“Between the collapsing banking industry and all the polar
bears swimming around looking for their ice caps” (as Neely Harris so memorably
puts it in the July-August issue of Mental
Floss), it’s a comfort to know in this oft-derided corner of
entrepreneurial America that comics are doing pretty well, thank you. At the
annual Book Expo America, which took
place in late May or early June (the writers from whose June 1 report for PW Comics Week I derive the ensuing
information don’t say when the event they’re reporting on actually transpired;
they were too busy, one assumes, assembling other, less obvious, data), “comics
publishers big and small seemed to have nothing but praise for this year’s BEA,
citing a steady stream of foot traffic, meetings, deals and new opportunities
during the show.
And the praise,” continue Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald,
“wasn't only about business deals and networking; such comics as David Small's Stitches, Bloomsbury USA's Logicomix: an Epic Search For Truth and
R. Crumb's Genesis Illustrated, were
among the biggest and most talked about books at BEA. ... Maybe it's because
comics and related materials seem to do well despite the economy or maybe it's
because comics publishers, 
mainstreamed into the book industry only over the
last 7 or 8 years, are still riding a wave of trade and educational recognition
by the book world.” Reid and MacDonald talked to every comics/graphic novel
publisher they could find, and they all were enthusiastic about the business
they were doing with buyers, librarians, teachers, and even independent general
bookstores “looking to get involved in the category.”
DC Comics wasn’t there,
but Marvel showed off its new books. Macmillan didn’t exhibit, but many of its
imprints were displaying material; Viz Media wasn’t in the hall either, but it
was holding meetings in an off-floor room set up by its distributor, Simon
& Schuster. “Comics stole the show at the Editors Buzz Panel, a venue
reserved for the biggest adult books at the show. A number of publishing
professionals approached PWCW to praise Caldecott award-winning illustrator
Small's disturbing new graphic memoir Stitches — at
the panel, W.W. Norton executive editor Robert Weil called it a book about a
life ‘so terrifying it could have been imagined by Kafka’ — and said it was the
most ‘exciting’ book presented during the panel.”
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