To me, publishing is three distinct pieces: production, marketing and distribution. Production is basically everything up to and including printing. Marketing is telling people about your product, which you can actually do while it is in production. And distribution is about getting your product to people. An easy way to think of it is that…Read more
April 2009
Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
I found this book when I was working at the Barbarian Book Store in Wheaton in 1992. I picked it up because I was a full-on Sandman devotee and would pick up just about anything with Neil Gaiman’s name on it. In the Spring of 1993, Gaiman signed my copy. I have since misplaced this…Read more
The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar
I picked up this book on Sunday at Big Planet Comics in Georgetown in a big stack of other books. I knew Joann Sfar from his work with Lewis Trondheim on the Dungeon series and I was absolutely willing to take a chance on this book entirely due to that content. To be honest, this…Read more
Oceanus Procellarum News
Did you know that there are only eight more installments left in Book 1 of Oceanus Procellarum? The last installment will run on May 29, 2009. What then? Book 2 of Oceanus Procellarum will start weekly installments in January of 2010. But if you don’t want to wait that long, you can buy the whole…Read more