Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn on What SUP at the social university presses. This week, we remember the Freedom Summer, protect linguistic heritage, and use
Never a slow news day here at the Yale Press! On Sunday, Peter Mansoor weighed in on the next steps for the President-elect in Iraq as part of the New York Times “Transitions” series of op-eds. His book, Baghdad at Sunrise, chronicles Mansoor’s direct involvement in the counter-insurgency efforts. Read
The new year is still two months away, but Amazon.com has already compiled its 100 Best Books of 2008 list, featuring two Yale Press titles: Ivan Brunetti‘s An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Vol. 2 and Jessica Helfand‘s Scrapbooks: An American History. Scrapbooks was chosen as the number one selection in
New York Magazine got their hands on an advance copy of Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. They decided to do an early preview of the exhibition, which premiered at the Met this past Wednesday. New York Magazine called Superheroes a “genuinely cool book,” and found
Ivan Brunetti’s An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories made a big splash at the Small Press Expo a couple of weeks back. Ivan’s Schizo also scored an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic. In addition, awards went to two other cartoonists included in the Yale anthology: “Maakies” syndicated
Here is a sneak peek at In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists by Todd Hignite, the founding editor of Comic Art Magazine. In the Studio will be available in September. 2.03 Art Spiegelman, detail from “High Art Lowdown,” Artforum, December 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Art Spiegelman. 6.26 Daniel
Ivan Brunetti discusses An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories forthcoming from Yale this Fall.
The “Masters of American Comics” exhibition opened last month at the Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. “The organizing principle behind the show,” says Publishers Weekly, “is deceptively simple: tell the history of comics in the United States from the beginning of the 20th century
Four Yale University Press titles appear in the New York Times Book Review Holiday Books issue. Stephen Heller calls Masters of American Comics, “a smartly designed, comprehensive history of 20th-century comics.” Read the full review. Looking at Atget is included in a selection of recent books evoking a romantic vision