New stills from Stardust
The title really says it all: IESB.net has posted 30 new images from Stardust, which as we know is adapted from the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, and will be in theaters real soon now.
Tagged: Graphic Novel
Erin Go Bragh!
We were casting about today hoping for an appropriate St. Patrick’s Day comic-related post, and the Redhead Fangirl didn’t disappoint, calling our attention to a company called Cló Mhaigh Eo in Claremorris, County Mayo in the West of Ireland.
They’ve been around a dozen years, and publish "books in Irish for children and young people as well as a series of acclaimed Irish graphic novels… Many Irish language learners throughout the world make extensive use of books from Cló Mhaigh Eo, particularly our children’s picture books."
Here’s their graphic novel list, and you can even click on several pages for translations from Gaelic into English. Tip o’ the tweed cap for this one, redlib!
Nancy Drew draws
When you think of famous fictional females and hear "teen sleuth," I’ll bet only one name comes to mind. Well, other than Veronica Mars.
Did you know that Nancy Drew stories are now being published in graphic novel format? NY-based company Papercutz is serving the teen and tween markets in a big way, and it’s about to get bigger.
Papercutz, whose Nancy Drew #1: The Demon of River Heights won the Benjamin Franklin Award last year from PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association, also puts out young adult graphic novels featuring those other teen mystery-solvers The Hardy Boys, as well as Zorro and a really adorable-looking "teenage Charlie’s Angels" book called Totally Spies. But it’s Drew that’s going to draw this summer, as Warner Bros. will be releasing a Nancy Drew movie this June 15 starring Emma Roberts, the star of Nickelodeon’s hit show Unfabulous. And ICv2 reports that WB will be using the graphic novels to promote the movie. The GNs will be given out as prizes in on-air radio promotions, and will also be available as the "Gift With Purchase" during the movie’s mall tour in major markets.
Papercutz is also seeking artists to help draw their graphic novels, particularly those "versed in the manga style." Nancy Drew is currently drawn by Sho (Sei) Murase, a woman of Japanese and Korean descent who grew up in Spain, then moved to Canada and now lives in California — a real multicultural phenom! She’s also the author of Sei, Death and Legend published by Image Comics and is currently also working on the graphic novel series ME2 for Tokyopop.
Pini draws Poe
ICv2 reports that Elfquest creator Wendy Pini has signed with Go!Comi to write and draw an original graphic novel series based on the Edgar Allen Poe short story The Masque of the Red Death, said to feature "Gothic horror, erotica, and yaoi-style gay relationships." The series bows first as a webcomic, to be collected into hard-copy GNs down the line as enough pages are done.
This is the first non-Japanese work and first original series produced by Go!Comi, which made the announcement at NYCC and believes Pini’s style is a good fit for the company. More details at Mangablog.
Performance art comics?
Metronome is described as "a 64-page graphic novel by Véronique Tanaka: a ‘silent,’ erotically-charged visual poem, an experimental non-linear story using a palette of iconic ligne clair images. Symbolism, visual puns and trompe l’oeil conspire in a visual mantra that could be described as ‘existential manga’ if it wasn’t for the fact that there is a very human and elegantly-structured tale providing a solid foundation to the cutting-edge storytelling."
The graphic novel will be published next year by NBM, but it’s available to view as a 17-minute animated (actually, still-shots) movie on this site if you fork over the equivalent of about four bucks. I confess I didn’t last more than a minute and a half, two minutes tops. Not only did I see no storytelling, but it seemed to have all the earmarks of a pretentious performance art piece worthy of the likes of a young Yoko Ono.
If Grapefruit were a graphic novel-imagined-as-an-animated movie, it might look something like this. Only without the grapefruit, and with a lava lamp, a fly, a piano, and a metronome, among other things.
Sight Unseen nominated for Rondo
Bo Hampton’s graphic novel Sight Unseen from Image is currently in the running for a Rondo Award in the best horror comic/graphic novel category. The writer of Sight Unseen is Robert Tinnell, who is writing EZ Street for ComicMix; Hampton and Tinnell are also co-creating Demons of Sherwood for ComicMix.
A bissel schmoozing at NYCC
Neil Kleid reports on the panel in which he’ll be participating at the New York Comic Con, "The Jewish Side of Comics." Guess what they’ll be talking about? Don’t worry, it’s not on shabbos. On the other hand, nu, would it hurt them to have bagels? Or a maidele or two like Leela Corman (to talk about Unterzachen, her graphic novel in progress about twin sisters in the turn-of-the-last-century Lower East Side)?
