Keith Hendricks | February 18, 2015
To describe Taichi Hiraga Keaton in a high concept premise statement, you’d say he was “Indiana Jones as an insurance investigator.” However, the hero of Master Keaton is much more than that juicy pitch. To begin with, his unique skill set was developed at two preeminent British institutions, Oxford and the Special Air Service (SAS), […]
Phil Redbeard | February 17, 2015
The human brain is a fascinating, seldom understood organ of enormous complexity. Sometimes it teaches us the most when it goes wrong, whether due to illness or injury.
Keith Hendricks | February 14, 2015
On Tuesday, Scribd—once dubbed the “Netflix for e-books” by Wired—added to its vast book library 10,000 comic books from the publishers Marvel, Archie, IDW, Top Shelf, BOOM! Studios, Valiant, and others. The creation of a relatively comprehensive digital subscription service was a long time in coming, but it was foreshadowed when publishers created their own services, […]
Keith Hendricks | February 13, 2015
Fantagraphics is releasing Invitation To Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography Of Les McCann 1960-1980 this Spring in a hardcover edition. This collection of Les McCann’s intimate photos of music culture across two decades includes photos of a very young Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sammy Davis Jr., John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Richard Pryor, Quincy […]
Keith Hendricks | February 13, 2015
VIZ Productions announced that it is developing the haunting Japanese short story, “The Street of Fruiting Bodies,” into a feature film and has retained Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm to write the screenplay adaptation. Sayuri Ueda’s horror story originally appeared in Phantasm Japan, a 2014 anthology that collected both Japanese and United States authors and was […]
Keith Hendricks | February 12, 2015
This Valentine’s Day from 6 to 9 PM, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is opening their Guy Colwell original art exhibition with a publication party for the collected Inner City Romance. The exhibition features original pages, prints, paintings and drawings by this accomplished artist, whose comic book serial Inner City Romance appeared in 1972 and illustrated […]
Keith Hendricks | February 10, 2015
Four Oni Press titles were listed today on the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2015 Great Graphic Novels for Teens: Buzz!, Down Set Fight! and Bad Machinery Vol. 2 & 3. Bad Machinery Vol. 3 placed in YALSA’s Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens. “We’re honored—and excited!—that four of our titles landed on the […]
Phil Redbeard | February 10, 2015
NASA trained him to be an astronaut. They didn’t train the astronaut to be a hero. Inside, a dark secret lay, waiting to destroy the hero and disgrace the astronaut.
Keith Hendricks | February 4, 2015
Ted Adams, CEO/Publisher of IDW Publishing, has been selected to sit on the Board of Directors for Traveling Stories, a 501c3 nonprofit from San Diego. The mission statement of Traveling Stories is to “outsmart poverty one book at a time & inspire a love for reading everywhere.” Since 2010, Traveling Stories has established seven libraries […]
Keith Hendricks | January 23, 2015
VIZ Media’s Haikasoru imprint opens 2015 with its first release of the New Year. Dendera, award-winning author Yuya Sato’s stark and moving novel, is set to be published on February 17th. An eBook edition debuts the same day on the Kindle, iBooks, Nook, Kobo, and Google Play digital storefronts. “Dendera is a captivating work that […]
Dan Yun | January 1, 2015
Happy New Year! 2015 looks to be the beginning of not just a new year, but also a new start for some of us here at NerdSpan. For those of you who don’t know who I am, my name is Dan Yun and I am the Editor of the Movies section here at NerdSpan. Now, […]
Dr. Travis Langley | December 31, 2014
NerdSpan founder Dr. Travis Langley, following the success of his book Batman and Psychology, follows up with two new books for 2015 and passes the torch to NerdSpan’s new publisher and editor-in-chief.
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