Join McNally Robinson Booksellers for the 2008 Manitoba Comic Convention at the Winnipeg Convention Centre October 11 & 12, 2008. We'll have tons of young adult fantasy books and graphic novels at the convention, but here are a few favourites on our shelves right now.
Categories: Reviews, buzz, Winnipeg, Graphic Novels
There will be a sixth novel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, entitled And Another Thing... and arriving October 2009.
"It's a gift from the gods," says , popular author of the comic children's fantasy series Artemis Fowl, "So, thank you Thor and Odin." involvement was requested personally by widow . No details have yet emerged regarding the novel's plot.
Categories: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy
, acclaimed director of among other films, Fight Club and Zodiac has been attached to direct the live action movie based on Harvey Award winning graphic novel Black Hole.
Originally serialized over ten years by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics Books, Black Hole was finally collected in hardcover and now trade paperback by Pantheon Books.
Black Hole features a group of suburban Seattle teens in the 1970's who catch The Bug, an STD that causes physical mutations, some subtle, some grotesque. The alienated teens face prejudice and exile.
Categories: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, movies, Graphic Novels
In the wake of the movie adaptation of her biography Persepolis' opening on Christmas Day, was interviewed at Newsarama, along with her co-director .
Persepolis tells the story of childhood growing up in Tehran. A time that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.
Categories: buzz, Authors, movies
Marvel Comics in partnership with Del Rey Books, will be releasing original English language Manga titles featuring Wolverine and the X-Men.
The books are expected to have a 2009 release, and will not be a part of the regular X-Men continuity. According to the press release, the stories will have familiar elements, but will take the characters in radical new directions.
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