book Archives

Darren must solve the crimes–and save himself in the process–before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America. Earning the honor of being a New York Times Book Review[...]

The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies is wading back into the turbulent waters of series television with a role in Marti Noxon’s upcoming AMC drama Dietland.

We watch Audrey recreate her "Audrey dance" before she's jarred back to the reality of waking up in a mysterious bright room. Was Audrey stuck in The Black Lodge? Was Audrey still in a coma? Was Audrey locked away in a mental institution? Theories ranged from the practical and the improbable to the downright absurd, but[...]

Jason Borelli writes from his time at New York Comic Con: You'll never be free until you free yourself from the prison in your mind. This seems a little much to put on the cover of a book The Hunting Accident has the subtitle, "A True Story of Crime and Poetry." Given that the subject of the[...]

Janes" books for DC Comics' defunct Minx imprint She recently attended New York Comic Con to promote the book. Photo by Gage Skidmore "I try to listen to the way a story wants to be told," she said "My natural way to tell stories is novel-length Soupy really wanted to be a graphic novel It didn't want[...]

Sony Pictures has been working hard on a theatrical release of the film, their viral marketing campaign from earlier this year causing fans to believe a sequel was in the works instead. Author Michael Klastorin has created a beautiful book about the making of Close Encounters, and thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we get a sneak peak of the[...]

The exhibition is an interactive experience that displays NASA-grade artifacts that you will hear about throughout the audiobook, as well as a 23 foot installation of the moon, created by Jerram Today marks the first day that this piece has been on display in America. To celebrate the event Dawson read the first chapter to Weir's[...]

London-based Big Talk Productions is moving forward with a television adaptation of Jonathan Stroud's best-selling Lockwood & Co YA novel series.

This review comes to us from Maddilyn Lee, aged 11, who thoroughly enjoyed the previous two books in M.A Larson's Pennyroyal Academy series She jumped at the chance to review the third for us. From Ironbone to Leatherwolf and the only first-class Crown Company, Evie's three years at Pennyroyal Academy come to a close[...]

Based on the upcoming illustrated guide to millennial dating by Schwartz and Moses titled Things You Should Know About Dating, You F*cking Idiot, the project is part of a first-look deal that Gary Sanchez Productions has with CBS TV Studios. Set for release by Hachette Book Group in Fall 2017, Things You Should Know About Dating, You F*cking[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, retailers were able to see the nominated candidates for the Summer's Best Practice Awards,

John Green (The Fault In Our Stars) called it "haunting and absolutely brilliant" and Publishers Weekly called Okorafor's writing "a fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling." The novel would go on to receive the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Carl Brandon Kindred Award "for an outstanding work of speculative[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The other day, my boyfriend plunked a book down before me, and said I had to read it That book, Bird Box by Josh Malerman, was an absolutely horrific treat. We've got an apocalypse caused by a lovecraftian horror that drives you utterly insane just by seeing it, and a story of parenting and human survival[...]

My friend and I exchange books for the holidays, giving each other strange stories that we ourselves got a kick out of I've turned her on to Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein and she got me Drew Hayes' The Utterly Unintresting And Unadventurous Tales Of Fred The Vampire Accountant With a title like that, you[...]

Judd Morse is reporting from ECCC for Bleeding Cool, Kodansha Comics gave Emerald City Comicon attendees an exclusive look at their new, definitive guide book to all things Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell README: 1995-2017. Ben Applegate, Associate Director of Publishing Services for Penguin said that the book will be "the definitive guide to the anime[...]

One of my favorite books I picked up last year was World of Warcraft Chronicle Vol 1 I've been playing WoW for ten years now and as much as I had learned about the lore of the game, there was still so much more that I didn't know The first volume takes the lore and[...]

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2017 Given his life history, "all talk and no action" is possibly the last thing Congressman John Lewis could be accused of. And it seemed that quite a few people were moved to discover that life history. Which is how March, the three-volume graphic novel that he wrote about the US civil rights movement and his[...]

We showed you how British price comparison site Compare The Market – who have used as their mascot for years, Easter European meerkats of fake rival site Compare The Meerket – have been creating Batman V Superman promotional activity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeKO2OYtxOw Well, they have now taken it further, teaming with Neal Adams and Tony Bedard to create a two[...]

By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman [audio: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-99734/TS-1068792.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth. This week we have an Interview[...]

In Seth's Dominion, the National Film Board documentary by filmmaker Luc Chamberland about the acclaimed Canadian cartoonist, Seth has done just that. Presented here as an innovative double-spined hardcover that opens in two directions, one side opens with a photo essay narrating Seth's life while the other offers a generous sampling of Seth's art: comics and[...]

I understood him completely and he understood me. That would be… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLqNmMH4hsgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Star Wars MSE-6 Mouse Droid – aka Death Star Toaster Droid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLqNmMH4hsg) And for days of Star Wars past… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5W8EBHNsLcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's 'Star Wars' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5W8EBHNsLc) Truths, Half Truths & Little White[...]

Webcomic Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause looks like it may be the latest big mainstream comic book success story, hitting bookstores today from Ten Speed Press Krause will be signing copies at Skylight Books in Los Angeles tonight. The strip, and book, takes those mad fleeting fears that pass through all of our brains, captures[...]

At the beginning of last month, Bleeding Cool asked if Ta-Nehisi Coates was writing a comic book for Marvel. @tanehisicoates Heard that you had an interest in writing something for Marvel Let's talk! tbrevoort@marvel.com — Tom Brevoort (@TomBrevoort) May 21, 2015   And he is Marvel PR have told the New York Times that senior editor for The Atlantic, where his[...]

Back in 2010, Bleeding Cool ran a story about how the creators of the Last Unicorn comic book, published by IDW, were running a Kickstarter to fund extra pages for the comic that the publisher was unwilling to pay for. The comic was based on Peter S Beagle novel, and created by Peter Gillis, Renae De Liz[...]

I'm always curious about the books you see like "How To Sell Your Graphic Novel To Hollywood" or "How To Make Money As A Writer" The reason I'm always curious… and skeptical… is usually the name of the author is someone I've never heard of and even googling them doesn't back up their credentials[...]

Announced on BBC's Front Row (listen to it here), Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot has won the Costa Best Book Award for Best Biography.  Another graphic novel had been noiminated for Best Novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart. Bryan Talbot tells me; It's amazing, not just for us but[...]

Jae Lee will be doing similar (with their Jae Lee exclusive cover of Masks #1) on the 28th. MEDIA DISCOVER COMICS ONE MORE TIME Partly as a result of the Costa Book Awards nominating two graphic novels on their 2012 short list, the media has been discovering comic books again Apparently some of them aren't just for[...]

On his TV show last night, Stephen Colbert officially announced his new book America Again: Re-Becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't his followup to 2007's I Am America (And So Can You!) Okay, it was actually announced to the book trade press back in February, but it's starting to come out now I'll probably pick up[...]

At the end of next month, timed to coincide with Phillip Pullman's Grimm Tales For Young And Old, Pullman will be sitting down for an evening of

From San Diego Comic Con today, courtesy of Kate Kotler. Question: Are you thinking of a Firefly reboot if the Science Channel special goes well? "Yes." -Joss Whedon "Opening sequence [of the Firefly reboot] is a conversation between Wash & Book" -Joss Whedon We get the message. From San Diego Comic Con today, courtesy of Kate Kotler. Question: Are you[...]