Tag: Raina Telgemeier
Previewing Scholastic’s Summer 2019 books – with new Raina Telgemeier and Jeff Smith
Scholastic sent out their Summer 2019 catalog this week, and as they are the #1 graphic novel publisher in the US, I thought you might like to see their lead offerings - with a...
NYCC ’18: Raina Telgemeier Announces Two New Books for 2019
Cartoonist and oft-cited industry savior Raina Telgemeier announced yesterday at New York Comic-Con that she will be publishing two new books next year, in the form of a graphic memoir called Guts and a How-To...
NYCC 2018 Event Guide: Signings and meet-ups and art and more!
Whether it's a signing, an art show, a panel about comics - or just enjoying Happy Hour - we got you covered.
Barnes & Noble to carry more than 250 titles in its dedicated kids graphic...
Barnes & Noble made it official today. As first reported in The Beat, the retail chain will be adding a separate kids graphic novel section to its stores. According to the official release the...
NY Times Ignores 400 Publishing Industry Pros’ Pleas to Return Graphic Novel Bestseller Chart
About a year ago the New York Times shocked the publishing industry by dropping 11 of its bestseller charts for books. Some were for rather arcane formats - YA ebooks - others were low class...
CBLDF’s 2017 #GivingTuesday Anthology and Raina Telgemeier Enamel Pin
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has unveiled their 2017 #GivingTuesday Anthology with work by Neil Gaiman, Jim Lee, Sergio Aragones and many more luminaries. This year the CBLDF is also offering an enamel pin...
Awards Watch: Announcing the Ringos, Ghosts win the McDuffie Youth Award, Magicdust wins at...
It's hard to keep up with all the comics awards news, but the BIG news ia that Baltimore Comicon will host the inaugural edition of the Ringo Awards this September. Named after the late...
Celebrate National Library Week By Reading a Banned Book (or any book)!
Today, the American Library Association released its State of America’s Libraries Report, an annual report released during National Library Week.
It's not easy being a librarian, and it's gotten even more difficult in the current Zeitgeist...
‘This One Summer’ is the most challenged book of 2016, followed closely by ‘Drama’
The ALA has released its annual list of the most challneged books of the previous year, and as is common in recent years, several graphic novels are on this list. This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jill Tamaki leads the list followed by Raina Telgemeier's Drama. Neither appearance on the list will be much of a surprise to library challenge watchers.
Ghosts was the #1 kids paperback book last year amid growing interest in graphic...
At Publishers Weekly, the kids department is rounding up some facts and figures for 2017, including all the best sellers via Bookscan. You can see all the numbers here, but I've pulled out the...
Tilting at Windmills #257: Looking at BookScan 2016 – More Than 10 Million Sold
It was another year of amazing growth in 2016, and it brings the Top 750 to the highest numbers it has ever charted in the history of my tracking Bookscan – Now topping over ten million graphic novels sold! Amazing performance, and hopefully we can now stop talking forever about silliness like “the death of comics” or “the death of print”. Both are doing just fine!
Gene Yang and the March Trilogy team are voted the 2016 Comics Industry People...
For the sixth year in a row, The Beat is proud to present the Comics Industry Person of the Year, as chosen by voters in our annual creator survey: Gene Luen Yang. The the Team of the year: Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.
