announced last month.
Goldklang had worked for the Knopf imprint for 25 years.
Pantheon publishes such notable graphic novels as Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat, Charles Burns’ Black Hole and David B.’s Epileptic.
The New York Observer reports that more layoffs are expected in the next three weeks at Crown, Knopf and the flagship Random House Publishing Group.
- January 9, 2009 @ 07:59 AM by Kevin Melrose