I haven’t written much about picture books here because I tend to connect with my favorites on a deeply personal level. By “deeply personal” I mean I tear up because I wish more of my close friends had kids for me spoil with gifts of gorgeous books. But last week I read Sugar in Milk…
Tag: publishing
The Art of Spooky Graphic Novel Covers
Despite the popular expression, I do buy books based on their covers. There are other factors I take into account when deciding which titles to buy and which to keep an eye out for in my library system. But I still can’t help but coo over aesthetically pleasing book design, and sometimes that tips the…
Stories in How-To Comics: Do They Matter?
Now I really want to check out Ayami Kazama’s I Don’t Know How to Give Birth! even though I have no plans of ever having children of my own.
Cleaning Up After Grad School
I graduated with my Master’s in Publishing last Saturday. This meant one major life change for me: My excuse of “I need that for my thesis” would no longer fly with my boyfriend, and I finally had to start throwing out the marketing artifacts —six promotional tote bags worth of the stuff— that was scattered across our coffee table, living room floor, bookshelves, and kitchen table.
Hello
I’m Elaine, a graduate of a tiny liberal arts college’s MA in Publishing program. Over the last three years, I’ve been studying comics, specifically, the specialized publishing practices that developed in the comics industry independently from traditional publishing. More recently, I’ve researched library marketing and indie comics distribution. (By research, I mean I wrote my…
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