When Kazumi Kimura, proprietor of shooting star forecast website Meteor News, notices some suspicious orbiting space debris, rumors spread online that the debris is actually an orbital weapon targeting the International Space Station. Before long NORAD is checking it out and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and CIA become involved. Orbital Cloud posits a near-future scenario […]
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Dark Horse To Release The Art of Over the Garden Wall!
Dark Horse will publish The Art of Over the Garden Wall – an art book collecting production and development art behind the award-winning animated television miniseries Over the Garden Wall, featuring never-before-seen sketches from creator Patrick McHale and written by Paste magazine’s Sean Edgar. The Art of Over the Garden Wall will be in stores on […]
Dark Horse and Barnes & Noble Set Quests for Legend of Zelda® Fans!
To celebrate the release of the highly anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Art and Artifacts, Dark Horse and Barnes & Noble bookstores invite Zelda fans to special events taking place at select stores across the country. Each participating Barnes & Noble location has a quest. Zelda fans will be given a map of various locations throughout […]
March: Book Three Sweeps American Library Association Awards!
March: Book Three has won four American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards: the Coretta Scott King Book Award; the Michael L. Printz Award; the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, and the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. This is the first time a single book has won all four awards. Details follow the break.
VIZ Media Slates The Art of Magic: The Gathering – Kaladesh for January!
The Art of Magic: The Gathering – Kaladesh – the third volume in the series of art books collecting art from the strategy card game – will be a 240-page hardcover with illustrations from artists including Adam Paquette (who also provided the cover art) Cliff Childs, Winona Wilson and Christine Choi and in-depth lore by bestselling author and […]
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Reaches Milestone!
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library started out as a community outreach program and has grown into the world’s largest literacy program – in December it will distribute 1,000,000 books to children around the globe. Not bad for a program that was initially intended to serve Parton’s home county of Sevier County, Tennessee. To celebrate this milestone, Evey […]
Gary Morgenstein’s Sci-Fi Adventure Series Mad Mel and The Marradians Now a Podcast!
For SyFy channel exec Gary Morgenstein is also an accomplished author. Who knew? His Sci-Fi Adventure Series Mad Mel and The Marradians is now a Podcast. Just in time for the 2016 presidential election — which some people believe features aliens as candidates — acclaimed audio drama producer-director Mike Sargent is bringing Gary Morgenstein’s four-part […]
Release Date Announced for First Toyko Ghoul Novel!
The first in a series of novels based on Sui Ishida’s hit manga, Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo Ghoul: Days will be in stores on October 18th. Tokyo Ghoul: Days, by shin Towada, is a collection of interconnected short stories which, taken as a whole, form a novel. These stories take place around Café Anteiku, a gathering place for […]
Hip Hop Raised Me – Definitive Book On Hip Hop Culture Coming In November!
If you listen to hip hop you know DJ Semtex – host of the UK’s premier Hip Hop show on BBC Radio 1Xtra. He’s been around for a long time, so when he set out to chronicle hip hop as artistic expression and culture, you know he’ll get it right. Hip Hop Raised Me is the […]
Subject of Jiro Dreams of Sushi Creates Culinary Guidebook!
Jiro Ono, the subject of critically acclaimed documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has created a new culinary guidebook for lovers of Japanese cuisine. Sushi: Jiro Gastronomy is a unique new culinary guidebook that presents an extraordinary journey through the delectable seasonal offerings at Japan’s most famous sushi restaurant, Sushi Sukiyabashi Jiro (as seen in Jiro Dreams […]
Hayao Miyazaki Celebrated with The Art of Castle in the Sky!
Hayao Miyazaki is probably the second most famous animator/storyteller in the world after Walt Disney. His films have enjoyed universal acclaim (From Up On Poppy Hill, at 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, is his lowest aggregate score) and his skill as both artist and director is virtually unparalleled. On October 18th, VIZ Media will release The […]